Introduction

It seems to be that it is time to have a document in place for beginners in SAP EHS Management. This FORUM has showed that there is a regular need to support beginners. On High Level the most important Tipps and Tricks or Information should be collected and published.

Sustainability

SAP EHS Management as described here:

http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_06/helpdata/en/a5/3adda043be11d188fe0000e8322f96/frameset.htm

is part of a bunch of applications of the SAP Sustainibility approach as described here:

http://www.sap.com/corporate-en/sustainability/index.epx

Training/Certification

• Trainings are offered e.g. by SAP or by other providers  (please check e.g. https://training.sap.com/v2/course/sus310-sap-ehs-management---essentials-and-functions-eef-classroom-096-de-de/)
• There is no certification regarding SAP EHS Management
  

SAP Marketplace

SAP EHS Management can be found easily in SAP marketplace. You can search for OSS Notes, try to understand differences between SAP EHS releases (e.g. based on different support package etc.)  and try to understand the use of Business Functions in SAP EHS.  Most important are OSS notes of type "Consulting", "Additional Information" or which deals with upgrades/updates.

There are some "must to read" OSS notes available regarding e.g.

1. WWI Cookbook
2. Report distribution
3. SVT installation
   

Licence model

SAP EHS Management is part of SAP ERP.  To understand the license model is not easy. Therefore use your SAP contacts for help to get better understanding.

SAP EHS Management Core

SAP EHS Management is implemented as an "SAP Extension" from technical point of view and therefore you need to prepare the software in your SAP ERP system and activate the extension before you can use SAP EHS Management. After activation you can activate further EHS relevant business functions (actually up to Enhancement Package 6 Business functions in the area of SAP EHS Management are available).

SAP EHS Management

There is no version number used in context of SAP EHS Management any more. It is part of SAP ERP. But there is some "conflict" with naming convention by SAP. Now SAP delivers as well a "Component Extension 3.0 (Component Extension 4.0 will come next) for SAP EHS Management" which does have actually a "version" number but is not the same as SAP EHS Management. This Component Extention is sometimes abbreviated as "EHSM" sometimes SAP EHS Management is called "EHSM". From technical point of view: you can not compare the old SAP EHS Management with the Component Extension solution.

SAP Best Practices for Chemicals

The use of the SAP Best Practise approach as shown here: http://help.sap.com/bp-chem can help to speed up if there if the need to prepare a "general" set up regarding SAP EHS Management. Therefore it can help to check as well: http://help.sap.com/bp_chem603/Chem_DE/HTML/index.htm

"Naming conflict"/"History"

Years ago there was a different term used. "EH&S". Generally you should now always use the term "SAP EHS Management" and you should not use the term EH&S any  more.

History of SAP EHS Management

SAP EHS Management is now part of SAP ERP as extension. In former times SAP EH&S (name used in the past) has been developed by TechniData. Here a short list of history (not intended to be complete)

• Completely part of: SAP ERP 6.0 EnhPack 6
• Completely part of: SAP ERP 6.0 EnhPack 5
• Completely part of: SAP ERP 6.0 EnhPack 3
• Completely part of ?: SAP ERP 2005
• Completely part of ?: SAP ERP 2004
• SAP EH&S 3.2 (SAP Enterprise Extension 2.0)
• SAP EH&S 3.1 (SAP Enterprise Extension 1.1)
• SAP EH&S 2.7b
• SAP EH&S 2.7a
• SAP EH&S 2.5b
• SAP EH&S 2.5a
• SAP EH&S 2.2b
• SAP EH&S 2.2a
• SAP EH&S 2.1b
• SAP EH&S 2.1a
  

For those who love history here some links (you will find more of that type):

May be check this link:

http://www.stechno.net/sap-notes.html?view=sapnote&id=122400

Books regarding SAP EHS Management

Only one book is available and only in german to deal with SAP EHS Management. Refer to: http://scn.sap.com/thread/3337768

Use of SAP EHS Management

SAP EHS Management is integrated very well in the SAP ERP processes. Normally it is not used as a "standalone" application/module. It support companies to be compliant regarding chemical products. The main integration points are:

1. SAP MM
2. SAP DMS
3. SAP SD
4. SAP PP
5. SAP QM
   

SAP EHS Management uses as well the SAP class/characteristic system.

