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Welcome to this lesson — "Classifying Dangerous Goods." So far, in this course, we have looked at the overall context for dangerous goods, including the regulatory landscape and how dangerous goods fit into the broader product compliance and logistics processes. In this lesson, we focus on the practical side: how dangerous goods are classified in SAP S/4HANA for Product Compliance, how those classifications define transport permission in business operation, and analytic features to support decision-making. Dangerous goods classification starts at the unpackaged product level — the substance or mixture itself, before any packaging is considered. For each relevant regulation, the Dangerous Goods Expert selects the appropriate UN number based on the product's properties and analytical composition. Once the UN number is chosen, the system retrieves the corresponding regulatory data from the embedded content and fills most of the classification fields automatically: hazard class, packing group, proper shipping name, special provisions, and a proposed transport permission. The expert then reviews the automatically populated values and completes the manual entries. A key manual step is selecting the technical name that must appear in the dangerous goods description on transport and shipping documents. After these checks and inputs, the expert saves and releases the classification for the unpackaged product, making it available as input for dangerous goods classification of packaged products. The next step is to classify packaged dangerous goods — the product as it will actually be shipped. Here, the Dangerous Goods Expert works with specific packaging variants, such as drums, IBCs, or smaller containers. For each regulation, the expert specifies the enclosure variant for the packaged product. The system then uses the enclosure-specific dangerous goods list to determine transport permission and other dangerous goods data for that combination of product, packaging, and regulation. The embedded regulatory content comes with 15 dangerous goods regulations as listed on the slide. The expert reviews these results and adjusts individual regulations where necessary — for instance, setting transport permission to "Forbidden" for air transport under IATA-DGR if company policy does not allow this product to be shipped by air. Once all relevant regulations are classified and reviewed, the expert saves and releases the packaged dangerous goods classification and its transport permission. The released results will be used for dangerous goods compliance checks in logistics processes such as sales, transportation, and delivery. Now, let us see dangerous goods classification in action. In the following demo, we will walk through classifying the unpackaged and packaged products and reviewing the classification results and transport permission. As the Product Stewardship Specialist, we start in the Product Compliance tab and open the "Manage Basic Compliance Data – Unpackaged Products" app. Here we find our industrial cleaner that we have been working with in the previous units. We click Edit, and navigate to the compliance purposes section to assign the required transport purposes. Transport purposes define which dangerous goods compliance requirements apply to a product, essentially telling the system which regulations and transport modes need to be assessed. In this example, we assign all available transport purposes to ensure global transport coverage spanning road, rail, sea, and air. Once saved, this assignment automatically triggers a compliance request in the worklist of the Dangerous Goods Expert, who will then take over to perform the actual classification — which we will see in the next step. Now, we switch roles to the Dangerous Goods Expert. We navigate to the "Dangerous Goods" tab and open the "My Unpackaged Dangerous Goods" app — this is the expert's dedicated worklist, and this is where the classification request we just created as the Product Stewardship Specialist has landed. In the worklist, we can see a list of products awaiting classification. We locate our industrial cleaner and open it. On the product detail page, we get a full picture of the compliance context: the analytical composition of the product, its related packaged products, the relevant packaging instructions, and the list of dangerous goods regulations that have been assigned — one entry per regulation that needs to be classified. To start the classification, we select the ADR 2025 regulation version and click Edit to enter edit mode. The first step is to confirm that this product should be classified as dangerous goods. We then select the appropriate UN number. As soon as the UN number is entered, the system automatically populates a large portion of the dangerous goods data directly from the embedded regulatory content. Information such as the dangerous goods description and required hazard labels are automatically populated here, and the system also proposes the transport permission based on the regulatory requirements. The one remaining manual input is the technical name. Based on the product's analytical composition, the expert selects the appropriate technical name that needs to appear in the dangerous goods description on various documents. With the technical name filled in, we save the classification and navigate back to the list of regulations. Here we can now select the completed ADR classification and use the "Apply Classification to Other Regulations" function — which copies the relevant classification data across to the other regulation versions, significantly reducing the repetitive manual effort that would otherwise be required for each regulation individually. Once all required regulation versions have been classified, we select them all and click Release. This completes the unpackaged dangerous goods classification and automatically triggers the next step in the process — the classification of the packaged dangerous goods — which we will walk through now. From the unpackaged product, we navigate to the "Related Packaged Products" section. Here we can see all the packaged variants of this product, We select the 10-liter packaging variant of our industrial cleaner, which takes us directly into the "Classify Packaged Dangerous Good" app for that specific packaged product. Before we can classify, we need to make sure the packaging details are in order. We click Edit in the Packaging Details section and maintain the dangerous goods packaging information for this product — such as the package type and quantity. This physical packaging data forms the basis for the classification. With the packaging details saved, we scroll down to the Dangerous Goods Classification section, where we see the list of all regulation versions assigned to this product. To classify all of them in one go, we select all regulations and click "Specify Enclosure Variant." In the dialog, we select "Packaging" as the enclosure variant and set the transport permission as "Determine from Regulatory List." This tells the system to suggest the