See: Substance Management

• To use substances in the R/3 System, you can create them yourself, or import them. In addition, to assign characteristic values to substances, you must have imported or manually created phrases and sources.

• Materials to which you want to allocate substances must have been created in the R/3 material master.

See also: Function Model of Substance Management

1. You can carry out the following activities in the initial Substance Management screens:

2. The results of the search are displayed in the hit list. In the hit list, you then process the substances further, and create new ones.

3. When creating a substance on the initial screen or from the hit list, you first enter the data for the substance header.

4. You use substance identifiers to create a unique description of a substance.

5. In the R/3 Product Safety component, you can allocate several materials to a substance, depending on the substance category.

6. The properties tree offers a stuctured representation of all the substance characteristic categories that you can maintain in substance characteristic value assignment.

7. You store substance data and information as characteristic values in substance characteristic value assignment.

• From within the hit list, you can

• create report body requests for substances

• call specific substance management data in the substance information system. You can display the data in different ways.