Recipe & BOM

[Former Member]

Hi,

Where do we maintain the relationship between master recipe & BOM so that if I have more than 1 recipe for a product than I can choose the corresponding BOM also.

In fact I am bit confused when I came across postings on SDN that says that the BOM is actually a part of Master Recipe unlike Routings in discrete manufacturing, in which case I should be able to see the BOM in Master Recipe itself.

Thanks,

Arunesh

[Former Member]

Hi Arunesh,

Chk out this link

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:yXWgwuqQtZUJ:help.sap.com/bp_bblibrary/500/documentation/Q22_BB_...SAPMasterrecipeand+BOM&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us

Thanks,

Janani

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[Former Member]

Hi,

BOMs are used in general production where as in Production Planning for process industries we name it as recipes.For one product u can have multiple BOMs those are alternative BOMs.U can choose from alternative BOMs ,the required BOM for your product.

Regards,

Naresh

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback. In fact this is the first time I m posting so didn't know reward Pts nitty gritty.

I did some some experimentation in last couple of hrs. I realized some thing which I think already had been a point of discussion on this forum.However the point was not closed.

I found the following.

1. Recipe does all the same thing as is Routing except the following :

(a) I can maintain or for that matter even create a BOM though Recipe > Production Version> BOM. The Recipe group is taken default.

(b) I can maintain no. of Prod versions for the same Recipe and so multiple BOMs for the same Recipe.

(c) The Recipe in itself stores just the Operations/Phase data.

(d) The Production version is the key between Recipe & BOM. The BOM can either be maintained independently or can be changed through Recipe, a facility which is not available in the Routing.

(e) Recipe doesnot contains the BOM in itself. It only references to BOM that too through Prod. Versions.

Except these I think, Recipe does all the things a Routing does.

Production Version is the King here. Selection of Prod Version decides the choice Recipe-BOM combination.

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Arunesh Chakrapani