Formulators and Regulatory Specialists within Food & Beverage companies often follow an inefficient process to evaluate and optimize formula & product designs against regulatory compliance requirements at the Assessment and Design stages of the PLM. They need to perform compliance assessments early in the PLM cycle to avoid costs and lower impacts of changes.

• Review relevant information located in multiple legislative texts
• Access and view the most current and authenticated legislative texts
• Create substance searches according to targeted markets
• Click over to the legislation to view the highlighted search item within the document to allow self interpretation if needed
• Import relevant substance information, such as approved list names into Parameter fields in their Optiva formulation module to support their research
• Save search strings for future and community sharing use allowing operational efficiency
• Create automated alerts based on regulatory repository updates
• Have tools in place to build Guidelines and Restrictions in Optiva

Web Discovery provides unified access to multiple internal and external information sources, such as news feed systems, document management repositories, intranets, and the World Wide Web.

Each of these information sources typically has its own search interface, and to submit a similar query to each of them becomes a time-consuming process. Web Discovery effectively streamlines the information retrieval process. It enables users to submit a single query to multiple information sources, and returns a unified and sorted set of results. Rather than spending excessive time submitting the same query over and over to multiple data sources, The product enables users to broadcast their query to a wide assortment of search engines and receive one set of consolidated results.

With this product, you can provide users with a unified knowledge management system that enables them to quickly find the information they need, improving productivity, and saving time and money.

• Provides a single point of access-Provides unified access for searching internal and external information sources in a common user interface
• Improves productivity-Makes it easier for users to find the information needed to do their job, enabling them to be more responsive and productive
• Leverages existing investments-Preserves the value of investments in legacy data sources by providing unified access to content in its existing locations, thus avoiding the cost of transferring large amounts of legacy data to new repositories

With a web-based repositories for Environment, Health, Safety and Transport information you can quickly locates global regulatory information. It will simplify the monitoring process for regulatory changes and saves you time by providing online, updated regulatory data that is reviewed by experts.

These tools will ease the burden of consolidating regulatory information on a global scale and significantly reduces the complexity by providing one centralized source for both government and industry guidelines. It provides regulatory information in a standardized format combined with powerful search capabilities.

Users can ensure that current products can be sold into new markets or products in development can be sold into their target market areas, with the understanding of regulatory restrictions, labeling requirements, export notifications, and inventory reporting.

Gatekeeper maintains a knowledge base of how chemicals are approved at your facility and who is authorized to purchase. Once the preliminary chemical screen is completed, the approval process is launched with submissions automatically routed to the right personnel. At any given time you can check the status of a request throughout the organization. While the request is being processed, the Chemical Management Solution (CMS) system puts the SDS into your MSDS Vault™ ensuring that your employees are OSHA compliant and have hazardous information available.

Regulator creates a mechanism for real-time inventory tracking of hazardous chemicals and constituents throughout your facility, and generates Tier I and Tier II reports at all locations. Chemicals and ingredients are monitored from the time there are received on site until their time of disposal.

Quantity levels are tracked based on their original unit of measure and converted into pounds for reporting. Chemicals are broken down by individual components and consolidated for cross-referencing throughout the facility.

Chemical containers are individually monitored and can be located at the click of the mouse. Inventory logs, movement records, storage locations, and reoccurring usages are all tracked by Regulator's inventory functions.

Organizes unstructured content and provides Information Retrieval tools to mine PLM content. Connectors enable full-text indexing of free text, giving users Knowledge Management access to "hard-to-find" PLM content. Faster, easier retrieval of PLM content with more confidence, make timely decisions, sort through endless information.