In this lesson, you’ll discover the scope items of the SAP S/4HANA for product compliance.
The scope items help streamline product compliance processes, reduce risk, and ensure compliance with relevant regulations and standards. They can be activated based on your business's specific needs and industry.
The solution SAP S/4HANA Cloud for product compliance comprises several assigned scope items that help you manage and comply with various product-related regulations and standards. These scope items provide the following:
- Manage compliance requirements and compliance purposes.
- Maintain basic compliance data, assess compliance requirements, and document the assessment results based on system-integrated regulatory content.
- Furthermore, functionalities integrated into logistic processes allow compliance information checks and output, such as product compliance checks, output of dangerous goods data on logistic documents, or automated shipment of safety data sheets.
- Analytic capabilities complete the set of product compliance capabilities.
The following list presents the available scope items per product compliance solution area.
Product Marketability Assessment (PMA) - Scope Items
- Chemical Compliance Approval for Purchased Material and Supplier (31G);
- Supplier Compliance in the Value Chain (5OJ);
- Assess Marketability of a Product (31H);
- Chemical Compliance in the Value Chain (31J);
- Substance Volume Tracking (4OL).
Safety Data Sheet Management (SDS) - Scope Items
- Manage Safety Data Sheets for Products (3VR);
- Safety Data Sheets in the Value Chain (3VQ);
- Label Management (6MT);
- Authoring of Product Compliance Documents (7DO).
Dangerous Goods Management (DG) - Scope Items
- Assess Dangerous Goods for a Product (3FC);
- Dangerous Goods in the Value Chain (3G8).
In the following table, you’ll discover the scope items and their description.
| Scope Item | Description |
|---|---|
| Chemical Compliance Approval for Purchased Material and Supplier (31G) | This scope item describes the compliance assessment process for purchased materials and suppliers. Only suppliers and purchased materials that fulfill the requirements can be approved. |
| Supplier Compliance in the Value Chain (5OJ) | This scope item enables the integration of a supplier to check in on purchasing processes performed by the product stewardship department. |
| Assess Marketability of a Product (31H) | Placing chemical products on markets with complex regulatory landscapes requires efficient system support for chemical compliance assessment. This scope item covers the main process steps for assessing a product's marketability. |
| Chemical Compliance in the Value Chain (31J) | This scope item describes the compliance marketability check during sales order processing and outbound delivery processes. A compliance marketability check is executed when a material is defined as relevant for compliance. |
| Substance Volume Tracking (4OL) | Substance volume tracking allows you to identify risks by tracking, monitoring, and calculating volumes for substances imported, produced within, or exported to a country or region. |
| Manage Safety Data Sheets for Products (3VR) | This scope item lets you maintain final safety data sheets as product documents. |
| Safety Data Sheets in the Value Chain (3VQ) | Placing chemical products on the market requires efficient system support for handling mandatory documentation, as regulators define it. This scope item focuses on maintaining Safety Data Sheets for products during Sales processes. |
| Label Management (6MT) | This scope item enables you to create and design label templates in external systems and use them in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition via integration. You can also collect or calculate relevant product data for labels, varying by country/region or language in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition (for example, Dangerous Goods classifications, GHS classification). Furthermore, you can create print requests for labels in external systems using a third-party output management system. |
| Authoring of Product Compliance Documents (7DO) | Products might pose risks throughout the value chain that many industries handle by creating structured communication documents (often regulated by law). This scope item covers the main process steps for generating product-compliance-relevant documents, using the structure of a safety data sheet as an example. |
| Assess Dangerous Goods for a Product (3FC) | Transporting chemical products on public transportation routes requires product classification for each applicable dangerous goods regulation. This scope item provides the means to identify these regulations and classify your products efficiently. |
| Dangerous Goods in the Value Chain (3G8) | This scope item describes the dangerous goods transport check in sales orders and sales quotations. The check is performed for all compliance-relevant products. For chemical products added to sales orders, this ensures that an appropriate dangerous goods classification is established. |
Note
For more information about the scope items, visit the Product Compliance SAP Help Portal.
Business Roles in SAP S/4HANA for Product Compliance
The following business roles are supported in SAP S/4HANA for product compliance:
- Master Data Specialist - Product Compliance;
- Product Stewardship Specialist - Product Compliance;
- Dangerous Goods Specialist - Product Compliance;
- Master Data Specialist - Product Data;
- Purchaser;
- Shipping Specialist;
- Internal Sales Representative.
The following diagram reveals the business roles involved in product compliance and the scope items they use in SAP S/4HANA for product compliance.
Summary
SAP S/4HANA for product compliance provides new functionality for:
- Product Marketability;
- Safety Data Sheet Management;
- Dangerous Goods;
- Substance Volume Tracking.
The solution SAP S/4HANA Cloud for product compliance comprises several assigned scope items that help you manage and comply with various product-related regulations and standards. These scope items provide the following functionalities:
- Management of compliance requirements and compliance purposes;
- Maintenance of basic compliance data, assess compliance requirements, and document the assessment results based on system-integrated regulatory content;
- Compliance information checks and output;
- Analytic capabilities.