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Relating product compilaence with the material master in SAP R3 system

Former Member
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Hai SAP Gurus,

Please can you help me to mark a material in relation to the product compilance or regulatory requirements like RoH, CSA, EC, Copy exact in the SAP Standard process. please note that we are not using SAP EH&C and the client is asking this requirrement in the SAP R3 System. Is this possible to link this with material master? If so can u kindly explain me on this please.

Thanking you in advance.

Regards,

Gopalakrishnan.S

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Former Member
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Hi,

I agree with Christph.

5 years ago when RoHS came into force many companies were trying to handle compliance information in the material master classification (like RoHS "compliant" / "not compliant").

That approach failed when regulated substances were updated. Looking at the latest developments like REACH SVHC*) declarations this facts becomes even a bigger problem for the industry. The regulated substances are updated every six month and data for purchased parts from suppliers needs to be up-to-date. Additionally a flag is simply not enough. A company needs to know which substances are contained in their products.

This is very difficult without an appropriate IT solution (like the SAP Product and REACH Compliance).

Best regards,

Andreas

*) SVHC substance of very high concern

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christoph_bergemann
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Hello

If you do not use EH&S one option is to use a material class to mark the matrial as Rohs etc. relevant. As this is only a matter of storing infomation not futher process is linked to this data maintenance. If you wouldlike to use this stored data e.g. in SD, MM or PP processes you have to do it by your own programming. SAP EHS Management on the other hand gives you a number of options to use data like RoHs wich is store in EH&S further processes.

In any case: srtong recommendatino would be: do not try to use a lot number of material classes to do the same lik you are doing in EH&S.

Regarding regulatory demands EH&S is a "must" and wel integrated in SAP process (e.g. GTS, BW, SA Procudt and REACH Compliance Suite etc.)

Using EH&S is not such a "big" problem and there aer many companies which can assist in using EH&S .

With best regards

C.B.

Edited by: Christoph Bergemann on May 20, 2011 8:16 PM