Substance Volume Tracking (4OL)

Substance Volume Tracking (4OL)

With this scope item, you can enable substance volume tracking of confirmed quantities from purchasing, manufacturing, and sales. Substance volume tracking helps you comply with chemical regulations. These regulations require you to track and monitor the volumes of regulated substances that you import into, produce, or export to a country or region within a certain period. Substance volume tracking is integrated with the logistic processes for purchasing, manufacturing, and sales and tracks, calculates, aggregates, and monitors the imported, produced, and exported substance volumes that result from the processes.

Key Process Steps Covered

  • Create mappings of plants to legal entities
  • Procure stock materials
    • Create a purchase requisition to a purchase order
    • Convert a purchase requisition to a purchase order
    • Post material movements for goods receipt
  • Process manufacturing based on a process order
    • Create a process order
    • Confirm a process order
    • Post material movements for goods issue and goods receipt
  • Process sales orders
    • Create a sales order
    • Add a market assessment (optional)
    • Post material movements for goods issue
  • Perform substance volume tracking in background
  • Monitor substance volumes
    • Check substance volume tracking status
    • Trace aggregated substance volumes back to the logistics document from which the substance volumes originate

Benefits

  • Integrate with the logistic processes of purchasing, manufacturing, and sales
  • Enable tracking, calculation, and aggregation of volumes of imported, produced, and exported substances on a legal entity level and based on the relevant compliance requirements and tracking period
  • Simplify the comparison between the aggregated substance volumes and the thresholds in the relevant compliance requirements by calculating a substance volume tracking status
  • Support monitoring of substance volumes tracing back to the respective logistics document via an SAP Fiori app

Additional Information

  • This scope item requires an additional SAP S/4HANA Cloud license

Where is Substance Volume Tracking(4OL) being used?

This Scope item is used in the following way:

  • As a support function of Product Compliance within R&D/Engineering Scope Item Group

Process flow of Substance Volume Tracking (4OL)

Find below the process flow of the scope item Substance Volume Tracking as it is defined for release s4hc-2111.


Download Process Flow of Best Practice scenario Substance Volume Tracking (4OL) - S/4HANA Cloud
Ref: R&D/Engineering of SAP S4HC-2111
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