Product Safety (EHS-SAF)

Purpose

If you produce and sell hazardous substances in your company, you must protect humans and the environment from the hazards these substances pose. You also have to observe numerous laws and regulations on hazardous substances worldwide. This SAP component helps you to handle hazardous substances safely and bring them safely onto the market, and also comply with all relevant regulations automatically.

Integration

You must have installed the following SAP components to be able to use all functions in the SAP component Product Safety :

The SAP component Hazardous Substance Management (EHS-HSM) also supports you with managing hazardous substances, with the following distinction:

  • Hazardous Substance Management supports companies that use hazardous substances.

  • Product Safety supports companies that produce hazardous substances.

Features

Product Safety also uses the following functions from the SAP component Basic Data and Tools :

  • You can edit hazardous substance data and other data for the substances, agents, and packagings that exist in your company in specification management , and search for and display them using the specification information system .

  • You can edit EH&S reports (such as material safety data sheets, labels, and standard operating procedures) in report definition .

  • You can import and export specifications, phrases, material safety data sheets, and other documents, and manage them after import just like all other EH&S data and reports.

Product Safety also includes the following components and functions:

  • Report management supports you with the required work steps for EH&S reports from their generation to their final release. For data archiving purposes, you can save reports you no longer require with status Historical and call them at any time.

  • Global Label Management supports you with entering all data for labels and then using this data to determine suitable labels in various labeling scenarios and to print them.

  • Released reports are available for report shipping . Report shipping controls the processes involved in creating a report shipping order through to saving it. As well as allowing you to ship reports such as material data safety sheets automatically, you can set up automatic subsequent shipping for updated reports, for example. These are then shipped automatically if, for example, the data for specifications or phrases that is output on the reports was changed.

  • The report information system enables you to search and display existing reports with status Released and Historical .

  • BOM transfer supports you with creating the composition of a specification from the bill of materials for a material.