Compliance i verkligheten : En fallstudie av ÅF PRS

Sammanfattning: The number of environmental legislations continues to increase and the existing is regularly supplemented with new requirements and rules. ÅF has together with the industry and its suppliers developed a tool, ÅF PRS, to deal with the problems the directives cause for businesses. The purpose of this thesis was to identify the company's current processes for handling the directives REACH, RoHS and ErP, and suggest improvements to PRS in line with what was identified. 10 industrial and retail companies were chosen based on sales and number of employees. The companies were required to be active in the Swedish market. The method chosen was qualitative interviews with the environmental managers.PRS, Product Regulatory Support, is a web-based tool for companies to gather information from their suppliers. It helps companies by automating the collection of information and allows enterprises to quickly get an overview if their products are compliant with current laws and legislations. The study showed that companies in the retail sector were more advanced in their work with compliance than the industry. The retail companies meant that most of their products met the various legislations. Among the industrial companies, the progression of implementing REACH and RoHS processes had reach very different stages. There were examples of those who had just started, but also one who claimed to already have all the information on their purchased items. The analysis clearly showed that ÅF PRS fulfills a purpose in the market. The interviews showed that the tool could be further developed to meet the different needs of companies and business structures.