PLM Product Lifecycle Management

SAP ERP Central Component

Release 5.0

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26 PLM Product Lifecycle Management 1

26.1 PLM-RM Recipe Management 1
26.1.1 Specification Search (Enhanced) 1
26.1.2 Component Types and Exception Values (Enhanced) 1
26.1.3 User Statuses (Enhanced) 2
26.1.4 Preferred Recipe (Changed) 2
26.1.5 Totals Calculation Using the Component Type (New) 3
26.1.6 Checking Consistency (Enhanced) 3
26.1.7 Information for Copying Recipes (Enhanced) 4
26.1.8 Navigation Between Recipe Stages and Recipe Operations (New) 5
26.1.9 Diet Suitability (New) 5
26.1.10 Drag and Drop (Enhanced) 5
26.1.11 Environment Parameters (Enhanced) 6
26.1.12 Reassigning Equipment Requirements (Changed) 7
26.1.13 Information System for Equipment Requireme
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26.1.14 Formula Explosion (Enhanced) 8
26.1.15 Specifying Field Attributes (Changed) 9
26.1.16 Information System for Process Elements (Changed) 9
26.1.17 Data Output in the Information System (Enhanced) 9
26.1.18 Hierarchy View (Enhanced) 10
26.1.19 Changes to the IMG Structure in Recipe Management 11
26.1.20 Material Views and Substance Views (Enhanced) 12
26.1.21 Displaying Key Figures (New) 13
26.1.22 Configuration of Table Columns (Enhanced) 14
26.1.23 Language Concept for Recipes (Enhanced) 14
26.1.24 Locking Objects (Enhanced) 15
26.1.25 Editing Long Texts (Changed) 15
26.1.26 Formula Explosion Modeling (Enhanced) 16
26.1.27 Copying the Process Hierarchy to Equipment
(New) 16
26.1.28 Assigning Nutrients to Nutrient Groups (Changed) 16
26.1.29 Nutrient Limit (New) 17
26.1.30 Packaging (New) 17
26.1.31 Process Parameters (Enhanced) 17
26.1.32 Quality Management (Changed) 18
26.1.33 Navigation Area in the Recipe Workbench (Enhanced) 18
26.1.34 Reaction Category (Enhanced) 18
26.1.35 Creating Relationships (Enhanced) 19
26.1.36 Saving Calculated Data (Changed) 20
26.1.37 Scaling Quantities (New) 20
26.1.38 Information System for Process Element Bui

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(Enhanced) 21
26.1.39 Finding Primary or Secondary Outputs (New) 21
26.1.40 Standardization (Changed) 21
26.1.41 Changing the Validity Period for Obsolete Recipes (New) 21
26.1.42 Quantities Formula View (Changed) 22
26.1.43 Trial Management (New) 22
26.1.44 Entering Material Quantities (Changed) 22
26.1.45 Version Check in Recipes (Enhanced) 22
26.2 PLM-IFO Interactive Forms 23
26.2.1 Interactive Forms for Creating and Changing Products (New) 23

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26 PLM Product Lifecycle Management

26.1 PLM-RM Recipe Management

26.1.1 Specification Search (Enhanced)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can also start the search for
specifications directly from the initial screen of the workbench using the new Specification
Search function. If you are in the workbench on the hit list screen or if you are editing a
specification, you can now also start the search from the menu (Specification -> Other
Selection) or in the navigation area using the context menu for the entries for the various
specification categories.
You can now adapt the screens for the specification search to suit your requirements. For
example, you can define your own subscreen for each specification category, which replaces the
whole screen area above the extended search functions on the standard screen for searching for
specifications of one specification category.
Following a search, you can call the generated hit list from the navigation area at any time.
See Navigation Area and Detail Area of the Workbench (Enhanced).

Effects on Customizing
You specify the initial screens for specification searches in Customizing for Basic Data and
Tools under Adapt Initial Screens.

26.1.2 Component Types and Exception Values (Enhanced)

Use
You can restrict the usage of certain component types and exception values to specifications of
one or more specification categories.
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can restrict the usage further as
follows:
- You can specify which component types and exception values you can use in the SAP
components Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S) and Recipe Management in
value assignment types of the category Composition. Here, you can also restrict the usage
to individual value assignment types.
- You can specify which component types and exception values you can use in the SAP
component Recipe Management for inputs and outputs in the formula view Input and
Output.
If you define a restriction for a component type or exception value, the component type or

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exception value is proposed only at the specified position in the input help.

Effects on Existing Data

If you specified the usage of component types and exception values in earlier releases, you must
execute the program RC1_COMP_CONVERT to convert the corresponding table entries.

