Streamlining Restricted Substance compliance

The Challenge

AFIRM and Zalando have updated their chemical standard. For YOEK, this meant a comprehensive gap analysis between three lengthy, technical documents, and with that:

• Hiring external consultants for multi-hour assessments
• Not building internal literacy on the topic
• Having to resort to consultancy for ad-hoc questions that come up year round in relation to their chemical substance policy. 

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The Solution

Spirefly is equipped with specialized tools to access, review, and improve chemical substance policies in a structured process. This allowed Renée to:

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• Compare chemical limits across all three standards, flagging discrepancies and generating a prioritized action plan.
• Advice on how to deal with test samples that come back from the factory and do not comply with their standards. 

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The Result

• Significant external costs avoided. YOEK can now reduce external expertise to focus on verification rather than creating the analysis from scratch. 
• Continuous access to guidance. The system, having been informed of YOEK’s chemical policy and company portfolio, is now equipped to rapidly assess the severity of any infringement of chemical limits.

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