Filling (SAP Library - Dangerous Goods Management (EHS-DGP))

Filling

Purpose

Within substance management in the R/3 component Product Safety, you can classify materials and allocate them to a UN number and the corresponding legal data according to the dangerous goods regulation.

The Filling process enables you to copy data from the substance database to the dangerous goods master. The Distribution process is used to transport the data from the temporary system to further R/3 Systems.

For further information on the allocation of table fields or substance characteristic categories in the R/3 substance database to the table fields in the dangerous goods master, see Allocate Table Fields.

Prerequisites

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

See also: Change Status Selection

The data are filled from the R/3 component Product Safety into an R/3 temporary system and distributed from there to an R/3 target system. Data in the R/3 component Product Safety overwrite data in the temporary system, and this data overwrites in turn the data in the target system. To avoid losing data, the data must be fully maintained in the substance and phrase management areas of the R/3 component Product Safety.

Fields exist in the dangerous goods master that can only be maintained there manually ( See also: Non-Fillable Fields). As no values are delivered for these fields during filling, any values in the fields are deleted.

When assigning values to danger label numbers in the R/3 component Product Safety, you must maintain 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 substance characteristic values that are to be copied ( See also: 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 Product Safety.

If ratings have the same highest priority, several characteristic values for a substance will be rejected.

Make sure that no interval values were maintained as characteristic values. During filling, the R/3 System interprets interval values as if there were no values present.

Make sure that only values of 15, 20 and 50 are maintained for the substance characteristic category Density, and that the units correspond. During filling, the R/3 System interprets values for other temperatures as if there were no values present.

The materials for which you are filling data in the temporary system must be created in the temporary system in the R/3 component Material Master.

Make sure that a material in the R/3 component Product Safety has not been allocated to several substances.

During filling

No dangerous goods relevant data in the R/3 component Product Safety may be processed in the source system.
No data in the dangerous goods master in the R/3 component Dangerous Goods Management may be processed in the temporary system.

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

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

You have the required authorizations.

You must be able to read the data from the R/3 substance database as well as write, read and delete the data in the dangerous goods master.

Process flow

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

Data for dangerous goods storage classes, VbF classes, and water pollution classes are only copied into the warehouse management system using a special transaction.

For further information, see the implementation guide under Logistics Execution ® Warehouse Management ® Hazardous Materials ® Copy hazardous material data from substance database.

The R/3 System transfers the data records to fill the tables DGTMD 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 R/3 component Dangerous Goods Management. You can maintain data according the authorization you have been given.

The dangerous goods data can be distributed further from the temporary system to target systems.

See also: Distribution