Many organizations, including distributors and retailers are increasingly challenged with meeting EH&S regulatory compliance obligations and an intense consumer demand for safer, more environmentally-friendly products. This requires organizations to more closely scrutinize the products they distribute, ship and/or sell in their stores. To fulfill regulatory requirements and offer greener, safer products to their customers, they need access to hazard communication and chemical data early in the purchasing process, long before the products ship, arrive at the distribution center, or are stocked on store shelves.

Using the 3E Online Supplier Portal significantly streamlines the process of obtaining the necessary data from the supplier quickly and efficiently. The portal provides flexible options for data collection and extrapolation, enabling retailers and distributors to incorporate the data into existing purchasing processes for a smooth transition of data from one party to another.

Streamlined Processes for Retailers and Suppliers Alike

The 3E Online Supplier Portal enables retailers' or distributors' upstream suppliers and buyers to load MSDSs and data into a centralized, secure, easy-to-use web-based application. Manufacturers can now provide the desired compositional data while protecting their trade secrets. The portal offers a way for retaielrs to obtain the information they need, while protecting the supplier from exposing sensitive information. As data is loaded into the system, 3E analyzes, indexes and augments information as appropriate, based on the MSDS. Whether it be hazard chemical classification information, dangerous goods classification, or an altogether newly-authored MSDS or secondary container label, 3E can provide the additional data, or validate existing data, so that your organization can optimize its data management operations.

Advantages

Using the 3E Online Supplier Portal has advantages over traditional methods of gathering supplier data.

Expedited on-boarding

Retailers get the EH&S data they need, early in the process, significantly minimizing the time required to on-board new products.

Complete, Current & Accurate Data

Instant access to 3E's unparalleled databased of 4.5 million MSDSs means suppliers can leverage this database, including the more than 1,000,000 UPC codes that have been classified for fire code, transportation and/or waste to supplement their own data. Leverage 3E's built-in back-office processes, including classification services and revision maintenance of all MSDSs. 3E's Manufacturer Relations Department maintains relationships with tens of thousands of manufacturers, and is dedicated to assuming the burden of ensuring your inventory contains the most recent version of MSDSs available.

Flexible Data Requirements

Retailers determine and define the data requirements based on their policy and strategy. Similar industry solutions require as many as 15 data fields in addition to the MSDS.

Cost Effective

The 3E Online Supplier Portal is provided as a value-added process to a subscription of 3E Online-MSDS. The only additional applicable charges are in the event a request for a newly-authored MSDS is submitted.

Experience

3E Company has more than two decades of supporting the retail, distribution and consumer products industries. This experience is leveraged to provide retailers with the right data to support a wide variety of requirements ranging from green product analysis, storage requirements, to ensure stores and distribution centers are equipped to handle products, transportation requirements, to waste support for ensuring proper disposal methods.

Round-the-clock Support and Global Reach

3E provides 24-7-365 multi-lingual assistance to support global operations. Emergency situations may require a retailer to on-board new products as quickly as possible. The EH&S MIssion Control Call Center provides round-the-clock support.

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