Hazardous Substance Master 

Purpose

With this component, you edit hazardous substance master records. The system uses the data in the hazardous substance master records, for example, in the putaway checks for hazardous substances.

Integration

Part of every hazardous substance master record is the material or product number. You therefore require the material or product master to use the hazardous substance master.

The hazardous substance master contains only the most important hazardous substance data. You enter more extensive hazardous substance data, such as the data you require for material safety data sheets, in specification management. To make data entry easier and to avoid redundant data, you can fill data from specification management to the hazardous substance master.

In the hazardous substance master you can also enter data as phrases. To do this, you need phrase management.

The hazardous substance master is independent of the classic hazardous material management in the Warehouse Management System (WMS).

Features

In a Supply Chain Management system (SCM system), the Extended Warehouse Management (SCM-ECT-EWM) functions support you with the storage of hazardous substances. In the putaway checks, you can then also activate hazardous substance checks, allowing the system to put away and position hazardous substances in the warehouse on its own according to the properties of the hazardous substances. You create the hazardous substance data required for this in the hazardous substance master in the SCM system or you distribute it via Application Link Enabling (ALE) from an ERP system to the SCM system. In the ERP system, you can fill the hazardous substance master from specification management.

You can distribute the data in the hazardous substance master to other systems via Application Link Enabling (ALE). The combination of filling the hazardous substance master and distributing the hazardous substance master data allows you to manage complex system landscapes. For example, it is possible that specification management is not set up in your system landscape in all the systems in which you require hazardous substance data. Thus, a system landscape where you enter all hazardous substance data in specification management in one central SAP system is conceivable. The system landscape also contains decentralized SCM systems in which you require hazardous substance data, but in which specification management is not set up. You can then fill the hazardous substance master in the central SAP system from specification management and distribute the hazardous substance master data to the decentralized systems. For more information about distributing hazardous substance master data, see the Implementation Guide for the Hazardous Substance Master under Distribution.

Note the following constraints:

·         Filling is available only in systems in which specification management is set up, that is only in central SAP systems and not in the SCM systems.

·         You can distribute hazardous substance master data from the central SAP systems to the SCM systems only and not from the SCM systems.

·         Manual entry of hazardous substance master data is possible only in SCM systems.