Hi Guys, is it possible to change the usage of the identifier on the specification that's inherited from another specID? I already de-activated the inheritance, but seems on the usage screen, the change button is still disabled. Please help, thanks.

Dear All,

After creating Action in EHSM - Incident Management, work item is not coming into work overview list for Implementer or Responsible persons worklist. For Maintenance and other notification still configuration is not done but standard action should be notified to implementer.

Any guess....

Regards

Bhuwan

Friends,

Can you help me in setting up the standard extractors in sap EHSM.

Thanking you all.

chandrasekhar

Dear Expers,

I have a problem when setting 'listed configurated process'. Could you guide me how to resolve the issue?

Thank you very much in advance.

Following is  the reproduce steps :

1. Perform List Configured Processes

2. Double click red lights of these 3 objects, you will see error message ‘internal
error: A method in the automation queue caused a failure.’

3. After confirming error message ‘Internal error: A method in the automation queue
caused a failure.’, you can see “error when reading workflow template”. I
am not sure whether this error is caused due to ‘Internal error: A method in
the automation queue caused a failure.’

Hi,

I need add a new TAB with a screen in CBIH72. Does any enhancement exist for it?

Thank you

Hi,

Our client is on Ehp6, live since last year. Now we realize we need the business function OPS_EHS_CI_1 to meet some of our requirements. Has anyone activated this business function in a productive system? Does it get transported or activated in every system?

Thanks

Anand

Hello All,

when I created entry document, i found function list is empty which shows as mentioned below. I checked all the relavent configuration and everything is defined as per standard document (855_ERP605_BB_ConfigGuide_EN_CN). Can any one please let me know why it is not showing?? Is this an auth Issue, If it is so, what are the authority objects to be defined. pl help.

Regards

kiran.

Hello All,

While doing WM scenario in EHS, PO created automatically through the entry document for disposal. After that while creating disposal document from function list apop-up window open  and what disposing document type I need to choose and what are the other parameters to be entered in the pop-up window shown in the below screen shot to disposal document creation in WAM02 . what are the parmeters I need to define in WAM02 to generate/proceed to  Invoice document.pl help

Introduction

In context of SAP EHS Management (classic) changes in the software are delivered by SAP using either a:

• Support Package
• or Enhancement Package

The strategy of SAP is "easy" but sometimes misinterpreted.

A support package combines simply:

• a list of error fixes
• and can contain new software based on legal demand (e.g. REACh...)

An Enhancement Package contains "add on software" which enhances the functionality but is not legal driven.

By experience:

SAP is roughly providing two support packages per year. Regarding new "Enhancement Package": roughly once a year a new EnhancementPpackage is available but this neednot always enhance EHS (e.g. no extension happened in Enhancement Package 1 and 4 regarding EHS).

The test approach regarding the delivery of a "Support Package" and an "Enhancement Package" is different. Regarding an Enhancement Package a more intensive test of the new software is done and a ramp up phase is used.

In context of SAP EHS Management new features are delivered with:

• Enhancement Package 3
• Enhancement Package 5
• Enhancement Package 6
• Enhancement Package 7

If you check SAP marketplace you will see that per "Package" a different maointenance startegy is used (that means support packages are deliverd for the packages at different times). Therefore to get "state of the art" software (including legal changes) you need "only" download the recent combination of Enhancement Package / Support Package.

There is only one important "but":

To make use of the new features, you must activate via customizing the corresponding Business Function. After doing that you can get updates in customizing; delivered are sometimes "default" implementations of the new features but not in all cases. Only within a project you can make sure which of the new features should be used and how etc. If you are planning to use one of the new feature you need to have a "plan" to analyse what is new, how to use the new feature; then to develop test etc. the new stuff.

Now what are the reasons to use the functionality (in theory you can use SAP ECC 6.0 with out any ! Enhancement Package and you can still fulfill all legal requirements):

Main drivers are the new features. If you use them properly you can gain new benefits and save money.

If you check: http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_06/helpdata/en/bf/57cec7cb1343f4877cb762029876ce/content.htm?frameset=/en/46/4afb86d8d551ede10000000a114a6b/frameset.htm

Chapter "Environment, Health and Safety" and subchapters you will realize that there are these business functions available:

Especially the improvements in the area of GLM, SVT and CG02/CG02BD but DG as well are reasons why a company should check if there is a benefit in installing the software and activating the business function.

At the end you need a project to select the right function to be used and to describe how it should be used etc.

I am not aware of any kind of depedency between the business functions. You can acticvate them independent from each other.

Component Extension

Regarding enhancement options here: please check: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-45836#comment-386163

GLM Extension

There is a new document in place referring to the changes in GLM as mentioned above. It is really worth to read it:

http://scn.sap.com/community/ehs-management/blog/2013/09/27/new-changes-for-glm-in-ehp70-and-erp-60

Hi all,

Can anyone share information on Substance Volume Tracking...how exactly it helps the companies and the t-codes that are used.

