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OBJECTIVE AND SCOPE


Objective of this Procedure

This document's objective is to provide a guide to ZPRC, ZMAT (raw and manufactured), ZVER, ZERS, ZUNB material master data management for GBU Technology Solutions.

Material Master Data management process includes creation and modification of the material, its inactivation and flagging for deletion, and reactivation if needed, as well as mass modification.

Creation of Basic Data, Classification, Sales, Foreign Trade, Purchasing, General Plant Storage, Warehouse Management and Label Data Views will be presented in this procedure. Management of MRP, Work Scheduling, Quality Management, Accounting and Costing Views is being performed by Process Teams. Accounting and Costing views are created by Riga Data Operations when extending materials to Trading Plants. For Sample codes Riga Data Operations is creating all necessary views.

Requests of Composite Materials Material Master creation or maintenance should be submitted via Sharepoint platform which will send out an automatic FreshDesk ticket to Data Team within which the material maintenance should be done.

The referral lists mentioned in this procedure, such as Material Groups, Purchasing Groups and Profit Center List are embedded in Sharepoint platform already.

Scope

Under Riga Data Operations scope is the management of ZPRC, ZMAT (raw and manufactured), ZVER, ZERS, ZBOM, ZUNB and PIR Material master data management for GBU Composite Materials (Legacy Cytec organization). Riga Data Operations can create and extend ZDIE materials if requested so by Finance.

Material Type

Description

Division

ZPRC

Commercial Products

N/A

ZMAT

Finished Goods
Semi-finished Goods
Raw Materials

Multiple
Multiple
KV

ZVER

Packaging

WD

ZUNB

Stocked and non-valuated materials

WD (for packaging)

ZDIE

Services

Multiple

PIR

Purchase Info Record
ZERSIndustrial supplies
ZBOMPhantom assemblies

Abbreviations

Abbr.

Description

Abbr.

Description

RCS

Rhodia Core System

SBS

Solvay Business Services

ZDIE

Service

UoM

Unit of Measure

ZMAT

Finished product, semi-finished product, raw material

HSE

Health, Safety and Environment

ZPRC

Commercial Product

MSDS

Material Safety Data Sheet

ZUNB

Stocked and not valuated material

MRP

Material Resource Planning

ZVER

Packaging

DG

Dangerous goods

DGLData Governance Lead

Roles and responsibilities

ZMAT setup can be performed only once both ZPRC code and MSDS are available.
Prior to submitting a new ZMAT request, it is the requester´s responsibility to ensure the material does not exist in SAP already, so no duplicates are created in the system. If the material was not found, the TS SAP Material request form or Composite Materials Sharepoint must be filled and submitted to Data Operations for material master setup in SAP. A second search in the system is performed by the Data Management team to ensure no duplicates are created.


STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE DESCRIPTION


Creation of material in RCS

Pre-requisites

Prior to material creation in the system search is performed by the Data Operations team to ensure no duplicates are created.

  • Use the transaction MM03 to access display material view

  • Press multiple choice button to receive pop-up window with search options for material master.
  • Click on to open the menu
  • Select the option 'Material Number/Material Description' and/or 'Materials by Commercial Product (PRCOM)'

  • Run a search in Material Description
  • Use Wildcards to best describe
  • Open the material request form, copy the short text from the requested material and run a search in Material description with wildcards.
  • Hit Enter

  • Verify entries found – compare results with the material's "short description" mentioned in the request form. If you have doubts about the material already created, contact the Requester to clarify.
  • If result points to  or if the Requester mentions a new article need to be created then proceed with the creation.


Creation of ZMAT - Manufactured Material

Use MM01 transaction to create material


Main activitiesKey points
Industry SectorAlways choose "Chemical Industry"
Material TypeSelect the material type indicated in the request form
Copy from… MaterialOption to copy data from an existing material can be useful in some cases.
Hit Enter



Main activitiesKey points

Select Views to be created:

  • Basic Data 1 (General data)
  • Basic Data 2 (General data)
  • Classification (General data)
  • Sales organization views 
    • Sales: Sales Org. Data 1
    • Sales: Sales Org. Data 2
  • Plant data views 
    • Sales: General/Plant Data
    • Foreign Trade: Export Data
    • Purchasing
    • General Plant Data Storage 1
    • General Plant Data Storage 2
  • Warehouse level 
    • Warehouse Management 1
    • Warehouse Management 1
  • Label data (General data view)

NOTE! Please notify Michael Wilson and William Weddle for any materials created or extended to plant 8712 and 8636.

