CAS Number

[Former Member]

Hi,

Is there any field for CAS number in material master?, Is it mandatory to maintain? please explain on this.

Regards,

Sattuj

[Former Member]

Is there any field for CAS number in material master for Pharma industries?, Is it mandatory to maintain? please explain on this.

[lauren_mccallum · Accepted solution]

Yes, the CAS number is required for some customs documentation. There's a field for it in the purchasing data area of the record. Technical field name is CASNR.

But no sooner do I post this than a colleague points out to me that this field may not be standard. I have seen it on at least, but it is NOT on the standard demo system I just logged on to. So here are some other options:

• Using the classification system set up a class for the material with the characteristic   CAS number (can be defined mandatory or optional), and then classify the materials in questions.

• Use the append structure to add the field to the material master. See Note 4410 Integrating Customer Specific Fields Into the Materials Master  https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/44410 and the notes referenced in 4410.

[Former Member]

Thank you very much....

[lauren_mccallum]

And another colleague has this suggestion:

I am wondering whether the CAS number makes sense in Material Master. The CAS number refers to a single or in some cases to a  group of chemical substances. A material may contain then this substance(s) but will be identical with it exceptionally only. It is very common to maintain CAS numbers in specification data base of EH&S module and to assign those substances then to materials. The specification base is the chemical view including the CAS number and the material is the logistical view.

[former_member42743]

FYI - We show the CAS number on the "Foregin Trade import" view of the material master.

FF

[former_member621204]

We enter the CAS number in the identifiers tab of the specification data base of the EH&S module because we treat the material name as the customer product name.