ADM-EHSAP

An Ariel EH&S Decision Support product, Ariel Data Manager (ADM) - EHSAP ("ee-sap") seamlessly integrates with SAP® EH&S, facilitating increased operational efficiencies, informed decision-making and consistent compliance practices throughout the enterprise.

Comprehensive, centralized global chemical and regulatory information is needed to ensure overall product and facility compliance. ADM-EHSAP can provide the relevant information required for making critical decisions related to a number of business issues that have to be considered when manufacturing and marketing products, such as:

• Ensuring products can be sold in the intended markets and are accompanied by compliant Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs/SDSs)
• Identifying the correct exposure limits for specific ingredients used in the manufacturing process
• Ensuring safe storage, handling, transport and disposal of substances

ADM-EHSAP is the industry’s ultimate best-of-class tool for optimized loading and management of EH&S regulatory and chemical data.

How it Works

Regulations are constantly changing. EH&S professionals are required to track hundreds of regulations in many jurisdictions as they apply to thousands of substances. ADM-EHSAP provides EH&S professionals with easy and efficient maintenance of regulatory information within SAP EH&S at the specification level. During the initial integration of data, users make decisions about what regulations are important based on their unique business needs. These decisions are stored so that when future updates are loaded, the user can easily identify what regulations have changed since the last update. Users review all information before it is loaded into the EH&S system, enabling informed decision-making related to the organization’s product safety and stewardship requirements. ADM-EHSAP is a robust and scaleable web based solution that supports local data repository updates over the Internet or via a physical media such as CD or DVD.

How it is Used

ADM-EHSAP has been proven to increase efficiencies, streamline processes and save EH&S professionals valuable time. Regulatory Compliance Specialists, Toxicologists, Industrial Hygienists, MSDS Authors, Material and Emission Specialists and Transportation and Logistical Specialists rely on Ariel content everyday. A variety of professionals with a wide range of EH&S responsibilities can enjoy the benefits of ADM-EHSAP.

For example, the classification according to EU Directive 67/548/EEC for zinc powder may be reviewed within ADM-EHSAP. Depending on whether the chemical has been stabilized or is in a pyrophoric state, the appropriate classification can be selected in ADM-EHSAP and share with others throughout the enterprise, enabling MSDS Authors, Transportation Specialists and others to consistently reference the appropriate classification. As needed, substance variants may be maintained to support chemical and hazard differences such as the hazards that are applicable when a substance is in a free flowing state and those that are applicable when the same substance is in an encapsulated state.

Content Modules

Regional Product Safety Coverage

ADM-EHSAP’s regional regulatory modules provide extensive coverage of regulated chemicals throughout the world at multiple levels of jurisdiction, from international, U.S. federal and state government, to EU (European Union) legislation, member state legislation and non-member state legislation.

Users can subscribe to any or all of the regional product safety modules, which include:

• North America
• Western Europe
• Central & Eastern Europe
• Latin America
• Asia-Pacific
• Middle East and Africa
• Global Inventories

Regulatory Transportation Data: Dangerous Goods

ADM-EHSAP’s transportation module provides regulatory data for the transportation for hazardous materials globally. The Dangerous Goods database includes all information necessary for complying with regulatory requirements for:

• ADR - European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road
• RID - Regulations concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail
• IMDG/IMO - International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code
• IATA - International Air Transport Association Dangerous Goods Regulations (passenger and cargo)
• ADNR - Agreement on the Transport of Dangerous Goods on the Rhine
• US 49CFR - United States Transportation of Hazardous Materials Regulations (U.S. DOT)
• Canadian TDG - Canadian Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations
• Mexico - List of Dangerous Goods
• China - List of Dangerous Goods

Physical, Chemical, Toxicological and Eco-toxicological Content (PCTEC)

ADM-EHSAP’s chemical property and hazard data provides in-depth physical, chemical, toxicological and eco-toxicological data for nearly 8,000 of the most common substances. Understanding the physical and chemical properties as well as the toxicity and eco-toxicity of the substances used in product formulations helps EH&S professionals make informed decisions related to the impact of the chemicals, their processes and their products on their workers, the workplace and the environment.

