Executive Summary
The company’s products must comply with various standards, regulations or monitoring guidelines to conduct business in any country. Compliance can delay product launches in desired markets and even act as a barrier to entry. Some of the examples of compliance are:
- Environmental and safety regulations established by the FDA
- SEC regulations
- Environmental compliance of substances such as RoHS, WEEE, JEDEC, China RoHS and Japanese Green Initiative
The Oracle Agile Product Governance and Compliance (PG&C) module is used in conjunction with the Agile Product Collaboration module to enable companies to manage product policies and use the built-in compliance framework. The Agile PG&C module helps organizations define, track, calculate, report and manage regulated product information and validates that the product meets specifications and compliance standards.
Why implement Agile PG&C
The reasons for the compliance initiative may be due to the following reasons:
- Design of new products or product reviews
- Selling/Shipping Product to Geographic Region Requiring Compliance
- Special labeling required for certain markets
- High cost of recycling
The ideal time to implement the product compliance system solution is during product design. Compliance at the late or post-launch stage can lead to time-to-market delays, increased cost of the product, increased cost of rework, reduced success rate of the product, and thus reduced overall value of the product. product portfolio. The Oracle Agile PG&C solution enables substance information that is relevant to substance regulation to be integrated into the Agile Product Lifecycle Management system in record time, making this information immediately available to personnel in engineering, manufacturing, purchasing, quality, sales, and regulatory standards, thereby ensuring product compliance.
Compliance Information Collection Process
The data for the declaration of substances of the components can come from:
- Pray
- Maker
- Third Party Content Provider
- internal teams
The supplier can upload the substance declaration directly into the Agile PG&C app. For example, substance data from the Institute of Printed Circuits material declaration management format (commonly called IPC 1752) can be exported or imported into Agile PG&C. Similarly, other formats can also be imported into the app. Compliance can be calculated or summarized in Excel. All BOM levels can be summarized at once using the ‘Calculate Compliance’ button or by running the scheduled request. Compliance data can also be exported to Excel and accumulated using scenarios. In addition to the compliant or non-compliant status, Agile also indicates whether the substance information is fully declared, partially declared, or if specifications are missing.
Compliance reports
The following predefined compliance reports are included with Agile PG&C out of the box:
- Parts Compliance Report
- Part Group Compliance Report
- Part Compliance Issue Report
- Report of Parts with Substances
- Substance Parts Report on PPM
- Supplier Compliance Report
- Missing Substance Report
- Statement Workflow Metrics Report
- Bill of Materials Compliance Report
Manage Compliance
Compliant records are kept in the database and non-compliant records should be routed to the non-compliant Environmental Engineer or Component Engineer for further action and involves:
- Sending declarations to suppliers and manufacturers
- Design engineering group to make changes to the design to make it compatible
Conclution
The Product Governance and Compliance initiative can improve time to market, reduce product cost, minimize rework cost, increase product success rate, and therefore improve the overall value of the product portfolio for any company. . Regulatory and environmental compliance requirements included during the product design stage, along with proactive monitoring, can help companies improve product performance and maintain compliance more cost-effectively. PG&C’s agile implementation can be a quick way to achieve regulatory and environmental compliance.