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SAP Solution BriefSAP ERP Corporate Services

SAP Environment, Health, andSafety Management

Traditionally, the effectiveness of anorganization has been measured solelyon the basis of financial results. Thisis no longer the case. Along withprofitability, company stakeholders haveincreased concerns about protecting

corporate reputation and brand value,reducing operational risk, and improvingsustainability performance. They nowdemand that organizations meetguidelines for corporate responsibility while minimizing the cost of managingcompliance.

Global companies face a growingnumber of national and internationalrules and regulations that are becomingmore and more complex, resulting in

higher compliance costs and greaterbusiness risks. Manual approaches tocompliance, for example, simply cannotkeep pace with the sheer volume ofglobal and local regulations. And wherecompliance solutions exist, they areoften designed to address specificregulations at the plant or local level – without integration into business opera-tions and without the ability to meetthe larger needs of the organizationat the enterprise level. Overall, apersistent lack of IT integration and

poor visibility into business operationsmake the cost of achieving safety andcompliance prohibitive.

The SAP® Environment, Health, andSafety Management (SAP EHSManagement) application can providean answer. It is a comprehensive inte-grated application that helps companiesimplement their EHS strategies to

govern and execute their EHS compli-ance and risk management initiativeson a local and global level. With itsbroad range of functionalities and globalscalability, SAP EHS Management helpscompanies overcome the challenges

of disconnected systems, regions,and departments. Because SAP EHSManagement offers an integrated setof functions – rather than disconnectedIT tool sets – customers can surmountthe limitations inherent in silo-basedEHS software deployments. The appli-cation provides support for executivesto handle regulatory compliance, takean integrated approach to operationalrisk management, and address theneeds of their corporate sustainability

initiatives.

Integration: The Key to CorporateSustainability

SAP EHS Management works with your existing SAP software landscape,integrating your compliance needsinto the way you do business. Unlikeapplications that focus narrowly onspecific regulations, SAP EHS Manage-ment supports an end-to-end EHScompliance management process.

Because it is an integrated part ofthe SAP ERP application, it supportsoperational transparency. And aspart of SAP BusinessObjects™ gover-nance, risk, and compliance solutions,it helps you monitor and promoteethical business conduct. This canhelp you establish a strong reputationfor corporate accountability andresponsibility.

With the SAP® Environment,Health, and Safety Manage-ment (SAP EHS Manage-ment) application, you canimplement a single inte-grated solution to manageregulatory compliance andoperational risk for EHSand support sustainability

initiatives across globalbusiness processes.

MANAGING ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND SAFETY REDUCE OPERATIONAL RISK WHILESUPPORTING SUSTAINABILITY



permit management of air, water, and waste emissions, helping you to fulfillregulatory obligations – whether local,national, or international.

The application further augments your

environmental compliance functionalityby automatically generating productsafety documentation, bills of material,and safety data sheets, to save yousignificant time and resources. In addi-tion, it allows you to fully integrate your waste management processes with your other business software to bettertrack activities related to materials,compliance, manifests, transportation,and disposal.

Because SAP EHS Management alsointegrates with key applications such asplant maintenance and manufacturingexecution systems, it supports you inmaking compliance-related businessprocesses that are aligned, auditable,and transparent. This helps provide you with automated reporting, earlyidentification of deviations, and com-prehensive site-data reporting for enter-prise planning and risk management.The software also supports standard-ized best practices to reduce your

workload and make compliance easierand more efficient.

Product Safety and Stewardship Adopting regional and global standardsfor product and chemical handling anddisposal poses significant complianceand safety challenges. To remain com-petitive, companies need responsible

As shown in Figure 1, the applicationprovides comprehensive support for you to perform processes acrossthe three fundamental pillars of EHScompliance management: health andsafety, environmental performance,

and product safety and stewardship.

Health and SafetyYour people are your most valuableresource, and ensuring their health andsafety is both a business imperative

and a moral obligation. SAP EHSManagement not only helps your busi-ness comply with the health and safetyregulations that affect your workers,but it also helps ensure your workers’safety and performance on the job.

SAP EHS Management helps youstreamline EHS operations across yourcompany and supporting processes forrisk assessment, incident management,and health surveillance. For example,drawing on information supplied by the

asset life-cycle management functionsin SAP ERP, you can arrange, followup, and assess plant maintenancetasks. And tight integration with humanresources (HR) and other business pro-cesses allows SAP EHS Managementto track the healthcare of employeesand monitor results and diagnoses.

Ultimately, SAP EHS Managementhelps you reduce costs and save timeby keeping your occupational health

information up-to-date, and by auto-mating medically and legally mandatedreporting. It also enables you to stream-line collaboration among the key partici-pants involved in worker health andsafety, including industrial health andsafety professionals, HR professionals,medical personnel, and externalauthorities.

