SAP Waste Management: A core
component of SAP Environment,
Health, and Safety
The Waste Management module in SAP Environment, Health, and Safety cen-
tralizes functionality and tasks to improve the comprehensive visibility, logis-
tics, service management, reporting, and compliance in all of your business’s
waste-related concerns.
SAP Environment, Health, and Safety is fully integrated with SAP ERP, so Waste
Management enables you to access and use data from a host of related but
disparate SAP applications, including SAP Materials Management, SAP Quality
Management, SAP Production Planning, SAP Sales and Distribution, and SAP
Controlling and Finance. Consequently, the business processes that are
enabled by this sophisticated integration run enterprise-wide.
You can organize and manage data for approval manifests and waste disposal
sites, to say nothing of all of your waste master data, including waste types,
amounts, and locations. Procedural processing, invoicing, and cost control,
too, can all be executed under the auspices of this module, as can any task
related to producing reports and documentation.
The ability to automatically produce documents and reports on demand via
pre-established templates and rules is a real boon, since the amount and types
of documents and reports that regulators demand you use to track waste and
comply with standards are astronomical. Your material master data, for exam-
ple, must provide a detailed description of your waste, including its physical
and chemical properties, any other specific properties, toxicological data,
safety data, and associated dangerous goods data. Your waste manifests must
be equally detailed. They need to specify the type and quantity of your waste,
statistical analyses of it, consignment notes, transportation notes and trans-
port emergency cards (tremcards), MSDSs, and BDSs. As well, you must list
the name and location of your disposal partner, and the costs associated with
the disposal. Invoices must also be produced. The list goes on. In short, the
complications related to managing your organization’s waste are enough to
merit a business in its own right.
Before you can build any of the aforementioned documents and reports, you
must first have clearly classified your waste. Depending on the concentration
of hazardous substances in it, waste can be hazardous or non-hazardous. The
Waste Management module of SAP EH&S simplifies and automates this classi-
fication with a tool designed for the automated derivation of data-using rules.
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