Determination of Notification Status for Compositions 

To determine the notification status for a substance with a composition of several different substances, the R/3 System first determines the individual constituents. The composition of a substance is thereby expanded completely regardless of whether a constituent has substance category Listed substance or Real substance.

See also: Example: Determination of Listed Substances

Finally, the R/3 System reads the characteristic value of the phrase-related characteristic Notification status for each constituent. The R/3 System uses the priority allocated to the characteristic value to derive the notification status for the composition that corresponds to the lowest priority (calculation of a minimum). If no value is found, the R/3 System uses the default value.

If the user does not have the required authorizations to expand the composition tree completely, the process is terminated at the appropriate point. The default value is used for further derivation.

A composition contains substances A, B, C, and D. The results are as follows.

Case A:

Substance

Notification

status

Legend:

6 = notification status is positive
1 = notification status is negative

A

6

  

B

6

  

C

6

  

D

6

  
   

Þ Notification status = 6

 

Case B:

Substance

Notification

status

  

A

6

  

B

1

  

C

6

  

D

6

  
   

Þ Notification status = 1

See also: Example: Derivation of List and Component Notification