SAP ABAP IMG Activity EHS_GLM_PREREQU (Prerequisites for Global Label Management)
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_PREREQU Prerequisites for Global Label Management  
Transaction Code S_EEI_69000042   (empty) 
Created on 20120619    
Customizing Attributes EHS_GLM_PREREQU   Prerequisites for Global Label Management 
Customizing Activity    
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name EHS_GLM_PREREQU    

Use

Labels and print requests of labels are managed and processed in Global Label Management. This process is integrated into various business processes in logistics and represents an output result of these business processes. For example, a label with shipping information is printed in addition to the delivery note in the delivery business process.

Labels can be generated manually using labeling scenarios or automatically via integration in a business process (the release of a process order, for example).

The settings that need to be configured in other SAP components before Global Label Management is configured are grouped together in this Customizing activity.

Requirements

Product Safety

Specification management forms the basis for this. Specifications that contain at least header data (Specification Header tab page in the specification workbench) are required for label generation.

  • In Customizing for Environment, Health and Safety, you have configured specification management under Basic Data and Tools -> Specification Management and have created the Specification Master. The specification master must contain at least the specification header.

    If data from the Product Safety component is required, the specification must be filled with specification data.

  • You have defined the required report templates and report generation variants for labels.

    The report generation variants control which data is output, with which report template, and in which language, and are therefore a central part of label determination. A distinction is made between the following types of label determination:

  • You have created and configured the report symbols in Customizing for Environment, Health and Safety under Basic Data and Tools -> Report Definition -> Report Symbols.

Materials Management

During label determination, Global Label Management first checks the label data stored in the material master. You must create the Label Data view in the material master.

For more information about creating this view, see the Customizing activity Edit Label Data in Material Master.

The settings for material management cannot be used for samples (labeling scenario SAMPLE).

Logistics Execution and Production

Most of the labels printed in Global Label Management are required in logistics execution or production. Therefore, the following values must be defined in Sales and Distribution (SD) and Production Planning and Control (PP):

  • Plant: Used during determination of country and mode of transport. The entry is relevant in labeling scenarios that are based on production.
  • Route: Used during determination of country and mode of transport. The entry is relevant in labeling scenarios that are based on shipping.
  • Resource/Work Center: Used during determination of print destination. The entry is relevant in labeling scenarios that are based on production.
  • Shipping Point: Used during determination of print destination. The entry is relevant in labeling scenarios that are based on shipping.

These values influence label determination and determination of the print destination (see Customizing for Environment, Health and Safety under Global Label Management -> Specify Labeling Scenarios for Label Printing -> Specify Print Destination).

Dangerous Goods Management

Dangerous goods master data can be output on labels. The following settings in the Dangerous Goods Management component are required for this:

  • You have configured the basic data and master data for the dangerous goods regulations in Customizing for Environment, Health and Safety under Dangerous Goods Management -> Basic Data and Master Data.
  • You have configured the dangerous goods master in Customizing for Environment, Health and Safety under Dangerous Goods Management -> Interfaces: Filling and Distribution. The dangerous goods master is filled.

Dangerous goods labels are determined in Global Label Management based on the dangerous goods regulations. The following settings are required for this:

  • Customizing activity Specify Validity Area Categories

    If you want to determine labels for particular dangerous goods regulations, the validity area category DGREGION must be created. This validity area is shipped with the standard system.

  • Customizing activity Specify Validity Areas
    • The validity areas are used as filter criteria in the report generation variants that are relevant for labeling. This means that the labels are determined using the report generation variants.
    • The validity areas must have the prefix DG. For example, the validity area DGADR is specified for the regulation ADR.
    • You have assigned the validity area category DGREGION to the corresponding validity areas.

Labels that must contain danger label graphics must be printed on label stock with a preprinted colored background. The system must propose a suitable label stock. The following settings are required for this:

  • Customizing activity Specify Transport Symbol Groups
    • Transport symbol groups identify label stocks with a preprinted, color background so that they can be used for printing the respective danger label graphics.
    • You have created the necessary transport symbol groups.
  • Customizing activity Specify Danger Labels

    In order for the danger label graphics to be printed on suitable label stock, the respective transport symbol groups must be assigned to the danger labels.

  • Transaction Edit Label Stock

    For label output on a preprinted colored background, the label stock is determined using the transport symbol groups. You must have assigned the respective transport symbol groups to the label stocks on which the danger label graphics are to be printed.

  • To print the danger labels as graphics on the labels, you have to save the graphics on all WWI servers configured for Global Label Management and assign the graphics files to the respective danger labels in the Customizing activity Specify Danger Labels.

Report Management and Report Information System

The labels for Global Label Management are created, generated, and managed in report management and the report information system. The following settings are required for this:

  • You have created and configured the report definition in Customizing for Environment, Health and Safety under Basic Data and Tools -> Report Definition.
  • You have configured report management in Customizing for Environment, Health and Safety under Product Safety -> Report Management.
  • Customizing activity Specify Report Applications in Customizing for Environment, Health and Safety under Product Safety.
    • The report application Label Stock (LABELSTOCK) must be created. This report application is shipped with the standard system.
    • The report application controls the display of labels in report management and in the report information system.
  • Customizing activity Specify Report Categories in Customizing for Environment, Health and Safety under Product Safety.
    • You must specify a report category for Global Label Management. In the Customizing activity Specify Label Categories, you then specify which report categories are to be used as label categories.
    • The label categories and the properties you assign to the label categories in the Customizing activity Specify Label Categories influence label determination.

Windows Wordprocessor Integration (WWI)

Additional WWI servers (generation PCs) are required for label generation (report body generation). You need to install different servers depending on the print output selected in the Customizing activity Define Print Scenarios (see Customizing for Environment, Health and Safety under Global Label Management -> Specify Labeling Scenarios for Label Printing -> Define Print Scenarios).

  • Customizing activity Install Generation PC in Customizing for Environment, Health and Safety under Report Definition.

    You have set up a central PC or server for creating report bodies with WWI.

  • Customizing activity Set Up WWI in Customizing for Environment, Health and Safety under Report Definition.

    You have set up the work centers for processing report templates.

Standard settings

Activities

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_PREREQU 0 EE50000013 Global Label Management 
Maintenance Objects
Maintenance object type    
History
Last changed by/on SAP  20120619 
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