Supplier Compliance in the Value Chain: Overview
This process supports a check that is carried out in purchasing documents. For each compliance-relevant product that is added to the purchasing document, 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.
Supplier compliance in the value chain starts with the creation of a purchase order. The supplier is added and checked to determine whether the purchase order is blocked. 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.