Effects on Customizing
You make the settings in Customizing for EH&S in the following IMG activities:
- Specify Context-Specific Component Types
- Specify Context-Specific Exception Values

26.1.3 User Statuses (Enhanced)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can restrict the user statuses to
a particular system status of the recipe status network for each recipe type. You use the
Choose Detail pushbutton in the Basic Data recipe view to edit the user statuses.
Furthermore, you can now specify that the system triggers a workflow when you set a user
status. A workflow can also set a user status.

Effects on Customizing
Make the following settings in Customizing for Recipe Management to be able to use the
new user status concept:
- Make recipe-specific settings under Recipe Settings.
- Make settings for the user status under Set Up User Status Profile and Define
Authorization Keys for User Statuses.
- Use the Check for Deactivating the System Status Pushbuttons Business Add-In (BAdI) to
deactivate system status pushbuttons in the recipe.

See also
For more information about the user status, see User Statuses for Recipes under the Recipe
Management component in SAP Library.
For more information about the workflow and events, see Recipe Settings in the Recipe
Management Implementation Guide (IMG).

26.1.4 Preferred Recipe (Changed)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can specify that you want the
system to use one particular recipe in the standard explosion if several recipes exist with the

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same primary output. To do this, you set the Preferred Recipe indicator at recipe level. If the
recipe has several stages, setting the indicator affects the primary output of the last stage. If the
recipe does not have any stages, the indicator affects the primary output of the recipe formula.
Note:
You can only set the indicator in a single recipe from several recipes with the same
primary output within one validity period.
You can also set the indicator for the standard explosion in the independent formula in the
formula output item. If you set the Preferred Recipe indicator and the Standard Explosion
formula indicator, the Preferred Recipe indicator has priority.

Effects on Existing Data

If, in previous releases you set indicators for the standard explosion in dependent recipe
formulas, you can allow the system to set the Preferred Recipe indicator automatically in the
recipes that belong to them by running the RCP_DEFEXPL_SET report. This report does not
set the indicator in recipes with independent formulas. You have to check these recipes
manually.
If you do not run the report, the indicators in the formula and recipe are not adjusted. Even if
the formula has been marked as preferred, the recipe that belongs to it is not marked as
preferred on the Basic Data tab page, in the hit list, or in the navigation area. The explosion
is not affected by this.

Effects on Customizing
If you want to define additional checks for setting the Preferred Recipe indicator, use the
Business Add-In (BAdI) Checking the Preference Indicator of a Recipe in Customizing for
Recipe Management. An inactive implementation is supplied with the system. Once it has
been activated, you can only set the indicator if the recipe is consistent.
If you want to influence the system's behavior in the formula explosion, use the Preferred
Recipe Check in the Explosion Business Add-In (BAdI) in Customizing for Recipe
Management.

26.1.5 Totals Calculation Using the Component Type (New)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can choose between two
different display variants in the Nutrient Composition, Diet Suitability: Evaluation,
Composition, Ingredients, and Costs views:
- Items that contain the same substance but where the substance is assigned to different
component types are displayed individually.
- Items that contain the same substance are summarized. The system adds the substance
quantities together but does not display information about the individual component types.
You can switch between display variants using a pushbutton.

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26.1.6 Checking Consistency (Enhanced)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can use two different consistency
checks:
- Consistency check for an individual formula
The Consistency Check pushbutton for the consistency check in the formula is now in
the Quantities formula view.
- Consistency check for a whole recipe
The system performs a number of individual checks to check whether:
- You have used stages, stage formulas, and streams correctly
- All formulas are consistent
- Certain data matches in recipes with versions
The Consistency Check pushbutton for the consistency check in the recipe is on the
Basic Data tab page.

Effects on Customizing
You can set up your own checks in the following Business Add-Ins (BAdIs):
- BAdI: Consistency Check for Recipe
- BAdI: Allows Authorization Check to Be Extended/Replaced

See also
For more information about the consistency check, see Consistency Check for Formula and
Consistency Check for Recipe under the Recipe Management component in SAP Library.

26.1.7 Information for Copying Recipes (Enhanced)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), when you copy a recipe, the system
displays the following data in the copy in the Administration Data recipe view:
- Template, that is, the recipe that is copied
- Name of the template
- Whether the template is a general recipe, site recipe, or master recipe
If you create a recipe based on a process building block or copy a recipe that has a process
building block as a template, the system displays the following additional data:
- Original process

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- Predecessor version (if available)

26.1.8 Navigation Between Recipe Stages and Recipe Operations (New)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can navigate between the stages
of a recipe, the operations of a stage, and the actions of an operation without the aid of the
navigation tree. There are two new pushbuttons in the toolbar for this purpose: Previous
Object and Next Object. It is, however, only possible to navigate between objects that belong
to the same higher-level object.

26.1.9 Diet Suitability (New)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can manage diet-relevant data in
the system:
- You create specifications of the specification type diet substance and specify diet-relevant
limit values for the diet substances.
- You create specifications of the specification type diet group. You use the diet groups to
group diet substances according to criteria of your choice.
- You edit the diet suitability value assignment type in real substances.
- The Diet Suitability: Evaluation formula view gives you an overview of the diet-relevant
data of all substances present in the formula.
- The Diet Suitability: Summary formula view displays the totals calculated for the
diet-relevant data in the formula.

