Recipe

Definition

Description of the requirements that must be met in a specific manufacturing process (compare Recipe according to ISA, standard S88 ).

A recipe comprises the following data of a process:

  • Material data

  • Substance data

  • Process data

  • Resource data

Depending on the application area, the type of data ranges from a general description of the requirements to concrete procedural instructions for a specific production plant. However, recipes are always independent of the dates of a specific order and contain no equipment control functions.

Use

Recipes are master data of production planning. They are the basis for enterprise-wide planning and investment decisions, site-related long-term planning, and the plant-specific conversion of a manufacturing process. Depending on the application area and enterprise area, you can define and use a number of different recipe types .

Structure

A recipe is made up of the following elements:

  • The recipe header with the following information:

    • Change states

    • Validity of change states

    • Status

    • Reference language

    • Objects that are linked to the recipe (for example, projects)

  • A list of all products manufactured in the process along with the components and quantities required

  • A description of the process, this means the process steps and their parameters

  • A list of the plant equipment and resources required for the individual process steps

    Note Note

    The recipe consists of several tab pages on which the data relevant to the entire recipe is grouped according to subject. You define the tab pages in Customizing for Recipe Management as so-called views . In the formula, you enter product and component data of plant-independent recipes.

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    Note Note

    You can create master recipes straight from the general or site recipe using the transformation function .

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Integration

You can link recipes to higher- or lower-level recipes in a recipe hierarchy. In this way, you assign, for example, the site recipes derived from a general recipe to this recipe and the master recipes created from a site recipe to this site recipe (see Recipe Hierarchy ).

In addition, you can use classification to group recipes according to your own criteria (see Classifying Recipes ).

You can store documents such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) or plant graphics centrally in the SAP Document Management System and link them to the relevant recipes (see Documents ).