This scenario describes the recording and maintenance of dangerous goods legal data for a material. These data are required for carrying out dangerous goods checks in delivery and shipment processing, as well as for generating dangerous goods papers in shipping.

The characteristics of master data management for dangerous goods with the substance database are:

• Dangerous goods legal data are maintained in the R/3 substance database as UN listed substances, and are assigned to materials using dangerous goods classification directly or indirectly via real substances.
• Dangerous goods data recorded in the substance database are transferred to the dangerous goods master via an interface, and distributed to the dangerous goods masters of other R/3 Systems.

The following R/3 components are integrated with master data management for dangerous goods with the substance database:

2. Product Safety
   In the substance database, you store dangerous goods legal data as UN listed substances. You assign dangerous goods legal data to materials using dangerous goods classification. Using the same technical methods, you maintain this legal data as substances in the substance database.

3. Dangerous Goods

• By triggering filling for a dangerous goods master, you classify a material and assign the corresponding legal data (according to the dangerous goods regulation) to the UN number of the material.
• From the source system, you can trigger the distribution of dangerous goods data in other clients or R/3 Systems.

In delivery and shipment processing, you can use data to carry out dangerous goods checks in order to identify deliveries and shipments for dangerous-goods relevant materials, whilst taking the appropriate regulations into account. You can enhance the check methods regardless of the release you are using in order to adapt the process flow of checks and system reactions to suit your requirements. If a delivery contains dangerous goods, the corresponding EDIs are provided with the necessary dangerous goods data.