Searching for Substances (SAP Library - Product Safety (EHS-SAF))

Searching for Substances

From the Product Safety screen, choose one of the following paths:

Substances ® Edit substances

Substances ® Display substances.

The initial screen appears. You can start substance drill-down reporting from here. During the search, all entries are linked with AND.

Enter the required data you know. The R/3 System searches for incomplete data in the Substance, Subs. auth. group, Identifier, and Material fields as follows:

Single generic delimitation, <Iso*> , for example .

Double generic delimitation, <*15*>, <*chlor*> , for example.

Placeholder in the middle of a key. < Butan+l> stands for both butanol and butanal.

Combination of search methods, < *1234+678*> , for example.

If you enter a value generically (with * ) in a Substance field that has value help and confirm it, the R/3 System searches the R/3 substance database as follows:

The system first looks for identifiers of type Number.
If it does not find any corresponding identifier numbers, it then looks for identifiers of type Name.
If it does not find any corresponding identifier names, it then looks for substance keys.

If you enter a value generically (with * ) in a Substance field that has no value help and confirm it, the R/3 System searches the R/3 substance database for suitable substance keys.

The system does not differentiate between lower case and upper case letters during search runs.
The system ignores special characters such as underscores, hyphens, commas, periods, blanks, parenthesis, and so on.

Use the extended search functions.

See: Substance Search

All search entries (including the values for user exits) are retained even after you have exited the transaction (SET/GET memory). You can delete all search data by choosing New entry.

Choose ENTER, or Substance ® Navigation ® Hit list.

Result

In the substance hit list, the R/3 System lists the substances that correspond to the search criteria.

If the R/3 System does not find the required substance, you can enter new search criteria, or create the substance yourself.

See also:

Editing the Substance Hit List

Accessing the Substance Information System