Case Study: British multinational consumer goods company automates REACH substance‑volume tracking and slashes compliance time from 7 months to 1 week with Enablon

Automating and Optimizing REACH Substance Volume Tracking

A large British multinational consumer goods company (40,000+ employees, operations in 60+ countries, buying ~17,000 materials from ~20,000 suppliers) faced a complex REACH compliance challenge: accurately tracking exact substance volumes across thousands of suppliers, multiple legal entities and millions of transactions. The manual process was slow (taking up to seven months), risky and exposed the company to potential fines, supply-chain disruption and reputational harm.

ERM implemented Enablon to consolidate BOM/BOS, supplier and transactional data and integrate regulatory content (e.g., Verisk 3E) via native connections to ERPs and data lakes. The automated solution delivers weekly updates and screenings by supplier and legal entity, reducing the process from seven months to about one week, enabling ongoing monitoring of tonnages and exemptions, faster reporting, improved compliance and materially lower regulatory and brand risk.