To determine the notification status for a substance with a composition of several different ingredients, the SAP System first determines the individual ingredients. The composition of a substance specification is thereby expanded completely regardless of whether a specification for an ingredient has specification type Listed substance or Real substance.

Finally, for each specification for an ingredient, the SAP System reads the value assignment of the phrase-related characteristic Notification status. The SAP System uses the priority assigned to the value assignment to derive the notification status for the composition that corresponds to the lowest priority (calculation of a minimum). If no value is found, the SAP System uses the default value.

If the user does not have the required authorizations to expand the composition tree completely, the process is terminated at the appropriate point. The default value is used for further derivation.