How to Improve your Chemical Supply Chain Planning

The California Hazardous Materials Business Plan regulations and compliance obligations can be complex and vary among regulating agencies. Utilizing Verisk 3E’s Regulatory Reporting Services team of actively involved, engaged and experienced regulatory professionals can be a highly efficient and effective way to alleviate the challenges associated with ensuring compliance with these complex and varying regulations.

If your products contain substances of very high concern (SVHCs) above thresholds set out by the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) Regulation, you risk losing access to European Union (EU) markets. Join Raj Takhar, Assent’s Subject Matter Expert, Materials Management and Chemical Reporting, and Roberto Crespi, Associate at Fieldfisher, as they explain what non-EU businesses need to know if they want to sell their products in the EU.

Optimisation of the development cycle for new products is a challenge in the chemical industry. Steel, which in many ways is analogous to chemicals, is produced using a long chain of interdependent process steps. Consequently, large volumes of experiments are required to fully explore process parameter relations. This is more critical for new, highly differentiated products for which understanding of the underlying physical principles is incomplete and thus a-priori exclusion of factors not possible. In this context, the use of statistical Design of Experiments (DOE) to shorten development timescale, maximize the output of experimental capacity and minimize material consumption is essential.

Within chemical process development, program timing often dictates making informed decisions with limited process understanding, especially in the early clinical delivery space. To facilitate this, the Merck Process Development Intensification Laboratory is tasked with developing tools and methodologies aimed towards acquisition of deeper, more fundamental process understanding in a resource sparing manner. These chemical process development techniques are centrally focused around data intensification, or more specifically, more efficient data capture, data reduction and data analysis enabled.