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Say what you want about 2020, but this year was special. It demanded strong nerves, flexibility, and creative thinking from everyone at opesus. Qualities that we cultivated before and always like to use. Nevertheless, we were forced to approach the year in a different way than we were used to. We look back at 2020 with some wistfulness about missed personal encounters and the limitations that we had overcome. On the other hand, we are happy about the things that we managed and implemented together despite the challenges – with success, fun, and our personal touch.

In our virtual Winter Office Week, we once again dealt with many exciting topics. One session was dedicated to sustainability – a topic that is important to us. We also want to live up to our company name: opesus is made up of the words operative and sustainability. Good reasons to take a fresh look at old patterns of behavior and decide on some innovations to improve on our sustainability.

With less than a month to go to the first Poison Center Notification deadline, opesus EPN for PCN format version 4.0.00 brings with it several great new features and improvements. This include small improvements that bring great convenience, such as being able to view, with one click, the submitted dossier directly in the ECHA Submission Portal. Read on to see the other new features available.

We just released the latest version of our EHS Product Notification for the EU SCIP Format. Version 4.0.00 includes several great new features and improvements, including enhanced article search capabilities, improved management of Confidential Business Information, and handling of SCIP numbers. Read on to see the other new features available for creating and managing SCIP dossiers with EPN.

There are 50 days left to the first poison centre compliance date. ECHA announced in their latest newsletter that, in addition to national measures, the Enforcement Forum will focus on this obligation in a pilot project, starting mid-2022.

The German industrial group for steel and metal processing (WSM: Wirtschaftsverband Stahl- und Metallverarbeitung e.V.) had an information day for its members on November 5th regarding the SCIP database. We were honored to have had the opportunity to present to the group about our SAP-based solution for SCIP.

opesus has been successfully developing sustainability solutions for SAP since it has started in 2012. We had two customers at the time, and we are happy to say that both rely on us and our software until this very day. Many more customers in the form of well-known companies have joined us since then, so that we were able to reach the amazing milestone of “100 customers”.

We are proud to be platinum sponsors at this year’s AIAG IMDS & Product Compliance Conference. Just like other conferences this year, AIAG had to move their conference online. However, the online set up mimicked a regular conference. Everything that you expect at an on-site event was just a mouse-click away. Take a look at the picture below of our virtual booth. We really enjoyed the set-up very much!

The latest release of opesus EHS Product Notification (EPN), version 3.2.20, is now available! This minor release brings with it several improvements.

On 8^th and 9^th October 2020, the TBM Group held their virtual conference with a focus on the Waste Framework Directive and the SCIP Database. As one of the sponsors of the event, we had the opportunity to present to the main audience and the opportunity to connect with the audience in the organized breakout sessions. Our presentation focused on the best practices and recommendations from early adopters for efficiently managing SCIP requirements. During the breakout sessions, we did a of EPN SCIP, our SAP-based solution for creating SCIP notifications.