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Specification

Steps in Recipe management

1. Creation and maintenance of specification


2. Creation and maintenance of recipe (formula
optimization)
3. Creation of label sets
4. Compliance check of recipes and specifications
5. Change management = use of Engineering record,
change master, versioning, mass change
6. Handover of BOM to manufacturing.
Recipe Development Menu

SAP PLM Recipe Development is only available via the WEB-UI. You cannot work with SAP Recipe
Development if you only use the SAP GUI.
You can however use certain objects and work with them in the SAP GUI (such as materials,
specifications, change numbers, ...).
Navigation path: SAP GUI - transaction nwbc (role SAP_PLMWUI_PROCESS_MENU3)
Materials
There is no need to explain SAP material in much detail as they are an intrinsic part of almost every
ERP system. The material master contains all information required for managing the material on an
operational level (related to purchasing, production, selling, ).

From a product development perspective, we are less interested in how the material is managed,
procured, sold, in the system - but we are very interested in the actual descriptive characteristics
of the material (its size, diameters, weight, ingredients, chemical composition, allergens, ). Now,
the issue with the material master is, that there is no good place (other than the material
classification or customer developed z-fields) to maintain all this required information).
So if SAP Recipe Development is used, the above mentioned descriptive material information is not
stored in the material master but in a separate object: the specification.
SAP WEB-UI navigation path: Materials Display Material
SAP GUI transaction: mm03

As you can see from the screenshots above, there is an additional tab Specification Assignment in
the SAP Material Master where the SAP Material is linked with the object Specification.

Specifications
A specification or substance is an object which belongs to SAP EHS. In the context of SAP Recipe
Development the property tree of this specification is used to maintain and store all the descriptive
characteristics mentioned above.
SAP WEB-UI navigation path: Specifications Display Specification
SAP GUI transaction: cg02
Specification displayed in the SAP WEB-UI

Same specification displayed in SAP GUI


We have seen that the material is linked with the specification. This link is also visible from the
specification on tab Material Assignments.
The screenshot below shows the standard SAP property tree for Recipe Development which is used
to maintain characteristics relevant for the product innovation and product development process.

Recipes
A recipe is an object which allows to retrieve, combine and aggregate descriptive information which
is stored in the property trees of the specifications. In the end, the recipe (just like a cooking recipe)
shows all ingredients and their respective quantities of a given product.
SAP WEB-UI navigation path: Recipes Display Recipe
SAP GUI transaction: not available only web-ui
As you can see from the screenshot above, the recipe number is composed of:

CONS-O1281: the specification number of the output specification of the recipe


001: the recipe alternative
000: the recipe version

Important: therefore you cannot define an own number range for recipes in SPRO.
In the recipe formula, you can combine your ingredients. The recipe formula is composed of:

an output specification (linked with an SAP Material)


several input specifications (linked with an SAP Material)
As you can see in the screenshot above, not all input specifications are linked with SAP Materials.
This makes sense. Product developers often need to work with sample materials in the product
development process. And specification can be created with one click, whereas the material master
creation is usually a lengthy process which involves many parties.

However, if you want to use a recipe to create a BOM (Bill of Material) for production, then all input
and output substances in the recipe formula need to have a SAP material assigned. The BOM only
knows materials and cannot works with specifications.

Summary

SAP materials are linked with SAP specifications.

In the specification property tree, we store all product development related characteristics
(size, ingredients, allergens, nutrients ).
The recipe formula has one output substance and several input substances as well as their
respective quantities. The recipe is able to retrieve, aggregate, combine and calculate
information from the input substances.

The recipe can be transferred to a production bill of material (BOM).

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