Hazardous materials enhancements

Enabled for	Public preview	General availability
Users by admins, makers, or analysts	Feb 15, 2022	Apr 29, 2022

Business value

These new hazardous material handling capabilities help make it even easier for companies to stay compliant with local regulations when transporting hazardous materials across different geographies.

Feature details

For this release, we have added to the existing hazardous materials functionality to provide even more detailed information storage and reporting features that will help keep your organization compliant with international shipping regulations for hazardous materials.

Master data enhancements

You are now able to store and retrieve the following types of hazardous materials information:

• Flash point declaration: Specify the temperature at which each given material will ignite. This value will be included in the hazardous materials description for the item.
• Larger stowage descriptions: The field for describing stowage requirements now accepts more characters so you can better describe stowage details.
• Translations for hazardous materials descriptions: The system can now translate descriptions for each language that is set up for hazardous material language support.

Carriage of merchandise by road report

Carriage of merchandise by road (CMR) reports now support the following features and information:

• Set emergency response instructions at the global level: You could already specify emergency response instructions at the item level, but now you can provide common instructions that apply to all items.
• Show descriptions for non-hazardous materials in CRM reports: Your CMR reports can now include a line that summarizes non-hazardous materials in addition to the line describing hazardous materials in a shipment.
• Container ID is now shown for multimodal shipments: Shipments containing hazardous materials can now be tracked by container ID.
• Your CMR reports can now include ADR points: The European Agreement Concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR) establishes a system that assigns a point score based on how dangerous each hazardous material is. Your CMR reports can now show the total ADR score for each shipment.

Verified gross mass document

Verified gross mass (VGM) documents now provide the following details for each shipment:

• Shipping container BIC ID (also added to the shipment record and the driver check-in and check-out process)
• Booking number
• Trailer number
• Carrier name

Various other reports

Several other hazardous materials reports have also been improved.

• IATA shipper's declaration: This report now includes more details, including item quantities.
• Multimodal dangerous goods declaration: This report now shows item quantities and includes a footer with emergency response information.
• Shipment summary report: This report now shows the number of packages instead of the total item quantity.

Usability improvements

The All loads and Load details and Shipment pages now provide links to the relevant hazardous materials reports.

See also

Hazardous materials overview (docs)