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What is Chemical Management?

Avchem's Chemical Management Services (CMS) offer a business model where a customer engages with a service provider in a strategic, long-term contract to supply and manage the customer's chemicals and related services. Avchem and our customers are working together to streamline and automate their chemical sourcing and management. Our CMS programs include elements from sourcing materials, electronic MSDS management, and point of use replenishment, to hazardous waste management and tracking. Avchem will provide customers access to an automated, on-line materials catalog for quick and easy ordering. Additional services, such as Point-of-use replenishment, can also be established to further streamline the process and improve environmental tracking and reporting of chemicals. Aggregating demand, purchasing, and inventory with suppliers under such programs will reduce cost in material spend and significantly decrease material management expenses.

The following descriptions are all services that can be utilized in a customized chemical management services offering:

• Hazardous Material Gatekeeping - Develop and maintain an Approved Products List (APL), which documents materials authorized for the site and provides a web-based electronic chemical authorization request form that can be automatically routed to the proper approvers.
• Forecasting - Accurately predicting future customer requirements/demand patterns based on historical demand, real-time consumption rate information and production schedules.
• Procurement/Purchasing - All actions related to acquisition planning, solicitation, evaluation, negotiations, contract award, contract administration, and contract management functions.
• QA / Receiving Inspection - Monitor compliance with original material requisition and purchase order, certificate of analysis or conformance review, labeling, special testing or source inspection requirements, and ongoing shelf-life and storage tracking.
• Inventory Management/Storage/Warehousing - All warehouses are regulated material-storage compliant and managed by trained personnel equipped to handle HAZMAT. Our warehouses provide climate-controlled storage for time-and-temperature Sensitive (TATS) materials.
• Delivery to Dock - Items are picked and packaged according to requirements for DOT (if shipping via ground) and IATA (if shipping via air). Materials are labeled with usage area and building cabinet location. All packaging and shipping tasks are performed by trained and certified personnel.
• Delivery to Point of Use (POU) - Avchem unpacks materials from delivery vehicle, stages the material, and removes all dunnage, packing material, and excess pallets from property. Material is delivered directly to the POU, existing product is rotated to promote FIFO usage prior to expiration and expiring product is removed from POU.
• Environmental, Safety, and Occupational Health (ESOH) services - provide an effective, sound Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health Management System. Avchem tracks and provides reporting down to the CAS-constituent level to satisfy Federal, state and local storage/consumption reporting requirements.
• Waste Management- Set up, Collect and maintain satellites, manage 90-day storage location, coordinate manifest and transport to TSDF, and provide waste generation and reporting tools. Pursue waste reduction opportunities and recycling.