Dangerous Goods Classification Process (SAP Library - EH&S Dangerous Goods Management)

Dangerous Goods Classification Process

Purpose

This process enables you to classify materials according to dangerous goods regulations. See also Dangerous Goods Classification.

Prerequisites

You have edited all the necessary IMG activities in Customizing for Dangerous Goods Management.

So that dangerous goods data is available to you in the SAP Product Safety component, you can create the dangerous goods data yourself or transfer it by importing specifications. See also Import and Export.

Process Flow

Creating and editing UN listed substances

You create a specification of the specification type UN listed substance (LS_UN_SUB). See also Creating Specifications.

You define the identification number for the specification by creating an identifier of identification category NUM and of identification type UN, ID, or NA. See also Editing Identifiers.

You call the property tree that contains the value assignment type Dangerous goods regulations.

You call the value assignment type Dangerous goods regulations and assign a dangerous goods class to the UN listed substance depending on the dangerous goods regulation. You must also specify whether a collective number is used and whether transport is permitted. Then you edit the dangerous goods data, or in other words, the risk classification, packaging code approval, and transport approval. See also Managing Dangerous Goods Data.

Creating and editing specifications of the specification type Dangerous goods classification

You create a specification of the specification type DG_CL_SUB (Dangerous goods classification).

You define an identifier for the specification, for example, of identification category NAM and enter a descriptive text such as Dangerous goods classification for varnish .

You call the property tree that contains the value assignment type Dangerous goods classification.

You call the value assignment type dangerous goods classification and enter the data for the transport classification and for the hazard inducers.

Note

During the filling process, the hazard inducers specified in this value assignment type have a lower priority than those hazard inducers you specify in the Hazard inducer value assignment type for the real substance.

Assigning real substances and materials

You call the specification of the specification type real substance to which the material you want to classify is assigned. See also Searching Manually for Specifications.

You check and edit the assignment of materials in material assignment.

You enter the dangerous goods classification as a reference specification in the header data of the real substance. In this way you classify the material that is assigned to the real substance. See also Editing Header Data.

Note

If you assign the material directly to the dangerous goods classification, this assignment then has the higher priority.

An environmentally relevant material must be assigned to a real substance that requires a material safety data sheet if automatic material safety data sheet shipping is to be set up.

To enable the transfer of dangerous goods data from the specification database to the dangerous goods master, the assignment of the material to the dangerous goods classification must be unique. Data is not transferred if you assign two dangerous goods classifications to a material via two different real substances.

Result

You can use the classification data and dangerous goods data for filling the dangerous goods master.

You can output the data for the value assignment types on reports. To do this, you require a repeating group of the type S:CLASS.

You can import and export dangerous goods data.

Other Notes

For organizational reasons it may be necessary or desirable to subdivide the total sum of all dangerous goods regulations into smaller groups. For the changed dangerous goods classification process this requires, see also Regulation Families.