Assigning Materials (SAP Library - Product Safety (EHS-SAF))

Assigning Materials

Prerequisites

You must create the materials in the material master of the R/3 materials management component.

The substance must belong to a substance category for which the Mat. assignment indicator has been set in the IMG activity Specify substance categories.

To ensure that material safety data sheet shipping is triggered by the delivery of a material, you must have

Flagged the Environmentally rlvt indicator for the material in the material master in the Basic Data 2 view

Rated the substance to be assigned as having a material safety data sheet requirement in substance characteristic value assignment

For further information about automatic shipping of material safety data sheets, see the R/3 Implementation Guide for Product Safety under Report Shipping.

Materials can be assigned with or without a plant.

Procedure

Choose Goto ® Material assignment in the substance header, substance identifiers, hit list, properties tree or in substance characteristic value assignment.

The Edit Substance: Material Assignment screen appears.

Select the material key in the Material field.

You can use the editing functions from the Edit menu for selected materials.

If required, limit the assignment to one or more plants.

Choose ENTER and save your changes.