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Procedure documentation Creating and Using Hazardous Material Records  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

The Warehouse Management (WM) system provides several tasks for displaying, implementing and maintaining information about hazardous materials. WM provides the following simple procedures for these tasks.

Creating a Hazardous Material Record

  1. Choose Logistics → Logistics Execution → Master data ® Material  ® Hazardous material ® Create from the SAP menu.
  2. Enter a number (or designator) and region code to identify the hazardous material and choose ENTER .
  3. As a minimum, you must enter a descriptive text about the hazardous material. All other fields are optional.
  4. To save the data to the database, choose Hazardous material ® Save from the menu bar.

Assigning Material Master Records to Hazardous Material Records

You create the material master for a hazardous material using exactly the same steps as when you create any other material.

To link a material master record to a hazardous material record, you must enter the hazardous material record number in the Haz.mat.no. field of the Warehouse Management view.

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Defining Warehouse Data in the Material Master Record

Displaying a Hazardous Material Record

  1. Choose Logistics → Logistics Execution → Master data → Material ® Hazardous material ® Display from the SAP menu.
  2. Enter the number and region for the hazardous material record and choose ENTER .

Displaying a List of Hazardous Material Records

  1. Choose Logistics → Logistics Execution → Information System → Warehouse ® Stock ® Hazardous material ® List from the SAP menu.
  2. You can enter a range of hazardous material record numbers in the Hazardous material data field or you can leave it blank. If you leave it blank, all hazardous material records are retrieved for the region(s) selected.

    3. Choose ENTER .

  3. To sort the records in the list by hazardous material record number, choose Edit ® Sort by haz.material from the menu bar.

To sort the records by region, choose Edit ® Sort by region from the menu bar.

To display the details of a hazardous material record, move the cursor to a hazardous material number and choose Choose from the application tool bar.

Modifying a Hazardous Material Record

  1. Choose Logistics → Logistics Execution → Master Data → Material ® Hazardous material ® Change from the SAP menu.
  2. Enter the number (or designator) and region code to identify the hazardous material record and choose ENTER .
  3. Make changes to the desired fields.
  4. To save the data to the database, choose Hazardous material ® Save.

Deleting a Hazardous Material Record

You can delete a hazardous material record even if it is referenced by a material master record. However, if you use a material that references a hazardous material record that has been deleted, you will receive an error message when creating a transfer order. If you want to delete a hazardous material record that is referenced, we recommend that you first determine which material master records cite the hazardous material record and then delete or change the reference in the material master record.

To delete a hazardous material record

  1. Choose Logistics → Logistics Execution → Master Data → Material ® Hazardous material ® Change from the SAP menu.
  2. Enter the number (or designator) and region indicator for the hazardous material record and choose ENTER .
  3. Choose Delete.