DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
BUILDING BLOCKS
In a rapidly changing marketplace, manufacturers need to be able to respond quickly to new opportunities and challenges. Digital transformation can help them to do this by providing them with the agility they need to establish, enforce and change operational processes within the shortest possible time.
Our solutions and individual modules give you the ability to respond and adapt to a rapidly changing world and better serve you and your customers’ specific needs. By investing in an open, agile and scalable solution, you can ensure that your entire organisation is ready for any future technological advances or market changes.

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT MODULES
Demand Management
By: sedApta
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OVERVIEW | Demand volatility is a key challenge in manufacturing, and you can only have limited control over market fluctuations. What you can control is how you prepare for and respond to it. The Demand Management module empowers you to make data-driven decisions that help you respond faster to changes around you. |
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Sense demand Use advanced statistical forecasts and machine learning to create a sales forecast for a customer and/or logistics network and to predict changes in demand Work on one plan Seamlessly collaborate on consensus demand planning with sales, marketing, supply chain and finance, using a highly configurable collaboration tool Incorporate events Use advanced statistical forecasts to incorporate events like promotions, holidays, and short life cycle products |
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Inventory Management
By: sedApta
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OVERVIEW | Inventory management is a critical part of an efficient supply chain. Too much inventory consumes capital and increases the risk of stock becoming obsolete, while not enough negatively impacts your customer service. The Inventory Management module makes sure you have just enough inventory on hand to meet the demand by freeing up working capital trapped in excess inventory. |
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Logistic network Design and model the logistic network Stock levels Define the target stock levels on the different supply chain nodes Manual forcing Perform manual forcing on independent demands, stock targets, replenishment policies to recalculate the new plan replenishment in real-time Infinite capacity Generate the infinite capacity replenishment plan, production, and supply plan |
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Resource & Supply Planning
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OVERVIEW | Resource & Supply Planning module is used to simulate, validate, and confirm the finite capacity production plan. The system allows to simulate the impact of the infinite capacity production and supply plan on the physical and logical resources and constraints. |
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Organise Sort and rank work orders and demand priorities Allocate Allocate production needs on plants and resources through customisable allocation Connect Produce a complete pegging among demands, productions, stocks, and supply orders Compare Simulate and compare different scenarios based on different rules, calendars, layouts and constraint implementations |
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Order Promising
By: sedApta
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OVERVIEW | Order Promising module is the foundational building block for generating reliable and real-time delivery commitments. The process helps determine shipment strategies, delivery dates, and the sourcing of the materials needed. Promising customer orders with greater reliability through an automated approach enables companies to reduce expedites, improve on-time delivery, and increase customer satisfaction. It considers inventory availability and master production scheduling. |
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Delivery Define customer order delivery dates, analysing warehouse availability and the master production schedule Warehouse Logically partitions warehouse availability, using service lanes and avoiding product uptake between different customer orders Shortage Manages shortage situations by using a scalable library of fair share policies Business scenarios Simulate different business scenarios and assess them through a set of standard configurable KPI |
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Transportation Management
By: sedApta
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OVERVIEW | Recent transformation in the international freight forwarding market pushes companies towards digitalisation of services. Dealing with digital freight forwarders requires companies to integrate the execution of shipments into end-to-end supply chain planning. To answer these needs, Transportation Management module allows easy-to-use inbound shipment tracking and end-to-end process control. |
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Smart tracking Automatic updates on tracking the location of vehicles in transport and the transport units (containers) Dashboard Dashboard to analyse the information of shipments managed by the system Multi-tenant collaboration platform For an easy integration of freight service provider, from booking and online check-in to integration in all execution steps Shipping documentation Easy-to-use shipping documentation, everything is available on a single platform |
Distribution Requirements Planning
By: sedApta
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OVERVIEW | Distribution planning is the process of determining the right amount of manufactured goods to be shipped to each distribution center or warehouse. This process depends on actual demand signals, such as customer orders that are used to plan the gross requirements of the supply source. Our Distribution Requirements Planning module helps you find a match between customer demand and production planning in order to satisfy customer demand. |