NOTE! Warehouse Management 1 & 2 Views to be created and warehouse number added (in brackets) for warehouse managed plants only:
8520 (077), 8521 (054)8636 (039) – by default; 8359 - only if requested.

*Reactor level Materials* need Basic Data 1 & 2, Classification, Sales: General/Plant Data, General Plant Data/Storage 1 & 2.
Sales Org. not to be filled!

*Intermediates* should be created as Finished Products and can be opened to sales organization 1 and 2 views if requested by the product manager.
How to identify: if in the description there is "INTERMEDIATE", however we could have exceptions and they should be confirmed with the Product Manager.

For Trading Plants listed below Classification, Accounting, Costing Views have to be created. Views are completed in the same way as for CMC Samples except the Planning views (MRP 1-4).

  • 8570 (Co. Cd. 7008)
  • 8572 (Co. Cd. 7723)
  • 8575 (Co. Cd. 7752)
  • 8580 (Co. Cd. 7794)
  • 8574 (Co. Cd. 7734)
Hit Enter


Use Default Setting button to save your selections for future creations






Main activitiesKey Points
Fill in Organizational Levels
  • Plant: Fill Plant as indicated in the request form
  • Storage location: Extend to Storage Location when there is only option per plant (Storage location number is the same as plant number). If there is more than one option, leave it blank.
  • Sales Organization and Distribution Channel as indicated in request form.
    • Warehouse: only for specific plants listed above
Hit Enter




Basic data 1



Main activitiesKey points
Material Description

Check the request form for "SHORT DESCRIPTION"

The description should be always in Upper case
40 Characters max.


Base Unit of Measure

Always KG

Material GroupFinished goods, SF goods – 0450
Old Material Number

Populate the BPCS if provided

DivisionCheck the request form
General Item Category GroupAlready pre-filled ZMAT – NORM
Gross Weight

Proportion of Gross weight to Net weight (Net = 1)

e.g. 25 KG Gross and 20 KG Net => 1.25 Gross and 1 Net in SAP

Net Weight

Always 1

UoM for WeightAlways KG
VolumeCheck the request form
If blank in the form, leave the field blank
UoM for Volume

Entered only when Volume provided

Always CD3

Matl Grp Pack.Matls (Packaging Group)

Check the request form

0005 - for packed materials
0001 - for Bulk and Reactor level

Go to Basic Data Text tab by pressing Basic Data Text button

Basic data text tab can be accessed by pressing Additional Data button in the top part of screen as well. Tabs in Additional Data can be filled in any sequence.






Basic data text



Main activitiesKey points
Basic data text 

Enter Basic data text – description from ZPRC code

Use  button to add languages. Copy English text to all other languages:

12 mandatory languages are:
1 – Chinese (EN!)
E – English
F – French
D – German
I – Italian
J – Japanese
3 – Korean
L – Polish
P – Portuguese
S – Spanish
& – Brazilian Portuguese
N – Dutch

Go to Descriptions tabFrom Basic Data View Descriptions tab can be accessed by pressing Additional Data button in the top part of screen as well. Tabs in Additional Data can be filled in any sequence.






Descriptions



Main activitiesKey points

Material descriptions in local languages


12 mandatory languages are:
EN – English
Z9 – Brazilian Portuguese
ZH – Chinese
KO – Korean
DE – German
FR – French
IT – Italian
JA – Japanese
PL – Polish
PT – Portuguese
ES – Spanish
NL – Dutch

Go to Units of measure tabFrom Basic Data View Units of Measure tab can be accessed by pressing Additional Data button in the top part of screen as well. Tabs in Additional Data can be filled in any sequence.






Units of measure



Main activitiesKey points

Enter Alternate Units of Measure conversions

Fixed conversion 11023 LB <-> 5000 KG

Enter conversion of Stock keeping UoM to Base UoMCheck the request form
Enter quantity of Stock keeping UoM in Pallet

Check the request form

Use fields for Lower-level Unit entry to indicate number of packages in Pallet at the very end of the line.
NOTE! Do not enter a PAL UOM for Totes (IBC) or when not provided (special cases for Cylinders and Big Bag as sometimes they do not require pallet).

