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Table of content1 Hazardous Materials Management1.1 Hazardous Material Records1.1.1 Creating and Using Hazardous Material Records1.2 Hazardous Material Evaluation Reports1.2.1 Displaying the Fire Department Inventory List1.2.2 Checking for Proper Storage of Hazardous Material1.2.3 Displaying the Hazardous Substance List

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1 Hazardous Materials ManagementAlthough many materials that are classified as dangerous can be placed into storage along with other goods, some require special handling and must be put intospecially 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 thehazardous 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. Theseinclude:

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.

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To maintain these characteristics and tables, see Hazardous Materials Master Data in the Warehouse Management IMG documentation.

NoteHazardous material characteristics and regulations that pertain to dangerous goods vary from country to country. Therefore, it may be necessary for you tomodify 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 RecordsTo 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 thedangerous 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 hazardfeatures may also be similar. You store the general information about the material class in a single hazardous material record. You can then use one hazardousmaterial 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 RecordsThe Warehouse Management (WM) system provides several tasks for displaying, implementing and maintaining information about hazardous materials. WMprovides 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 chooseENTER .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 WarehouseManagement 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 Display from the SAP menu. 2. Enter the number and region for the hazardous material record and chooseENTER .

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. 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 chooseENTER .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 hazardousmaterial 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 isreferenced, we recommend that you first determine which material master records cite the hazardous material record and then delete or change the reference inthe 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 chooseENTER .3. Choose Delete.

1.2 Hazardous Material Evaluation ReportsTo assist you in the management of hazardous materials, the Warehouse Management (WM) system provides several reports. You can display these reportsonline 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 ListThis 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 fromthe 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 withinthe warehouse or for the entire warehouse.

1.2.2 Checking for Proper Storage of Hazardous MaterialTo check whether the hazardous materials have been stored properly

1. Choose Logistics Logistics Execution Information System Warehouse Stock Hazardous material Check Goods Storage from theSAP menu.

2. Enter a warehouse number and choose Program Execute .

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 werestored 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 sectionsearch defined in the customizing application

1.2.3 Displaying the Hazardous Substance ListTo 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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