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Delivering goods efficiently This includes assessing the quantity of various materials needed for production and determining precisely where and when they should be available Supply-demand balance Ensuring that sources of goods procurement always meet demand by comparing the necessary available resources Production and procurement support Indicating actions to be taken to accelerate or delay purchases and consequently production, thus synchronising supply and demand |
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Web Supply Engine
By: sedApta
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OVERVIEW | Web Supply Engine is the supply chain tool that enables communication among the different actors of the company’s competitive system. It is possible to connect manufacturing plants with their suppliers, enhancing communication and the overall performance of the extended supply chain. This generates collaborative management of warehouse activity and supply, and leads to cutting costs and generating strategic advantages for your company. |
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Work plan collaboration Facilitate the sharing of short and medium-term plans with contractors and suppliers Debating Efficiently interact with suppliers and reach a consensus on shipping dates, quantities to be delivered, pricing conditions, etc. Notification management Ensure continuous monitoring of supplier-side production status |
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Quoting and Purchasing Automation
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OVERVIEW | The Quoting and Purchasing Automation module provides quoting and purchasing solutions for Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) companies. Our software suite optimises the supply chain processes thus enabling them to be faster, more accurate and ultimately, more competitive. Visibility into what is happening within the electronic supply chain from a software perspective allows EMS companies to strengthen their reputation as reliable partners. It also allows you to identify risks and issues early, which ultimately allows you to win more business. |
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QuoteCQ QuoteCQ is RFQ Management Software for Electronics Manufacturing Services. It simplifies and accelerates the quoting process so you can be more responsive. PortCQ PortCQ is the ultimate portal for collaboration between EMS and OEMs. It simplifies interactions between you and your customers by involving them in solving complex problems and managing potential sourcing risks caused by market volatility. ShopCQ ShopCQ is designed for the ever-changing electronics supply chain. From demand to delivery, ShopCQ reduces cycle time, increases efficiency, and creates the seamless sharing of relevant data. BidCQ BidCQ is a platform for suppliers to interact with manufacturers. It is designed to help you build a digital thread with your OEM customers to cultivate the relationship and solve complex problems. StockCQ StockCQ is an online marketplace built exclusively for OEM and EMS companies to seek, find, and source parts from each other instead of wasting them. WatchCQ WatchCQ is an alerting service that lets you know when the parts you are looking for each day become available. |
MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT MODULES
Master Data Management
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OVERVIEW | Master Data Management helps manage your product definitions, process plans, bills of material, and failure categories. With this solution, companies that do not want to use an additional ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) can benefit from integrated management of their specifications. |
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Repository Repository of available process plans, process steps, materials, and consumables Support Support of multiple process plans per product workflow Product versions Released and non-released product versions |
Recipe Management
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OVERVIEW | Establish an integrated management of all manufacturing workflows that deal with the creation, centralised handling, and life cycle management of recipes. Increase operational efficiency and flexibility by reducing product changeover time and enforces product quality and repeatability through parameter download and procedure automation. The Recipe Management module helps you avoid misconfiguration and thereby reduces the risk of misprocessing. |
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Recipe lifecycle Complete recipe life cycle, approval workflows for new or updated recipes Transparency Full transparency of parameters by visualisation of values with smart compare capabilities and seamless traceability by versioning Protection Assured IP protection for product definitions Support R&Dsupport with version branches, support for Run-to-Run Control (R2R) rules |
Factory Scheduling
By: sedApta
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OVERVIEW | Our Factory Scheduling module is a tool that supports managers in creating, visualising, and refining the production plan in compliance with production capacity constraints and compatibility of the parts to be produced. By integrating scheduling with planning, you can eliminate guesswork and meet your production commitments on time. Accelerate your ability to create better production schedules while optimising factory resources, increasing manufacturing efficiency, and exceeding customer expectations. |
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Production plan The tool allows you to automatically create and manually update the production plan, defining the optimal sequence while respecting all constraints Algorithms The tool comes with an automatic scheduling algorithm, and supports customised plug-in algorithms Data forcing Data forcing can be done during the production plan analysis phase, intervening directly on Web Scheduling reports to manually reposition work order activities, as well as to manage plan adjustments in real time |
