Copy master recipe to another plant

[former_member564417]

Greetings,

I am struggling to find the best way for copying master recipes from one plant to another.We have about 1000 master recipes that need to be copied.

The constellation is as follows:

• one recipe group can include many recipes
• one recipe can be assigned to many materials
• materials can be assigned to many recipes
• materials can have more than one production version

Doing this manually is not a problem and I have followed the following procedure to gain the expected result:

• create BOM manually by copying an exiting BOM from original plant
• in transaction C201 create a recipe with material and select a template to copy from
• create production version from master recipe, assign already created BOM to production version

We have already developed a program to extend materials to a new plant and to create new BOM by copying an exiting BOM in old plant-

The questions are then as follows:

1. Is it possible to copy a recipe from one plant to another without material assignment - we would like to keep it clean so if the recipe exists in plant 1000 only materials from plant 1000 should be assigned to it
2. what would generally be the best approach to tackle the problem of migrating a large number of recipes from one plant to another

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,

Matjaz.

[former_member564417]

Dear Amir,

thank you for your answer. I am aware of the options for copying large quantities of data. Perhaps my question was not clear enough.

Its' not the methodology I am searching for but the correct algorithm / sequence of events. Should there be a correct order of activities to achieve the desired result.

Since our relationship recipe:material = N:N I was thinking that the best way would be to:

1. create all BOM
2. create all different recipes (recipe groups and recipes)
3. delete the automatic material assignment
4. create production versions for new materials
5. assign new materials (from new plant) to recipes

The challenge s then to correctly map the old recipe number with new recipe number since you can not have the same recipe number twice in one recipe group.

Best regards,

Matjaz

[former_member666172]

Dear Matjaz,

I need to make the same requirement in one of my customers. I need to copy all BOMs and recipes from one plant to another. Did your method work to achieve it ? Could you give me more info to make this requirement ?

[former_member564417]

Dear Gokberk,

The method described has been successfully used in one of our projects. We used several LSMW recordings (one for each step) which were ran according to specified order:

1. create all BOM
2. create all different recipes (recipe groups and recipes)
3. delete the automatic material assignment
4. create production versions for new materials
5. assign new materials (from new plant) to recipes

W had some problems with resources - in the new plant some resources from old plant were not used. We solved this by defining all resources master data in the new plant (so the same resources exist in both plants), run all five steps and the then in sixth step we deleted all phases which are to be performed at resources that were not originally planed in the new plant. Those that were not planed were marked as locked.

Best regards,

Matjaž.

[former_member666172]

Dear Matjaz,

Thanks for valuable information.

[Amit_SAP]

Hello Matjaz,

I think your approach is correct.

To correctly map the old recipe details with new recipe, you have to take the dump of old recipe and prepare a file so that you can upload the new correct recipe with help of BDC/LSMW/SCAT. Also note that recipe number is unique or you can create new recipe with a new recipe group by copying previous one.

I hope this helps you.

Regards,

Amit

[Amit_SAP]

Hello Matjaz,

1.Is it possible to copy a recipe from one plant to another without material assignment

Whenever we copy the master recipe, material assignments will be copied automatically. We can delete the material assignments manually

2. what would generally be the best approach to tackle the problem of migrating a large number of recipes from one plant to another

If master recipe data volume to be copied is high we can create a BDC/LSMW/SCAT program.

Hope this helps you..!

Regards,

Amit

[former_member564417]

Dear Amir,

thank you for your answer. I am aware of the options for copying large quantities of data. Perhaps my question was not clear enough.

Its' not the methodology I am searching for but the correct algorithm / sequence of events. Should there be a correct order of activities to achieve the desired result.

Since our relationship recipe:material = N:N I was thinking that the best way would be to:

1. create all BOM
2. create all different recipes (recipe groups and recipes)
3. delete the automatic material assignment
4. create production versions for new materials
5. assign new materials (from new plant) to recipes

The challenge s then to correctly map the old recipe number with new recipe number since you can not have the same recipe number twice in one recipe group.

Best regards,

Matjaz