Hazardous Substance Master

Use

With this function, you create and edit hazardous substance master records.

Integration

The system uses the data in the hazardous substance master records, for example, in the following places:

  • The system outputs hazardous substance texts in Extended Warehouse Management in radio frequency transactions (RF transactions, see Radio Frequency Framework ) and on warehouse tasks . In Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management in the IMG activity Assign Activities to Text Types , you specify the text type to which these hazardous substance texts must belong so that the system can display them in a specific activity.

  • By means of the putaway checks and putaway strategies in Extended Warehouse Management , the system makes sure that hazardous substances are stored correctly and safely. For this, you specify in Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management in the IMG activities Assign Permitted Hazard Rating 1 for Each Storage Type and Assign Permitted Hazard Rating 2 for Each Storage Type which hazard ratings are permitted in the various storage types. If a hazardous substance has a different hazard rating from that permitted, it cannot be stored in a warehouse of that storage type. The system takes the hazard rating from the hazardous substance master record for the hazardous substance. In the SAP menu, by choosing Start of the navigation pathExtended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Hazardous Substance Next navigation step Block Storage Type for Hazard Rating 1End of the navigation path or Block Storage Type for Hazard Rating 2 , you can also specify that hazardous substances of a permitted hazard rating cannot be put away in a specific warehouse temporarily.

  • The system outputs hazardous substance data in the inventory list of hazardous substances for the fire department .

If you want to specify text information in the hazardous substance master in the form of phrases, you must create these phrases in phrase management .

Features

For more information about the individual functions of the Hazardous Substance Master , see the documentation for SAP ERP 2005 in SAP Help Portal under Start of the navigation pathSAP ERP Central Component Next navigation step Logistics Next navigation step Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Next navigation step Hazardous Substance Management (EHS-HSM) Next navigation step Hazardous Substance MasterEnd of the navigation path . The following functions are not supported in the hazardous substance master in EH&S Services :

  • Filling of the hazardous substance master from specification management

  • Distribution of the hazardous substance master via Application Link Enabling (ALE) from the system containing EH&S Services to other systems

An import of data from a central ERP system into the hazardous substance master in EH&S Servi ces via ALE is possible, however. You can also create hazardous substance master data manually in the hazardous substance master in EH&S Services .

Activities

To edit hazardous substance master data, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation pathSCM Basis Next navigation step EH&S Services Next navigation step Hazardous Substance Management Next navigation step Hazardous Substance Master Next navigation step Edit Hazardous Substance MasterEnd of the navigation path .