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Shop Floor Control
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OVERVIEW | Monitoring production processes activities become more and more critical in manufacturing due to increasing number of factors that need to be monitored and managed promptly. With the help of Shop Floor Control module, you manage and control each processing unit in shop floor as preconfigured process flow and process steps. |
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Live monitoring Ensure all processing transactions follow the defined process flow and process step requirements Quality check Real-time quality check upon check-out of processing Operational scheduling Manage operational scheduling and documentation of each production resource, from planning to execution |
Material Management
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OVERVIEW | The Material Management module helps you manage all material for your shop floor needs, such as: raw materials, consumables, spare parts, durables, semi-finished goods, and finished goods. |
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Suppliers Contextual connection with suppliers Materials Supporting use of different materials in production Expiry date care Humidity-based expiry date management |
Carrier Management
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OVERVIEW | With the Carrier Management module, you can efficiently and completely track all movements of transport carriers used in a supply chain. The system supports the clearly traceable handling of groupings and regroupings, as well as, nested groupings. Release mechanisms and functions for merging and separating carriers help you efficiently keep the transport of material firmly under control, down to the smallest identifiable unit. |
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Tracking Tracking of all transport carrier movement, as well as having access to carrier movement history Managing container lifecycle Stock and container lifecycle management with reservation and location management Support Supports multi-layer carrier’s traceability |
Manufacturing Data Warehouse
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OVERVIEW | Manufacturing Data Warehouse is designed for fast investigations and decision findings that does not require checking huge amounts of manufacturing data within minutes. The module enables interactive analyses with fast queries and reports over longer periods of time as required, for example, to assess and document trends, for lean recall actions, or to prove sustainability. |
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Managing big data Keeping the history of manufacturing data available, typically for compliance reasons Cross-site comparison / configurable KPI items Setting KPIs (key performance indicators) inside organisations makes service levels of all your production sites measurable and comparable among each other Independent integration The module can be operated together with any Manufacturing Execution System (MES) |
Asset Management
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OVERVIEW | Asset Management is a database of assets including asset information, documentation, guides, equipment collected data, and asset reports. It consists of the activities and practices tracking the work of company’s assets and effectively using those assets to gain value. Asset Management consolidates asset data from all departments, so that real-time information is always available for effective decision-making. |
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Asset tracking Asset management centralises asset data to make tracking assets easier Real-time asset reporting Asset Management provides real-time data updates and visually simplifies interpretation of complied data Asset check-in and check-out Check-in and check-out feature provides an opportunity to track the asset as it moves across departments Asset information Document asset information in one place to support equipment lifecycle management. |
Maintenance Management
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OVERVIEW | Maintenance Management is used to design how to execute and track maintenance tasks with checklists to ensure equipment is well–maintained and inspected in a timely manner. You can choose between time-based, condition-based, unplanned when incidents occur, and predictive maintenance. |
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Current state tracking Visible current equipment state before the start of the maintenance flow Checklists Support comprehensive checklist management Smart assistant Tracking of ad hoc repair tasks with smart assistant |
QUALITY MANAGEMENT MODULES
Advanced Statistical Process Control
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OVERVIEW | Advanced Statistical Process Control has a focus on filtering the essential information out of all production process data, which empowers people to make decisions and take required actions faster. This entails not only hundreds of thousands of active control charts but also effective escalation strategies, troubleshooting guides, executable OOC workflows and much more. |
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Data collection Real-time data collection with different degrees of automation Visualisation Real-time visualisation for trace data Fast view Fast view for multiple sensors data Summary data Configurable end-of-process summary data |
Supplier Quality Management
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OVERVIEW | Our Supplier Quality Management module helps you collaborate more closely with your subcontractors and suppliers at production sites distributed throughout the world. By means of the electronic Certificate of Analysis (eCoA), you implement, verify, and continuously improve mandatory quality standards for your entire supply chain. |
