Prof. Andrew Hofmann - Podcast link

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I am a great fan of Prof. Andrew Hofmann's speach, writings and books which are authored or co-authored by Professor. Here's a University of Michigan podcast. http://www.umich.edu/news/podcast/business_law/climatebiz.mp3 on Climate change and Business Opportunities. Where Prof Hofmann sees climate change as a business opportunity rather a environmental issues.

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ehsjak

SEEING GREENER PASTURES IN GREEHOUSE GAS MANAGEMENT !!!

Business opportunity, corporate brand and Competitive advantage are the top three drivers while compliance and risk mitigation are considered significantly less important. However, Its not surprise when I heard Chris Perceval from WRI commenting in SAP Sustainability Video, that “ Current economic conditions is an opportunity for companies to reshape themselves with lot more innovation for sustainability for outperforming their competitors”, taking right steps now will save money in the long run!. Companies are infact collecting the data for competitive advantage and for maintaining market reputation. However A number of hallmark regulations are emerging right now, with some states, like California, Maine, and New Jersey, regulating carbon dioxide emissions ahead of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Not only regulations are driviing Greenhouse gas management, even companies are also feeling the pressure on financial side, shareholders, insurance firms, lenders and rating companies increasingly wants to see emission reduction and accountability via reports. Walmart announcement asking everyone of its suppliers to calculate and disclose the full environmental costs of manufacturing their costs is a typical example of this trend. If companies ignore these market changes they are in danger of being left behind.
Things are moving at an incredible pace. A key trend and source of confusion – involves registeries and reporting. In the US, the Chicago Climate Exchange and California Climate Registry have led to a proliferation of discussions. In coming years there may be a national system that supports emission accounting and a single standard reporting. CDM is about monitoring this rapidly evolving process very closely.
However, the question remains what is the optimum software solution that can takeup this challenge of tracking Corporate GHG emissions Inventory. . The near term software solutions should aim at helping companies assess their risk, inventory emissions, develop corporate strategies, engineer greenhouse gas and energy management measures, and identify emissions offset opportunities.
The companies should aims at 1) Calculate emissions from sources that company owns or controls 2) Emissions associated with the generation of electricity, steam, or heat purchased or consumed and 3) Emissions from Waste disposal, business travel and employee computing. From a software point of view the solution should suppor companies to i) Establish Emission Inventory Capability ii) Assess Internal options for Emission Reduction iii) Assess extenral options iv) Purchase options and v) Develop some long term Enterprise Sustainability strategy and support in Trading platform. .

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Jak

Clear Standards aka SAP Carbon Impact !!!!

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SAP two months back has taken over Clear Standards and going to release that later this year or early next year with a name SAP Carbon Impact. This on demand product is used for Voluntary Carbon Declaration. This Product compliments existing SAP Environmental Compliance for GHG Monitoring and Reporting.

Keep watching I shall post more detailed notes on SAP Carbon Impact

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jak

SAP EH&S vs SAP EHS MANAGEMENT !!!!

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It sounds interesting right! SAP EH&S and SAP EHS MANAGEMENT. Yes in coming months SAP is going to take SAP EH&S related products and comeout with a more stremlined business solutions. These business solutions are streamlined for Product Compliance, Environmental Compliance and Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene and Safety. Definately this move will generate lot more SAP EHS implementations throughout the world. As currently the segmented solutions distributed across different sub modules is confusing to the client. When they are briefed that their intended Product Compliance solution is distributed across three different sub modules for example - Dangerous Goods management, Product safety and Hazardous Substance Management.

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jak

EH&S TRAINING

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I Dont train any one... Please do not write any requests on this

And also I dont provide any Copy righted material.

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Sapehstrainer

SAP REACh Compliance 1.1

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Now a days I am being asked to write something about SAP solution REACh Compliance 1.1 since it seems there are couple of opportunities opened up for this module of SAP EH&S. Recently in EU a new legislation has come into force which is termed as REACh - stands for Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and (Restriction) of Chemicals. This new legislation said to replace existing 40 legislation's - to be precise it actually consolidates those 40 legislation in to a more powerful regulation. This is a quantity based regulation which requires a Legal entity to register with authorities how much chemicals (those from the list of hazardous chemicals) it proposes to Import, Export, Consume or produce in a calender year. SAP has come out with a software called Substance Volume Tracking which is used for quantity and volume monitoring of Substances in Logistic processes. Recently it has come up with a new software called REACh Compliance 1.1 (SP02).
Besides REACh Compliance 1.1, Global Label Management, Substance Volume Tracking, Product Safety, Bar Code and Labeling, Dangerous Goods Management, Supply chain Communication are the other required components for effective management of REACh regulation. REACh Compliance 1.1 is used for management of REACh Process within the legal entity. Numerous processes i.e. Material Management, Supply Chain Collaboration, Substance and Use Management and Legal Process Management are the different components of the software. This modules interacts with Existing EH&S, MM, SD, Business Partners, Email (SCOT), Business Objects for managing the process. This is a portal based application for management of REACh Process.

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sapehstrainer

SAP EH&S - Basic Data and Tools - What it is ?

The SAP EH&S Basic Data and Tools component provides you with a flexible and efficient solution for all the modules of SAP EH&S processes. These include Product Safety, Dangerous Goods Management, Waste Management, Hazardous Substance Management, Industrial Hygiene and Safety, Occupational Health, REACh Compliance or Emission Management or Environmental Performance Measurement or Compliance for Products. The major functionalities covered under Basic Data and Tools (hereafter referred as BD&T) included i) Entering and managing the required data on substances and products, 2) managing multilingual texts as phrases, 3) generating and sending report templates and generation variants 4) Substance Information System for displaying and drill down reporting for substance information and their export into different formats and finally 4) Tools for import and exposure of substances, phrases, report templates and other master data.

1) Substance Management: It is the basis for all other EH&S functions and provides some sort of building block for other applications. This has provision of entering substances categories (which are predefined) and created custom developed or default specification types. You can change or maintain identifiers, phrases, material – substance linkages and other physic-chemical information
2) Phrase Management – It allows you to generated and create texts in standard modules in different languages for effective use in different places. Phrases are managed by something called phrase groups, phrase sets and phrase library. Using value assignments/ phrase enabled characteristics types you can link phrases to characteristics for specification management.
3) Substance Information System – Using it you can make specialized searches of the existing specification database and create export files, display in the screen or carry out other research related searches like identifying substance with a color say “red”.
4) Report templates and report generation variants – Using this function you create all the necessary templates and generation variants for creation of reports, such as MSDS, SOP etc. Using the concept of generation variants you can control something called the report generation and the way reports are generated – whether manual report requests automatically generated, languages, template to be used for reports etc.
5) Data import and Export – The import and export of master data and communication with other systems / logistics or generation servers, EH&S Experts or even EH&S OCC will be carried out by this particular module of BD&T.


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sapehstrainer