Product Release 

Purpose

With this process you set products, that is packed dangerous goods, as released at the product definition stage, in accordance with dangerous goods regulations. At a later stage in the logistics processing chain, the system simply checks this indicator setting, which makes the dangerous goods checks much faster.

Product release gives you the following advantages:

·        You can select packagings for materials that are subject to dangerous goods regulations on the basis of packing instructions for UN-listed substances.

·        You can select relevant dangerous goods regulations that allow the packaging.

·        You can save the actual packaging data in the dangerous goods master with additional information, such as packing instructions and description of packaging.

·        You can run dangerous goods checks based on the Product Release indicator in sales, shipping, and shipment.

The data for product release is available in the dangerous goods master on the Product Release tab page.

Prerequisites

You have created materials and assigned them real substances and dangerous goods classifications. For more information, see Dangerous Goods Classification Process and Managing Dangerous Goods Data. You have marked the materials in the material master as relevant for dangerous goods.

Process Flow

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       1.      You start product release in one of the following ways:

¡        From the SAP menu: Choose Logistics ® Environment, Health and Safety ® Dangerous Goods Management ® Dangerous Goods Product Release. The Product Release (Dangerous Goods): Initial Screen appears.

Enter a material and choose  with the quick info text Product Release.

¡        From the hit list in the dangerous goods master: Choose Environment ® Product Release.

¡        From the specification database: Select a material on the Material Assignment tab page and choose  with the quick info text DG Product Release.

The Product Release for Material screen appears.

If a product release already exists for your material, the Product Release tab page is in the foreground; if a product release does not yet exist, the Classification tab page is in the foreground. 

The Classification tab page shows the existing dangerous goods classifications and UN-listed substance data.

       2.      To create a product release, you select at least one data record in the Classification Data group box on the Classification tab page.

       3.      Choose  Product Release with the quick info text Create DG Product Release.

The Common Data for All Selected Regulations dialog box appears.

       4.      You enter the required data and choose  with the quick info text OK; Continue.

The Product Release tab page appears. Here, you can further process each of the product releases you created individually.

¡        Choose  with the quick info text Detail View to display a clear overview of all data for the product release.

¡        Choose  with the quick info text Check to check whether the data for the product release is complete.

The check runs for all displayed product releases, regardless of whether they are selected.

The same check also runs when you save your entries. You can still save your entries if the check does not produce a positive result. The system tells you if the data is incomplete.

¡        Choose  with the quick info text Copy to use existing product releases as copy templates.

The Copy Product Release dialog box appears. Make your changes in the fields that are ready for input.

If you want to create more than one product release for a single dangerous goods master record, enter a number that has not been used already in the Priority field.

The Priority field is only used to distinguish the data records and does not specify a ranking for the data records.