ULTRUS™ Product Stewardship

Product stewardship throughout the product life cycle

Good product stewardship requires embedding sustainability and compliance in every phase of the product development process. It involves making informed material, formulation, ingredient and supplier choices. Not only can these choices determine if compliance and sustainability requirements are met, but also how quickly a product can get market access. Effectively navigating regulatory compliance is also crucial for enabling commerce. And connecting product data throughout the supply chain allows the transparency needed for successful product stewardship.

Sustainability and compliance begin with product development

The product life cycle starts with ingredient formulation, and it’s important to secure critical data and insights on materials and suppliers over the course of product development.

Establishing material, technical and regulatory knowledge early in the development stage can help meet compliance and sustainability requirements while reducing time to market.

Identify materials and suppliers

Selecting the right materials early in product design helps bench chemists, product managers and R&D professionals eliminate costly delays due to noncompliance and meet customer and sustainability requirements. ULTRUS Product Stewardship offers a searchable database that includes thousands of materials along with the technical data, regulatory restrictions and insights to inform material selection. These insights are critical to faster, higher-quality innovation.

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Develop sustainable products

Integrating regulatory and sustainability insights into formulation workflows enables product developers to innovate with confidence. Product development teams can minimize downstream product design risk that could lead to potential delays entering new markets, shelf placement or fines.

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Curate and screen material attributes

Consumers are demanding more transparency into the products they are purchasing. With ULTRUS Product Stewardship, brand owners can assess the environmental impact, chemical safety, responsible sourcing and compliance of their supply chains for superior decision-making to satisfy consumer preferences as well as corporate sustainability goals.

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Proactive chemical data management

Environmental, health and safety (EHS) and compliance experts worldwide are challenged daily to keep up with the evolving regulatory landscape at all levels—global, regional and even municipal. Securing and understanding the latest regulatory information related to issues such as the impact of forever chemicals (PFAs) is a daunting task that requires compliance expertise and automation for efficient operation.

Developed and used by global regulatory experts at UL Solutions, ULTRUS Product Stewardship provides software that automates Safety Data Sheet (SDS) authoring and distribution and tracks regulatory changes to manage the gamut of chemical data and compliance challenges.

Chemical regulatory data monitoring

Global chemical regulations are increasing and changing at a rapid pace. Accessing accurate chemical regulatory data for product information is paramount for compliance. ULTRUS Product Stewardship provides powerful chemical regulatory data monitoring capabilities to help product managers maintain compliance and market access.

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Create and distribute SDSs

Whether you are entering new markets, creating new products or following local regulations with accurate and compliant SDS and labels, ULTRUS Product Stewardship software can help. With Global Harmonized System (GHS) classifications, multilingual phrases, regional templates and automated authoring and distribution, compliance managers can better navigate regulatory challenges.

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Chemical data management

Compliance managers responsible for enterprise product stewardship rely on chemical management programs to be successful. Many organizations struggle to pull together and centralize their own internal organizational data, so they rely on ULTRUS Product Stewardship. Our software can collect, centralize, assess and provide insights on chemical data to meet organizational and customer needs.

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Enabling supply chain data transparency

Understanding a product’s composition and suppliers’ practices is no longer optional for organizations. Consumers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), regulatory bodies and other stakeholders within the supply chain are demanding more product information as well as more sustainable products than ever before. For better product transparency, ULTRUS Product Stewardship helps connect nodes of the supply chain and serve as a trusted third-party intermediary while protecting confidential business information.

Collecting and assessing product and supplier data

Up and down the supply chain, securing material, product and supplier data is frequently highlighted as a key challenge for compliance and stewardship leaders. Large organizations are constantly trying to connect various parts of their supply chains as they manage disruptions and evolving global requirements. ULTRUS software offers secure, centralized, automated data collection and regulatory assessments so organizations can manage the components in their day-to-day portfolios.

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Empowering retail product compliance programs

Retailers play a critical role in supply chain transparency, often as the last point of interaction between the manufacturer and the consumer. With diverse product portfolios, retailers are critical stakeholders in product stewardship. With the ULTRUS Product Stewardship retail product compliance program, retailers can effectively manage the compliance requirements for the safe handling, storage, transport and sale of products.

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Advancements with artificial intelligence

ULTRUS Product Stewardship continues to modernize with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to bring retailers, manufacturers and other stakeholders the latest technology. Current progress is underway with intelligent product registrations and returns for retailers who operate e-commerce sites, with much more to come.

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