Production Version (SAP Library - Master Recipes (PP-PI-MD))

Production Version

Definition

A production version determines which alternative BOM is used together with which task list/master recipe to produce a material or create a master production schedule.

For one material, you can have several production versions for various validity periods and lot-size ranges.

Use

Production versions are used both in discrete manufacturing and process manufacturing.

Production versions are used in Sales and Operations Planning (SOP), material requirements planning (MRP), process order creation, and product costing to select the most suitable task list or recipe and the corresponding material list.

You can also select a recipe and BOM without a production version. Note, however, that if you do so, material quantity calculation data is not copied.

Integration

After you have created a production version, the material components of the relevant alternative BOM are available in the recipe as a material list or can be created from within the recipe. Only now can you enter material data specific to a recipe, such as the component assignment to operations and phases and the formulas for material quantity calculation.

In the production version, you can assign a storage location to the material you want to produce, thus specifying that the material is stored there after production. If you use the storage location of a storage resource, the storage capacity can be taken into account for capacity requirements planning in external planning tools and the Process Flow Scheduler (PFS) (see Intermediate Material Storage).

Structure

A production version comprises the following data:

Details on the material you want to produce, for example, the material number and storage location where the material is to be stored
General data about the production version

This includes:

Key, lot-size range, and validity period of the production version
Information on whether the production version is locked
The date of the latest consistency check

The assignment of task lists/master recipes to the production version

The system distinguishes the following planning levels:

Detailed planning

This assignment determines which master recipe is used for material requirements planning (MRP), product costing, and process order creation.

Rate-based planning

This assignment determines which task list is used in repetitive manufacturing. In process industries, this is hardly ever used.

Rough-cut planning

This assignment determines which rough-cut planning profile is used for Sales and Operations Planning (SOP).

If you want to create capacity requirements records during rough-cut planning, you can assign a master recipe instead of a rough-cut planning profile.

A check status is assigned for each planning level. It contains the result of the latest consistency check of the production version.

The assignment of the alternative BOM to the production version

A check status is assigned for the assignment. It contains the result of the latest consistency check of the production version.

The change number that was last used to change the production version as well as further administrative data

When you create process orders that require approval, the system uses the change number to check whether the production version has been approved.

Co-Products: Special Features

When manufacturing co-products, you can create a production version not only for the header material of the recipe and BOM but also for the co-products contained in the BOM as BOM items. Depending on the material for which you create the production version, its structure has the following special features:

Production version for header material

You can assign an apportionment structure of the header material in the BOM data. This structure is copied as a default value to the settlement rule of the process order.

Production versions for BOM items

Production versions for BOM items refer to the header material’s production version to be used for the manufacture of the co-product. Be aware of the following:

The key of the production version for the BOM item must be identical to that of the corresponding production version of the header material.
Instead of the BOM, recipe, and apportionment structure, it contains the number of the header material to whose production version it refers (Other header mat. field).