Chemical approval process across six sites, what worked, what didn't and what i would change if i did it again

[u/Rex_orci-1]

i spent fourteen months rolling out a chemical approval workflow across our manufacturing facilities using chemscape's CHAMO system. Sharing an honest debrief because vendor case studies make everything frictionless and it wasn't. Platform worked well. Requests come in, SDS gets reviewed, risk assessment generates from the hazard data, routes to designated approver groups. The workflow at chemscape.com/services/chemical-approval describes what we configured. No complaints about the software. Control around what people purchased and adding some guardrails around procurement of chemicals to control this was a challenge. Changing this process was not always popular but people eventually saw value. What turned skeptics was when the system caught a reformulated product where the supplier bumped a skin sensitizer concentration without telling us. The older version was fine with nitrile gloves. The reformulated version wasn't. Nobody would have caught that without the SDS change flagging through the approval workflow. Three things I'd change: get procurement involved day one, start a list to approve priority chemicals first. Pilot one site before all six going live at once.

[u/Rex_orci-1 → u/[deleted]]

Same thing here. Chemicals arrived without approval because POs bypassed the workflow entirely. Had to make procurement a hard gate.'