Illustrating Basic Concepts for the Dangerous Goods Solution Area

The compliance view is the focal point of product compliance. It comprises all details required for assessing a product's compliance, from physical-chemical properties and safety-related properties to toxicological and ecotoxicological properties and compositions, especially the analytical composition, which represents the chemical level of the product.

Based on this basic information and assigned compliance purposes, compliance requirements are assessed.

For the solution area of dangerous goods, these assessments classify a product as a dangerous good. Dangerous goods classification implies two steps, which must be mirrored in the concepts and the data model:

1. Identification of the dangerous goods product - the result is the assignment of an identification number, most frequently a so-called UN number, and, if applicable, a packing group that specifies the hazard grade.
2. Applying packaging or an enclosure, like, for example, a tank. This must follow the packing instructions or similar provisions given with the identification. For the transport of dangerous goods, packaging or an enclosure is inevitable. This also applies if the good is, for example, filled in a tank-railcar, a tank-truck, or even a tank vessel. Additionally, in these cases, regulations specify the requirements that the enclosures must meet.

Assessments reflect these two steps of dangerous goods classification from the compliance view.

1. The assessment of dangerous goods on the unpackaged product's compliance view includes identification. An unpackaged product is not intended for transportation, so it is not necessary to assign a product master to the compliance view of the unpackaged product.
2. The dangerous goods assessment of each individual packed product is necessarily represented by a product in the product master for the packaged product assigned to the compliance view. In fact, this is the specific compliance view for the packaged product carrying the complete dangerous goods classification. Only packaged products are intended for transportation.

Watch the video to discover more about the transport of dangerous goods.

Transport of Dangerous Goods involves various processes throughout the value chain: purchasing, sales, delivery, and transportation.

In all value chain processes, which involve the transport of products, the compliance view, in conjunction with the logistics role, supplements the assigned product master by providing assessments for relevant dangerous goods regulations, as assigned for transport compliance purposes.

Transport compliance aims to combine multiple dangerous goods compliance requirements, which are the digital representation of dangerous goods regulations. The dangerous goods compliance requirements provide regulatory content for processing in dangerous goods assessments, enabling the correct classification of dangerous goods products and the generation of the required output of dangerous goods information for transport documents, marking, and labelling.

Compliance patterns for dangerous goods compliance requirements model the represented dangerous goods regulation, incorporating regulatory content relevant to processing compliance assessments for both unpackaged and packaged products.

Dangerous goods classification involves assessing the classification of products for packaged and unpackaged goods that contain dangerous goods.

Unpackaged products are essentially identified as dangerous goods in the Dangerous Goods List. Unpackaged products are not intended for transportation. Frequently, the product master of unpackaged products is of the product type semi-finished goods. Still, it's not mandatory to have a product master assigned to the compliance view for an unpackaged product.

With the assessment of the unpackaged products - meaning the dangerous goods identification of the product - the dangerous goods regulations define how the product must be packed and, if special provisions are applicable, the most essential details that come with this identification.

Packaged products are intended to be transported, for example, sold, delivered, and then transported again. Packaged products must have a product master assigned to the compliance view, and this product master frequently is of the product type, finished goods.

Packaged product assessment comprises packaging information and the applied enclosure variant, such as a UN Portable Tank, Regulation-Specific Tank, or UN Bulk Container, used for tank or bulk transport. This information is key to deriving appropriate output of dangerous goods information on documents and required marking and labelling.

Only the "DG ready-packed" level can be sold for dangerous goods.

Dangerous goods ready-packed level - This can be a single packaging (such as a drum or jerry can) or a combination packaging (such as cans in a box).

Semi-packed (meaning only inner packaging) and unpackaged products cannot be sold as dangerous goods, and therefore, you would get the message that "Transport is forbidden".

Non-dangerous goods can be sold at any packing level.