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Purpose

From the BOM for a material you can create the composition of a specification that is assigned to the material in the SAP Product Safety component.

This means that material safety data sheet shipping is guaranteed even if a material is updated that contains one or more environmentally relevant materials in its bill of material (BOM).

Example

You create materials in the SAP Materials Management component.

You can create bills of material, for example, in the SAP Production Planning component. To do this, in the SAP Easy Access screen choose Logistics ® Production ® Master data ® Bills of material ® Bill of material ® Material BOM ® Create.

Bill of material transfer includes:

You can adapt the conversions to your requirements using a customer exit in Customizing for Product Safety.

A customer exit is available in Customizing for Product Safety for the entry of customer-specific data (such as dialog box, data from material).

A customer exit is available in Customizing for Product Safety for the link to the EH&S Expert.

Prerequisites

Note

Only the first item level of the BOM is taken into account. The BOM of a material specified in the item is not therefore exploded.

Process Flow

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The BOM is transferred as follows:

1. Process in the SAP Production Planning Component

BOM posting

When you save a BOM, the SAP System checks whether the BOM is to be included in the worklist.

You define the check criteria for the material and for the BOM header data in Customizing for Product Safety.

Data transfer to EH&S

The selected BOM is placed in the worklist for the Product Safety component together with the BOM items.

2. Process in the SAP Product Safety (EH&S) Component

Edit worklist

In Customizing for Product Safety you can use the environment parameter BOMBOS_WL_DIALOG to decide whether:

  • The composition is generated automatically for the BOMs
  • The worklist for the BOMs must be edited manually
  • Automatic editing

With automatic editing, the display of the worklist is skipped.

  • If a material-specification assignment exists, the composition for the corresponding specification is generated.
  • If no material-specification assignment exists, the SAP System creates a new specification and takes the key for it from the internal number range interval.

If a number of specifications are to be assigned to the material, an error entry is made in the log.

  • Manual editing

With manual editing, the BOMs are displayed in the worklist. You decide yourself whether a composition should be generated.

  • If a material-specification assignment exists, the SAP System assigns the specification key to the BOM.
  • If no material-specification assignment exists, you can assign a specification manually. Otherwise, the SAP System creates a specification during generation.

From the worklist, the following functions are available:

  • Triggering generation of the composition from the BOM
  • Deleting an entry in the worklist
  • Displaying the log
  • Resetting an error entry

Example

If a number of specifications are to be assigned to the material, the data record is marked as containing an error. If you reset the error, you can then manually assign a specification or allow the system to create a new specification.

Result

Generating the composition

If generating a composition is triggered, the SAP System checks:

  • Which BOM items are transferred to the worklist

You define the check criteria for the material data and for the BOM item data in Customizing for Product Safety.

Example

You can specify that BOM items containing the packaging for the material are not transferred to the composition of the specification.

  • Whether a specification must be created, an existing specification changed, or no data changes made

Calculating quantities

The quantities are calculated from the BOM items. Concentrations of the same materials are added together.

More than one of the same BOM items are grouped together and the required quantities totaled.

  • Creating a specification

Header data

For the system to be able to create a specification, you must have specified the following values for the new specification in Customizing for Product Safety using the environment parameters:

  • Specification type
  • Authorization group
  • Data provider
  • Data origin

Composition

Using the environment parameters you can also control the following values:

  • Value assignment type of the composition
  • Value assignment usage
  • Component type

Identifiers

The material short text and the BOM key (material number-plant-usage-alternative) are transferred to the new specification as identifiers.

The material short text is created in the logon language, regardless of whether the indicator for language dependency is set for the material name identifier.

Note

You have the option of creating additional identifiers for the other languages using the IMG activity Develop Enhancement for Entering Customer-Specific Data (customer exit C1L30002).

Material assignment

The material is created in the material-specification assignment.

  • Changing a specification

Header data

The header data for the specification is not changed.

Composition

The system uses the data provider, the data origin, and the usage to check whether the composition has changed and transfers the changes as necessary for the first data record found.

Identifiers

The system uses the identification type, identification category, and language to check whether the identifiers have changed and transfers the changes as necessary.

Material assignment

If the material-specification assignment does not exist, it is created.

Log

The process is logged so that you can track any errors that occur and correct them as necessary.

EH&S Expert

You can set up the system so that the EH&S Expert is started automatically after the composition was generated. This means value assignments can be created that can be derived from the composition.

 

 

 

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