Integrated Dangerous Goods Check in Sales and Shipping

Integrated Dangerous Goods Check in Sales and Shipping

This Business Scenario Map shows you how a customer, supplier, and carrier are involved in the dangerous goods transportation process. Checks due to the legal requirements depending on the means and routes of transport are automatically performed at any time in supply chain management. Dangerous goods related data is automatically made available for the delivery note. Road and inland waterway transportation tremcards will be printed to be handed out to the carrier. Dangerous goods information can be exchanged electronically with the carrier in advance.The key benefit is the tight collaboration and the savings in time and therefore money due to faster and legally reliable procedures.
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Value Potentials Business Benefits
Up to 90% reduced time in the classification process* Improved data accuracy
Reduce dangerous goods classification effort
Avoid up to 90%of time for order change at shipment time* Proactive change of means of transport and route after order placement
Up to 100% reduced time in printing dangerous goods data on the delivery note* No paperwork
Dangerous goods data accuracy
Customer
Supplier/Producer
Carrier
Place order for dangerous goods
Check expected delivery of dangerous goods
Create delivery note including dangerous goods data
Maintain or import dangerous goods regulatory data
Classify dangerous goods
Create shipment or, in addition, transportation
Check dangerous goods in shipment and transportation
Create and print tremcard(s)
Exchange electronic dangerous goods data
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* Discussions with Customers
The value potentials shown in this table have been reported by selected SAP customers or independent third parties as referenced herein. However, there is no guarantee that such value potentials can be realized in any particular customer-specific business processes, and SAP does not make any representations and disclaims any liability as to the appropriateness of the referenced value potentials for any specific customer situation.
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Business Benefits Value Potentials
Reduce dangerous goods transportation risks using approved regulatory data Up to 80% reduced risks*
Manage legal changes in advance
Fulfill legal requirements automatically
Automated tremcard generation Up to 100% reduced time for tremcard generation and printing*
Automatic dangerous goods check based on approved regulatory data on time Up to 90 % reduced time for dangerous goods*
 

Integrated Dangerous Goods Check in Sales and Shipping

For dangerous goods transport the supplier and carrier have to fulfill the international and national legal requirements concerning:

  1. Dangerous goods documents
  2. The means of transport, that is, road, rail, inland waterway, air, or sea
  3. Packing requirements

The SAP PLM EH&S solution empowers companies for the full automatic dangerous goods management process through product lifecycle mangement and the whole supply chain.

 

With Dangerous Goods Management the supplier has the following capabilities:

  1. Regulatory data can be maintained for each United Nations number required and each regulation, or imported from certified EH&S content providers via EH&S marketplaces including an update service due to legal changes
  2. Integration of engineering change management allows legal changes to be maintained in advance
  3. Combined dangerous goods classification for each group of products that are classified identically
  4. Materials can be classified just by linking the products to the combined dangerous goods classifications
  5. Dangerous goods checks can be performed in order, delivery, and transportation processes with automatic blocking in cases where the dangerous goods legal requirements are not fulfilled
  6. Non-fulfillment of requirements can be detected early in order processing and corrected before shipping
  7. Automatic creation of delivery notes including dangerous goods data
  8. Automatic generation and printing of transport emergency cards for road and inland waterway transportation in all required languages of transit countries and drivers native language

With Dangerous Goods Management the carrier has the following process benefits:

  1. Getting dangerous goods data electronically in advance
  2. Acquiring approved valid tremcards at time of shipment
  3. Collaborative Internet access to the suppliers dangerous goods and hazardous materials management documents (tremcards, material safety data sheets, hazardous materials label, standard operating procedures)

 

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