Actio Material Disclosure SaaS software links with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, and MS Dynamix AP

PORTSMOUTH, NH March 27, 2009 – Actio Corporation, the leading provider of chemical management software, announced today that its cutting edge data-gathering tool, Material Disclosure, links seamlessly with Enterprise Resource Management (ERP) systems such as SAP, Oracle, Infor and MS Dynamic AX.

Material Disclosure is delivered as SaaS (Software as a Service), with no hardware or software to maintain or purchase. The solution provides a secure, central repository for storing and discreetly disseminating raw material chemical information, if requested, by regulatory agencies, downstream customers, and other stakeholders.

Accurate, centralized, thorough supply chain substance data is priceless in an era of environmental regulations such as REACH, ROHS, and WEEE. Material Disclosure also provides the backbone for Actio’s innovative and successful REACH reporting module, REACHtracker.

Material Disclosure integrates with Oracle, SAP, and MS Dynamix AX. Forward-thinking manufacturers embrace this functionality for operational streamlining advantages, also for environmental compliance and corporate sustainability initiatives. Material Disclosure ensures data integrity and protection: substance data is seen only by parties with permissions. Clear chemical audit trails go back to the supplier or manufacturer depending on who entered the compositional information.

“Global compliance – including REACH, RoHS, WEEE and many other directives – remains a challenge for manufacturing companies,” said Russell McCann, Actio’s President and CEO, speaking from Actio Headquarters north of Boston, MA. “Actio created Material Disclosure to automate and centralize substance information exchange between manufacturers and their supply chain.

“If you can automate the exchange of substance information through the global supply chain – as manufacturers must now do – you must first automate that data flow within an enterprise,” said McCann. “Linking Material Disclosure with SAP, Oracle, and the Microsoft ERP provides raw material feeds that can be analyzed in real time to determine whether substituting one material for another produces a more compliant finished good ” he said.

Often companies have legacy Information in an ERP system, such as SAP or Oracle, and surprisingly often companies use more than one ERP system as mergers, acquisitions and divestitures result in mixed IT environments. Material Disclosure can be linked and integrated easily – whether an enterprise has just one brand of ERP system or multiple. All relevant substance information is now centrally stored, accurate, up-to-date, checked against regulatory updates, accessible (as rules and permissions allow) for reporting purposes, and linked to one or many different ERP systems.

Whether driven by regulatory authorities or corporate sustainability directives, manufacturers today – such as global building supply providers or major printing enterprises – are driven to collect and provide substance-level product material disclosure information. With Material Disclosure, manufacturers now automate the process of gathering substance and chemical data from a global supply chain while seamlessly extracting relevant substance data from existing ERP systems.

About Actio Corporation
Since 1996, Actio has been helping companies and millions of their employees, in a wide range of industries, cost-effectively manage the complexities surrounding the use of chemicals in the global workplace. Actio is a leading provider of chemical management solutions delivered as SaaS (software as a service). Our chemical management portfolio manages all phases of the chemical life cycle, enabling corporations to utilize Six Sigma or a “best practices” approach for chemical management. Actio solutions track raw material chemical composition for compliance with global regulations including: REACH, RoHS, WEEE. For more information about Actio Corporation, visit www.actio.net.

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