8. bill-of-materials

Hazox® Formula/Bill of Materials Interface - HazoxA major compliance challenge confronting organizations concerns the dynamic process ofproduct development. Formulations are constantly reworked as companies strive to maintain acompetitive advantage, resulting in the release of new and improved products at a freneticpace. Unfortunately, regulatory departments are often overlooked in the process, resulting inurgent, reactive action to avert product shipping delays.   Seemingly minor formulation changes may have significant environmental and chemicalreporting implications. The Bill of Materials (BOM) interface was designed to accommodatethese changes, allowing Hazox® to read a product’s formulation data directly from an ERPsystem. When a product’s formula is entered in the ERP system, Hazox® has enoughinformation to begin building the (M)SDS. By kicking off this process early in the manufacturingcycle, Hazox can have (M)SDS’s ready for distribution by the time a new (or newly formulated)product is manufactured and ready to ship.   The BOM server then extracts the list and quantities of ingredients from the finished product’sformula and stores the bill of material information in the Hazox production database aschemical, product and component data.   This module also allows users to get characteristic data from an ERP system, giving Hazoxinstant access to chemical information (such as flashpoints, pH, density, transportationinformation, UN/NA #, proper shipping name, hazard class, packaging group, etc.) In makingERP system data available for use in Hazox, this module eliminates the duplication of data andeffort to maintain it across separate systems. 1 / 1