Ariel Expert Rules

Business decisions related to the manufacturing and marketing of products around the globe require comprehensive, up-to-date chemical and regulatory information to quickly meet legal requirements and provide accurate documentation for every product depending on its composition, where it is produced and how it is used and distributed. Part of the Ariel EH&S Decision Support family of products, Ariel Expert Rules is a program that applies logic in an automated fashion to the substance database in SAP® EH&S with the aim of creating MSDSs and labels that satisfy country-specific regulations.

Ariel Expert Rules, combined with the power of Ariel global chemical regulatory content, give companies the ability to:

• Improve the time it takes to introduce new products to market or existing products to new markets
• Manage increased regulatory pressures and customer requirements
• Enhance the quality of documentation by eliminating manual processes
• Reduce the burden on the compliance professional
• Decrease the risk of delays and fines due to inaccurate documentation

How It Works

Designed to help ensure regulatory compliance for final products, the Rules can be run against mixtures and components. The Rules programs make determinations using basic data such as physical-chemical properties, toxicological test results and safety data in the same way an MSDS author would. The end result can automatically populate sections of various MSDSs and other documents that are mandated by a regulation.

The Ariel Rules sets eliminate variations in MSDS authoring, as well as human error, and ensure that the country-specific requirements for various outputs are met consistently.

The Expert Rules programs reside on a Rules Server outside the SAP EH&S application and are developed with environmental health and safety experts. The Ariel team has established processes to monitor changes in regulations, which can trigger changes to the Expert Rules package.

Ariel Regulatory Content - The 3E Difference

At the core of 3E’s Ariel EH&S Decision Support products and services is the massive global regulatory content aggregated, refined and maintained by 3E’s own team using documented best practice methodology, and through direct relationships with regulatory bodies across the globe.

More than 300 multi-national organizations, including 70% of the world’s largest chemical manufacturers, rely on Ariel’s up-to-date, accurate, multi-lingual content on a daily basis. The breadth of countries covered and depth of regulatory and legislative information provided offer unprecedented support for identifying, monitoring and complying with ever changing EH&S requirements.

Our Own Regulatory Research Specialists

3E’s own team of specialists research, procure and update the global regulatory content that is delivered by Ariel EH&S Decision Support products and services. Ariel global research specialists have the experience, contacts and language skills needed to keep current with changing regulations. Ariel content is based on official government sources in the respective countries.

Our regulatory team consists of professionals with legal expertise and active relationships with the government agencies around the world that provide assistance in procuring and analyzing legislation. The team has extensive language skills to facilitate translations and dialogue with appropriate regulatory bodies.

Brochures and Additional Information

Features

• Implementation Services

  Our experienced team provides on-site implementation and training on the Ariel Expert Rules package. It is required that regulatory content (from a provider such as Ariel) has been populated to the SAP EH&S specification database.

• Generics

  Ariel content includes regulatory requirements for chemicals that are not specifically named in the regulations, but that are nonetheless regulated as members of over 5,000 classes of chemical substances.

• Quality Process

  The Ariel Global Research Team regularly researches and updates the regulatory content residing in the Ariel global regulatory database and has established a process for monitoring changes in regulations that impact Ariel Expert Rules regulatory content.

• Data Integration

  Ariel Expert Rules apply directly to the substance database in the SAP EH&S program, seamlessly integrating data for increased operational efficiencies and informed decision-making.