
Creating by Copying
Use
You can reduce the effort required to create a master recipe by copying from a template if some of its data matches the data of the new recipe. You can copy data from the following objects:
- Master recipes
- Routings
- Inspection plans
Prerequisites
The template you want to copy has been created in the system.

The master recipe only supports the date validity of engineering change management (see
Engineering Change Management and Recipe Approval). For this reason, you cannot use routings with parameter effectivity as templates for master recipes.
Features
The template and the new recipe can belong to different plants. The data is copied from the template to the master recipe being created. However, be aware of the following exceptions and special features:
Data that is not Copied
The following data is not copied into the new recipe:
- Production versions and material quantity calculation of the template
- Relationships to other recipes
Copying Material Data
Production versions and material quantity calculations are not copied.
Material component assignments defined for operations and phases in the template are copied. To be able to use the material components in the new recipe, however, you must first create the production versions to assign the alternative BOMs of the template to the new recipe.
Copying from a Template in Another Plant
When copying between plants, plant-specific data is handled as follows:
- In the case of the following objects, the reference to the source plant is also kept in the new recipe:
- Header materials of the recipe
- Factory calendar of relationships
- All other data is copied to the new recipe with reference to the target plant. Copying is terminated if the following objects do not exist in the target plant:
- Control recipe destinations
- Process instructions
- If the resource network assigned to the recipe does not exist in the target plant, the system issues an error message. You can either delete the resource network or assign another resource network from the target plant.
- If the primary resource assigned to an operation does not exist in the target plant, the system copies the operation along with its phases without the primary resource. The system issues an information message.
- If a resource that is used as a secondary resource does not exist in the target plant, the system copies the secondary resource without the resource assignment. The system issues an information message.
- The data on the detail screens of the recipe objects is checked. You must change the data if an entry:
- Is not available in the target plant
- Does not match the resource data in the target plant
- The system does not check whether:
- The master inspection characteristics in the target plant are identical to those used in the template
- The characteristics of the copied process instructions have also been released for use in process instructions in the target plant