Product tour for SAP S/4HANA for product compliance

Define and manage compliance information and product composition for new and existing products.

Review marketable regions and initiate a request to the product steward for missing assessments.

The product steward is automatically informed of the request and can manage pending tasks in the worklist.

Assign appropriate compliance purposes to the product based on target markets. The system automatically links relevant compliance requirements to the product for assessment.

Trigger the product marketability assessment. The system then compares the product composition against regulated-substance lists defined in the compliance requirements and present the result.

Check product marketability in target markets and approve sales once compliance requirements are met.

Confirm that the product can be sold in the requested market.

Assign appropriate transport purposes to the product based on logistics requirements.

The dangerous goods expert uses the worklist to review and manage classification tasks for unpackaged products.

Classify unpackaged products as dangerous goods and assign the correct UN number (the United Nations hazard classification identifier).

Automatically generate dangerous goods information and descriptions based on the assigned UN number and embedded regulatory content.

Classify packaged products by specifying the packaging and enclosure variant.

Review system-generated dangerous goods classifications, including transport permissions, descriptions, markings, labels, and placards.

Gain insights into permitted regions and modes of transport for dangerous goods globally.

Identify missing safety data sheets required for the target markets.

Review regulatory requirements for safety data sheets based on product composition and market.

Check whether required data has been maintained to generate the necessary safety data sheets and release the data.

Generate the safety data sheets required to sell the product in the target markets.

Review and release the generated safety data sheets for the product.

Verify the availability of the safety data sheets for products and markets.

The sales representative creates a sales order containing compliance-relevant products.

The system automatically runs a compliance check and blocks the noncompliant sales order due to a missing marketability assessment, displaying warnings for missing safety data sheets and transport restrictions.

The product steward is automatically informed about the missing marketability assessment and documentation for the sales order.

The product steward assigns relevant compliance purposes to the product, triggers an automatic assessment, attaches the required safety data sheet, and approves the sale.

The sales representative confirms that the sales order is no longer blocked.

The sales representative reviews the dangerous goods transport restriction, sees that air transport is forbidden but that international maritime transport is allowed, and saves the sales order.

The system automatically creates a freight unit based on the sales order.

The transportation planner lists the transportation mode as “sea” and creates freight orders and bookings. Transport is allowed without warnings. A mixed-loading check is automatically performed if more products are included.

The transportation planner reviews the required dangerous good documents, which are automatically generated by the system.

The transportation planner creates the outbound delivery and hands it over to the shipping specialist.

The shipping specialist reviews the delivery note, with dangerous goods data automatically populated by the system.

The product steward can monitor the shipping status of the required safety data sheet to the customer.