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Substance data on product safety, environmental protection, and industrial health belong to the core of knowledge of chemical industry. Nevertheless, in many companies there is an urgent demand for reorganizing these data in order to solve problems inherent in them, and to meet future business challenges. To this end, BASF Ludwigshafen has started a large software and organizational project named BASIS. The main element is to establish a central exchange facility for EH&S (Environmental, Health and Safety) data which ensures the use of the same actual, complete, and consistent data throughout the enterprise.
As a technical platform the SAP R/3 system was found to be suitable. After assessing similar interests, BASF AG, Hoechst AG, SAP AG, and TechniData GmbH joint to start the EH&S cooperation for developing the necessary software based on SAP R/3 in early 1995. We shall describe the functionality of the EH&S module, and the schedule of EH&S releases. The introduction of EH&S as the core of BASIS will be facilitated by a package supplementing the most required company-specific functionality. We shall close with an outlook on some topics of integrating BASIS into business processes.
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Schuh, A. (1997). Developing a product safety data base for improved business process support in environmental and safety affairs. In: Denzer, R., Swayne, D.A., Schimak, G. (eds) Environmental Software Systems. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-5041-2869-8_27
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