Environmental PerformanceSAP EHS Management is a compre-hensive offering that helps you run

operations, factories, and plants in anenvironmentally responsible mannerand comply with regulations affectingair, water, and land. You can monitorfacility emissions and simultaneouslymaintain emissions accounting so that your business can leverage maximumbenefits in the carbon trading and taxarenas. The software also supports full

Figure 1: Three Pillars of SAP Environment,Health, and Safety Management

SAP® EHSManagement

Product Safetyand

Stewardship

EnvironmentalPerformance

Health and Safety



product design and manufacturingprocesses, as well as a transparentsupply chain to ensure safe and compli-ant sales and distribution.

SAP EHS Management takes a uniform

and integrated approach to complying with the mandates that regulate theRegistration, Evaluation, Authorisationand Restriction of Chemicals (REACH).By enabling collaboration among yoursupply chain partners, the softwareallows you to track and document sub-stances used in your products. You canquickly classify reportable and non-reportable substances; automate prereg-istration and registration processes forthe European Chemicals Agency; and

provide comprehensive substanceinventory support, usage and exposuremanagement, and volume tracking.

The application supports companies inmeeting regulatory mandates such asthe restriction of hazardous substancesdirective (RoHS) or the waste in electri-cal and electronic equipment directive(WEEE). It helps your business ensuresafe handling and disposal of electronic waste, for example, and simplifies yourcompliance efforts by integrating new

and existing local and global productregulations. The ability to manage regu-latory content with an application fullyintegrated across your supply chainhelps you streamline the collection,organization, and dissemination of data.It also helps you automate processesto support compliance activities across your supply chain.

SAP EHS Management helps you meetglobal, federal, and regional standardsfor product safety and hazardoussubstance management with functionssuch as automatic composition calcula-tion and safety data sheet authoring,

management, and shipping. It alsohelps you manage the logistics relatedto such materials with global label man-agement and generation of inventoryreports for hazardous substances – suchas the labeling and reports requiredto comply with the U.S. Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act(SARA). In addition, it supports thepurchasing process for hazardousmaterials while helping you meet themandates posed by global and local

regulations such as section 12(b) ofthe Toxic Substances Control Act.

Compliance and Sustainability to Yield Real Business Value

SAP EHS Management can support you in conducting efficient comprehen-sive EHS risk management acrossglobal business processes. It can help you streamline compliance processestoward reducing the costs of managingEHS risks. SAP EHS Management

allows companies to centralize collec-tion of EHS information and reportsuccessfully on the positive impact ofglobal EHS strategies. That ability helpscompanies to demonstrate leadershipin EHS responsibility and sustainability,and enhance their corporate image andbrand value. Ultimately, the applicationsupports you in achieving key benefitsin these areas:

• Lower risk by staying current withever-changing regulations to track, validate, and prepare the requireddocumentation and reports

• Manage EHS compliance and cor-

porate responsibility effectively andefficiently by deploying best busi-ness practices and controlling EHSprocesses globally. You can reducecosts with integrated, automated,auditable compliance processesthroughout the company – even within a changing organizationalstructure and extended supply chain.

• Support management and EHSexperts with a comprehensive

scalable solution that addressesEHS experts’ tasks related to healthand safety, product safety andstewardship, and environmentalperformance in a sustainable manner

Find Out More

To learn more about SAP EHSManagement, contact your SAPrepresentative today or visit usonline at www.sap.com/ehs.



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SummaryThe SAP® Environment, Health, and Safety Management (SAP EHS Management)application can help you achieve comprehensive and sustainable regulatory compliancein the areas of health, safety, and the environment as well as in chemical and productstewardship. By leveraging your existing SAP software environment, it helps youintegrate compliance and safety activities with current business processes and improvesustainability performance.

Business Challenges• Manage risk and comply with EHS regulations around the world• Reduce the costs of managing environment, health, and safety risks• Address the increasing importance of corporate responsibility and sustainability

Key Features• Health and safety – Help ensure safety in the workplace and comply with health and

safety regulations that affect workers• Environmental performance – Run operations, factories, and plants in a sustainable way

and comply with regulations affecting air, water, and land• Product safety and stewardship – Support the safe handling and disposal of regulated

products and full compliance with regulations; meet local, national, and global regulationsregarding chemical substances

Business Benefits• Enhance sustainability initiatives by supporting the integration of corporate policies and

EHS compliance activities into related business processes• Improve risk mitigation by identifying and addressing business risks that derive from

EHS failure and noncompliance• Improve EHS performance and reduce compliance and operating costs with integrated

EHS processes applied across the enterprise• Get transparent EHS performance through a reliable foundation for auditing, documenting,

and communicating relevant EHS information• Achieve compliant operations for most business processes and regions

For More InformationCall your SAP representative or visit us online at www.sap.com/ehs.

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