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Approval time With a complete standardised quality report for the entire value stream, you shorten approval time for new supply chains Reduced business risks Lower business risk and unnecessary costs by eliminating human errors for data entry and spec checking Productivity Increase productivity and efficiency with a consistent solution that helps implement mandatory quality standards according to agreements |
Customer Quality Management
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OVERVIEW | The Customer Quality Management module offers automated creation of eCOAs which can be flexibly tailored to your individual customer requirements. The overall goal is resource saving from drawing up CoA’s and prompt availability of quality data from the entire supply chain. |
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Product selection Only deliver goods that are compliant with your customers’ product specifications and quality requirements Quality data Compile quality data for your customers Quality assurance Support your quality assurance to quickly respond to customers’ enquiries for eCOAs Customised certificates Reduce resources in issuing customised eCOAs |
Electronic OCAP (Out-of-control Action Plans)
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OVERVIEW | Electronic OCAP adds a new dimension to your quality assurance at the operational level. It helps you ensure compliance with quality, process, and individual compliance regulations, as well as, helps in better analyses of root causes. |
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Guidance Step-by-step guidance through corrective action workflow Compliance Improved compliance via a full audit trail enabled by recording of all executed work steps Integration and implementation Easy integration and implementation of fully and semi-automated workflows across the entire manufacturing process |
HEALTH, SAFETY, AND ENVIRONMENT MODULES
Risk Management
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OVERVIEW | Risk Management is about identifying, assessing and responding to risk factors within your business. Well-executed Risk Management reduces both the possible occurrence and the potential negative impact of a risk. Our Risk Management module is an easy to use, 100% paperless solution. It is the perfect software for identifying, analysing, and eliminating, to the highest degree, any risk that might constitute a danger to the health and safety of your workers. |
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Reaction Fast response when accidents occur Actions Good overview of actions taken and the effects of those actions, automated action tracking Integration Integration with other modules and reporting tools Risk analysis and risk reduction Risk classification and assessment, support of several risk management methods, approvals and validations |
Incidents Management
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OVERVIEW | Incidents management is about capturing, reporting, and keeping track of all incidents and near-misses in a plant or organisation. Our Incidents Management module makes it easier to develop and implement a clear plan and procedure for incident registration and investigations. It allows you to keep track of any incident or near-miss in your facility and stay compliant with integrated reporting tools and overviews. |
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Instant report and notifications Report incidents and near-misses on the spot, always keep the right people in the loop Investigations Perform in-depth investigations on time and retrieve data from multiple sources to identify the underlying root causes of incidents to put in place corrective and preventive actions Approval and workflows Adjust pre-defined or event-type specific approval and workflows Reporting and analysis Enables flexible reporting and analysis Compliance Easily improve data traceability to keep a clean audit trail for regulators |
Audits and Observations
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OVERVIEW | Audits play a key role in keeping the shop floor a safe working space, avoiding unwanted events, and making sure risk management and regulatory compliance programs are effective. As the operational complexities and regulatory requirements are growing each day, the volume of audits is also steadily increasing. Our Audits and Observations module allows you to increase the number of audits done by the same team, as well as to cover more areas to be inspected without increasing the number of people onboard. |
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Organise the process Map all auditable entities and common libraries of risks and controls and manage the relationship between them Plan and prepare Organise audits based on priorities with detailed checklists and templates based on your business processes, evaluation pass or fail criteria and tasks for execution Execute Record findings, attach detailed observations, and add recommendations in predefined formats and templates Follow up of issues and non-conformities Define an action plan and track the corrective and preventive actions to closure Task management Enable audit managers to create actions, assign them to the team and monitor their status Real-time reports Configurable audit dashboards display charts, graphs, and tables to quickly identify trends |
Permit to Work
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OVERVIEW | A good permit to work system prevents incidents by ensuring that everyone clearly understands and easily manages the risks involved in any work. At the same time, it allows you to eliminate unnecessary manual work, making processes safer and more efficient. With automated Permit to Work and Lockout-tagout (LoTo) processes you reduce operational risks and eliminate manual work. |