Enhancement Modules

Rules

The Ariel Expert Rules add-on package complements the functionally provided by ADM-EHSAP by applying automated logic to the substance database in SAP EH&S with the objective of creating MSDSs and labels that satisfy country-specific regulations. Using the power of automation provided by 3E’s Rules offering eliminates variations in MSDS authoring, as well as human error, and ensures the consistent application of country-specific requirements.

Product Foundation

Regulatory Content- The 3E Difference

At the core of Ariel EH&S Decision Support products and services is the global regulatory content aggregated, refined and maintained by 3E’s own team using documented best practice methodology, and through direct relationships with regulatory bodies across the globe. In short, 3E owns the content and the underlying technology. This stands in stark contrast to other vendors who may buy the bulk of their contact from a third party, and then simply re-package and resell it.

Ariel Data includes product safety, EH&S legislation and directives on import/export, hazard communication, workplace safety, notification, reporting and prohibitions on the marketing and use of hazardous substances. The Ariel Global Research Team supports research for more than 700 regulatory lists spanning more than 70 countries. Regulatory lists that directly influence business processes and compliance practices are available for integration with ADM-EHSAP. Access to the full-text of regulations and compliance guides is available through Ariel WebInsight, 3E’s flagship online reference product, which seamlessly integrates with ADM-EHSAP.

More than 300 multi-national organizations, including 70% of the world’s largest chemical manufacturers, rely on Ariel’s up-to-date, accurate, multilingual content on a daily basis. The breadth of countries covered and depth of regulatory and legislative information provided offer unprecedented support for identifying, monitoring and complying with ever-changing EH&S requirements.

3E’s Regulatory Research Specialists

3E’s own team of specialists researches, procures and updates Ariel global regulatory content that is delivered by Ariel EH&S Decision Support products and services. The Ariel Global Research Team has the experience, contacts and language skills needed to keep current with changing regulations. Ariel content is based on official government sources in their respective countries. The Ariel regulatory team consists of professionals with legal expertise and active relationships with government agencies around the world that provide assistance in procuring and analyzing legislation. The team has extensive language skills to facilitate dialogue with the appropriate regulatory bodies.

SAP Certified Content

Ariel content is fully compliant with the SAP-Open Content Connector (OCC) interface, an open XML-based interface to load external content into the SAP EH&S specification database. Customers committed to the OCC standard for SAP EH&S can seamlessly integrate Ariel regulatory content.

Brochures and Additional Information

Features

ADM-EHSAP was designed to meet the demanding needs of the most sophisticated users of SAP & EH&S.

• Generics

  Identifies regulatory requirements for chemicals that are not specifically named in the regulations, but that are regulated under a generic classification as members of over 5,000 broad regulatory classes known as “generics”. Hundreds of thousands of chemical links between generics and CAS numbers are maintained to ensure that users give consideration to all regulations that may be applicable. Efficient decision support functionality enables making generics choices at the substance and regulation level, significantly reducing the time required for data updates.

• Regulatory Impact Analysis

  When users need to understand the impact of regulatory changes on their business, ADM-EHSAP summarizes the number of specification records impacted by direct hits and those involving generics. The process provides insight into the amount of effort required to adopt a set of regulatory changes by identifying how specific records have been impacted.

• Flexible Configuration

  ADM-EHSAP allows flexible configuration and loading of identifiers, phrases, phrase sets and other regulatory data where SAP import files are generated directly from the ADM-EHSAP application. Users can easily map regulations to their SAP property tree, even if customized.

• Unicode Support

  Supports the delivery of data in various languages.

• Role-based Security Settings

  Provides multiple user access as well as a variety of user-identified security settings.

• Open, Industry-standard Technology

  ADM-EHSAP was built on industry-standard technology and open architecture. ADM-EHSAP supports load validation and enhanced error handling.

• Multiple Filter Set-up

  ADM-EHSAP provides support for multiple chemical and regulatory filters. Users can configure filters based on their business requirements and workflow and utilize those filters in making the process of loading data into the SAP EH&S application flexible and efficient.