SAP ABAP IMG Activity EHS_GLM_LABTEMP_PRE (Create Label Templates)
Hierarchy
☛ EA-APPL (Software Component) SAP Enterprise Extension PLM, SCM, Financials
   ⤷ EHS-SAF (Application Component) Product Safety
     ⤷ CBGLM (Package) EHS: Global Label Management
IMG Activity
ID EHS_GLM_LABTEMP_PRE Create Label Templates  
Transaction Code S_EEI_69000076   (empty) 
Created on 20120809    
Customizing Attributes EHS_GLM_LABTEMP_PRE   Create Label Templates 
Customizing Activity    
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name EHS_GLM_LABTEMP_PRE    

Use

In Global Label Management, you can create labels for various business processes or purposes. In this way, for example, you can generate product labels for production or shipping labels for goods issues.

Depending on the type and use of the labels, you need to pay attention to the following settings when creating the label template:

  • Label size: Depends on where the label is to be attached. Hence, a product label is restricted by the size of the product. The label size therefore determines the size of the label template.
  • Label stock size: Labels are usually printed on sheets or roles of carrying paper. The label stock size defines how many labels can be printed on the carrying paper.

    In Global Label Management, label stocks up to a size of 55.8 x 55.8 cm can be used. The label template must therefore be tailored to the label stock size.

  • Label determination: When labels are determined, the label category determines what is evaluated; for example, the customer assignment, dangerous goods relevance, or number of hazard pictograms. For these parameter values and symbols that are to be output, the corresponding report symbols must be specified on the label template.
  • Template creation: For determining the data on the label, report symbols that output variable data are positioned on the label template. This means that the size and length of this data can vary from label to label. This data includes numbers, texts, graphics, and bar codes. In addition, static data such as dashes, texts, or graphics that do not vary in size can be positioned on the label template.

The settings for the label template affect label determination and label generation.

Requirements

Labels are created, generated, and managed in report management. Report management uses Windows Wordprocessor Integration (WWI) for creating the label templates.

In the Customizing activity Prerequisites for Global Label Management, you have maintained the settings described in the Windows Wordprocessor Integration (WWI) section.

Standard settings

Activities

For creating label templates in report template creation, the following settings are required:

Label Template

  1. Customizing activity Specify Report Categories

    Specify the report categories that you want to process as label categories in Global Label Management.

  2. Specify Label Categories
    • Configure the label categories that you have created in the Customizing activity Specify Report Categories. This is necessary since label determination takes into account only those labels for which a configured label category has been specified here.
    • Label categories are shipped with the standard system. If necessary, check the defined settings that affect label determination. You can also maintain your own label categories that you have previously created as report categories.
  3. Customizing activity GHS/Dangerous Goods: Define Phrase Assignment

    If you have selected the GHS Pictogram Suppression checkbox in the Customizing activity Specify Label Categories, you need to assign the relevant phrase for the GHS pictogram to the danger label. In this way, the GHS pictogram is suppressed if a danger label is already output on the label.

  4. Customizing activity Specify Label Sizes

    Create all label sizes for the label templates.

  5. Customizing activity Specify Size of Label Stock

    Create all label stock sizes for the label templates.

Carry out the following Customizing activities if you want to use bar codes and/or sequence numbers when editing the label template:

  1. Customizing activity Define Sequential Numbering
    • Sequence numbers are output using report symbols. The standard system provides 10 report symbols for sequential numbering, which you can use to output sequence numbers as text or as a bar code.
    • If you want to output sequence numbers on a label template, you need to configure the relevant report symbols in this Customizing activity.
  2. Customizing activity Specify Parameters for Bar Codes and Sequence Numbers
    • For bar codes and sequence numbers, parameters are defined that affect the output and display of the values as a bar code or sequence number. For bar codes and sequence numbers, specify a parameter if the content of this parameter is the same for both output formats. This means that no distinction is made here between the two output formats. You can use the PREFIX and POSTFIX parameters for bar codes and sequence numbers, for example.
    • The standard system provides parameters that are used for configuring the bar codes and sequence numbers.
    • In the Customizing activity Specify Bar Code Types, assign the parameters for bar codes to the bar code types. The parameters for sequence numbers are stored in table TCGLABSQNPAR and cannot be changed.
  3. Customizing activity Specify Bar Code Types
    • Assign the specified parameters to the bar code types in the Customizing activity Specify Parameters for Bar Codes and Sequence Numbers.
    • The assigned parameters depend on the bar code library used. Multiple bar code types are shipped with the standard system. Use these bar code types as a copy template.

Specify Secondary Value Determination for Report Symbols (Optional Setting)

In Global Label Management, the system can derive values for other report symbols from report symbol values and other defined data. This step is referred to as secondary value determination. The following settings are required for secondary value determination in Global Label Management:

  1. Create the parameter symbol for which secondary value determination is to be executed, in Customizing for Environment, Health and Safety under Basic Data and Tools -> Report Definition -> Report Symbols -> Check and Specify Report Symbols.
  2. Customizing activity Specify Secondary Value Determination for Report Symbols:

    If you want to process the result of data determination using the parameter symbol, you can specify a function module and concatenation rules for the parameter symbol, which are used to process the parameter symbol.

Authorization Required to Create and Use Building Blocks

If the creator of the label templates is to create or use building blocks, you must modify the following roles:

  • Specialist for Creating Report Templates: Creates the report templates, including the label templates, and the building blocks and completes the following tasks:
    • Processes the report templates and label templates, as well as the cover sheet templates and acknowledgements of receipt.
    • Creates and edits building blocks, which can be added to templates by other processors
  • Report Template Creator: Uses building blocks to create report templates and label templates, thereby completing the following tasks:
    • Processes the report templates and label templates, as well as the cover sheet templates and acknowledgements of receipt.
    • Adds building blocks to the templates that are created and modified by the specialist for creating report templates

If the user is to process building blocks while creating label templates, you must assign authorization object C_EHSR_TPL (EHS: Authorizations for Editing Report Templates).

Create the required roles in the system and assign these roles to the users. The following roles for Global Label Management are available in the standard system and can be used as a copy template for your own roles.

  • Specialist for creating report templates (SAP_EHS_RDF_TEMPLATE_EXPERT)
    • Unrestricted authorization to authorization object C_EHSR_TPL
  • Report template creator (SAP_EHS_RDF_TEMPLATE)
    • Restricted authorization to authorization object C_EHSR_TPL: Authorization to add building blocks to the template

Because report templates, label templates, and building blocks as saved as documents in document management, the roles must also contain authorization for document management. This means that the following authorization objects must be assigned to the roles:

This authorizations apply to all document types.

  • Cover Sheet Template (DBV)
  • Acknowledgment of Receipt Template (EBV)
  • Substance Report Template (SBV)

Example

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 105   Define functions and processes 
Mandatory / Optional 2   Optional activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 2   Non-critical 
Country-Dependency A   Valid for all countries 
Assigned Application Components
Documentation Object Class Documentation Object Name Current line number Application Component Application Component Name
SIMG EHS_GLM_LABTEMP_PRE 0 EE50000013 A ALR0000062  
Maintenance Objects
Maintenance object type    
History
Last changed by/on SAP  20121205 
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