Product Safety & Stewardship: SVT Extensibilities

[former_member840514]

Dear Gurus：

I am helping my customer to implement some new regulations and requirement recently, the customer is the first and only customer adopting our PS&S solution in China right now.

In 2021 they implemented basic functions like REACH, and this year they initialed another project to optimize old functionalities and implement some new regulations.

The system version they are using is S4/HANA OP.

They have some requirements seem to be hard to fulfill, so I wonder if you could give me some ideas or help.

Detailed requirements are as follows:

（1）For different regulations they have different restrictions on impurities:

DSL(Canada) & AIIC(Australia): impurities can be exempted no matter how much the concentration is.

IESCS (China): the concentration of single impurity less than 10% and the overall concentration of all impurities in one composition less than 20% can be exempted.

REACH: the concentration of single impurity less than 1% and the overall concentration of all impurities in one composition less than 20% can be exempted.

KECI(South Korea): the overall concentration of all impurities in one composition less than 20% can be exempted.(They don't have restrictions on single impurity's concentration)

Anyway, my ideal solution is to create a Impurities Management customer table which user can maintain all the restrictions there, but where can I enhance those logic into the expert rule? I mean the notification status of the real substance is determined by the expert rule using all the data in its composition. What is the specific user exit I can make use to fulfill this solution?

(2) SVT control by a group of companies.

For some company, they register the quantities using one company code, but they have a lot of other company codes to sell the products, and the SVT monitor&control should be based on the group of the company codes, not a single one. (My understanding of SVT so far is all the SVT data is aggregated using company code, and the error messages in sales order, the data is also aggregated by company code)

My solution is to create a table mapping the register company code and other company codes who are going to consume those quantities, so please tell me the user exit I can use to fulfill this requirement or is there any standard functions I just missed.

(3) China REACH

For China REACH, the quantities should be monitor&tracked based on the supplier, so I can create a table for customer to maintain the supplier monitor quantities, but is there any chance I can show the data divided by supplier in SVT report and also using the data to control the purchase order?

Look forward to your replies.

Thanks in advance.

[christoph_bergemann]

Hello

regarding

（1）For different regulations they have different restrictions on impurities:

You should not go on with your proposal/Ideas (from my point of view: they will not help you on long term). "impurities" should be handled as part of the "composition" maintenance. How this achieved depends on the company acting. Some companies are using "rulesets" to support this demand. OVerall: you can find a solution but it is 100% customer specific and therefore nobody can really help (i would assume)

regarding

(2) SVT control by a group of companies.

You use (from my perspective) the "wrong" approach. SVT is designed to control if or if not a threshold limit is exceeded by company code and tracked substance

in SAP MM/PP/SD: the process is based on "company code". There is no "user exit" you can use (not that i could list here an "exit" to be used); but there are many other options to handle the demand. The problem is: what should be achieved?

Example: CAS number x is "tracked" with company code A; CAS number X is as well tracked by company code "B"; registration is done by company code e.g. A. So the "monitored" values of company code B need to be added to the amount of A.

Using SAP transaction CBRc20 you will see this: The "color" (green, yellow etc. = threshold limit is exceeded) is calculated by "regulation" / "Company code" and "tracked substance". Here you can use own coding to change that. BUt here you can just "add" all the values together (if you are not interested in the "green", "Yellow" etc. color). As this (CBRC20) is an ALV view: this is easy to do here.

But i am not sure if this solution will really fit the demand

regarding:

(3) China REACH

For China REACH, the quantities should be monitor&tracked based on the supplier, so I can create a table for customer to maintain the supplier monitor quantities, but is there any chance I can show the data divided by supplier in SVT report and also using the data to control the purchase order?

the "problem" is the definition: who is the "Supplier". in SAP MM you use (from SVT perspective) two important roles. The supplier and the goods supplier. SVT internally you need frist to define: which of both is "relevant" (there is a core customizing to do so).

By using "clever" tricks (and extend a lot SVT) you can get the wished result. I am not allowed to share the "clever" tricks. But it is possible but huge development.

C.B.

[former_member840514]

Thanks C.B! Your answer is so informative and helpful.

Next week our ABAP guy will join and we are going to figure out all the possible ways to fulfill those requirements.