transport permission automatically based on the regulatory content embedded in the solution. Once confirmed, the system populates the dangerous goods data for each regulation — including the full dangerous goods description for documents, the required labels on the package, the placards for containers and vehicles, and the transport permission status. As you can see on screen, regulations such as ADG 2024 and ADN 2025 are now showing as Allowed, with the complete description, marking text, and hazard labels all generated automatically. The system also gives the expert flexibility to override transport permission at the regulation level. For example, if company policy prohibits transporting this product by air, we can select the IATA-DGR regulation specifically, click "Specify Enclosure Variant" again, and manually set the transport permission to "Forbidden" — regardless of what the regulatory list would otherwise allow. This combination of automated regulatory determination and manual override gives the expert full control. Once the expert has reviewed all results, we save and release the packaged classification. From this point on, the transport permission data is active and will be used automatically in all relevant logistics processes, including dangerous goods checks in sales orders, freight orders, and outbound deliveries — ensuring that only compliant shipments leave the facility. Once dangerous goods are classified and transport permissions are released, this information needs to be accessible to users beyond the dangerous goods expert — including colleagues in sales, logistics, and management. SAP S/4HANA for Product Compliance supports this through a number of analytic features. For a specific product and packaging variant, users can look up transport permission on a geographic map view. Countries are color-coded to indicate whether domestic transport is allowed, restricted, or forbidden. The panel on the left also displays the dangerous goods details for that product — such as its classification and UN number — as well as the international transport permission broken down by mode, for example, whether aircraft cargo, aircraft passenger, or deep water transport is allowed or forbidden. At the portfolio level, dangerous goods experts and managers can analyze unpackaged and packaged products based on compliance requirements, classification result, and processing status. For example, to identify which products are still in progress or which have been released with a forbidden transport permission under a specific regulation. Now, let us see these analytic features in action. In the following demo, we will walk through reviewing global transport permission for our industrial cleaner and analyzing dangerous goods transport permission for the portfolio. First, let's see how the classification results we just completed are accessible to anyone who needs dangerous goods compliance information for this product. We navigate to the "Compliance Information – For Products" app and search for the 10L packaging variant of our industrial cleaner. From here, we switch to the "Dangerous Goods" tab. Here we can expand the legend and see an interactive world map showing the global transport permission for this product, with countries color-coded to indicate whether transport is permitted or restricted under the applicable regulations. This view gives any user — whether in sales, logistics, or compliance — an immediate, visual answer to the question: "Can we ship this product to a given country?" We click on a specific country — for example, Germany — and a detail panel appears showing the permitted modes of transport for that country, each with the applicable regulation and its permission status. This single view brings together everything derived from our classification work in one accessible, easy-to-read format. Next, let's have a look in SAP S/4HANA for product compliance for dangerous goods transport permission across the portfolio. We navigate to the "Dangerous Goods" tab and open the "Analyze Packaged Dangerous Goods" app. Here we apply a few filters to focus our view. We select the compliance purpose "Transport in Europe", filter for released classifications, and scope the results to products classified as dangerous goods. This immediately gives us a structured portfolio-wide picture of transport permission status across all relevant dangerous goods regulations. The chart shows for each dangerous goods regulation, how many products are classified as Allowed versus Forbidden for transport. And it doesn't stop at the overview: By clicking into any bar, the expert can drill down to see exactly which specific products are forbidden under a particular regulation, giving full traceability and enabling proactive action before any compliance issue reaches the logistics process. Before we close, here are the key points to take away from this lesson: Dangerous goods classification happens at two levels: unpackaged products (substance or mixture) and packaged products (as shipped), and both are required to determine transport permission. The system uses embedded regulatory content to populate most classification fields once the UN number and enclosure variant are set, while the expert focuses on reviewing results and entering required manual inputs and overrides. Released classifications provide the basis for transport permission views and analytics, allowing users to see where and how a hazardous product can be transported and to analyze permission status across products and regulations. That brings us to the end of this lesson on Classifying Dangerous Goods. In the next lesson, "Navigating Value Chain Integration", we will again look at how these classification results are used in operational processes — embedding dangerous goods information into sales, transportation planning, and outbound delivery, and seeing how automatic checks help prevent non-compliant shipments.

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Classifying Dangerous Goods

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<div id="content"><p tabindex="0"></p><div class="kalturaVideoLessonWrapper"><div id="1_kxpqm617" data-testid="video" class="kalturaVideoLessonContainer" aria-label=""></div></div><p tabindex="0"><strong>Key takeaways</strong></p><ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li tabindex="0">Dangerous goods classification happens at two levels: unpackaged products (substance or mixture) and packaged products (as shipped), and both are required to determine transport permission.</li><li tabindex="0">The system uses embedded regulatory content to populate most classification fields once the UN number and enclosure variant are set, while the expert focuses on reviewing results and entering required manual inputs and overrides.</li><li tabindex="0">Released classifications provide the basis for transport permission views and analytics, allowing users to see where and how a hazardous product can be transported and to analyze permission status across products and regulations.</li></ul></div>

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