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Storage Library storage of Permit to Work templates to maximise reusability and searchability Automation Automated alerts, escalations and email notification based on safety-centric workflows, also fully automated and controlled authorisations, and workflows Reports Real-time dashboards and reports Task management Automated task management and action tracking Risk assessments Integrated risk assessments, isolation certificates and LoTo features |
Management of Change
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OVERVIEW | Change can always make your plant more vulnerable to risk, compliance issues and hazardous events. However, avoiding change will lead to stagnation, loss in efficiency and revenue. Elisa IndustrIQ provides comprehensive capabilities to help in mitigating risk without sacrificing efficiency. Changes in production processes, equipment and products can be implemented in a controlled and safe manner without causing unnecessary production stops. |
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Preparation Route change request evaluation, review, and approval to relevant stakeholders Classification Define the classification procedure Execution and tracking Assign and track change execution tasks with due dates Verification and closure Evaluate change outcomes Analysis and reporting Enable aggregate reporting and individual case tracking |
Shift Management
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OVERVIEW | When your workforce is distributed throughout different shifts or (partly) working remotely, it is crucial that communication between supervisors, employees, and contractors is transparent and clear. Our Shift Management module is an easy tool to manage different types of shifts. It guarantees clean shift relief and handovers and assists you in planning and scheduling employee shifts without complications. |
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Electronic shift logs and handovers Automatically deliver key information to help the next shift to operate the plant safely, take real-time action on instantly reported events Monitor and report Monitor centralised daily shift data and supervisor log with user dashboards and real-time reports Daily instructions and night letters Electronically manage KPIs, actions and instructions Production tasks management Plan, create and automatically assign actions and recurring production tasks Integration Integration with plant information and alerting systems |
Competence Management
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OVERVIEW | Effective and automated Competence Management creates a real-time and predictive inventory of the capability of any workforce. Our Competence Management module creates a real-time and predictive inventory of your workforce capabilities, that allows you to monitor employee skill sets, plan and follow up refresher trainings and certificate updates. |
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Plan Create a skill matrix and record employees’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes Review Centralised overview of all data connected to a certain employee Report Different types of training can be registered and followed up on, allowing easy reporting on who has followed which track |
Contractor Management
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OVERVIEW | Contractor Management takes care of all the necessary documents to ensure contractors’ safety and the compliance of your company. The Contractor Management module efficiently manages all your contractors, so they become and stay productive and safe members of your workforce. |
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Visibility Gain full visibility with built-in overviews and reports, centralise and store all contractor files Templates Define and distribute templates for compliance Qualification Standardise the qualification process and create a predefined roadmap for it Communication Streamline communication with your contractors |
Complaint Handling
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OVERVIEW | Take advantage of customer feedback to continuously improve your products and services. The Complaint Management module helps you to manage customer interaction and ensure that the right people are kept in the loop. |
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Record Record and track new complaints Notify Send a notification each time a new complaint is received and ensure that the right people are kept in the loop Share Share information across the entire organisation Follow up Specify preventive and corrective actions |
Chemicals Management
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OVERVIEW | Chemicals Management considers the whole product lifecycle process, from end to end. It analyses, supports, automates, and monitors the REACH-related processes and provisions. The result is a smooth and effortless process providing companies with an edge in today’s competitive business environment. |
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Monitor Keep track of your suppliers’ preregistrations and (Material) Safety Data Sheets Overview Chemicals Management gives you a configurable overview of all products and suppliers stored in your platform Organise process Manage REACH compliance process, define custom filters, log action items |
Environmental Reporting
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OVERVIEW | The best way to achieve your environmental goals is through consistent review, evaluation, and improvement of your environmental performance. With the Environmental Reporting module, you gain insights and ensure compliance by embedding environmental, social and energy objectives into your daily operations. |
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Collect data Track resources, emissions, and waste Set objectives Provide a clear view on activities that might impact environmental concerns Compliance Assure full compliance and set up with ISO 14001 standard in mind Consider expectations Embed the environmental, social, and energy expectations into daily operations |