Accurate Chemical Inventory
To get your company started on the path to a safer, more cost-effective inventory, you must review what you know about your current situation. Your company must consciously acknowledge the room for improvement and cost savings.
Begin with these questions:
- What chemical products do you have at your facilities?
- Do you need to take an inventory to get a more accurate picture?
- What chemicals are used in those products?
- Can you leverage existing compliance and MSDS data to gain insight?
- What is your indirect chemical cost?
- Understand that cost includes not only the purchase price, but also lifecycle costs:
- Handling
- EHS cost
- Reporting
- Waste disposal
Taking an accurate physical inventory across your company’s sites is vital to gaining true insight.
World’s Most Accurate Inventory Services
Large and medium-sized companies may use between 5,000 and 50,000 different maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) chemical products. These may be purchased by any number of worker types—anyone from production to janitorial—using P-cards or other purchasing methods that may not be closely regulated. As a result, these products are poorly controlled for price and toxicity. And when a company performs an accurate physical inventory to get back on track, they often discover they are as much as 60 percent out of compliance with basic HazCom regulations.
The key to cleaning corporate inventories full of redundant, high-toxicity chemicals is to get an accurate chemical product count across company sites. Dolphin professionals have years of experience performing precise, on-site inventory audits using Dolphin’s proprietary data collection and software tools. The inventory identifies what’s at each location—whether in use or in storage—and reconciles these findings against MSDSs and other compliance data. Dolphin offers powerful inventory management tools such as the innovative Portable Inventory Assistant (a handheld scanner with tablet display) and several software solutions. Together, these elements form a comprehensive chemical management program that’s customizable to each client. Contact Dolphin to explore these robust inventory management solutions.