Filling 

Purpose

Within the specification workbench in the Basic Data and Tools component, you can classify materials and assign them to an identification number (UN, ID, or NA number) and the corresponding legal data according to the dangerous goods regulation.

You use the filling process to transfer the dangerous goods basic data that you created and edited in specification management to the dangerous goods master within an SAP system. You can then transport this data using the distribution process to other SAP systems.

For more information about the assignment of table fields or value assignment types in the specification database to the table fields in the dangerous goods master, see Assigning Table Fields.

Prerequisites

·        If you want to take engineering change management into account when filling, you must have set the Active indicator for the corresponding change numbers for the object types Specification, Phrase, and Dangerous goods, and also used the change numbers.

See also: Change Status Selection

·        The data can be filled from specification management to the dangerous goods master and distributed from there to other target systems. Thus, data in specification management prepares data in the dangerous goods master and this data in turn prepares the data in the target systems. To avoid data loss during this process, you must have fully edited the data in specification management and phrase management.

Fields exist in the dangerous goods master that can only be edited there manually (see Non-Fillable Fields). Since no values are delivered for these fields during filling, the values for these fields are prepared depending on how you edited the checkbox structure in the IMG activity Specify Checkbox Structure for Dangerous Goods Master.

·        When assigning values to danger label numbers in specification management, you have edited your entries in the correct sequence. For this multi-value field, only the first seven danger label numbers can be taken into account.

·        The active indicator must be set in the usage for all value assignments that are to be copied (see Usage).

·        Assign the highest priority to the rating whose values you want to copy to the dangerous goods master in the IMG activity Specify Ratings in Customizing for Basic Data and Tools.

-         If you have assigned an equally high priority to value assignment instances within a value assignment type, the value assignment type is not filled.

-         If you have not set a value assignment instance to Active within a value assignment type, the value assignment type is not filled.

-         If you have not set the value assignment instance with the highest priority to Active within a value assignment type, the value assignment type is not filled.

·        Make sure that you only use standard units when editing data in the specification database.

If you are using the function to make filling more flexible, you are free to use other units.

·        Make sure that no interval values were entered as value assignments. During filling, the system interprets interval values as if there were no values present.

If you are using the function to make filling more flexible, you are free also to fill interval values.

·        Make sure that only values for 15 °C, 20 °C and 50 °C are entered for the value assignment type Density, and that the units of measurement correspond. During filling, the system interprets values for other temperatures as if there were no values present.

If you are using the function to make filling more flexible, you are free to specify the value assignment type Density at any temperature.

·        Use the Business Add-In (BAdI) Filter Specifications for Filling if you have assigned a number of specifications to individual materials. For more information, see BAdI: Filter Specifications for Filling in the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Dangerous Goods Management.

·        During filling:

¡        You should not edit any dangerous goods-relevant data in specification management in the source system.

¡        You should not edit any data in the dangerous goods master in the Dangerous Goods Management component.

Data records that are being edited in the dangerous goods master are not filled.

·        You have set up filling in Customizing for Dangerous Goods Management.

·        You have the required authorizations.

You must be able to read data from the specification database, and also create, display, change, and delete data in the dangerous goods master.

Process Flow

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       1.      You call filling and if necessary enter selection criteria to restrict data transfer to certain data.

Data for the storage hazard class, VbF class, and water pollution class is copied to the warehouse management system only using a special transaction.

For more information, see the IMG for Warehouse Management under Hazardous Materials ® Transfer Hazardous Substance Data from the Specification Database.

       2.      The system transfers the data records to fill the dangerous goods tables DGTMD, DGTM2, and DGTPK for which the logical key can be formed uniquely from material and dangerous goods regulation.

Result

·        You can use the data in the Dangerous Goods Management component. You can edit data depending on the authorization you have been given.

You can start a simulation.

·        The dangerous goods data can be distributed to other target systems.

Notes

·        You can run filling with change pointer once per day only. You should schedule filling for shortly after midnight so that you can guarantee that the system takes all changes into account.

·        Filling supports only one instance for dangerous goods classifications. No additional inactive instances must be specified. If more than one instance is specified, it is impossible to predict which instance the system will use for filling.

·        In principle, the system takes into account during filling whether instances are marked as being relevant for dangerous goods, meaning that if you rate an instance as not relevant for dangerous goods, this instance is not filled.