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Declarable Substances Data Collection

Orchestrate a mutli-channel data collection strategy for product compliance data that meets your suppliers where they are

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Why Declarable Substances Are Critical in Discrete Manufacturing Compliance

Manufacturers in automotive, industrial manufacturing, and high-tech industries face increasing regulatory pressure to track and report declarable substances across complex multi-level bill of materials (BOMs). Regulations such as REACH and RoHS require accurate identification, tracking, and reporting of hazardous substances. Therefore, keeping track of declarable substances is a core operational requirement for discrete manufacturers.

Manufacturers are, in some cases, required to:

  • Identify substances of very high concern (SVHC)
  • Track threshold values (0.1% w/w in many cases)
  • Apply exemptions if required

To fulfill the demands of various regulations, compliance information is often required per supplier material. In multi-level BOM structures, this makes manual tracking of requests sent to suppliers operationally unsustainable.

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What are Declarable Substances?

Declarable substances are chemical components in products (parts, basic materials, assemblies) that must be reported to stakeholders or regulatory bodies and within your supply chain. Listed below are examples of regulations that affect the discrete industry. Please note that this list is non-exhaustive.

REACH SVHC

Substances of very high concern (SVHC) under the REACH regulation are substances that pose severe risks to human health or the environment.

If a product contains more than 0.1% by weight (w/w) of an SVHC, it must be reported.

RoHS

Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) is an EU directive (2011/65/EU) that restricts the use of specific hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment to protect human health and the environment. 

CA Prop 65

The California Proposition 65 (CA Prop 65), officially the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, is a law that requires companies to warn about exposure to chemicals that may cause cancer, birth defects, or reproductive harm.

PFAS & POPs

PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are a group of long-lasting chemicals that do not easily break down in the environment or the human body.

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are organic substances that persist in the environment, accumulate in living organisms and pose a risk to our health and the environment.

There are regulations in place that bans the use of PFAS and POPs in products.

Conflict Minerals

The Conflict Minerals regulation aims to help stem the trade in four minerals - tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold. Companies are required to report the trade or use of conflict minerals as way to reduce incentives for armed groups to extract and fight over the minerals.

TSCA

The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) requires record-keeping and testing requirements, and restrictions relating to chemical substances and/or mixtures.

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Leverage Your SAP System to Support Data Collection

The landscape for exchanging data in the supply chain is heterogeneous. There are multiple stakeholders with varying requirements and needs. Especially when it comes to suppliers, there is diversity in size, industry, product compliance expertise, and willingness to answer or meet your requirements. Therefore, it makes it impossible to have a one-size-fits-all solution. You will be much more successful if you meet your suppliers where they are.

Support your suppliers by making it as easy as possible for them. This could mean accepting different formats of product compliance data, bundle requests for data, or even implement a multichannel strategy, i.e., contact your suppliers via email but also use third-party platforms to skim product information.

 

Meet Your Suppliers Where They Are

Orchestrate how you collect data on declarable substances through a multichannel data collection strategy. Besides a structured way of collecting data directly from suppliers, you can also connect to third-party databases to close your data gaps. With data collection task notifications and reminders, escalation management, inquiry management, and response validation, bring structure and efficiency to your collaborative work in collecting compliance data from your supply chain.

Solution #1

Virtual Workshop

Optimize Supplier Communication

Move away from email inboxes and spreadsheets to track supplier communication. Instead, why not work within your SAP environment? Collect your information in a structured way through guided activities that make it easy for your suppliers.

Solution #2

Full Automation

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Already have a declaration provider in mind and need cross platform process and data integration with your SAP product compliance solution? We're experts in this. opesus SAP solutions have been developed to directly integrate with comprehensive third-party sources, such as SIliconExpert and BOMcheck.


opesus-Matt-1"In discrete manufacturing, product compliance is only as strong as the data behind it. What companies truly need is a flexible multi-channel approach - one that can ingest data from diverse supplier formats while systematically identifying and closing gaps directly within SAP. A solution that orchestrates this process end-to-end transforms compliance from a reactive burden into a controlled, scalable capability."

Matt Dion
Chief Product Owner 
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#1 Close Data Gaps in Your Product Compliance

  • Our solution is robust and designed for seamless data collection across diverse processes. You can flexibly manage how to collect data: by integrating with platforms such as SiliconExpert, or by reaching out to suppliers directly for their input.
  • Utilize notifications and reminders to support partners in providing compliance data and validating responses before feeding them back into your SAP product compliance landscape.

#2 Support Single Source of Truth

  • Automatically initiate the data collection process for missing or incomplete compliance information.
  • Validate supplier responses and feed accepted results back to SAP product compliance closing the detected data gaps.
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#3 SAP Connectivity Made Easy

  • Integrate SiliconExpert and BOMcheck APIs into SAP with our platform connectors to automate compliance data imports.
  • Lower interface costs, better TCO - we proactively manage API changes, thus reducing your IT workload and improve your overall total cost of ownership.
  • Future-ready for SAP S/4HANA - our API connectors are built on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). One less thing to worry about when migrating from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA.

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Solution Type Built on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)
Works With
  • SAP® S/4HANA for product compliance
  • SAP® Product and REACH Compliance
Integrates With
  • SiliconExpert
  • BOMcheck

 

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