Getting Started with the Chemical Platform

The RBA Chemical Platform (CP) is available at no cost to RBA member companies and their suppliers that have an RBA subscription. Although the CP is a separate online platform from RBA-Online, it is fully integrated with RBA-Online through roundtrip API for users to leverage their existing company, facility, and trading relationships data in RBA-Online as a foundation for collecting emissions inventory data in the CP. To access and use the web-based CP, you must first have an active RBA-Online user account with the Chemical Platform Admin role assigned.

Step 1: Assign Chemical Platform Admin role to RBA-Online users

The process for assigning the ‘Chemical Platform Admin’ role to your RBA-Online user accounts depends on your organization's membership status: 

Step 2: Add RBA-Online Facilities and Users to Chemical Platform

RBA-Online users may add their facilities, supplier facilities, and users to the CP in the ‘Chemical Platform’ dropdown menu, which becomes available to users when the Chemical Platform Admin role is assigned to their user accounts. 

Adding Owned Facilities 

• In the ‘Chemical Platform’ menu, select ‘My Facilities’.

• Select the ‘+Add Facilities’ button to open the ‘Add Facilities window where you may add your organization's active RBA-Online facilities and users (including yourself) to the CP. 
  1. Select all facilities that you wish to add to the CP in the check box at the left of the table.
  2. For each selected facility, select all users that you wish to have access to it in the CP under the ‘Users’ column on the right of the table. 
  3. Click the ‘Confirm’ button. RBA-Online will process the request and confirm that the selected facilities and users were added. 

Adding Supplier Facilities

• In the ‘Chemical Platform menu, select ‘Supplier Facilities’.

• Select the ‘+Add Facilities’ button to open the ‘Add Facilities’ window where you may add your organization's RBA-Online supplier facilities that have established trading relationships to the CP.
  1. Select all supplier facilities that you wish to add to the CP.
  2. For each selected facility, select all users that you wish to have access to it in the CP under the ‘Users’ column on the right of the table. 
  3. Click the ‘Confirm’ button. RBA-Online will process the request and confirm that the selected facilities and users were added

• In the ‘Chemical Platform’ menu, select ‘My Requests’ to view and manage CP requests from your customers.

1. Respond to each customer request by selecting the ‘Options’ button and then ‘Respond’ to open the ‘Respond’ window where you may either accept or reject the request.
   1. Accept customer requests for each organization (facility or company) by selecting ‘Accept’ in the ‘Response’ column and then selecting all users that you wish to have access to it in the CP in the ‘Users’ column.
   2. Reject customer requests for each organization (facility or company) by selecting ‘Reject’ in the ‘Response’ column and then adding a note in the ‘Comment’ column to explain why you are rejecting the customer request.
   3. Select the ‘Confirm’ button to open the ‘Confirmation’ window.
   4. Select the ‘Yes’ button to confirm your responses and acknowledge that your CP data will be shared with your customers that you've accepted requests from. RBA-Online will process the request and confirm that the customer requests where responded to.

Step 3: Login to the Chemical Platform

After adding your organization's RBA-Online facilities, supplier facilities, and users to the CP and managing customer requests in the steps above, you may access the CP at https://www.my-aip.com/rba/login. 

• Check your email inbox for the email sent from RBA-Online that provides instructions on how to set up your CP password. Your CP username will be your email address.

• Access the CP at https://www.my-aip.com/rba/login. 

If you are experiencing any issues in completing these steps, please contact the RBA Help Desk at helpdesk@responsiblebusiness.org for assistance.

Account Information Mirrors RBA Online 

RBA-Online is the source of all account information. Your company and/or facility information in the Chemical Platform is populated from RBA-Online data (via API) and not editable within the Chemical Platform.  

In order to view your own facilities and/or supplier facilities within the Chemical Platform via the Chemical Platform dropdown menu, you must first invite them within RBA-Online. 

Find instructions on how to navigate RBA Online in relation to the Chemical Platform on this user guidance platform, in the article titled “How RBA Online Works Hand-in-Hand with the Chemical Platform”. 

Logging Out 

Go to the top right-hand side of the page and click your name. Then click on “Log out” 

Changing/Resetting Password

To change password from within, go to the top right-hand side of the page, click your name, and then click on “Change password”.

To reset your password at login, click on the “Reset Password” link underneath the login. 

Where to go after login

After logging in, you will either see the Facility (G-FA) or Member (G-CO) navigation. Learn how to navigate each through the articles on this user guidance platform titled “How to Navigate the Chemical Platform as a Facility Admin User” and “How to Navigate the Chemical Platform as a Company Admin User".