Process Overview: Chemical Compliance Approval for Purchased Material and Supplier (31G)

This scope item manages the compliance fulfillment of purchased materials and their suppliers.
Raw materials (or purchased materials) must cover compliance requirements of the products that are produced by the purchased material of application areas where the material is used and generally processed for purchased materials.
The compliance data is requested from suppliers of a raw material. First, this allows you to approve or block a supplier and second, to assess the fulfillment of a raw material against the requirements. Finally, approved suppliers and raw materials are achieved. Additionally, the detailed compliance data is available for audits.
Benefits
This process helps you to:
Summarize usage of purchased materials requirements
Manage coverage of requirements on a supplier level
Perform supplier approval process
Aggregate and assess compliance on purchase material based on supplier data
Key Process Steps Covered
Set environmental relevance for raw material master
Process request for external sourcing
Assign supplier to raw material
Maintain supplier compliance data
Assess compliance of raw material