Editing the Substance Header (SAP Library - Product Safety (EHS-SAF))

Editing the Substance Header

Prerequisites

If you want to edit a substance under a change number, you must enter the change number in the initial substance management screen.

Procedure

1.

If you want to

then choose

create the substance header

Substance ® Create in the Edit Substance: Initial Screen screen or in the substance management hit list.

edit the substance header

Goto ® Header for the selected substance in the hit list for substance management, substance identification, material allocation, or substance characteristic value assignment.

The substance header screen appears.

You can copy data for an existing substance ( See also: Copying Substance Data).

Edit the required data.

When creating a new substance header, you can enter a key in the Substance field. If you do not enter a key, the system assigns a key to the substance after you have made the required entries and chosen Enter.

Choose ENTER and save your changes.

Result

The R/3 System completes the administrative data.

The validity period is set according to the change number specified. If no change number was entered, the validity period is unlimited.

If you have entered a substance key yourself, the R/3 System checks the substance key against the external number range interval that you defined in the IMG activity Specify number ranges for substances in Customizing for Product Safety.

To give a newly created substance a unique character, allocate substance identifiers to it as the next step.

See also: Editing Substance Identifiers

1.	If you want to	then choose
	create the substance header	Substance ® Create in the Edit Substance: Initial Screen screen or in the substance management hit list.
	edit the substance header	Goto ® Header for the selected substance in the hit list for substance management, substance identification, material allocation, or substance characteristic value assignment.