Description of Wastes 

Purpose

See Basic Data.

You have created or imported the required phrases in phrase management in the SAP component Product Safety for all fields and characteristics that are provided for value assignment by phrases, and you have assigned these phrases to the phrase sets. For more information, see the Phrase Management section in the Product Safety documentation and Create Phrase Sets in Customizing for Waste Management.

1. In phrase management in Product Safety, you edit the required waste catalogs (see Editing Waste Catalogs).
2. In specification management in Product Safety, you edit the required waste codes and assign them to the waste catalogs (see Editing Waste Codes).
3. In the SAP component Materials Management, you edit the materials that correspond to the wastes (see Editing Materials for Wastes).



We recommend that you create your own materials for wastes, even if an existing material becomes a waste, due to a shortfall batch or its shelf life date expiring, for example (see Disposal Processing for Existing Materials).

4. In specification management in Product Safety, you enter and edit the specifications of the wastes (see Editing Specifications for Wastes).



You can import phrases and specifications, and thus also waste catalogs, waste codes, and specifications of wastes, in Product Safety. This means that you can transfer data from legacy systems or obtain it from providers. For more information, see Import and Export in the Product Safety documentation.

5. You assign waste codes and materials to the specifications of wastes as required. You can find out when to assign waste codes and materials to the specifications under Waste Code Assignment or Specification-to-Waste Assignment.
6. If the wastes are dangerous goods, enter the required dangerous goods data in the SAP Dangerous Goods Management component. Dangerous goods processing for waste is carried out in the same way as for other materials. For information about the entries required, see the documentation for Dangerous Goods Management. For information about how to output the required dangerous goods data on the disposal documents, see Output of Dangerous Goods Data on Disposal Documents.

• You can assign wastes to the waste generators, waste disposers, and waste transporters in the master data and thus specify waste generations, waste disposals, and waste transports.
• You can assign the waste codes to the wastes, waste approvals, and disposal documents in various ways (see Waste Code Assignment) and thus establish standard values from laws and regulations.
• You can output the data for wastes, waste codes, and waste catalogs on disposal documents and other reports, such as material safety data sheets.