Haastcm.com is a global chemical management services company
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A Global Chemical Management Services Company - HAAS TCM
Description
Haas TCM is a global chemical management services company. We streamline and manage the chemical life cycle for each of our customers with superior and innovative supply chain, process, and information management systems. We create sustaining value for our customers and shareholders and provide challenging and rewarding careers for our employees.
Corporate Overview
Haas TCM is a large multinational Chemical Management Services Company. We specialize in reducing cost and improving processes associated with chemical use in manufacturing.
We help our customers run their manufacturing operations more efficiently. We work with them at over 200 facilities around the globe to ensure that they have access to the emerging technologies necessary to transform their business and take advantage of new opportunities.
Our focus is innovation in Chemical Management. No other competitor spends 100% of its time and focus on Chemical Management. You will find that our approach is unique, very cost effective and based on a successful track record.
Chemical Management Services
Total Chemical Management Information System (tcmIS) Designed and developed by Haas TCM specifically for the complexities of chemicals, our “state-of-the-art” e-commerce and information system is an internet-based technology platform operating from our data center located in Austin, Texas. Thus, there is no software to purchase, no data bases to maintain and no applications to install. Moreover, tcmIS seamlessly integrates with both customers’ and suppliers’ enterprise resource planning (ERP) and accounting systems, creating a virtual network of stakeholders.
Process Systems Software Management (Haastec) From a University of California proposal, with some changes, Haas TCM has developed a statistical process control application known as Haastec®. Haastec® is currently being used for coolant, lubricant and washer systems in Automotive Power-Train Plants and on paint detackification, water treatment and wastewater treatment at Automotive Assembly Plants. Haastec® can be utilized on any system that requires system testing, control, and charting. Data is downloaded to Haas corporate offices on a monthly basis to allow benchmarking between plants by our technical specialists. All coolant and washer data is correlated to production for benchmarking purposes.
Chemicals Management Software System (Haastrac)® The Haas TCM provides an optional Chemicals Management Information system known as Haastrac®. In addition to providing all of the purchasing, accounting, and inventory functions necessary for the operation of the Chemical Management program, Haastrac® provides a variety of unique features specifically designed to enhance the management of information. Over the years it has been a huge success with our automotive customers.
Reengineered Logistics Haas TCM pioneered the chemical “hub” concept. A hub is a chemical compliant storage facility where Haas TCM manages all aspects of multiple customers’ chemical inventories, including shelf life, special storage requirements, custom labeling, barcode tracking and forecasting, and then delivers them JIT (“just-in-time”), often directly to the points of use. As a result, Haas TCM customers maintain little or no onsite chemical inventories and they can rest easy knowing that delivered chemicals meet their own internal quality specifications.
Process Control & Usage Reduction Among its many professionals, Haas TCM maintains a core staff of subject matter experts (SME) with deep experience in the types of manufacturing processes and unit operations employed by our customers. As such, Haas TCM engineers have an impressive track record resulting in chemical cost and usage reduction across many chemical-consuming processes such as:
- Metalworking
- Solvent applications
- Fluids management
- Coating
- Adhesive and bonding
- Water treatment
Aligned Compensation Structure As an independent chemical management services (CMS) provider, Haas TCM has no “volume-based” financial incentive. To the contrary, we construct in each of our programs financial incentives to reduce the amounts of chemicals used. The graphic below illustrates that all end users want to minimize the amounts of materials used per unit of production, for both cost efficiency and waste prevention purposes. However, they may confront conflicting interests from those entities who know best how to do so.
Flexible Service Model Haas TCM offers different service levels to suit the needs of every customer and each of their facilities, regardless of size and location. The table below summarizes the specific services and activities associated with each of Haas TCM’s three basic service levels.
Introducing New Processes & Chemicals Haas TCM provides for continuous internal testing of alternate materials by our Research and Development team. The reasons for this testing include health and safety issues, reduction of hazardous materials, VOCs, HAPs and waste, cost reductions, performance improvements, product consolidations, emergency second sourcing, minority sourcing, or any combinations of these. Once a material has been demonstrated to show a distinct advantage, it will be presented to the chemical management committee before any new materials enter the plant.
EH&S and Quality at Haas TCM Haas TCM is committed to the safety of its employees, clients, protection of the environment, and compliance with laws, regulations, and customer requirements. It is the responsibility of every employee to follow sound EH&S practices in their daily work, as EH&S excellence is an integral part of managing our business and achieving the goals outlined in our Vision Statement.
Chemical Management Philosophy
True Chemical Management programs are not product driven. Chemicals are only part of the process.
Executive Management participation is a must. Haas TCM is a Chemical Management Company and, as such, all of our top management is actively involved in all of our programs.
Flexible Tier II relationships need to foster cooperation as opposed to competition. By creating mutually beneficial relationships, Chemical Management provides usage reductions and implements new technologies.
Chemical Management must meet the customer's business objectives. We will work hand-in-hand to help the customer reduce costs, increase quality, and service their customer's requirements.
Chemical Management vs. Traditional Practices
Traditional:
- Large supplier base.
- Large number of chemicals used.
- Large chemical inventories - cost of materials in inventory as high as five times the cost of materials in use.
- Lack of supplier responsibility and accountability.
- Supplier profit based on volume of chemicals used.
- Resistance to change.
- Environmental compliance problems.
- Employee health and safety problems.
- Ineffective use of technology.
- High transaction cost contribution to product (i.e. paperwork processing costs for high volume of transactions).
Chemical Management:
- Single indirect chemicals supplier for a plant. Customer purchases chemical service not chemicals. Chemical Manager provides materials, management, analytical, inventory control and management information systems and services through the tcmIS™, HAASTRAC® and HAASTEC® proprietary software systems.
- Customer maintains control since its employees coordinate overall management.
- Chemical Manager becomes a key team player in the plant production system.
- "Just-In-Time" inventory of chemicals.
- More effective use of technology.
- Chemical Manager is paid on a parts produced basis and profits are based on service.
Contact
- Haas TCM (World Headquarters)
- 1646 West Chester Pike, Suite 30-31
- West Chester, PA 19382
- 484.564.4500
- 800.220.4227
- Fax: 610.436.9076
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