Enter any additional conversion if requestedCheck the request form
Return to Main Data






Inspection text



Main activitiesKey points
Inspection text

If in the material form the transportation group is Isothermal:

0002 Isothermal pack
0006 Isothermal bulk
0013 Isotherm.Liq.Haz.Pac
0016 Isothermal Liq. Bulk

The inspection interval must be provided by the Product Manager and added to the material master

12 mandatory languages are: 
EN – English 
Z9 – Brazilian Portuguese 
ZH – Chinese 
KO – Korean 
DE – German 
FR – French 
IT – Italian 
JA – Japanese 
PL – Polish 
PT – Portuguese 
ES – Spanish
NL – Dutch

Additional information

The statement the protect from freeze information is taken from Sec 7 of the SDS:

Return to Main Data






Basic data 2



Main activitiesKey points
Go to Basic data 2 view
Basic material (related ZPRC Code)

Check the Sharepoint request

  • EHS Info tab
  • ZPRC Code field

Dangerous Goods indicator profileZIP (DG Classification in progress) for all materials at the moment of material creation
Tick Environmentally relevantMandatory for all Finished and semi-finished goods
Go to Classification view






Classification - Batch



Main activitiesKey points
Select "Batch" type of Classification
Enter Class

016 – Composite Materials






Classification - Material class




Main activitiesKey points
ClassDefault value - Z_CM_MAT
Copy all the values provided in the form in "Classification" tab

All the green fields in the template are mandatory!


Press Next screen button to move to next selected view


If requester adds new value in the template for classification, we should send to Lisa Wohnlich (lisa.wohnlich@solvay.com) for approval









Sales: sales org. 1




Main activitiesKey points
X-distr.chain statusStatus 63 is to be set at the moment of material creation to allow use of material in operations
Valid from date for X-distr.chain status

Date of creation or extension

Format: DD.MM.YYYY

Delivering Plant

Check the request form

Used for Heanor plant. Check the template.

Maintain Tax classificationsSystem will automatically determine which Countries' tax lines should be added
Always 1 for all countries unless otherwise indicated by Finance or Tax department
Min. order qty.Used for Heanor plant. Check the template.
Delivery unitUsed for Heanor plant. Check the template.
Unit of measure of delivery unitUsed for Heanor plant. Check the template.
Rounding Profile

Used for Heanor plant.

When delivery unit is populated - Default value Z000

Go to Sales: sales org. 2 view








Sales: sales org. 2




Main activitiesKey points
Material statistics groupAlways 1
Account assignment groupCheck the request form
Item category group

Check the request form

ZMAT – ZMAN in SAP


Material group 2

If informed in the template and the Matl Grp Pack.Matls is 0005 → Enter KIT

If the Matl Grp Pack.Matls is 0007, leave the field blank


Go to Sales: general/plant view








Sales: general/plant




Main activitiesKey points
Material freight group

Check the request form
For finished products extension contact Frank Valendor to confirm the material freight group.

This information is mandatory!
Responsible: Frank Valendo


Availability check

Default ZD

Heanor T4

Batch Management

Always checked

Transportation Group

Check the request form

This information is Global data, if there is a request to update this field Frank Valendo should be notified


Loading Group

Check the request form

Profit Center

Check the request form

Go to Foreign trade export view








Foreign trade export




Main activitiesKey points
Comm./imp. code no.

Is NOT to be entered at the time of material creation – it will be loaded by responsible team

Responsible for commodit code janice.sarmiento@solvay.com

Country of origin

Check the request form

Mandatory information! If not provided in the form, ask the requester


Go to Purchasing view





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Purchasing




Main activitiesKey points

Purchasing Group

Check the request form


Plant-specific material status

Status Z1 is to be used at the time of material creation/extension

Once Finance creates Accounting and Costing Views and performs material costing run, the status will be removed by Finance to allow use of material in operations.


