WHSmith's retail compliance made easier with Yordas Hive
“Yordas Hive gives us the confidence that in an ever changing legal chemical landscape we are kept informed of all the changes which specifically affect our products. This allows us to communicate any required changes to our suppliers quickly rather than spending time looking for changes in legislation and manually checking product specific BOM/BOS and SDS’s.”
The Client
WHSmith (WHS) is a leading UK retailer, with over 1,000 stores and thousands of product lines, many containing complex mixtures of chemicals. Products include stationery and art materials, such as pens, highlighters, crayons and paints. The challenge for the retailer is to ensure they meet today’s compliance needs with maximum efficiency.
The market for consumer goods is highly demanding and involves creating state-of-the-art products that meet ever-changing customer demands. The continual product development required is often impacted by legislation that bans or restricts the use of certain substances, forcing manufacturers and suppliers to constantly adapt.
WHS has utilised the many offerings in Yordas Hive Prime Edition to manage the complex process of regulating the chemicals in their products. With a large product portfolio and prominent market presence, it is important that our client understands the requirements and implications of the ever changing legal compliance landscape.
Managing compliance efficiently with Yordas Hive
A crucial aspect of maintaining and achieving compliance is current knowledge of changes to legislation. These may include, new or updated restrictions, additions to the SVHC candidate list, and changes in harmonised classification.
Yordas Hive gives our client the ability to upload product information and breakdown directly into our software, allowing them to fully integrate their chemical composition and formulation data with the regulatory information held in our comprehensive database.
Yordas Hive provides our client with the advantage of being able to tailor their own product database with their existing in-house data. The client is able to manage their suppliers’ complex products with Hive’s user-friendly interface and upload system.
Yordas Hive enables our customers to see a full list of substances within their products, in a structured and live solution.
Automated regulatory status checks save time
Our client tailored email alerts for each user in their team, giving them the ability to monitor the status of their products and formulations and be notified when changes are made to regulations globally.
Yordas Hive identifies the products affected and notifies the relevant user, enabling the client to take immediate action, whether that be substitution, reformulation, or relabelling.
Our software’s ability to manage complex products is a particularly useful feature for the client, who often deals with various types of multi-packs containing the same ingredients. Yordas Hive Prime Edition allows the customer to immediately assign the impact of a regulatory change to all relevant products on the shelf.
Automating the task of checking regulatory status saves our customer time and provides them with the peace of mind that important regulatory changes can be dealt with immediately.