Dangerous Good Checks in Shipment Documents
Purpose
This process enables you to check shipment documents according to dangerous goods regulations.
Prerequisites
SAP Component Material Master
If you have set the DIs rel. for checks indicator in the IMG activity Activate Dangerous Goods Checks in Customizing for Dangerous Goods Management, only materials in the shipping document that are relevant for the check are then checked. You mark materials as relevant for checking by assigning them a dangerous goods indicator profile in the Basic data 2 view in the material master. You must have set this indicator profile as relevant for dangerous goods checks in Customizing for Dangerous Goods Management in the IMG activity Specify Indicator Profiles for the Material Master. Indicator profiles that are set only as dangerous goods are for information purposes only.
You edit the required dangerous goods indicator profiles in the IMG activity Specify Indicator Profiles for the Material Master in Customizing for Dangerous Goods Management.
Shipment documents are created with reference to shipping documents.
When you create a shipping document, the dangerous goods indicator profile is transferred from the material master to the document item and stored there. Changes made to the profile in the material master are not made in the shipping document and shipment document automatically.
SAP Component Dangerous Goods Management
You have created dangerous goods master records for the materials. Dangerous goods checks only use dangerous goods master records for which:
Customizing for Dangerous Goods Management
You have processed the section Dangerous Goods Checks.
The check method (or in other words the function module
Customizing for Sales and Distribution
Dangerous goods regulations are valid for a mode of transport category and one or more countries. You define one or more countries as a validity area in the system. This means that in SD documents, dangerous goods checks must be performed for all affected combinations of countries and mode of transport categories subject to dangerous goods legal requirements. The system uses this data to determine the dangerous goods master records to be checked.
See also:
Determination of Data in Shipment DocumentsFor this, edit the appropriate routes under Basic Functions
® Routes ® Define routes ® Define routes and stages as necessary.
In shipment documents, the countries are derived from the nodes of the shipping stages of the type Leg. You need only enter routes if you have defined shipment types for which route stages are transferred to shipment stages.
You have the option of enhancing the SAP standard method for determining the country-mode of transport category combination with your own customer-specific logic. With the SAP enhancement
(You specify shipment types in Customizing under Logistics Execution ® Transportation ® Shipments ® Maintain shipment types.)
If you set the Consider transit country table indicator in the route details, the countries maintained in the IMG activity Specify Transit Countries in Customizing for Dangerous Goods Management are also taken into account.
SAP Component Transportation
When you create a shipment document, you must enter the following data for the dangerous goods check:
Ensure that addresses (particularly country and region) are specified for all nodes, and that a shipping type has been entered for each shipment stage.
For more information on shipment stages, see Help
Engineering change management is used in the dangerous goods master. Dangerous goods master records can therefore have different versions. To ensure that the valid dangerous goods master records can be determined for the checked shipment document, you specify which shipment document date is to be used to read the dangerous goods master records in the IMG activity Specify Date for Determination of DG Master Data in Customizing for Dangerous Goods Management. If the date is not entered in the document, the current date is used.
Process Flow
Dangerous goods checks comprise the following steps:
Result
Dialog Box
After the dangerous goods checks have been executed, a dialog box is displayed with the message for the check method that determines the complete reaction for the check schema. If there are log entries, you can access the check log from the dialog box.
If no check method reacts, no log entries are written and the dialog box is not displayed when the document is saved. If you start the check manually, a success message is displayed.
No dialog box is displayed in collective processing. The check log is attached to the collective processing log in the shipment document.
Check Log
All messages collected during the dangerous goods checks are displayed in the check log. The log is not currently stored in the database, but it can be printed.
The log can list positive and negative check results. If you branch to the log, it first displays the messages with the highest priority only. If you choose All messages, the system displays all messages.
Processing Documents Further
The document is processed further according to the Customizing settings for the complete reaction. If you have specified in Customizing for Dangerous Goods Management that the document should be saved only with document block (DocBlk indicator), the dangerous goods block indicator is set in the shipment header. If document statuses were assigned during the current transaction, the system now retracts them.
No further document statuses can be assigned for documents with block indicators.
Statuses that were already in the database are not retracted.
Returning Data to the Document
The system determines the following data and enters it in the document under Header – General data – Dang.gds.
In the shipment document the Contains DG (document contains dangerous goods) indicator is also set for some legs. This means you can specify that materials for which the Not dangerous goods indicator is not set can only be transported on certain legs of a shipment. Transportation is continued without dangerous goods after these materials have been unloaded at a point in the route.
The indicator is for information purposes only.
- The dangerous goods management profile can be used by the dangerous goods documents component to output texts on transport documents. You enter and manage these texts in the Product Safety component.
- You can also set the indicator manually. An indicator set manually cannot be overwritten by dangerous goods checks. For this reason, you should only assign DG management profiles manually for which the Fix indicator is set. In the standard system, only these profiles are proposed in the input help. You must specify in the check method that these profiles are not to be overwritten. You must first check the check method to find out whether you have already assigned a manually fixed DG management profile in the document header.
The selection date is determined and updated within dangerous goods checks.
The selection date is determined as defined in the IMG activity Specify Date for Determination of DG Master Data and is used to read the dangerous goods master records. It is used here as additional information only.
You can set up Customizing to specify that the selection date is to be determined in the shipment document according to a delivery date. As a shipment can contain several deliveries, the system uses the most current date from the document date set for the deliveries.