Waste
Management 
Purpose
In waste management you have to comply with and implement numerous national and international laws and regulations. You can use this business process to optimize the typical workflow for a waste generator, enter waste management data without redundancies, and comply with the relevant laws and regulations. The data is available everywhere where it is required. The business process supports you in all phases in waste disposal, including:
· Selection of a disposer and soliciting of a quotation
· Managing of accumulation points or temporary storage facilities
· Entering of quantities at the point of generation
· Creating of the prescribed disposal documents
· Call-off on a purchase order, account assignment
· Invoice checking
· Legal and cost-oriented reporting
Process Flow
The following business process runs in SAP ECC:
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1. Edit waste master data
You create the master data that you require for waste management. This includes waste generators, points of generation, waste disposers, disposal facilities, waste transporters, authorities, and wastes. By means of an assignment to a plant, to cost centers, storage locations, or the vendor, you can map the structure of your enterprise in waste management and create a link to other logistics processes. To describe the wastes, you create waste materials with the logistic properties of the wastes and waste specifications with the properties of ingredients, catalog numbers, and process codes.
2. Edit waste approval
You link the waste management master data together to define permitted disposal channels, for example. For a disposal channel, you can specify waste agreements such as contracts and waste approvals; you can assign waste transporters, quantity limits, and outline agreements to the waste approvals.
3. Classify hazardous wastes
You add to the waste specifications the necessary data for handling, disposal, approval, and for the required disposal documents. This data includes physical-chemical properties, safety and transport information, legal data for waste, such as waste codes, and all other data you require, for example, for a characterization analysis. In the waste materials, you enter the logistics and commercial aspects of waste management, such as stocks and purchasing organizations.
4. Edit waste generation
You enter all waste quantities that are generated in your enterprise. Here, you can map the entire internal disposal logistics including the waste accumulation points, temporary storage facilities, and cost allocation proportional to the waste generator. This allows you to identify where large quantities of waste are being generated, monitor waste reduction measures, and reduce disposal costs.
5. Perform waste disposal
You create the necessary external disposal operations and put together the legally required waste disposal documents such as waste manifests, dock receipts, or U.S. Hazardous Waste Manifests on the basis of the internal disposal documents in the system, for example. You print out the disposal documents if necessary.
6. Monitor disposal document return
You check whether you have received the return copies of disposal documents within the set periods. The system supports you by listing the disposal documents whose return-within period is soon to expire, for example. As soon as the disposer has sent you the return copies and informed you of the waste quantity disposed of, you enter the return date and the quantity. The system then adjusts the waste quantity that can still be disposed of with the corresponding waste approval and locks waste approvals whose permitted quantity has been reached. On receipt, you check the invoice for the disposal.
7. Perform waste disposal analysis
The system supports you with a range of evaluations. For example, you can easily determine which waste quantities were generated at the individual points of generation and how much of the permitted waste quantity in individual waste approvals was already called off. If necessary, you create the prescribed waste life-cycle analyses.