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Integration of EUROLABEL solution with SAP GLM (Global Label Management)
The Global Label Management (GLM) solution meets the needs of manufacturers using SAP ERP and the SAP EHS module to print their logistics and chemical product labels by integrating with logistics processes such as order processing and delivery. In a previous article, we discussed the future of GLM, with label printing from EUROLABEL and SAP S/4HANA Product Compliance.
To anticipate the end of WWI support, SAP customers have expressed their interest in migrating as soon as possible to a partner solution such as EUROLABEL with the GLM processes available in Product Safety. This early switchover enables the migration of label printing to be prepared and carried out smoothly.
Our approach for SAP GLM integration
The purpose of our current developments is to enable customers using the SAP GLM+ solution to use from now EUROLABEL with actual GLM and Product Safety until they are ready to migrate to S/4HANA Product Compliance.
To achieve this, SAP has developed extensions to its GLM environment, such as defining the associated EUROLABEL label templates in the label generation variants, declaring the printers available in our solution and a BAdI for initiating print requests to the EUROLABEL labeling solution.
Note: GLM classic/direct print are not supported. GLM+ means GLM support for Print Request. In addition, the new Business Add-In (BAdI) is only available on the S4/HANA environment and not on ECC, starting with the S/4HANA 2021 SPS06 version.
While the availability of the BAdI from SAP facilitates the integration of the 2 solutions, the most difficult part is understanding and integrating the WWI content generated by EHS, such as parameters, descriptors and specification data, in order to print them on the label. We started the process of interpreting EHS data very early at Eurosoft Plus because we have a long experience of WWI templates and had been considering providing SAP EHS customers with a WWI template migration tool for some time. So we created a toolkit for this purpose, the Migration coPilot.
Migration coPilot enables a smooth and innovative migration from WWI templates to EUROLABEL templates by providing a set of tools that accelerate and carry out this process in a guided and efficient way. These tools, initially designed to interface with an S/4HANA Product Compliance environment, have been enhanced for the GLM+ and EHS classic environments.
We have reused the Data Field Catalog concept designed for Product Compliance. WWI symbols are now automatically integrated into the Data Field Catalog. From the EUROLABEL label template editor, the designer will be able to use these symbols from the Data Field Catalog by a simple drag-and-drop operation.
People currently in charge of designing WWI templates will not be confused because the names of the symbols in the catalogue are the same as in EHS, and represented with the same WWI tree structure.
After completing some configuration steps in SAP GLM, users can start printing their labels with EUROLABEL using standard SAP GLM transactions such as the Labeling Workbench (SAP transaction CBGLWB) or manual label printing (SAP transaction CBGL_MP01).
The label can be previewed directly from the SAP screen without any additional installation.
This native integration is fully integrated with the SAP GLM print request process. So users still have the same standard functions for triggering, checking or reprinting labels from the Print Request Body Manager (Labeling Workbench, transaction CBGLWB).
Discover in this article why you should integrate EUROLABEL into SAP GLM right now.
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