In this lesson, you will explore how SAP S/4HANA supports product compliance, helping you reduce time to market and extend product marketability. By the end of this lesson, you will understand how to improve on-time delivery with up-to-date product declarations and documents, as well as how to manage various compliance requirements for dangerous goods and safety data sheets.
You’ll discover how SAP S/4HANA can streamline your compliance processes and boost efficiency.
Capabilities: Explore the comprehensive substance database and extensive compliance requirements supported by the system.
User Interface: Familiarize yourself with the main screens and pages for managing compliance information and dangerous goods.
Data Management: Learn about the new data model, task-based support, and automated recalculations.
Compliance and Market Assessment: Understand how the system assesses compliance status and marketability.
Process Integration: See how product compliance integrates with logistics and other business processes.
Dangerous Goods and Safety Data Sheets: Delve into the classification, management, and output of dangerous goods and safety data sheets.
Throughout the lesson, you will see screenshots of the system to help you understand and navigate the various features and functionalities.
The Circle of Business Processes with Product Compliance Functionalities
The following business processes have integrated product compliance functionalities:
Product Engineering: Activate embedded product compliance for all compliance-relevant products.
Procurement
- Ensure product marketability with integrated supplier material checks.
- Enable integrated dangerous goods checks.
- Ensure product marketability with integrated substance volume tracking.
- Ensure compliant stock transports.
Warehouse
- Integrated product marketability and dangerous goods checks.
- Integrated substance volume tracking.
- Request labeling for received products.
Manufacturing
- Ensure that manufactured products do not exceed regulatory limits with Integrated substance volume tracking.
- Request labeling for produced products.
Sales and Customer Support
- Self-service compliance information application
- Integrated product marketability, dangerous goods, and safety data sheet checks
- Output of dangerous goods data
- Integrated substance volume tracking
Delivery and Transportation
- Integrated product marketability, dangerous goods, and safety data sheet checks
- Output of dangerous goods data
- Automated safety data sheet distribution
- Integrated substance volume tracking
- Ability to request labeling for packaged goods
Key Solution Areas - Business Integration
The following image displays the compliance requirements for product compliance in the Dangerous Goods solution area.
The following image displays the compliance requirements for product compliance in the Safety Data Sheets solution area.
The following image displays the compliance requirements for product compliance in the Product Marketability solution area.
Using SAP S/4HANA for product compliance helps you:
- Reduce time to market and extend marketability
- Reduce the risk of non-compliant market launches
Capabilities
Names and numbers for more than 320,000 listed substances
Product Marketability
- 140 compliance requirements with regulatory content
- Additionally, 67 compliance requirements for documentation only
Dangerous Goods
- 14 compliance requirements
- Additionally, one compliance requirement is for text-based classification
- Extensions for enclosure-specific list data, organic peroxides, and self-reactive substances
Safety Data Sheets
- 102 compliance requirements for Safety Data Sheets management. Each one is assigned to one country
- 95 compliance requirements for Safety Data Sheet-related assessments
- 92 compliance requirements for occupational exposure limits
SAP S/4HANA for product compliance has:
- Standardized texts: over 9200 phrases and their translations
- Graphics: over 790 standardized graphics
- Updates with every release and continuous updates for phrases
Note
Unpackaged Product - Material-Based Composition Page
In the following screenshot, you can view the Unpackaged Product - Material-Based Composition page, with the selected Before Production tab representing the starting point of compliance processing.
Compliance Information - For Products Page
In the following screenshot, you can view the Compliance Information - For Products page, with the compliance status regarding product marketability on the selected Sales View tab.
Data Management
- New data model: compliance data on multiple levels, re-use with role concept
- Task-based: supports the user in prioritizing
- Composition management: input/output view, analytical view, legal deviations, and automated (re)calculation
Compliance Assessment
- Version concept: multiple regulation editions, in-process/released data records
- Automated (re)calculation of compliance status (as a proposal) for inventories
- Predefined analytics
Market Assessment
- Marketability status: based on compliance assessment
- Visualized with the Compliance Information app
- Basis for logistic checks
Process Integration
- Integration into the product master.
- Marketability checks: prevent non-compliant sales quotations, orders, contracts, outbound deliveries, and purchase orders from being processed.
- Process events from logistics: a central inbox for all compliance-relevant issues and changes in the logistics process.
Compliance Information - For Products
In the following screenshot, you can view the Compliance Information - For Products page with the selected Dangerous Goods tab.
Dangerous Good - Classification Details Page
In the following screenshot, you can view the Dangerous Good - Classification Details page with the selected Classification tab.
Delivery Note Output
In the following screenshot, you can find information about the Delivery note output, including the dangerous goods.
Data Management
- Re-use data from marketability and the Safety Data Sheet process.
- Task-based: support users in prioritizing their work lists.
- Apply proper regulations to countries/regions.
Basic Classification
- Dangerous Goods classification without packaging consideration
- Automated generation of dangerous goods with basic descriptions in required languages
Enclosure-Specific Classification
- Dangerous Goods classification of packaged products
- Visualized with the Compliance Information app
- Predefined analytics
- Basis for logistic checks and output
Process Integration
- Dangerous Goods checks prevent non-compliant transport in sales quotations, orders, contracts, outbound delivery, and stock transport.
- Dangerous Goods data output on shipping documents.
Example of the Safety Data Sheet
In the following screenshot, you can view an example of a safety data sheet.
An Item with a Warning Status
In the following screenshot, you can view the selected item with a warning regarding the safety data sheet.
Performance Assistant Information
The following screenshot shows the Performance Assistant providing detailed information regarding the safety data sheet status.
Data Management
- Re-use data from product marketability.
- Apply proper Safety Data Sheet requirements to countries/regions.
Definition and Validation
- Safety data sheet requirement definition
- Uploading and release of the Safety Data Sheets document
- Predefined analytics
- Basis for logistic integration
Process Integration
- Safety Data Sheets' existence check in sales orders, sales contracts, outbound delivery, and stock transport orders
- Automated Safety Data Sheets shipment triggered by delivery processing
- Automated subsequent Safety Data Sheets shipment (US and EU rules)
- Manual shipment
Summary
Embedded regulatory content constitutes the foundation of product compliance.
Integration in the value chain assures compliance in logistic business transactions.