on 07-02-2013 11:08 AM
Hi,
Sometimes a change in regulatory content affects business processes. What is the leading practice to handle such changes? The Class a given material belongs to is changed, how does this affect the specification database, DG Master, DG Checks? How would business be notified by this change? Is there a leading practice to handle such a change since it greatly affects existing business processes?
Thank you,
Sruthi
The topic of change management is a huge one. It can mean anything from organizational change, master data change, manufacturing process change, product change and so forth. One of the business challenges is how to involve all of the right people to ensure that the risk of change is managed. The most common pain point is that changes are not reviewed by the right people and the business is put at risk. For example, what if a small change to how we manufacture the product results in an unintended problem for the customer? What if we automate the plant and reduce staffing but end up with insufficient staff from a safey and security perspective? What if that great continuous improvement idea is implemented without the environmental engineer's review and it results in a permit violation?
SAP Management of Change is a new solution (available one year) that is specifically designed to handle the collaboration process so that changes are reviewed at a level appropriate to the risk they introduce. In your example, you could configure a change type for material change and then manage reivew, approval, and follow-on activities to ensure that all of the right things are considered and all of the right updates are made.
More information can be found in this brochure:
Reducing Operational Risk with SAP Management of Change
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Dear Mary
I would be happy if you could create a document regarding SAP Management of Change. I am not aware of a "FORUM" here (do we have one?).
As you have described: it is a very new solution. It does have some benefits.
I would appreciate if you could describe on high level integration points of SAP Management of Change.
E.g. is it integrated with:
SAP GTS
Component Extension of EHS
SAP Reach and Compliance Suite
and other solutions of SAP regarding sustainability
C.B.
Good idea to start a forum. I'll see if I can get some help on that.
MOC has integration to ERP including plant maintenance functional location, equipment, material, documents, maintenance order, maintenance notification. Also POs and PO items. For a full list, look them in customizing: Settings for Reference Objects > Define Object Types.
In EHSM 3.0, there is integration from MOC to create a "simulated risk assessment" in EHSM. In EHSM 4.0, there is a new task type "create change request" that works similarly to the one for "create PM notification" in that it is available in incident management and in risk assessment.
Based on customer feedback, additional integration points are planned for the next release.
Hi,
As fas as I know, the possibility to create a change request from Incident Management tasks is already available in support package 03 of EHSM 3.0.
"Change requests in SAP Management of Change (New)
When processing an incident, you can use the new Change Request task type to create a change request in SAP Management of Change from within the incident management application. To enable this, you must activate the integration in Customizing between the incident management application and SAP Management of Change."
Full content: https://websmp207.sap-ag.de/~form/sapnet?_SHORTKEY=01100035870000735607&_SCENARIO=011000358700000002...
I´m working with EHSM 3.0 now, and i´m curious about the new/enhanced functionality of 4.0... is there some information already available on it? It was planned for the end of the year, right?
Thanks!
EHSM 4.0 is RTC July 29, 2013 - so just a few short weeks. I presented a few slides of preview at the ASUG annual conference in May and members can access that presentation. Some highlights of new functionality include
Then go to the Product Lifecycle Management section. The presentation number is 2702
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Dear Sruthi
don't know what you mean by using this sentence: "the Class a given material belongs to is changed, "
I try it the other way around: in SAP EHS you can prepare e.g. Workflows if needed. On the top you can implement MSDS regeneration if needed. There is no general best practise available to handle changes in EHS. Therefore there is no answer to your question. Any company handles it different (either using SAP standard tools or own developed one)
C.B.
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hi Christoph,
I was referring to the DG Class. As per DG regulations, all DG materials have an associated class (like Explosives, Reactive etc). I think there are all in all 9 classes available (internationally) to classify materials on these grounds.
What i meant by material class changing was, after we maintain DG data, if the regulations change the class for a certain material, say, MAterial X belongs to Class 1 initially. Later on if the class of the material changes to class 2 (say updated regulations), how can business be notified of this change through EHS, how does it affect subsequent processes..?
thank you,
Sruthi
Dear Sruthi
still not sure what you are looking for. E.g. if DG class per material is changed it can happen that you must use now different "package material" to deliver the material according to the regulation. On Top clearly a new SDS/MSDS is needed. As mentioned in my answer: any company does have different processes/procedure to handle changes in EHS (either with use of EHS tools (like workslow) or without.
Next topic is: who is the "business"? in your context. The answer depends on the internal organisation of a company. As mentioned. using EHS you can e.g. automatically regenerate SDS/MSDS (but somebody need to still release new version in most cases).
E.g. may be check this document: How to deal with legal/regulatory changes (using SAP EHS MANAGEMENT)?
This is providing only a "very high level" overview of the challenges from legal and regulatroy point of view.
E.g. if you use the services from SAP: in principle the "technical" part of MOC can be done by SAP. BUt for the organisational part (e.g. now you must use may be a different packaging) you are at the end responsible
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