Recipe
Management (PLM-RM) 
Purpose
You use this component to create and manage the master data for process manufacturing.
The central object of this component is the recipe. You use it to describe the manufacturing of products or the execution of a process. Recipes comprise information about the products and components of a process, the process steps to be executed, and the resources required for the production.
Recipes are used at different enterprise levels. They serve as a basis for enterprise-wide investment decisions as well as for site-related long-term planning, or the conversion of a process in a plant. The recipe types in Recipe Management enable you to create a general description of the requirements or concrete procedural instructions depending on your needs. By making the data of enterprise-wide recipes more concrete, site- and plant-specific recipes are derived from them.
Integration
You need the following SAP application components for Recipe Management:
Function You Want to Use |
Application Component You Need |
Editing formulas and information systems, generating formula data and reports |
Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S) |
Change management for recipes |
Engineering Change Management (LO-ECH) |
Recipe classification |
Classification System (CA-CL) |
Assignment of documents to recipes |
Document Management System (CA-DMS) |
Entering data for quality inspections |
Quality Planning (QM-PT) |
Production version assignment to recipes |
Basic Data (Production Planning for Process Industries) (PP-PI-MD) |
Entering material data in formulas |
Material Master (LO-MD-MM) |
Property tree and value assignments in formulas and value assignments in recipes |
Classification System (CA-CL) |
Features
Recipe Management was designed on the basis of the ISA Standard S88. It comprises the following functions:
· Creating and Editing of Recipes
You use this function to create the recipe header and link it to the objects relevant to the process description. These are:
¡ Centrally stored documents, such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) or a plant graphic
¡ In the case of plant-independent recipes, a formula with information about the products and components
¡ Processes and associated process elements (stage, operation, action)
¡ Equipment requirement data
¡ In the case of plant-specific recipes, a production version with the process description of the standard system that can be used for production (this means, a master recipe and bill of material)
You can create different recipe types for different enterprise levels and combine them in a recipe hierarchy.
To group similar recipes, you use classification.
If you use distributed systems in your enterprise, you can use this function to distribute cross-company recipes (general and site recipes or your own copies of these recipe types) to the systems of your plants.
· Creating and Editing of Processes and Process Elements
You store all the relevant information for the process here. You can link processes and process elements as dependent objects to a particular recipe or assign them to any recipe as independent objects.
· Creating and Editing of Equipment Requirements
You can link equipment requirements as dependent objects to a particular recipe or assign them to any recipe as independent objects.
· Creating and Editing of Formulas
You manage material and substance data of plant-independent recipes in formulas. Here, you store all the relevant information about the products and components of the process. You can link formulas as dependent objects to a particular recipe or assign them to any recipe as independent objects.
· Generating formula reports
You can output formula data on formula reports. The formatting and output of data is carried out the same way as for the specification reports of the SAP EH&S component. You specify the report layout using Windows Wordprocessor Integration (WWI). In addition to having the functions of Microsoft Word, it enables you to integrate specially designed symbols that are replaced with values from the SAP system (for example, the formula) during report generation. Texts and phrases are output in the language requested. You use the formula status and scopes of application as well as value assignments to control whether report output is allowed. For more information about report generation, see the SAP EH&S component documentation.
The following additional functions are available for recipe and formula management:
· Change management for recipes
Using Engineering Change Management, you can create and manage different change statuses for the same object. You can define a process for making changes that is more regulated or less regulated depending on the industry and product (see Change Management for Recipes and Change Management for Formulas).
· Scopes of application and statuses
Using scopes of application, you restrict the usage of formulas and recipes to certain regional and organizational units. Every scope of application has its own status. Using statuses, you release the relevant object within the scope of application and protect it against unpermitted changes.
If required, you can also generally release recipes, that is, without restricting the scope of application. You can add your own user statuses to the status network of formulas and recipes (see Status Management and Scope of Application and Scope of Application for Formulas).
· Authorization concept
Using the authorization objects of Recipe Management, you can protect recipe and formula data, statuses, and scopes of application against unauthorized access and changes. For more information, see Customizing for Recipe Management under Set Up Authorizations.
Constraints
The plant-specific master recipe in Recipe Management has not yet been integrated in the standard processes of SAP Production Planning. By assigning a production version to the master recipe, however, you refer to the master recipe and bill of material (BOM) in the standard system that can be used for production.
Use the transformation function to create a master recipe.