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CDC Software Takes on REACH Compliance
Friday, March 20, 2009
Simon Jacobson
Process-ERP provider CDC Software is making its REACH (Registration, Evaluation, and Authorization of Chemicals) compliance play, attacking it from both business process and product data management (PDM) perspectives. It’s also part of the new release of the Ross Enterprise ERP product, which is widely deployed by many subsidiaries and divisions of large chemicals companies, as well as a plethora of midsize chemicals manufacturers and distributors, all of which are affected by REACH.
Ross Enterprise ERP version 6.3.2’s order management, supply chain traceability, costing, and product formulation functions are getting beefed up with REACH-specific business process management (BPM) and transaction-oriented capabilities, such as substance volume tracking, audit trails, and blocks for restricting sales and distribution of banned volumes or products to certain markets, based on the local compliance mandates.
CDC Software also deepened its partnership with environmental health and safety (EH&S) provider 3E Company to provide the MSDgen material safety data sheet (MSDS) authoring product and other 3E services to its installed base for coping with information demands, such as toxicology and product-labeling data.
Our take: REACH is driving all chemicals manufacturers to balance the costs of compliance and product registration against profitability and demand. It’s logical that companies would turn to their incumbent enterprise systems providers for process optimization and support. By providing access to BPM capabilities that support REACH compliance as an entitlement to customers current on maintenance, CDC Software not only provides its chemicals customers a reason to accelerate upgrade plans, but it also might stimulate maintenance buybacks as well. Not only does this help minimize the financial and compliance risk, but it also helps them preserve the investment in their current enterprise platforms.
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