CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
26 January 2005
Product News
New E2open Solution Enables Cost Effective Eco-Compliance for WEEE and RoHS Across Global Supply Chains
E2open announced the E2open Material Composition Declaration (MCD) Solution for collecting, maintaining and reporting data about the contents of electronics products for compliance with emerging environmental and hazardous materials rules and regulations. Specifically designed to manage the complexities surrounding new environmental compliance initiatives, the E2open MCD Solution provides integrated data collection capabilities along with reporting and business intelligence tools to allow companies to efficiently manage the compliance of their products, thereby limiting liabilities and maintaining uninterrupted access to key product markets while reducing the cost of compliance across the supply chain. E2open will host a Web seminar on January 27 to discuss this important issue. For more information visit: http://www.e2open.com/MCD/MCDMain.htm .
Rapidly approaching legislation such as the European Union's (EU) Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE-deadline, August 2005) and Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS-deadline, July 2006) require OEM producers to understand the composition of their products and maintain access to technical records on the levels of controlled or hazardous materials that may be present prior to shipment of a finished good into any EU country. Today, few companies are able to adequately track material composition to address MCD requirements and are at risk of being fined and having their products impounded resulting in decreased sales, lost market share and potentially negative press coverage. In particular, companies must gather MCD data and manage non-compliant elements across 100 percent of their supply chain. With the new regulations, ignorance regarding the composition of any component or material in the product, regardless of where in the supply chain it originated-either with EMS providers, component suppliers or distributors-will not excuse companies or be a defense to non-compliance.
To meet the needs of companies facing these new eco-regulations, the E2open MCD Solution includes data collection and integration, application software, data warehousing, trading partner on-boarding, report generation, performance management, decision support and issue resolution tools for managing MCD compliance both internally and with partners. The E2open MCD Solution is architected for rapid deployment and can easily integrate with a company's existing internal systems of record, such as an ERP system. The solution manages data collection from all suppliers, encompassing all related part numbers. It helps to manage and track material composition data, requests and change notices and includes MCD data collection forms based on the emerging RosettaNet Automated Enablement (RAE) program, along with capabilities for tracking business exceptions such as part non-conformance and supplier non-response.
Like all E2open solutions, the E2open MCD Solution is delivered in a software-as-a-service model to lower costs and complexity, including all of the hardware, software, hosting services and ongoing management capabilities.
"The E2open MCD solution meets the requirements for companies to comprehensively, yet cost-effectively address the eco-compliance challenge," said Richard Kubin, E2open vice president of PLM solutions and chair of the National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (NEMI) project on Materials Composition Data Exchange. "The solution enables companies to efficiently collect consistent and high quality MCD data from all of their trading partners, regardless of their integration or communication capabilities-this has proven to be the most difficult and costly issue in addressing the problem. Further, it provides tools to meet the required documentation should a company need to establish proof of compliance and it is flexible to rapidly and affordably accommodate changes to eco-compliance standards."
E2open ( http://www.e2open.com ) is a provider of software-as-a-service to manage inter-company processes such as inventory management, order management, demand/supply synchronization and multi-tier visibility, integrating trading partners across multiple tiers of distributed global supply and demand networks. Over 6,000 companies worldwide currently use E2open for greater supply chain visibility and control through accurate, timely and cost-effective access to information. E2open is the industry's only solution to combine inter-company process management functionality, event management tools, performance management capabilities and an open B2B integration platform delivered in an on demand model, resulting in lower total cost of ownership and shorter deployment cycles. A privately-held company, E2open's largest customers include Hitachi, IBM, LG Electronics, Matsushita Electric Industrial, (Panasonic), Seagate Technology, Solectron, and Wistron.
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