Summarizing SAP S/4HANA for Product Compliance

• Stay up-to-date with regulatory content.
• Stay up-to-date on product changes.
• Integrate compliance throughout the end-to-end process.

• Improve supply chain communication.
• Manage compliance information from suppliers.

Make information accessible for all stakeholders at any stage of the product lifecycle.

• Focus on activities needed for markets and stakeholders.
• Automatic re-calculation and release.

• Automate compliance processes.
• Implement controls throughout the lifecycle.

• Reduce time to market for products.
• Avoid fines through the integration of compliance checks.
• Avoid potential loss of market share with up-to-date regulatory information.
• Meet top-line targets with sustainability and compliance embedded into core business processes.

• Support the UN Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs).
• Avoid noncompliance through integrated compliance checks in all product lifecycle stages.
• Be auditable at any stage of the product lifecycle.

• Increase efficiency through automation of compliance checks.
• Reduce effort by using the provided up-to-date regulatory data.
• Make compliance information accessible to all stakeholders.
• Meet bottom-line targets with automation, cloud services, and out-tasking.

SAP S/4HANA for product compliance is an integrated solution that helps secure revenue, protect the brand, reduce risk and compliance costs, and improve on-time delivery.

Unlike point solutions, SAP S/4HANA for product compliance enables compliance throughout the product lifecycle, with automated compliance processes, integrated compliance checks in business processes, and automated creation and provisioning of compliance information and documents.

SAP S/4HANA for product compliance allows you to ensure compliance throughout the lifecycle with automated compliance processes.

Specifically, it allows you to streamline product development by safeguarding product marketability and successfully delivering your products to market with safety data sheets, label management, and dangerous goods management.

Ensure product compliance to secure the right to market, sell, and ship products.

• Central data and product compliance information management;
• Integrated regulatory content;
• Automated compliance assessment;
• Integrated marketability checks;
• Self-service compliance information app;
• Basic substance volume tracking per country/region.

Provide safe and compliant transportation of hazardous materials to avoid delivery delays and protect brand value.

• Central data and regulatory information management;
• Dangerous goods classification;
• Integrated dangerous goods checks and output;
• Dangerous goods documents.

Manage safety data sheet and labeling requirements to ensure compliance and accelerate product introduction.

• Central data and regulatory information management;
• Central document management;
• Integrated document existence check;
• Integrated document shipping.

SAP Best Practices package for SAP S/4HANA includes a selection of scope items covering the scope of preconfigured, ready-to-run business processes that let you choose the capabilities and options of the solution, such as business processes and analytics content.

Scope items are typically predefined business processes, such as assessing a product's marketability. They represent a best-practice implementation choice. Each scope item includes a set of accelerators, such as process flows, test scripts, sample data, configuration, and detailed documentation, which are used during the implementation project.

Each scope item has a unique ID that makes it easy to identify, such as 31H for Assess the Marketability of Products or 31J for Chemical Compliance in Sales.

Utilize the SAP S/4HANA for product compliance solution to integrate compliance throughout the product lifecycle, enhancing market access and protection.

Streamline communication and information access to improve stakeholder engagement and efficiency in compliance management.

Automate compliance processes to reduce costs, avoid fines, and ensure up-to-date regulatory adherence.

Leverage SAP’s best practices and cloud services for efficient, automated, and compliant product management.