A master recipe is used to specify the operations and phases required in a production process. When you create a process order, the system selects a master recipe. The individual operations and phases of the master recipe, as well as the material list and other recipe data, are taken over into the process order.

In special cases, you may want to create a process order without using a master recipe. This may be the case, for example, if you want to create an order for unplanned rework.

In Customizing, you can specify whether a master recipe has to be selected as well as which criteria should be used in the selection process.