
Material Assignments to Recipes
Use
You use this function in master recipes for manufacturing products to determine which material is to be produced with the recipe.
This assignment enables you to use the master recipe for sales and operations planning, material requirements planning, for order creation as well as for product costing for this material.
Prerequisites
Features
In master recipes, you assign the material you want to produce at header level.
You can use material-recipe assignment to visually reproduce the following scenarios (see graphic below):
Co-Products: Special Features
When manufacturing
co-products, that is, when you produce several materials in one process, you must decide on a header material. Which material you choose, depends on how production is usually initiated. The following scenarios are possible:
Production Initiated by |
Material you Assign to the Recipe |
Demand of a specific co-product |
The required co-product |
Availability of input materials and capacities |
A process material |
During material requirements planning, planned orders are automatically created for the material assigned in the recipe header. To convert other co-product requirements, you must create a process order manually.
Activities
You can assign the material you want to produce in a master recipe in one of the following ways:
Material assignments in the recipe header and enter data as required.