Appreciate your support.

Regards,

Bharath

PS:I have searched the SCN network, could not find any doc

What are the business needs to use SAP EHS MANAGEMENT?

In most of the countries chemical companies must fulfill local or global regulation/legislation needs to e.g. produce chemicals and to sell them. SAP EHS MANAGEMENT can be used to fulfill those demands. Now with the starting of "Management of Change" (http://help.sap.com/managementofchange) approach the whole management of changes (either data or document content et.c) process might be integrated better in SAP but the use of SAP EHS Management itself is a matter of internal organisation of a company as well.

What are the "basic needs" and why might SAP EHS Management help?

a.) in most of the regions you need to create a Safety Data Sheet and you must provide it to the customer who receives the corresponding material/chemistry=> this can be fulfilled clearly with SAP EHS Management

This can be done using a printed letter or by sending an eMail.

b.) in most of the regions you must make sure that you fulfill the transport regulations. Part of that (and sometimes "ignored" a little bit) is the topic of "packaging" as your are only to transport the chemical by using proper packaging => this can be fulfilled clearly with SAP EHS Management

c.) in many regions you must make sure that the chemical is stored properly (without risks to humans and the environment) => this can be fulfilled clearly with SAP EHS Management

d.) on the top there is the need sometimes to prepare "Standard Operating Procedures" to take care regarding Fire Brigade lists etc.  => this can be fulfilled clearly with SAP EHS Management

e.) and SAP EHS Management can be used as well in the process to get permission to build a new plant (e.g. Seveso etc.)

=> this can be supported/fulfilled clearly with SAP EHS Management

f.) and you can use SAP EHS Management in context of chemcial weapon convention

=> this can be fulfilled clearly with SAP EHS Management

g.) There is the need to create "chemical inventories" (German: Gefahrstoffkataster) =

=> this can be fulfilled clearly with SAP EHS Management

h.) You need to take care e.g. regarding REACH, TSCA, CEPA topics (management of amount of substances to be registered)

=> this can be fulfilled clearly with SAP EHS Management

i.) there is the need to exchange data using e.g. XML in many contexts (either for industry purposes (IMDS) or for legal reasons (REACh)

=> this can be fulfilled clearly with SAP EHS Management

j.) there is the need to manage company internal changes in regards oc legislation. (e.g. now option of Management oF Change is delivered; some aspects are as well part of SAP Product and Reach Compliance Suite)

=> this can be fulfilled clearly with SAP EHS Management

k.) there is the need to handle the chemistry as such within company (e.g. now more related to "Component Extenstion for SAP EHS Management)

=> this can be fulfilled clearly with SAP EHS Management

etc.

But taking all that into account  what does that mean on daily basis?

You as chemcial company must make sure that you manage the "change of data". E.g. many companies do use external providers to get updates in regards of e.g.:

1. phrases
2. rule sets
3. WWI layouts
4. legislation data

On the top SAP is now delivering a lot of additional services and there is clear trend of use of Cloud based solutions.

Based on the permant changes in legislation SAP is reacting on that by e.g. delivering up to data property trees. But not all of the topics are covered and/or must be dealed with by using additional services from SAP:

Examples are:  sometimes you need new identifiers etc.

One can assume that at least once a year some minor update regarding all "technical" content is needed to still fulfill all legal requirements and clealry then ther eis the need to look for data and maintain them (and may be on top release WWI reports e.g. SDS). And this is only the technical part. The business upate process need to be triggered as well in a timely manner (e.g. REACh does have sometimes very short time limits which need be considered).

But now after you have imported the new data? What is the next step? Some companies create simply the new safety data sheet, some others try do identify: what does the new data mean? How many chemcial materials are effected etc.? How to deal with the set up of new WWI documents (new may be relevant version of safety data sheet)? Some companies use internal workflows (not using SAP system as IT system to support this process); less use the EHS workflow (as most of them might believe this might be to complex). Some use the automated SAP EHS mechanism to generate new Safety Data Sheets (but still need to handle in many cases the "Release" of the generated documents). But today this is not sufficient any more. You have to take care about content of label data and label reports as well etc. Correlate to that is the topic of "relabeling" need.

Therefore before you start a SAP EHS Management project you should be sure that you understood your external and internal needs, especially your internal organisation and you should have a plan established regarding roll out (by region? by SAP EHS module or other criterias).

But even if you have finished with the set up SAP EHS Management will not be stable because of the permanent legal changes and adaptions. And many companies have IS/IT governances taking care about the use of recent SAP software. Using the recent one provide chances to optimize processes. E.g. with SAP ERP ECC 6.0 EnhPack 7 more options are available in context of GLM. Therefore you have new options but  you need to decide how they can help you in your daily business and how to get this improvement in place from technical perspective (and clealry sometime regression test are needed a trainings etc.)

