MSDS products

Hazardous designations are made by the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and its worldwide counterparts. The designation is often required on shipping and export documents. Employers and vendors are responsible for providing an Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) to their employees and customers. The MSDS is the primary tool for communicating the health hazards, safe handling methods, and emergency procedures for each hazardous material. Anytime the formulation of a hazardous product is changed, manufacturers are required to submit a revised MSDS. You must update your MSDS information also.

If you distribute MSDS-affected products, Distribution SX.e provides several points for tracking, managing, and processing.

• Use a combination of Product Setup, Product Hazardous Information Setup, SM Extended Totals Hazardous Report, and Product Hazardous Materials (MSDS) Report to track your products that are considered hazardous and require a MSDS to be made available to employees and customers.
• SM Extended Totals Hazardous Report tracks the last purchase and the last date an MSDS was sent out. If changes are made to the MSDS after the last sent date, a new MSDS must be sent. The MSDS file is updated, but the sheets are not printed. It is up to you to periodically send the correct MSDS sheets to your customers.
• In SA Administrator Options-Products-Defaults, if you are not using Infor Document Management (IDM) for MSDS sheets, you can update the MSDS file during picking or specifying if the sheet should be mailed later. You can also select to include the MSDS sheet for MSDS products when you print or email invoices using IDM.
• Sales Entry Invoice Processing Report checks each product on all orders to determine if Product Setup requires an MSDS sheet be sent to the customer.

During invoice processing, the SM Extended Totals Hazardous Report record is checked to see if a record exists for the customer or product on the order. If one does not exist, the record is created. If the record exists, the Last MSDS Change date on the Product Setup is compared to the MSDS sent date on the SM Extended Totals Hazardous Report record.

If the last MSDS change date is more current, you must send another MSDS sheet to the customer. The Last Purchase date in SM Extended Totals Hazardous Report is then updated to today's date.

• You must generate the Product Hazardous Materials (MSDS) Report to update the MSDS sent date. Generate the Product Hazardous Materials (MSDS) Report on a regular basis to ensure that your customers have the most current sheet. The YTD purchases, LTD purchases, last purchase, and last price are also updated.
• In Sales Entry Bill of Lading Report, select Yes for the Print Hazardous Material Sheet Info? option to include hazardous material information set up in Product Hazardous Information Setup. The information displays after each line that has an attached MSDS sheet. If there is a sheet referenced in Product Setup and no sheet can be found, a warning message is displayed after the line item indicating this condition.

To increase visibility to employees and customers of which products are considered hazardous, and require correct handling, the Hazardous designation is displayed in grids in multiple function, along with other product information.