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2.8.3 Product Safety and Stewardship
2.8.3.1 Product Compliance for Discrete Industries 2.8.3.1.1 Recycling Administration
Business Background
In many countries, environmental law obliges companies to provide certification to account for the packaging materials produced and the number of finished products manufactured and brought to the market, and to collect and dispose of these materials and products at the end of the product life cycle. These kinds of regulations, along with an increased public awareness of environmental issues, provides companies today with new challenges. In addition to the standard manufacture and sale of products, companies are often now responsible for the correct disposal and recycling of their waste products. Most companies absolve themselves of the duty to perform these tasks themselves by collaborating with recycling partners such as the German Duales System Deutschland (DSD), who provide a general collection system in return for a license fee. Other examples include Eco Emballages (France), Conai (Italia), Elektro Recycling Austria (ERA, Austria), Stiftung Elektro-Altgeräte Register (EAR,
Germany), and GRS Batterien (Germany). The recycling partners organize the collection, sorting, processing, and recycling of the waste packaging.
The focus of the recycling administration features is the item-based or weight-based fee calculation for specific materials, as well as end-to-end transparency and implementation of the legal reporting requirements to environmental authorities.
Key Features
The following features are available:
Table 58:
Key Feature Use
Determination of the most price-effective recycling partner
This feature provides functions to analyze the data material (for example, condition and price analyses), which you can use to compare the performance of different recycling part
ners.
Key Feature Use Automatic generation of forms for the selected recycling partner
This feature allows you to issue the data to be declared either electronically in the form of data medium exchange (DME) or on paper as a form. For the declaration, the system first generates a document that is posted in the declaration system. You can then generate the required documents from this document in accordance with the requirements of the recy
cling partners.
Certified verification This feature fulfills country-specific reporting requirements. In your periodical declaration, you state the information and totals for all declared articles as a quantity flow in the period under consideration. This feature enables a certified verification at the level of individual documents and items.
Use of existing material informa
tion
This feature allows you to access existing material master data and to enhance it. This al
lows for optimal integration with other features. Using individually configurable interfaces, you can import data from third-party systems and process it further with declaration and analysis functions.
Automatic determination of quantity flow
For generating declarations, recycling administration features automatically obtain impor
tant information from the sales and materials management areas.
Cost control and controlling with sales, finance, and controlling features
Recycling administration features are fully integrated with the following features: In the fi
nance area, you enter a recycling partner as a supplier. In the controlling area, a budget is generated for settlement with recycling partners on the basis of the data processed with recycling administration features. Using sales features, you can evaluate the correspond
ing billing documents.
2.8.3.2 Product and Chemical Compliance for Process Industries
2.8.3.2.1 Recycling Administration
Business Background
In many countries, environmental law obliges companies to provide certification to account for the packaging materials produced and the number of finished products manufactured and brought to the market, and to collect and dispose of these materials and products at the end of the product life cycle. These kinds of regulations, along with an increased public awareness of environmental issues, provides companies today with new challenges. In addition to the standard manufacture and sale of products, companies are often now responsible for the correct disposal and recycling of their waste products. Most companies absolve themselves of the duty to perform these tasks themselves by collaborating with recycling partners such as the German Duales System Deutschland (DSD), who provide a general collection system in return for a license fee. Other examples include Eco Emballages (France), Conai (Italia), Elektro Recycling Austria (ERA, Austria), Stiftung Elektro-Altgeräte Register (EAR,
Germany), and GRS Batterien (Germany). The recycling partners organize the collection, sorting, processing, and recycling of the waste packaging.
The focus of the recycling administration features is the item-based or weight-based fee calculation for specific materials, as well as end-to-end transparency and implementation of the legal reporting requirements to environmental authorities.
This feature provides functions to analyze the data material (for example, condition and price analyses), which you can use to compare the performance of different recycling part
ners.
Automatic generation of forms for the selected recycling partner
This feature allows you to issue the data to be declared either electronically in the form of data medium exchange (DME) or on paper as a form. For the declaration, the system first generates a document that is posted in the declaration system. You can then generate the required documents from this document in accordance with the requirements of the recy
cling partners.
Certified verification This feature fulfills country-specific reporting requirements. In your periodical declaration, you state the information and totals for all declared articles as a quantity flow in the period under consideration. This feature enables a certified verification at the level of individual documents and items.
Use of existing material informa
tion
This feature allows you to access existing material master data and to enhance it. This al
lows for optimal integration with other features. Using individually configurable interfaces, you can import data from third-party systems and process it further with declaration and analysis functions.
Automatic determination of quantity flow
For generating declarations, recycling administration features automatically obtain impor
tant information from the sales and materials management areas.
Cost control and controlling with sales, finance, and controlling features
Recycling administration features are fully integrated with the following features: In the fi
nance area, you enter a recycling partner as a supplier. In the controlling area, a budget is generated for settlement with recycling partners on the basis of the data processed with recycling administration features. Using sales features, you can evaluate the correspond
ing billing documents.
2.9 Sales
2.9.1 Order and Contract Management 2.9.1.1 Sales Master Data Management
Business Background
Master data represents the business data your company requires about individuals, organizations, materials, services, and prices.
Key Features
The following table explains the key features available:
Table 60:
Key Feature Use
Listing and exclusion You use this feature to control the sale of specific materials to a customer. Your customer can only buy materials included in the material listing assigned to them. The system does not allow you to enter materials that are not included in the material listing in a sales document for a customer.
Customer material info record You use this feature when your customer manages a material with a number that differs from the one that your company uses.