Outlining Waste Management

The SAP EHS Management for SAP S/4HANA, Waste Management helps you track waste generation across the enterprise with cradle-to-grave control of waste along with identification of waste minimization opportunities.

The Waste Management functionality within SAP EHS Environment Management provides a waste generation tracking process and waste shipping that is embedded within the enterprise logistical system.

Locations are used to specify an identified real place, virtual space, or object in the system. Locations are classified as waste storage locations and points of waste generation. The point of waste generation is the location within your plant where the waste product is generated, and the waste storage location is the location where it is stored.

Waste Characterization enables the creation and maintenance of material data for a specific waste. The existing data can be edited and searched among existing materials and products by material name and internal name.

Waste codes can be assigned to waste materials so that they can comply with the relevant local environmental regulations, standards, and laws. You can select from waste codes that have already been entered as a regulatory list in a Compliance Requirement Regulation. Depending on the regulations that you are adhering to, more than one waste code can be assigned to a product.

An Environmental Manager, assigned to the location, must create waste partners as designated transporters and disposers and link them to specific waste materials.

A waste stream is the connection between waste material and where it is produced and stored. To create waste streams, you must define the relationship between a waste product and where it is produced and stored.

The disposal channel defines how waste products can be disposed of from the waste stream. The disposal channel is the relationship between a waste stream and how it can be disposed. You can also add permits to the disposal channel depending on your country/region, which can be defined in the system.

Waste transfer requests are used to initiate and document the data for the disposal process, which includes the:

• Waste product.
• Point of generation.
• Related waste stream and disposal channel.
• Date of the transfer request.
• Quantity of waste that was produced (including the amount and unit of measure.)

To dispose of generated waste, an Environmental Manager must document each step in the waste disposal chain in a legally compliant waste transportation document. The output of this process is a PDF document with all relevant information such as waste generated, waste material, waste transporter, and disposer.

The waste monitoring and analytics functionality allows you to aggregate, analyze, and compare data from waste transportation documents and corresponding data sets with reference information.

In SAP EHS Management for SAP S/4HANA, the Waste Management screen is available to a user and is based on standard process roles.

The roles are defined as follows:

• Environmental Manager: The individuals responsible for the environmental compliance for a plant or site, for example, Environmental Manager or EHS Manager. 
• Production Operator - EHS Info: This represents a typical production worker at a plant or a site who has been assigned environmental tasks like moving, storing and preparing waste.

Apply the compliance management functionality in SAP EHS to store lists of relevant waste codes and link them to compliance requirements.

Track waste permits, permit requirements, and associated tasks to ensure a compliant waste handling process.

Capture regulatory, composition, physical-chemical properties, assigned waste codes, and other information pertinent to specific wastes being generated from operations.

More document files can be attached to the waste material record.

The waste stream record allows the user to map out the full logistical picture of waste handling for a given waste material: From the original points of generation to storage and ultimately to the appropriate disposal channels and shipment process.

Disposal channel records capture the necessary information to demonstrate cradle-to-grave management of waste, and influencing factors such as permit limit amounts of how much waste can be disposed of through a given channel.

Designated disposal facilities are a component of the disposal channel.

With the Waste Analytics app, you can compare and analyze aggregated data based on previously defined waste transportation documents.

SAP EHS Management for SAP S/4HANA, Waste Management:

• Enables a user to search for data using search criteria for example the permits currently active in the organization as well as the issuing authority.
• The analytics functionality is powerful tool to report and analyze whole disposal processes based on all recorded waste transportation documents across all affected locations, transporter, disposer and their facilities ,and waste data.
• Generate, view, and print waste transportation documents such as manifests that will document each step in the waste disposal chain until waste is finally disposed of.

• Waste Identification
  • Locations
  • Regulatory lists and waste codes
  • Transporters and disposers
  • Waste permits
• Online Waste Management
  • Waste streams
  • Storage locations
  • Waste transfer requests
• Waste Transportation
  • Disposal channels
  • Generate transportation documents
  • Manage transportation documents
• Waste Analysis: Waste transportation documents analysis

The SAP EHS Management for SAP S/4HANA, Waste Management functional components enables the following:

• Waste characterization and waste stream identification.
• Management of all hazardous and non-hazardous disposal channels with assignment of transporters and disposers.
• Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements in regards to waste permits in combination with waste codes and regulatory lists.
• Generation, tracking and analysis of waste transportation documents.