Green Product Selector™

Now you can identify products on your company’s shelves that perform the same function, but differ because Product A is highly hazardous and costs $10 an ounce, while Product B is much safer and costs only pennies an ounce. It’s powerful information.



The Green Product Selector (GPS) is a unique, Dolphin-developed software platform that analyzes maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) chemical products by indexing their ingredients. This tool provides never-before-seen insight into product spend, hazards and proliferation, giving companies a comprehensive overview for greatly increased procurement performance.

Once a company’s chemical inventory information has been entered into the Green Product Selector, products are categorized by general and specific use. Product and ingredient information are used to rank items by price-per-unit, human hazard and environmental hazard points. Points are assigned based on the ingredients on federal and international hazardous chemical lists.

The powerful Green Product Selector:

• Presents chemical inventory by use category (utilizing more than 700 different categories)
• Sorts and presents inventory data by cost and hazard ranking (human and environmental) using complex algorithms (patent pending)
• Illustrates product details in easy-to-read graphs
• Allows evaluation of new products versus current products in use
• Helps track hazard-reduction progress through generating reports by
  
• Product use category, to analyze human and environmental hazards
  
• Approval category, such as approved, pending and banned
  
• Provides relative ranking for simplified decision making

Case Study: In one recent case, the Dolphin Safe Source® program revealed that a $4.5 billion North American mining company with 11,000 chemical products could reduce their product count by 4,000 products, reduce toxicity by 50 to 60 percent, and save $4 million to $5 million on a total $12 million annual MRO chemical spend.

Facts to consider

• There are 100,000+ synthetic chemicals and 300,000+ chemical products in use today.
• Many companies do not utilize common chemical brands across their sites. In fact, because of uncontrolled site buying, 80-95 percent of the products in use are only used at one site. This product proliferation leads to inefficiencies, risks and increased costs. The more sites in a company, the more massive the product redundancy.