“We’re producing 300 times more safety data sheets in 2024 than we did in 2000. Yet, the team that handles SDSs has only doubled in that same amount of time. The ability to handle the exponential increase in volume is only possible thanks to the rule sets and regulatory content from 3E ERC+.”

Client

Merck

Industry/Market

Pharmaceutical/ health care/ biologic therapies/ animal health products

Solutions

Challenges

• Keeping pace with evolving regulatory landscape
• Managing compliance for growing volume of products
• Fielding commercial expansion requests to determine marketability in key regions
• Streamlining data consolidation required for Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) reporting

Results

• Ability to handle 29 million active safety data sheets (SDSs) with automated system
• Quickly and accurately assess marketability for global regions in minutes
• Improved quality and speed of marketability insights requested by the marketing, sales and operations teams
• Streamlined authoring of SDSs in new template that conforms to complex compliance requirements worldwide and enables a repeatable, systematized update process every 6 months
• Turnkey integration with SAP S/4HANA Classic