Activating LOG_EHS_CI_2 (Continous Improvement) side effects ?

[r_vanrijn]

Hello,

An external consultant of ours has activated the business function LOG_EHS_CI_2 (Continous Improvement) on our DEV system

(the Enterprise extention EA-PLM was already active since 2014 but we just upgraded to ECC60 EHP7).

That should not have happend without an impact analyse in our Sandbox system. However, now it's done and cannot be reset unless

we make a new system copy of our production system).

Has anyone experieced any negative side-effect of activating LOG_EHS_CI_2 in the "normal" daily transactions (Material master, Sales, Shipping, etc.

or are there no known risks with this activation)?

FYI. We are at the beginning of implementing EH&S and sofar no materials have been assigned a DG indicator profile.

Kind regards,

Ruud van Rijn

[Mark-Pfister · Accepted solution]

Hello Ruud,

R. van Rijn wrote:


Has anyone experieced any negative side-effect of activating LOG_EHS_CI_2 in the "normal" daily transactions (Material master, Sales, Shipping, etc.
or are there no known risks with this activation)?

No I have not experienced negative side effects.

And I would think you shouldn't  either since almost all integration points between other modules and EHS needs additional customizing to active them.

Since you are at the beginning of implementing EH&S I would in recommend activating all EHS Switches right from the start, so all of that new functionality is tested during regression tests. Plus you have all the nice features of the switches right from day one.

Kind Regards

Mark

[christoph_bergemann]

Dear Ruud

one hint of "warning". Any business function in EHS related to release equal/lower than EnhPack 5 was "not reversible" (not checked the other coming with higher packges). THerefore there is no approach back ! you can use.

BUt if we talk about a "test/demo/sandbox" etc. system. ACTIVATE ALL Business Functions !! you can only profit here and look for the improvements and options done ba SAP. Here I agree with Mark

C.B.

[satya11719]

Hi Ruud,

Please check these things: It's for Improvement in following areas,

Occupational Health (New)

Product Safety (New)

Substance Volume Tracking (New)

Please activate for DG management continuous improvement : LOG_EHS_DG_CI_3

As of SAP enhancement package 6 for SAP ERP 6.0 (EA-APPL 606), business function EHS - Continuous Improvements for Dangerous Goods Management (LOG_EHS_DG_CI_3), the following new functions are available in the Dangerous Goods Management component:

The previously used dangerous goods indicators predefined by the system are replaced with indicators for transport in the product release and in the  dangerous goods supplement in delivery and shipment. You can specify the indicators for transport in Customizing and assign dangerous goods regulations:

• In the Customizing activity  Specify Indicators for Transport, you can you specify your own indicators for transport and assign these to the dangerous goods regulations for which you want to use the indicators for transport. This allows you to respond flexibly to new regulatory requirements.
• Using the Customizing activity  Show DG Indicators in DG Supplement, you can display the dangerous goods indicators in addition to the indicators for transport in the dangerous goods supplement for a transitional period.
• The  Indicator for Transport 01 to Indicator for Transport 08 fields have been added to the product release.
• The Indicator for Transport 01 to Indicator for Transport 08 fields have been added to the dangerous goods supplement.
• The dangerous goods check method DG63_CHECK_DG_RELEASE checks the previously used dangerous goods indicator Product Is Released and the new indicator for transport RELEASED.
• In the Customizing activity  Convert Dangerous Goods Indicators Into Indicators for Transport, you can convert the dangerous goods indicators used in the product release into the corresponding indicators for transport for all dangerous goods-relevant materials. How the dangerous goods indicators are assigned to the corresponding indicators for transport is predefined by the system. This means that only those indicators for transport provided in the standard system are taken into account.

Please check the documentation beside the BC sets before activation because some BC sets are irreversible and dependency on other functionalities & effect them.

EH&S Continuous Improvement

Technical Name of Business Function	LOG_EHS_CI_2
Type of Business Function	Enterprise Business Function
Available As Of	SAP Enhancement Package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0
Technical Usage	Central Applications
Application Component	Environment, Health and Safety (EHS)
Directly Dependent Business Function Requiring Activation in Addition	PLM Extension EA-PLM

You use this business function to extend the existing functions in the SAP Environment, Health and Safety component. In addition, the handling of individual functions is simplified, for example, the specification search via the connection of Enterprise Search to the workbench.

Prerequisites

You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:

Type of Component	Component	Is Needed Only for the Following Features
Software component	EA-APPL 605 SAP_APPL 605 SAP_ABA 702

Features

The business function EH&S Continuous Improvement contains the following enhancements for the SAP Environment, Health and Safety component:

Occupational Health

In Occupational Health, you can specify the relevant questionnaires per examination type for each health surveillance protocol.

In the planning cockpit, you can specify using an environment parameter how many entries appear in a list of the last opened appointment calendars. It is still possible in the planning cockpit to specify an internal person as physician for the medical service appointment.

In the planning cockpit, an appointment calendar for planning medical services can be linked to a physician. In planning a service appointment with the appointment calendar, the linked physician is automatically carried over as the practicing physician for the service appointment.

An improved alternative for importing is provided in Medical Service. You can use it to import customer-specific examination results from the laboratory or from an examination device more easily than before.

For more information, see Occupational Health (EHS-HEA).

Product Safety

The standard property tree was enhanced with value assignment types for GHS regulation, EU REACH regulation, and legal regulations for air quality protection.

The navigation options in the detailed structure of the specification workbench were enhanced. Pushbuttons and a context menu are now provided for navigating to the relevant pages. Furthermore, by double-clicking the substance referenced in the header data of the specification, you can now navigate to the substance directly.

When you call report management from the specification workbench, reports with historical or archived status are no longer displayed.

For more information, see Product Safety (EHS-SAF).

Substance Volume Tracking

Substance volume tracking has been extended to include a test function for confirmed quantities. You can display the detailed data for confirmed quantities with a reference to the relevant material documents or production and process orders.

For more information, see Substance Volume Tracking.

Thanks

Satya