1. Optimizing WERCS

2. Products

3. Product Groups –A Product or Alias is always a Product Group of itself –Organization and reporting Product Lines Typical Customer Order Kits Operational Category Functional (system) Category –Bulk operations Publishing Rule application Wizard application Bulk data changes Revision/Authorization updates (in Group Wizard)

4. Product Group Population –Manual –Via SQL Rules/Scripting –Group Wizard Common Formula Element Common Name element Common Phrase Customer Association

5. Aliases –Best when formula is identical and most/all data is common amongst a group of documents and must be kept synchronized. –Data is stored only at parent Product unless an Alias Attribute is used to override a piece of main Product data –Sample Uses: Alternate Product Names Branding Package Size

6. Generics –Best when low to medium amounts of data are common amongst a group of Products and must be kept synchronized. Formula synchronization is optional Data elements (e.g. pH) are marked generic at either the subformat or generic group level Data is physically stored for each generic member and generic elements are kept synchronized by the system

7. Product Copy –Best when using a product/MSDS data load as a general starting point. –Data is physically duplicated to copy target –Data is not kept synchronized by the system

8. Format vs. Subformat

9. Formats –Define a pool of available data elements to be tracked in the system –Different Formats do not share data for common data elements

10. Subformats –Represent presentation structures (document templates) sourcing from a common pool of data elements (a format) –Subformats of a given format share data for common data elements

11. Subformat Usages – Don’t limit yourself to SDSes! –Label Information Organization –Trem Card –TDS –Reports –Data Entry Organization –Plant Instructions –Employee Safety Cards –Marketing Info

12. Publishing

13. Subformat-Language Linkage Publish without unauthorizing previous documents Alt+All PDF Preview WERCS PDF Engine available (in place of Acrobat Distiller) Publish from Interfaces – FI, Orders

14. Publisher –Bulk publish by Product Group(s) –Publish all Aliases as well as parent Product –All items in group published to same combination of subformats and languages

15. Document Queue –Add items to a queue for later publishing in bulk (queue up individual publishes) –Items are of varying subformat/language combinations –Base Set Define a combination of Formats/Subformats/Languages/Authorizations you can pick in a single operation for queueing publishes

16. Automation and Process Flow

17. Rules –Fill-in-the-Blank screens –SQL Rules –Code-based rules –Complex Conditionals (And/Or Logic) in B-Rules –Multiple subsection/phrase output from single rule Rule Groups –Branching Logic Flows

18. Wizards –EU Follow-on rules Sets Print Flags –GHS –WHMIS –Transportation Calculator –WGK

19. Interfaces –Orders –Formulation –Inventory –Dangerous Goods –Attributes –Labelling –Document

20. Label Scripting –Direct Access to data in external systems via VB Script –Selection/Manipulation of data presented in label

21. Process Flow –WERCSFlow –Template Organization (Data Entry Templates) –PowerEntry Controlled Data Entry

22. Supplier/Raw Material Portal –Your suppliers enter their Raw Material formulations/data –Data is then leveraged via BOM/Autogenerate

23. Application Helpers

24. Automatic Product IDs Automatic Component IDs Automatic Hazard/Print Flag Determination Automatic Component Ranges by Subformat Revision Marks Reasons for Revision Validation Report

25. Questions?