For those who would like to start with SAP EHS Management these modules are of importance and therefore you should invest some time to understand the use of them and the relation to SAP EHS Management:

1. SAP MM (definition of the material master, assignment of material to specification; use of material classes)
2. SAP SD (basic know how needed because of e.g. SDS/MSDS distribution and Dangerous Goods Management integration)
3. SAP DMS (basic know how needed to understand how e.g.  WWI reports are managed (stored) in SAP; it is recommended that you should have basic know how in the area of "ArchiveLink" and similar solutions
   

Further links regarding Sustainability

Check may be:

• http://www54.sap.com/solution/lob/r-and-d/software/overview/highlights.html
• http://www54.sap.com/solution/lob/sustainability/software/overview/highlights.html
• http://www54.sap.com/solution/lob/sustainability/software/overview/supply-chain.html

Sustainability Solutions

This section is intended to provide short links to SAP documentation. It is not intended to be complete etc.

Basic Data and Tools

To start with SAP EHS Management one need to understand submodele called EHS-BD. I found this nice link helping to understand the "basics":

http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/rsasirao-112369-sap-ehs-basic-data-tools-education-ppt-powerpoint/

Frequently Asked Questions

This section is intended to help beginners to find easily a thread in this FORUM which might help regarding the issue. This section will grow step by step. Ideas of topics which should be collected can be added based on feedback of community.

Reference to other documents in SCN

Blog Posts

Component Extension for SAP EHS Management

Component Extension for SAP EHS Management is a new bundle of functions. This new solution can not be compared with SAP EHS Management "classic" and is implented different. The scope and the technology used is different but scope does have some overlap with old solution sof SAP. To a certain extent part of SAP EHS Management "classic" can be used if you start with the Component Extension. Discussion in several threads in this FORUM showed that SAP will "reorganize" their applications. Therefore some old functions will not be developped any more but money / time etc. will be invested in the Component Extension. Please check carefully this FORUM. A number of useful hints are provided regarding installation of the new solution, migration topics etc.

GLM

Discussion in thie FORUM showed that SAP is restercturing, enhancing the GLM solutions. Last update has been done with Enhancement Package 7. Some TechniData solutions seems to be still supported by SAP using the SAP Consulting service. Especially the new options in Enhancement Package 7 are worth to be studied if you need to implement GLM. Especially the topic "how to install WWI ocrrect" is a "problem" in this context. Because of recent dicussions in this FORUM some links to "Bar Code" discussion taking place in this FORUM has been added.

MSDS/SDS/XML

On an irregular level discussion is coming up if it is possible to "convert" a WWI related MSDS/SDS into XML for data exchange. To make it short: there are options to do so but there is lack of availability of XML schemata. Here I have the feeling that people believe XMl is something like "TXT", "DOC", "PDF" etc. To a certain extent this is correct but in context of MSDS/SDS and data exchange this is wrong. The main "issue" here is: data exchange can be only done if sender and receiver talk the same language. Examples of data interchange options via XML is the "IUCLID" format. Here you need to prepara a XML data stream according to the rules of ECHA. And this is the "crucial" issue in exchange of data using XML. The XML file content must "fit" a XML schemata. (there is a "rule" to do so). But there is a trend on chemistry / legislation etc. to use XML as the "data format (but per "legislation" there is a different rule in place) and clearly if you look close on SAP functionality you can generate XML (there are n number of options to do so).. But e.g. if you would like to exchange a US related MSDS and an European MSDS via XML you have a different internal structure etc. Here we have now to a certain extent the link to WWI. WWI is used to "collect" together the dat for US MSDS and EU MSDS. Using XML in theory you can do the same but because of lack of "common" rules (as with the IUCLID format) you can not use XML generally to exchange MSDS/SDS data.

Dear EHS Community: please go on in preparing documents and blogs !

Any idea to improve this section is appreciated. Please provide ideas regarding topic or subtopic so that may be beginner can find more easily the answer.

Please help to improve so that Beginners in SAP EHS Management are supported. What do you Beginner in SAP EHS Management need as a "starter package"?

This is my personal list of those topics which are asked for very often:

• WWI (layout topics, server installation)
• How to use WWI to define e.g. MSDS/SDS layout
• MSDS generation (e.g. what are the steps required etc.)
  
• Report distribution (e.g. general set up; distribution of inbound documents)
• Dangerous Goods (filling, checks)`
• GLM (e.g. label scenario); GLM Bar Code printing; synchronous WWI server
• CG02 extensions (e.g. use of output variants)
• Where used list (compositions)
• CG50/CG54 (e.g. download by mass of documents, portal solutions)
  
• Regulatory content; how to use etc.
• How to start with EHS? What are the customizing steps etc.
• Use of "Component Extension" (how to install etc.)

It is recommended to use the "search" functionality in SDN to check if your problem has been discussed yet. It is not intended to have a "100 % "FAQ section here and not 100 % quality (that means a thread can appear e.g. twice etc. in one section).