Hazardous Materials Management

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1 Hazardous Materials Management
1.1 Hazardous Material Records
1.1.1 Creating and Using Hazardous Material Records
1.2 Hazardous Material Evaluation Reports
1.2.1 Displaying the Fire Department Inventory List
1.2.2 Checking for Proper Storage of Hazardous Material
1.2.3 Displaying the Hazardous Substance List

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1 Hazardous Materials Management

Although many materials that are classified as dangerous can be placed into storage along with other goods, some require special handling and must be put into
specially designed storage facilities. Some examples of these materials include:
Explosives
Petroleum fuels and oil
Poisons
Corrosive liquids
Radioactive materials
SAP Warehouse Management (WM) is designed to manage the handling and storage of hazardous material based on characteristics that are defined in the
hazardous material record.
Hazardous Material Characteristics
Before you can use WM to manage dangerous goods, you need to maintain several hazardous material characteristics in the WM configuration tables. These
include:
Hazardous material warnings
Handling instructions
Aggregate stages
Region codes
Storage classes
Afterwards, you need to maintain tables that control how the system handles the placement of hazardous materials into the desired storage areas.
( )
To maintain these characteristics and tables, see

Hazardous

Materials

Master Data

in the

Warehouse Management IMG documentation.

Note
Hazardous material characteristics and regulations that pertain to dangerous goods vary from country to country. Therefore, it may be necessary for you to
modify the lists and data pertaining to hazardous materials available in the standard system to match the requirements of local and national regulations.

1.1 Hazardous Material Records

To designate a material in your warehouse as dangerous, you must first create a hazardous material record and then assign it to the material master record of the
dangerous material. When a material master record is linked to a hazardous material record and the hazardous material storage checks have been activated,
characteristics defined in the hazardous material record are then taken into consideration for storage type and storage section search.
Information about the hazards of handling and storing materials is generally the same for specific classes of material, for example, types of chemicals. The hazard
features may also be similar. You store the general information about the material class in a single hazardous material record. You can then use one hazardous
material record by all materials that share the same properties and characteristics.
See also:
Creating and Using Hazardous Material Records

1.1.1 Creating and Using Hazardous Material Records

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.
2.
3.
4.

Choose
Logistics
Logistics Execution
Master data Material Hazardous material Create
from the SAP menu.
Enter a number (or designator) and region code to identify the hazardous material and chooseENTER .
As a minimum, you must enter a descriptive text about the hazardous material. All other fields are optional.
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.
See also:
Defining Warehouse Data in the Material Master Record
Displaying a Hazardous Material Record
1. Choose
Logistics
Logistics Execution
Master data
Material Hazardous material
2. Enter the number and region for the hazardous material record and chooseENTER .

Display

from the SAP menu.

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. ChooseENTER .
4. 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.

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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.
2.
3.
4.

Choose
Logistics
Logistics Execution
Master Data
Material Hazardous material Change
from the SAP menu.
Enter the number (or designator) and region code to identify the hazardous material record and chooseENTER .
Make changes to the desired fields.
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
2. Enter the number (or designator) and region indicator for the hazardous material record and chooseENTER .
3. Choose Delete.

from the SAP menu.

1.2 Hazardous Material Evaluation Reports

To assist you in the management of hazardous materials, the Warehouse Management (WM) system provides several reports. You can display these reports
online or you can print them as a list.
The following hazardous material reports are available in WM:
Fire department inventory list
Hazardous materials stored in the warehouse
Hazardous substance list

1.2.1 Displaying the Fire Department Inventory List

This report displays a list containing information about hazardous materials in a specific warehouse number and/or storage type.
It is intended to be used by the local fire department and includes information about
Storage class
Water pollution class
Water pollutants
1. Choose
Logistics
Logistics
Execution Internal Whse Processes
Bins and Stock
Display
Hazardous material Fire dept inv. list
from
the SAP menu.
2. On the initial screen, you can select from options to retrieve a fire department inventory list for a range of fire containment sections and storage types within
the warehouse or for the entire warehouse.

1.2.2 Checking for Proper Storage of Hazardous Material

To check whether the hazardous materials have been stored properly
1. Choose
Logistics
Logistics
Execution Information System
SAP menu.
2. Enter a warehouse number and choose
Program
Execute
.

Warehouse

Stock

Hazardous material

Check Goods Storage

from the

For each storage type, this report lists the number of bins that were checked, the number of quants that were correctly stored and the number of quants that were
stored improperly based on the hazardous materials storage parameters that were set up for your warehouse.
This report checks to see if hazardous materials are stored correctly. It identifies errors in the following situations:
When hazardous materials are stored in storage types managed specifically for non-hazardous materials
When a material cannot be stored in the desired storage type based on the water pollution class
When a material cannot be stored in the desired storage type based on storage class
When a material with a specified water pollution and storage class cannot be stored in the corresponding storage section based on the storage section
search defined in the customizing application

1.2.3 Displaying the Hazardous Substance List

To display information about warehouse stock containing hazardous substances:
1. In the SAP menu, choose
Logistics
Logistics
Execution
Information System
Warehouse
Stock
Hazardous Substance List
2. Enter the warehouse number. You can also enter a storage type, range of storage bins and fire containment section.
3. Choose
Program Execute .

The system displays a hazardous substance list, sorted according to storage type, fire containment section, and material number.

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