Depending on the region there you act you man need to consider e.g. the use of EHS Substance Volumne Tracking and (e.g. REACh, TSCA, CEPA context) the use of SAP Product and Reach Compliance Suite.

Now as there is a tend to use the "Component Extension of SAP EHS Management" you have may be a further software layer to take into account: what will happen and what need to be done if a regulatory change happens?

SAP EHS Management itself does contain a lot of suitable tools and technique to help companies. It is "only" a matter to decide which of the processes are "useful", need to be optimized etc.

Without a good a stable process (set up of organisaiton etc.) to deal with legal/regulatory changes at the end you might not be satisfied in using SAP EHS Management.

What can we expect of SAP in the next years regarding that?

Tools to help the Management of Change process will be established more and more and hopefully integrated more and more. The software it self will get "better" (based on enhancements using e.g. Business Functions). The use of "what if scenarios" might be more simpler as now. And regarding the trend to "analyze" the data (business quality etc.) we can expect hopefully that SAP will support the chemical companies as this is a "basic" need to analyze and check: how compliant are we? Can we do better? There is a lack "information"? What will happen if we exchange raw material A by B (e.g. does it have an effect on labeling; on status of registration). Does it hinder us to do more business? There do I use "hazardous substance? Can I avoid them? what does the use of this substance means for the employee? Which risks need to be considered for him/her and for the environment. How to reduce the risks? What about if I use many recipes for doing the same? How to handle eg. in this case "FDA" requirements.

A workload on the top is: the customer is "always" asking for more information on the products. Therefore the option to prepare inquiries etc. to retrieve the information might be a critical fact itself. Here you need to dig deeper as SAP EHS Management can help you (check e.g. http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/a7/286cb50a6c11d28a220000e829fbbd/content.htm; context "TREX" search engine).

As with regulations like REACh one can expect that you need "enough" time to make sure that you are prepared as in many cases you need to maintain more data and most of the data is not available and therefore you have to check there to find that etc. And even if the legislations is in place you need to take care about changes in your organization, in market etc. (e.g in context of REACh: you must take care regarding new "uses" to register, to make sure that you have registered any substance in the correct tonnage band; you need to take care regarding GHS etc. etc.).

Hopefully topics like "Seveso" and other more "plant" related topics might be supported more and more.

But at the end: even if the software might be "stable" neither legislation/regulation is stable nor the data related to that (e.g OEL Limits).

Therefore to a certain extent we are talking about "automating" of processes. Is there really the need to have an expert in place to check content of safety data sheet, about dangerous goods relation topics etc.

Here SAP has shown that optimization is possible. Check e.g. http://www.sap.com/solution/lob/sustainability/software/ehs-management-product-safety/index.htm

We will see how SAP can support this in the future.

This is clearly a challenge but without taking care we need to make sure that we understand e.g. REACh: No data no market

And this seems to be a "international" trend now. Let us hope that SAP provide to us new further innovative solutions and will provide tools in place which can be used for efffective data management and the management of the change of data and e.g the change of content of documents.

Please check as well these documents:

Determing Chemical Compliance with SAP HANA in Product Development

Achieving True Product Integrity

Featured Content for Chemicals

SAP HANA Chemicals Uses Cases

Best Practices for Chemicals - SAP Solution Manager

REACH Compliance Assessment

SAP REACH Compliance Solution Process Flow

How to Use SAP Best Practices for Chemicals During SAP Implementations

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-1887

Bulk Transportation Scheduling for Chemicals Supply Chains

Bulk Transportation Execution for the Chemical Industry

Getting Started with Chemicals

Sustainability Strategies for High Performance in the Chemicals Industry

Get actual information about SAP for Chemicals

Are you capturing all information required? Can you prove and improve process compliance?

Take a look at SAP for Chemicals to get more input

BI Reporting

SAP is delivering a lot of BI reporting stuff in context of SAP EHS Management. E.g. check:

SAP EHS Management - BI Content & BI Content Extensions - SAP Library

https://help.sap.com/saphelp_ehsext30/helpdata/en/42/595605187e4305a02626f61f908e0d/content.htm?frameset=/en/2a/dae55ce0…

http://www.sap.com/bin/sapcom/en_us/downloadasset.2009-11-nov-09-15.sustainability-reporting-and-analytics-measuring-imp…

http://sapinsider.wispubs.com/Assets/Articles/2010/July/Go-Beyond-Compliance-With-SAP-EHS-Management-1-Best-Practice-2-Challenges-And-4-Opportunities-To-Red

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_ehsext30/helpdata/en/2c/5ac523a1244780b535f08340308828/content.htm

SAP EHS datasources and extractors list for BW (Environment, Health and Safety - )

All these tools and techniques can support you dealing with legislation changes and these can be used on regular basis to get a report/status about compliance in your company. There is as well a trend to use Dashboards and similar stuff and we have more SAP mobile solutions in place.

