Ensuring Chemical Supplier Compliance in the Value Chain

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to ensure Chemical Supplier Compliance.

Chemical Supplier Compliance Process

Supplier Compliance in the Value Chain: Overview

Supplier compliance in the value chain starts with the creation of a purchase order. For each compliance-relevant product that is added, the system checks the status of the supplier assessment.

If the supplier of all items is compliant, the document can be processed.

If the supplier isn't approved for an item, the item and the business transaction are blocked. For a blocked item, a compliance request for the product steward specialist is created to check the assessment of the supplier. If the compliance result of the assessment is positive, the block is released.

Watch the following video to see how users and which roles work together to complete that process.

Applicable Process Steps

To sum up the steps you saw in that video, here are the general process steps listed:

  • Master Data Specialist: Defines compliance data and assigns supplier for raw materials
  • Purchaser: Creates Purchase Order and checks supplier status
  • Product Steward Specialist: Checks the compliance request
  • Master Data Specialist: Checks approved compliance information for supplier
  • Purchaser: Processes Purchase Order

Benefits

The benefits of the Chemical Compliance in the value chain are:

  • Mitigate compliance risks with up-to-date information integrated into the value chain
  • Integrate compliance marketability checks in the procurement processes
  • Inform product steward specialists about new suppliers
  • Go through approval process to validate restrictions for purchasing

Note

This process flow is covered in Scope Item: 5OJ- Supplier Compliance in the Value Chain.

How to ensure Supplier Compliance

Introduction: Supplier Compliance in the Value Chain

This process shows a supplier check that is carried out in purchasing documents.

Note

The task numbers matches the numbers of the exercise.

Task 2: Manage Basic Compliance Data

Master Data Specialist for Product Compliance Jasmine checks if the compliance view for the raw material exists and assigns a product from the product master. Jasmine also assigns a supplier to the compliance view and requests the assessment of the supplier compliance.

Task 3: Create a Purchase Order

Purchaser Claire creates a purchase order for a raw material for which the assessment of the supplier compliance is still in progress. The system verifies the supplier compliance status and blocks the purchase order. Also a compliance request is generated.

Task 5: Check Supplier Data

Otto, Product Stewardship Specialist for Product Compliance, opens the compliance request and checks the issue. Finally Otto approves the data.

Task 6: Control Purchase Data

At the end Purchaser Claire checks the status of the purchasing order. The document is no longer blocked.

Summary

After completing this lesson, you are able to:

  • name the benefits of using a Chemical Supplier Compliance
  • understand the Chemical Supplier Compliance process
  • create a Compliance view for a Raw Material and add a Supplier
  • use the data inside a Purchasing process

Learning

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