EH&S Product Safety
Purpose
This SAP component contains the functions that you require in the following areas:
All environmentally-relevant and other information on substances (pure substances, preparations, mixtures, and residual materials), agents, packagings, waste codes, and dangerous goods classifications is managed under the general term
specification. You define and manage this data and texts for specifications in specification management. Data for identifications, material assignments, compositions, listings, and properties are included in this area.The SAP System enables you to maintain regulatory lists (such as substance lists) and sources in productive systems (see
Regulatory List Management and Source Management).You can record data for dangerous goods regulations and classification in specification management. For more information on dangerous goods classification, see the documentation for the SAP component Dangerous Goods Management in the section
Dangerous Goods Basic Data (process: Dangerous Goods Classification).You can create standard texts in phrase management, reducing the amount of writing and translating necessary. Phrases are managed in libraries.
You can print specification data on reports (such as material safety data sheets). You structure report layout using Windows Wordprocessor Integration (WWI). This means that you can also use Microsoft Word functions. Specially defined symbols are replaced by values in the SAP System when reports are generated. Phrases are output in the languages specified. You use rating and validity area to specify that only permitted specification data appears on the report.
In report management, the SAP System supports the required work steps from report generation to final release. For data backup purposes, you can save reports you no longer require with status Historical and call them at any time.
Released reports can be used for report shipping. Report shipping controls the processes involved in creating a shipping order through to saving it. As well as allowing you to ship reports such as material data safety sheets automatically, you can set up automatic subsequent shipping for updated reports, for example. These are then shipped automatically if, for example, the data for specifications or phrases that is output on the reports was changed.
The specification information system allows you direct access to data for specifications.
The report information system enables you to search and display existing reports with status Released and Historical.
Dangerous Goods Interfaces.
Data for hazard storage classes, VbF classes, and water pollution classes are copied with a special transaction to the warehouse management system only.
For more information, see the SAP Implementation Guide (IMG) under Logistics Execution ® Warehouse Management ® Hazardous Materials ® Copy Hazardous Material Data from Substance Database.
Using EH&S Native Language Support (EH&S NLS) you can enter, edit, and output all EH&S data important for report output in all R/3 languages.
If you want to enter data in languages on several different
This documentation assumes that you are using EH&S NLS. This means that in some places, system prerequisites and settings are described that are necessary for correct data conversion by EH&S NLS. In systems in which EH&S NLS is not active and in which data is stored in the database in the Microsoft code page format, other prerequisites may apply. These prerequisites are not described in this documentation.
Integration
You must have installed the following SAP components to be able to use all functions in the SAP component Product Safety:
Features
The specification database in specification management has the following features:
You can use the SAP Classification System component to define properties to be as flexible as required. In the Classification System, you can define any number of properties (classes) featuring any number of fields (characteristics).
It is essential that the data stored on the specification database is secure. The R/3 authorization concept prevents unauthorized access to specification data. All changes to data are logged and thus traceable.
Laws and regulations are regularly amended. These amendments cause changes to system behavior and specification data. The specification database also allows for mass changes for which you can specify key dates. All modifications become valid on the key date you select. The system allows you to change key dates.
The SAP System enables the creation of a central specification database. The database can be used for cross-company queries, that is for research purposes or to provide immediate information for incident management. The huge mass of information is stored in one central location. The database can also store data for information purposes on specifications of substances that are not physically handled in a company. Data can be recorded in local specification databases and then be matched up with the data stored in a central specification database. Data from the central specification database is then distributed to other systems within companies that process data for planning, checks, and evaluations.
Standard interfaces simplify the cost-effective transfer of data from existing applications or external systems. EH&S runs data consistency checks.