RBA-Online communicates with the Chemical Platform to provision user accounts, provision company accounts, handle member visibility and receive chemical risk data points. 

More specifically, RBA-Online allows for Member Companies onboard their own facilities to the Chemical Platform, invite their Supplier facilities to report on and share their Chemical Data via the Chemical Platform, and view high level chemical risk data from directly within RBA-Online. Supplier Companies have the ability to manage Chemical Platform access invites and set visibility on chemical risk data for their customers. This is all supported by API communication between RBA-Online and the Chemical Platform for account provisioning and chemical risk data population. 

Chemical Platform Roles

• Chemical Platform Admin 
  • This role applies to Supplier Company Admins and Member Company Admins.
    • Member Company Admins are granted this role directly by RBA staff. 
    • Supplier Company Admins will be granted this role when one of their owned facilities receives a Chemical Platform access invitation and they have accepted the request.
  • Users with this role can assign and remove Company Admins from their company the “Chemical Platform Admin Role” via the User Manager. 
• Chemical Platform User
  • This role indicates that the user has access to the Chemical Platform to submit data for their facility (or facilities) assigned but doesn't have any special permissions in RBA-Online.  
    • This role must be assigned by a Chemical Platform Admin

Supplier Facilities 

The Supplier Facilities listing view page lists all supplier facilities that a Member has invited to the Chemical Platform, including name, request status, respondent email, and Facility Risk Scorecard Rating. 

• How to Add Supplier Facilities
  • Click on the “Add Facilities” button on the top of the page. 

• This will open a view of supplier facilities that the Member Company has a Trading Relationship with which may be invited to access the Chemical Platform. 

• From the “Add Facilities” view a Member Company may multi-select the supplier facilities to invite to the Chemical Platform. 
  • Any Suppliers already invited/requested will be greyed out with their access status visible.  
• Check the Supplier(s) you would like to invite and click confirm to proceed. 
• All requested supplier facilities will have an access of status as “Requested” until the supplier has responded.

When a supplier accepts a Member request, they are prompted to confirm their willingness to share the data they enter in the Chemical Platform (and the resulting risk ratings) with the member. Upon confirmation, their Trading Relationship with the Member is updated accordingly and the request status becomes “Accepted”. 

Supplier Response 

• To respond to requests from Member Company's as a Supplier, click the related “To-Do” link. This will take you directly to the Chemical Platform where you can respond to the request. 

• From here, click on “Options”, then “Respond”

•  Select your response (Accept or Reject) 
  • If you choose to reject the invitation, you must enter a comment. 
  • If you choose to accept the invitation and the facility has not yet been onboarded to the Chemical Platform, you must select at least one user to assign. 
    • The user selected will have a Chemical Platform user account provisioned for them. 

Finally, Click confirm to submit your request. 

My Facilities 

The ‘My Facilities’ menu will have a list of all owned facilities that may be added to the Chemical Platform. 

• How to Add Facilities
• Click on the “Add Facilities” button at the top of the page

• This will open a multi-select pop-up view of active owned facilities that may be provisioned for the Chemical Platform.

• Check the Facilities you would like to invite and click confirm to proceed. 
• Within this view, a User responsible for data entry (ie., Chemical Platform User role) must be assigned under the “Users” field. 
• Only users with the Chemical Platform Admin role will may perform this action.

My Customers

The ‘My Customers’ menu will show all customer requests for chemical risk data received by the company. 

This view is at a request level, for example: 

• Member Company A requests data from Supplier A: Facility A and Facility B 
• Member Company A again requests data from Supplier A: Facility C and Facility D