Compliance Checks

Examples to execute compliance checks either in SAP EHS only or together with GTS are listed here:

Appendix

Will be enlarged in the future

Hello all,

1.I'm getting an issue when disposal document created automatically from entry documents, it is asking for some inputs like "Disposal Document Number Assigned by a Transreg. Authority" . where I will get this? Do i need to create and  assign anywhere in master data of generator?

2.Also what is the correct disposal document type to choose after generating  the entry document  .

3. what is link of waste codes to this disposal documents? when created waste codes , Do i need to assign anywhere in Disposal related data in waste codes. please help.Appreciate if any one can answer this??

please find the attached screen shot where i strucked here..

Appreciate your help .

Regards

kiran

Hello all,

1.I'm getting an issue when disposal document created automatically from entry documents, it is asking for some inputs like "Disposal Document Number Assigned by a Transreg. Authority" . where I will get this? Do i need to create and  assign anywhere in master data of generator?

2.Also what is the correct disposal document type to choose after generating  the entry document  .

3. what is link of waste codes to this disposal documents? when created waste codes , Do i need to assign anywhere in Disposal related data in waste codes. please help.Appreciate if any one can answer this??

please find the attached screen shot where i strucked here..

Appreciate your help .

Regards

kiran

I was trying to load specification and got the following error . any help ?

Hi All,

We had raised an OSS message for an Internal error we were getting in the t code CG02 while entering the data for chemical properties.Below mentioned is the error message.

Internal program error; (SAPLC1AX RMWBPWB0 0 charact.-descr. not found)

SAP has asked us to refer the Note: 1146700 and adopt method 2 to fix the issue.Method 2  steps as in the Note 1146700 mentioned below.

Method 2: Call transaction SCC1 with a user-defined object list.

Prerequisites:

This is recommended if you have already made modifications to EH&S objects that are in the object list EHS_COMM24.

In your target client, the protection against the client copy is not activated.

Proceed as follows:

On the source client, create your own object list in which you specify the missing classes, characteristics and so on, that is, the complete delta. Call transaction SCC1 on your target client, specify 000 as the source client and specify the name of the last object list you created as the transport request.

Note that the user who executes this activity must have authorization for the client copy because the same functions (restricted to objects in your object list) are executed in this activity. The object list must be created once and can then be used for all clients.

Please refer the Note 1146700: Transferring the standard database structure

Please can you let us know how do we adopt method 2 to fix the internal error issue.

Thanks

Ismail

Hi Experts,

I could not find the Recipe Development under the symbol tree in transaction CG42 , as shown in the screenshot below.

Can anyone help me out with this?

Thanks & best regards,

Yogesh

Hi,

Is there any possibility of a mass change in recipe management? In the production-module you have the funcionality to do a mass change but i don't see this option in Recipe Management. This option can significantly decrease the workload in this module.

Can ayone help me with this problem?

Thanx!

Hello all,

1.I'm getting an issue when disposal document created automatically from entry documents, it is asking for some inputs like "Disposal Document Number Assigned by a Transreg. Authority" . where I will get this? Do i need to create and  assign anywhere in master data of generator?

2.Also what is the correct disposal document type to choose after generating  the entry document  .

3. what is link of waste codes to this disposal documents? when created waste codes , Do i need to assign anywhere in Disposal related data in waste codes. please help.Appreciate if any one can answer this??

please find the attached screen shot where i strucked here..

Appreciate your help .

Regards

kiran

Hi GLM experts,

I have an issue related to label display from report management screen, CG02 or CG54 or CG50. If I need to check the released labels and click on the icon, word opens up the released label but soon word program gets closed. Another front end tool names  "EHS Labels" opens with few printer and stock settings. I do not want this front end tool since no user is going to print the label with local printers. How can I disable this tool. Please let me know.

Thanks

P.S

Hi Friends,

I already raised this issue in link given below.

Storing of MSDS in SAP Content Server

Ealier I did not tried this as we did not received the hardaware,

Now I did configuration as per the note  " 1408009 - Settings for EH&S Product Safety documents" for SAP EHS document Type.

But when I try to generate report, its giving me error as given below.

Check Document Type SBR

Internal error in function C14SX_DOCUMENT_ORIGINAL_PUT (exception 0)

Saving document data has failed

Error while checking in and storing: report.rtf

Can you guys help me if any more configurations are needed or am I missing something. The content Server is of OpenText and not SAP Content Server.

Thanks.

With Warm Regards

Mangesh Pande