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Working on product compliance is an important and challenging job. You have to deal with many laws and regulations that are constantly changing. However, ProductIP makes it understandable for you.
Thanks to the web-based approach, you can efficiently work with your suppliers. In addition, our integrated knowledge base ProductIPedia enables you to build a successful business based on compliant articles at your own pace.
If you want to contact the HBM Machines compliance team: productcompliance@hbm-machines.com
It will not have escaped your notice. There is a lot of concern about unsafe products being sold. The newspapers are full of it. As a result, the pressure on the market to do more about, what is called product compliance, is increasing.
Thanks to the web-based ProductIP, you can make tangible steps. Thanks to ProductIPedia, you can do this at your own time and pace. In this way, you and your customer can build up an excellent business based on products that meet requirements.
Errors on packaging, instructions or labels? Usually, there is something wrong with the product in the packaging. But, of course, the regulators know that too.
When you and your supplier pay attention to product conformity, you prevent your company, your brand, from becoming low-hanging fruit for the supervisors, such as the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA).
Tip from the market leader in this field: start with an Artwork Check of your most important product and use our feedback to improve similar products in your range.
ProductIP is a sharing platform for compliance information. You can share your dossier with a customer, like HBM Machines. Also a manufacturer in Asia can start with a dossier, and then share that dossier with you again so you can add things to that, and you have the information for the market regulator. Again, you can share such a received file with the customer. Receiving and sharing is free. Only creating and updating a requirement checklist, the basis of the dossier costs money. Did you know that we monitor the status of all dossiers, including those you received via sharing. So everyone can always see whether the requirement checklist in a dossier is still suitable to support the conformity of a subsequent order! Read more...
There is much to learn about product compliance. ProductIP has been sharing knowledge with the market via Compliance Tuesday sessions for almost ten years. We are also launching a series of online Compliance Tuesday Tips & Tricks. Together with the information in ProductIPedia, these short video presentations help you on your way. Do not miss an edition and register now!
Product compliance is part of doing business. Integrating it into your processes is hard work but necessary to compete in your market tomorrow. Fortunately, ProductIP provides you with current tools and relevant knowledge in ProductIPedia.
Thanks to ProductIPedia, you learn at your own time and pace everything you need to know about product compliance. You will find videos and articles on the use of the platform, the latest developments and background information on laws and regulations. In addition, the English articles can instantly translate into various languages. Great for your German colleague, your French customer, your Chinese supplier! Feel free to share them!
An extensive article in the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad about dozens of products, removed from the market because they appeared to be unsafe, but still sold online via webshops such as bol.com, Amazon, Wish, V&D and Ali-Express. Not good. But how to change this? Perhaps it starts with an increase of awareness and basic knowledge;
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There is so much legislation and regulation that it is almost impossible for a non-specialist to keep up. We understand that. Why should this get in the way of you growing your business? Our team monitors the changes in laws and regulations and ensures that you can start a technical file very quickly based on what you do understand: the product. You will almost instantly get a technical file with a comprehensive and monitored checklist as a core.
The next challenge is to gather the evidence against this list of requirements. What do you need? The requirement list shows what document type you will need to sign off. Now invite your supplier to cooperate via our web interface, free of charge. Do they have questions? We offer support.
Collaboration with your supplier is essential. You are responsible in this part of the market towards your customers, the regulators, other stakeholders. Your supplier should be the product specialist. Working together in the chain is built into ProductIP and ensures that you remain in control. Of course, there will be questions. For this, we have created ProductIPedia. The articles in ProductIPedia give you and your supplier the needed answers in various knowledge levels and languages.
You are only three steps away from improving the future of your business.
Note: You do not need to buy credits in order to respond to a Document Request by your customer HBM Machines.
HBM Machines is working on Social, Product and Packaging Compliance with different partners, each with their own expertise and dedicated solution. ProductIP is the partner of HBM Machines for Product Compliance related aspects. The scope for our service is non-food consumers products.
A declaration has to be signed confirming compliance of the product with the aspects for which there is no compliance evidence available. Then, it is up to HBM Machines to decide if and what corrective action is needed.
Having the relevant compliance evidence available in an organized way is considered a big plus. It should be a technical file for the same product from the same supplier!
ProductIP is a sharing platform for compliance information. You can share your dossier with a customer, like HBM Machines. Also a manufacturer in Asia can start with a dossier, and then share that dossier with you again so you can add things to that, and you have the information for the market regulator. Again, you can share such a received file with the customer. Receiving and sharing is free. Only creating and updating a requirement checklist, the basis of the dossier costs money. Did you know that we monitor the status of all dossiers, including those you received via sharing. So everyone can always see whether the requirement checklist in a dossier is still suitable to support the conformity of a subsequent order!
You can create a dossier based on your own item numbers. At the time of sharing the dossier with your customer, you can indicate what their item numbers are. Important when sharing with HBM Machines is the EAN code. Make sure you include the barcode (EAN) in the 'share' screen. After sharing, the HBM Machines team will review the technical file and provide feedback if (part of) the file is out of order. After adjustments, you can share the technical file again for review.
PS Did you know that ProductIP's document viewer has a built-in redaction tool. You can use it to block references to suppliers (white or black) if necessary. The platform then creates a new document containing a watermark so the recipient knows that, should the need arise, you have the original.
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