[christoph_bergemann]

Hello

regarding your topic

"(2) SVT control by a group of companies.

For some company, they register the quantities using one company code, but they have a lot of other company codes to sell the products, and the SVT monitor&control should be based on the group of the company codes, not a single one. (My understanding of SVT so far is all the SVT data is aggregated using company code, and the error messages in sales order, the data is also aggregated by company code)

My solution is to create a table mapping the register company code and other company codes who are going to consume those quantities, so please tell me the user exit I can use to fulfill this requirement or is there any standard functions I just missed."

Some potential hints: for the "IMP" and "EXP" scenario you could try to use the "OR" part of SVT to solve the demand; but for "PRO" or "CON" scenario this will not help.

But yes you can use the SAP EHS SVT standard and "exchange" some function modules (you can take the "SAP" original one and set up a "copy" with your logic.

And here you can use your "map" idea.

BUT you need then to accept that you can not "direct" link the SAP MM, SD, PP process to SVT. So if there a a question (why was this amount tracked etc.): this will not be easy to answser using CBRC20 only.

With best regards

C.B.

[christoph_bergemann]

Dear Lucas

i would be interested in the feedback of 3E. May be you can share the feedback here on "high level".

But as explained. you need to get in touch with a legal expert for the regulations of your intereste. For REACH: i am not aware of any option to exclude "impurities (but i am not an legal expert); for Canada: yes you can exclude "impurtities" (to my knowledge)

C.B.

[former_member840514]

Hi C.B:

After contacting with 3E，we are thrilled to know the standard expert rule already covered those logic of impurities management.

My customer provides the limitation of impurities under some regulations:

So for the white/black list type regulations we can rely on standard expert rule, but for the REACH like regulations we still have to enhance a little bit. Take REACH for example:

（1）If the overall impurities concentration is above 20%, all impurities' SVT should be performed.

（2）If the overall impurities concentration is under 20%, the single impurity whose concentration is under 1% should be exempted.(Excluded from SVT） whereas the single impurity whose concentration is above 1% still needs to track its substance volume.

(All the logics are demonstrated by customers' legal expert)

Best Regards!

Lucas

[christoph_bergemann]

Hello

regarding your topic:

Anyway, my ideal solution is to create a Impurities Management customer table which user can maintain all the restrictions there, but where can I enhance those logic into the expert rule?

I mean the notification status of the real substance is determined by the expert rule using all the data in its composition. What is the specific user exit I can make use to fulfill this solution?

May be somt hints here

We have the following options: you buy "expert rules" or you create them by your own.

If you use SAP standard: I am not aware of a "good" option to make a link a "customer specific" table (your topic of "user exit").

From sequence point of view: first you must define a "composition". If needed you can use additional "expert rule" to optimize the "composition"

The "Notification Status" as such is based on many data in the property tree (e.g. is there a "restriction" yes or no); but the starting point is the "Composition" (whatever composition you define).

But if you have prepared a robust data model: it is clear, that by using some expert rules, you can derive whatever kind of "Notification Status".

As "legal regulations" change... and providers sometimes react on such changes.. may be get in touch with 3E/Verisk to ask if they plan to deliver a "expert rule" as part of their services to fulfill the legal demand as listed by you. if they provide: than you avoid to generate your own rule and you can use "Best practise" procedures in your EHS environment.

C.B.

[former_member840514]

Thanks C.B!

We actually got in touch with 3E last week and have still been waiting for their response, hopefully they could provide some help.

[christoph_bergemann]

Hello

you should not wait for an "ABAPer", for some of the user demand: i can only provide feedback (as an example): the topic of "impurity" and REACH is not correct. It is not "simply" allowed to ignore impurities (according to my knowledge)

Here the company acting should really discuss with a legal expert.

For South Korea: the same is true. Situation is different for "CA". For "AU" and "CN": i am not aware of any option to ignore "impurities" (but i am not a legal expert).

In most of the regulations you have listed: we can ignore the "sell" process. Most of the regulations are looking on "import" and production only. So i have some doubts as well regarding the "group of company" idea.

But we need to differentiate the SAP topic from the legal topic. The SVT process is designed to be very flexible to support many kind of demands. But yes: the "China" demand is quite tricky to solve.

C.B.