HI Mark,
It's not necessary to be Account group -02 for EHS - MSDS purpose.
this Account group is purely for Accounting and billing purpose.
Ensure that in your customer master, under sales area data.......in the tab - partner functions, "SR - Material Safety Sheet REC" must be available.
without this parthner funciton, MSDS will not be triggered.
If you take it towards functional view -
There is no meaning of sending the MSDS to the Account group "0001", which is sold-to-party. and same time it is necessary to send it to the "0002"- ship-to-party, where the material usage happens physically.
some cases, sold-to-party and ship-to-party will be same if they have purchasing and manufacturing setup at same location.
some cases it differs, where there is a seperate registered office maintains centrally to deal with these purchasing operations and payments. multiple manufacturing plants linked to this central purchasing.
Regards
kamal