The materials that are dangerous to handle and that are a potential danger to property, people, or animals that come into contact with them. Hazardous materials contain substances such as corrosives, gases, and so on that make them dangerous.
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 placement into specially designed storage facilities. Some examples of these materials include:
- Explosives
- Petroleum fuels and oil
- Poisons
- Corrosive liquids
- Radioactive materials
The SAP Warehouse Management (WM) application 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
Notes:
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.
Initial Setup
Creating a Hazardous Material Record
Steps form SAP Menu for users:
- 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 choose ENTER.
--- 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 1.
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.
Steps to delete a hazardous material record
Choose Logistics -> Logistics Execution -> Master Data -> Material -> Hazardous material -> Change from the SAP menu.
- Enter the number (or designator) and region indicator for the hazardous material record and choose ENTER.
-- Choose Delete.
Reports
Displaying a List of Hazardous Material Records
- Choose Logistics -> Logistics Execution -> Information System -> Warehouse -> Stock -> Hazardous material -> List from the SAP menu.
-- 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.
---- Choose ENTER.
----- 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.
