Production Versions (SAP Library - Material Master (LO-MD-MM))

Production Versions

Use

A production version determines the various production techniques that can be used to produce a material. It defines the following information:

Alternative BOM for a BOM explosion

Task list type, task list group, and group counter for assignment to task lists

Lot-size restrictions and period of validity

A material can have one or more production versions.

Prerequisites

In the standard R/3 System, you can process production versions for master recipes only in the master recipe if an approval procedure is stipulated by the change rule. However, you can also allow production versions of this kind to be maintained in the material master. You do this in Customizing for Master Data (Production Planning for Process Industries) by accessing the activity Determine System Message Features and defining that message C5 632 is displayed only as a warning or that it is not displayed at all. As a result, you can create the production version in the material master and maintain it in the master recipe, or vice versa. Please remember that the production version in the material master is not subject to an approval procedure.

Activities

When creating or changing a material master record, you can create individual production versions at plant level for the following materials:

Materials allowing in-house production

Materials only procured externally

In this case, production versions can be useful if the materials are procured externally from a subcontractor.

You are free to define the number of the production version. However, the number must be unique.