Roadmap to Compliance: The Role of Electronic Data Exchange in Supporting the European Union RoHS and WEEE Directives

摘要

While there are distinct differences in requirements based on the role in the supply chain, both from a regulatory perspective and from an information management perspective, there are also many common threads and common issues. By establishing a clear methodology, your company can support customer requirements within the timelines required. The following elements should be considered: 1. Ensure your company has a well defined compliance program and multi-functional team in place, with CPO and CIO visibility 2. Answer the 7 questions: 1. Have you defined your Compliance Risk Management Strategy? 2. What is your strategy for identifying changes in RoHS/Lead-free compliance? 3. Have you defined what substances and level of Content Disclosure you will support? 4. Have you defined Data Formats? 5. How will you transfer data? 6. Will you support B2B exchange with Trading Partners? 7. What do you need for MCD Tools/Applications? 7.1 Analyze your product and supplier portfolio to determine risk levels 7.2 Get involved in standards activities 7.3 Understand that this will be an ongoing business requirement Component and EMS companies agree that the lack of consistency in the requests they are receiving from customers, linked with the escalating frequency and shear number of requests, is rapidly creating a crisis situation. The efforts underway through the JIG, IPC, iNEMI and RosettaNet to develop material declaration standards, as well as the deployment of efficient and economical electronic data exchange technologies, will ease the burden and cost.