IHS Product Stewardship Solution

Whether an organization’s management systems are driven by a pragmatic approach to regulatory compliance or the opportunity to expand into new markets, the IHS Product Stewardship Solution provides the right capabilities to support your strategy. It helps you make decisions to gain future competitive advantage by, for example, providing your front-line teams with the information and tools they need to proactively plan for new product development (or phase out existing products) in anticipation of anticipated regulatory constraints.

The IHS Product Stewardship Solution includes these capabilities:

• SDS Authoring: Automates authoring of Safety Data Sheets (SDS) in a multitude of languages and formats.
• Documentation and Labels: Facilitates creation of a variety of documents including hazard summary sheets, transportation documents, workplace safety cards and labels that are fully compliant with hazard communications standards, including the Globally Harmonized System of Labelling and Classification of Chemicals (GHS) and more.
• Product Compliance Analysis: Delivers key regulatory content that supports material compliance analysis, compliant product design, and ongoing evaluation throughout development and product lifecycle.
• Chemical Management: Tracks chemicals throughout the product lifecycle in order to identify opportunities to reduce costs and optimize processes, while remaining in compliance with various regulations.
• Supply Chain Communications: Manages compliance communication challenges throughout your supply chain -- including those mandated by REACH.
• Quality Risk Management: Unifies all facets of the organization across all phases of the quality lifecycle through critical characteristic management, process controls and recommendations management to allow lessons learned to be captured and applied in new development cycles. 

Many of these capabilities are enhanced by IHS managed regulatory content from jurisdictions all around the world that is diligently updated by our dedicated experts so it is always reliable and ready at your fingertips – with multi-lingual references and a database of more than 300,000 chemicals.

To learn more about how IHS product stewardship software, content and expertise can help your organization, email us or request information.

IHS is the only solution provider that pulls all of the key elements together: the content to inform your decisions; granular data to track the performance and risk profile of every unique material; the methodology to drive safety data sheet policies and processes throughout your business; and the technology/expertise to standardize and operationalize product stewardship workflows.

The IHS Product Stewardship Solution is unique in its ability to:

• Provide market-leading software, content, and expertise that supports understanding of complex and ever-changing reporting requirements, drastically reducing exposure to costly risks around product design or compliance.
• Streamline authoring and material management by automating creation and production of SDS, labels, workplace safety cards and transportation documents that meet jurisdictional and language requirements.
• Simplify and accelerate product rollout to new and existing markets by managing complexities around country-specific compliance requirements.
• Optimize the supply chain and maintain competitive advantage through predictive analytic capabilities that reduce the risks of business disruption or product recall due to potentially hazardous materials in product design.
• Enable collaborative decision making between procurement, product design and regulatory teams by implementing compliance-based material review and approval workflow.
• Aggregate enterprise-wide product information, material and supply chain data and make the information available centrally to allow consistency and efficiency while contributing to product sustainability metrics.
• Ensure continuity and reliability of product lifecycle knowledge and processes by capturing both current and historical information and processes within a consolidated enterprise-wide system.

To learn more about how IHS environmental management software, content and expertise can help your organization, email us or request information.

For decades, our team of experts has provided EHS and sustainability software, content and service solutions to thousands of industry leaders around the world.  They choose IHS because our proven ability to execute on broad, deep enterprise-level solutions gives them confidence that their Enterprise Sustainability Management business strategies will be a success.

Here is a selection of customers from various industries that have used IHS solutions to get outstanding results:

Multi-National Oil and Gas Leader

• Streamlines production of SDSs in local languages across hundreds of sites in dozens of countries by using a single global system with web access
• Increases productivity by accelerating international translations, enabling easier evaluations of product inventory status, and providing automatic regulatory updates.
• Reduces compliance costs and supports rationalization of hazard assessment costs

Global Cleaning and Sanitizing Supply Company

• Implemented a centralized, globally accessible system and standardized work processes to manage changing requirements
• Enabled Safety Data Sheet (SDS) authoring for 6,000+ products, generating 100,000+ SDSs
• Managed standardized SDSs for 30 countries in 25 different languages
• Raised productivity 10-15 times by creating SDSs in all languages within 1 hour instead of 2 days

Electronic Component Manufacturer

• Produces EPA EPCRA Tier II reports in minutes, instead of days or weeks
• Eliminated the need for more than a dozen binders, with 1800+ hard copies of SDS
• Real-time snapshot of hazardous material inventory provides early warning if facility is approaching threshold limits

Top Global Pharmaceutical Manufacturer

• Product recalls reduced -- 21 in 2007, 8 in 2008, 0 2009; each recall average cost is $10M
• Product risk report creation reduced from 3 months to minutes
• Dashboards provide management with clear visibility of top risks

Global Power Leader

• Decreased the rate of procurement of materials containing prohibited substances
• Centralized, web-based solution improves communication across 72 sites globally
• Increased efficiency of REACH compliance by promptly identifying substances of high concern
• Users can obtain data in a few clicks rather than weeks or months using manual processes.

Read about results achieved by dozens of award-winning organizations at IHS SPECTRUM Excellence Awards.

Webinars:

GHS Around the World - Best Practices and Lessons Learned from Global Companies
IHS and Chemical Watch invite you to join experts from the UN Sub-Committee on GHS, PPG and IHS as they take an in-depth look at GHS adoption around the world. Hear first hand as they compare and contrast the various GHS implementations around the globe, discuss the US adoption and share best practices and lessons learned from those that have already faced compliance requirements from GHS adoption in other countries.

REACH & CLP Tips for Downstream Users
IHS and Chemical Watch invite you to join experts from Unilever, Alliance Boots and IHS as they examine the challenges facing Downstream Users and explain what to do if suppliers are not compliant or if they are not providing the requirement information.