Material freight groupCheck the request form
Same field is also available in: Sales: General Plant Data
Automatic Purchase Order indicatorAlways checked
Batch Management requirement indicatorAlways checked for ZMAT
Same field is also available in Sales: General Plant Data, Plant data / storage 1 and Warehouse Management 1 views
Purchasing value key

Packed ZMAT – 0001
Bulk ZMAT – 0005 (incl. flexitank)

GR processing time

Default value at the time of material creation – 2

1 day for Heanor plant 8400

Go to Plant data / storage 1 view







Plant data / stor. 1




Main activitiesKey points

Temp. conditions

Enter Temp. conditions according to the template. 

This field is mandatory, if not provided reject the request
This is a global information, if is requested to add (from other GBUs) change, contact other plants

N/A for Heanor plant 8400


Unit of issue

This field is not populated upon creation

If there is a request to update unit of issue, it needs to come via Sharepoints and the buyer's approval attached to the workflow. 


Purchasing, Inventory Management, and production needs to be involved as the Issue unit should be what is on BOMs.  



CC phys. inv. ind.

Default value at the time of material creation – B
Plant 8495 - N/A

Plant data administrators will change the field value if necessary

If the link does not exist with the plant, contact Lisa Wohnlich (Composite Materials plants) and request the link creation


Batch Management

Always checked for ZMAT

Same field is also available in Sales: General Plant Data, Purchasing and Warehouse Management 1 views


Minimum Remaining Shelf Life

Default value at the time of material creation – 1

Plant data administrators will change the field value if necessary


Total shelf life

Check the request form

  • If:
    • Not provided: reject the request
    • Provided as "Indefinite": Add 5475 days

Shelf life days should be consistent on Commercial Product level.
This field is mandatory, if not provided reject the request
This is a global information, if is requested to add (from other GBUs) change, contact other plants


Go to Plant data / storage 2 view







Plant data / stor. 2




Main activitiesKey points

Profit Center

Same field is also available in Sales: General Plant Data view

Go to next view

Go to Warehouse Management 1 view if applicable; else go to Label Data view








Warehouse mgmt




Main activitiesKey points

Batch Management requirement indicator

Always checked for ZMAT
Same field is also available in Sales: general / plant, Purchasing and Plant data / storage 1 views

Go to Warehouse Management 2 view








Warehouse mgmt 2




Main activitiesKey points
No data has to be maintained in Warehouse Management 2 view at the time of material creation, however the view has to be created

Go to Quality view








Quality Management




Main activitiesKey points

Inspection interval

Copy from the material form

  • If not provided add the same amount of days as shelf life
  • Should be equal to or less than the total shelf, if bigger contact the requester







Label Data




Main activitiesKey points

Primary Packaging Unit (PPU)

Primary Packaging Unit (PPU): Copy from the form


For BULK use KG


Select the primary packaging unit of measurement

Press the indicated button to Import labeling specifications for selected packaging

Use possibility to import label specifications from model codes created

Choose the reference material# based on the Base Unit of Measure and Packaging type

  • Note! For BULK only add the large label
  • Example: Base Unit of Measure KG and Primary pack Unit BAG - choose 158321


Pack/Base UoMKGLM2MEA
BAG158321

166118
3 set of labels: UoM - small, Pack-medium, Pallet- large
BB159526



BOT159355159186


BX158327
154453158328158338
DR159187159188


KAN159192160228

163021
PL163821


163819
ST163367



TE161378



TU160496160433


BULK154801



1 set- large

  • Double click on the first line

  • Keep all labels selected

  • Press
  • Copy all the labels

Important! It is crucial to request the correct DG indicator for Finished products after the material creation. For now, release the Sharepoint request, keep the Freshdesk ticket open and contact the people listed below to obtain the correct value. On the request provide the ZPRC#








Labeling Specification




Main activitiesKey points

Label Category, Label Size and number of Copies for each required label type


Define Validity Areas for each label type

All label types – DELIVERYGENERIC and MTS by default
Transport Label – MTSDELIVERY and GENERIC should be added.

Check if all labels have Validity Areas defined







Completing the material




Main activitiesKey points

When all data has been entered, save the material by pressing button and exit material creation

Copy number of the created material into communication to Requestor, system confirmation message on the bottom of the screen can be used:


  • Perform material extension to other Plants / Sales Organizations if requested in the form.
  • Add the newly created material number in Sharepoint
  • Release the Sharepoint request but keep the Freshdesk ticket open
  • Contact the people listed below to obtain the correct DG indicator value

DO NOT close the ticket until you receive a response











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