The recipe purpose specifies in which area of an enterprise a recipe is used, for example, in development or for production.
You can define a sequence of recipe purposes for every recipe purpose in Customizing; the system then takes the associated recipes into account during explosion.
The recipe purposes DEV Development and PROD Production are delivered with the standard system.
In the standard system, the recipe purpose is set automatically according to the status of the recipe (see Status Schemes for Recipes).
Im Customizing, the recipe purpose Development has the following sequence:
Development
Production
If the recipe that is exploded has the recipe purpose Development, the system first takes recipes into account that have the recipe purpose Development. If no recipes with this recipe purpose exist, the system also takes recipes with the recipe purpose Production into account.