Waste 

Definition

Substance or object that is no longer useful for the rest of the business process, with the result that the enterprise wants to or has to dispose of the waste. A waste is represented in the SAP System by a material for which a specific material type can be defined.

The functions of the SAP components Materials Management, Product Safety, and Dangerous Goods Management are used for describing waste. Each waste corresponds to a material in Materials Management. You can store the logistics data required with the material (see Editing Materials for Wastes). You can assign one or more specifications to a material in various ways (see Specification-to-Waste Assignment). You can store the following data, for example, in the specifications (see Editing Specifications for Wastes):

• Physical-chemical properties
• Waste-relevant and waste law data
• Safety data
• Transport-relevant data
• Toxicological data

Description of Wastes