Effectively manufacturing and marketing global products requires timely access to top-quality chemical and regulatory information. This information is used to satisfy legal requirements, and it is the foundation for providing accurate documentation. Ariel Expert Rules streamlines the global chemical regulatory management process and reduces the amount of time spent researching, understanding and applying chemical and regulatory information. Ariel Expert Rules, when combined with the power of Ariel's global chemical regulatory content, gives companies the ability to:
- Improve the time to market for new products or for introducing existing products to new markets
- Manage increased regulatory pressures and customer requirements
- Enhance the quality of documentation by eliminating manual processes
- Reduce the burden on the compliance professional
- Decrease the risk of delays and fines due to inaccurate documentation
"Today's business environment is extremely competitive and the introduction of a new product or the penetration of a new market demands a very short time to market. Companies need to be prepared to meet new and constantly changing regulatory requirements on a global scale in record time," said Jillaine Dellis, vice president, Ariel Global Research & Operations, 3E Company. "Ariel Expert Rules for SAP solutions reduces the burden associated with the global regulatory compliance process by automating certain standard decisions and reiterates 3E Company's continuing support of customers who are also using the SAP EH&S application."
Ariel Expert Rules is based on Ariel Regulatory Content, which encompasses more than 700 searchable chemical lists and more than 60 countries. Ariel's industry leading content is maintained by 3E Company's team of Ariel Global Research specialists, who have the contacts and language skills to closely monitor and analyze global regulations and update the regulatory content residing in Ariel's global regulatory database as necessary.
3E Company's Ariel Expert Rules is available immediately for the North America, Europe and Asia Pacific regions. Rules licensing fees depend on selected geographic module coverage.
About 3E Company
3E Company is the first company to provide a comprehensive suite of services for environmental, health and safety (EH&S) related chemical and hazardous materials information and compliance management that addresses the entire chemical lifecycle. This suite of services includes regulatory research; MSDS authoring, distribution and management; transportation; emergency response; training; regulatory reporting; and hazardous waste management. 3E has the industry leading combination of a 24-7-365 hazmat mission control call center, with an online platform for hazmat compliance information management, all built on a foundation of the world's premier hazardous substance database of global regulatory and compliance information. Its international, multi-lingual professional staff is composed of regulatory specialists, experienced product stewards, industrial hygienists, attorneys, chemists and chemical engineers, MSDS experts and EH&S systems consultants.
3E's services offer a cost effective program for global regulatory compliance management by alleviating the pain, managing risk, increasing the efficiency and enhancing staff productivity and enabling EH&S professionals to focus on more strategic functions. Today more than 7,000 customers have partnered with 3E including Costco Wholesale Corporation, America West, Eastman Chemical, Temple-Inland, Menasha and PacifiCorp. 3E was founded in 1988 and is the recipient of the 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006 Commitment to Worker Safety Awards in Online and MSDS Services from Compliance Magazine, which also recognized 3E Online-MSDS in 2005 with an Award of Excellence for its Best of the Web Awards. The privately held company is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA with additional operations in Bethesda, MD, Kingsport, TN, and Copenhagen, Denmark. For more information on 3E Company, visit www.3ecompany.com, send e-mail to info@3ecompany.com or call 800-360-3220, 760-602-8700 or, in Europe, +45 70 22 81 70.
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