You use this component to characterize Substances with different identifiers, and record structured data and text information for substances as phrases. You can find information about R and S records, material safety data sheet requirements or physical attributes. The R/3 System offers you a selection of typical substance characteristic categories using a properties tree. If required, you can use Customizing for Product Safety to define your own properties trees and substance characteristic categories.

See also: Maintaining Substance Data - An Example

The R/3 component Substance Management uses interfaces to external systems to enable you to determine secondary values from existing values. You can then transfer this secondary data and use it to assign characteristic values to substances ( See also: Secondary Data Determination).

You can assign any number of materials to a substance, thus creating a link to other logistic processes. At the moment, automatic report shipping for substances requiring a material safety data sheet is carried out from within Delivery ( See also: Material Safety Data Sheet Shipping.

The R/3 System supports the import and export of substance data in productive systems. When exporting substances, you can convert phrases in the active R/3 phrase library to phrases for the export library. Similarly, when importing substances, you can convert phrases in the import library to phrases for the active R/3 phrase library ( See also: Interfaces