26.1.10 Drag and Drop (Enhanced)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can use drag and drop to move
significantly more recipe object data within the same object or copy or move it to other screen
areas and objects. This simplifies recipe editing because it is easier for you to copy and move
data.

See also
For more information, see Drag and Drop under the Recipe Management component in SAP
Library.

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26.1.11 Environment Parameters (Enhanced)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), the environment parameters in
Recipe Management have changed. The following environment parameters are no longer used.
You make these settings in Customizing for Recipe Management under Specify Formula View
Parameters:
- FRML_COMP_CONV_RVLID (Generation of the Composition view: validity area)
- FRML_COMP_CONV_VACLID (Generation of the Composition view: rating)
- FRML_COSTS_DEFAULT_RVLID (Default validity area for substance price selection)
- FRML_COSTS_DEFAULT_VACLID (Default rating for substance price selection)
- FRML_IDLID_CMP (Identification listing for the Composition view)
- FRML_IDLID_IRL (Identification listing for the input component list)
- FRML_IDLID_LORS (Identification listing for I/O Substances view)
- FRML_IDLID_NUTRION (Identification listing Nutrient Views)
- FRML_IDLID_OOP (Identification listing List of Ingredients)
- FRML_IO_RVLID (Saving density in formula: validity area)
- FRML_IO_VACLID (Saving density in formula: rating)
- FRML_NTR_RVLID (Saving energy values in formula: validity area)
- FRML_NTR_VACLID (Saving energy values in formula: rating)
The following environment parameters are no longer used. You make the settings for these in
Customizing for Recipe Management under Specify Parameters for Explosion Scope:
- FRML_COMP_CONVERSION_PROPERTY (Generation of the Composition view: value
assignment type)
- FRML_ESTCAT_NUTR_COMP (Value assignment type Nutrient composition)
The following environment parameters are new:
- FRML_ATNAM_DIET_LIMIT_UNIT (Characteristic for Diet Limit Unit)
- FRML_ATNAM_DIET_LIMIT_VALUE (Characteristic for Diet Limit)
- FRML_ATNAM_NTR_PLAUS_LIMIT_LOW (Characteristic for Lower Limit of Nutrient)
- FRML_ATNAM_NTR_PLAUS_LIMIT_UP (Characteristic for Upper Limit of Nutrient)
- FRML_DEF_NUTR_EXCVAL (Default Exception Value for Nutrients)
- FRML_DEF_UNIT_DENSITY (Default Unit for Density)
- FRML_DEF_UNIT_RECON_RATE (Default Unit for Reconstitution Rate)
- FRML_DIET_GRP_REF_SUB (Diet Group for Sort Sequence of Diet Substances)

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- FRML_DIET_REF_UNIT (Reference Quantity Unit for Diet Suitability)

- FRML_DIET_REF_VALUE (Reference Quantity for Diet Suitability)
- FRML_ESTCAT_DIET_LIMIT (Value Assignment Type for Diet Limit)
- FRML_ESTCAT_DIET_LIST (Value Assignment Type for Diet Listing)
- FRML_ESTCAT_NTR_PLAUS_LIMIT (Value Assignment Type for Plausibility Limits)
- FRML_IO_CALCULATION_BASE (Calculation Base for Quantities and Input and
Output views)
- FRML_MAPPING_FUNCTION (Specify Attributes for Mapping)
- FRML_NUTR_GRP_REF_SUB (Nutrient Group for Sort Sequence)
- FRML_REACTION_TYPE (Restrict Reaction Category Selection)
- FRML_SUBCAT_DIET_GROUP (Specification Type Diet Group)
- FRML_SUPPRESS_RECIPE_FORMULA (Hide Formula in Dialog Box)
- FRML_USE_2ND_STEP_ON_OOP (Two-Step Logic for Columns in List of Ingredients)

Effects on Existing Data

If, in previous releases, you assigned values to environment parameters that are no longer used,
you can transfer the values you assigned to the IMG activities described here using the
RFRML_CUST_ENV_PARA report. After the values have been transferred, the report deletes
the transferred environment parameter entries in the Define and Assign Values to
Environment Parameters IMG activity.

Effects on Customizing
You edit the environment parameters in Customizing for Recipe Management under Define
and Assign Values to Environment Parameters. This IMG activity contains more information on
the environment parameters.

26.1.12 Reassigning Equipment Requirements (Changed)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can move equipment
requirements from one process element to another. The new Move Equipment Requirement
pushbutton in the toolbar in the Equip. Requirements view is supplied for this purpose. The
system does not copy the equipment requirement, but deletes it and inserts it with all its data in
the target process element.

26.1.13 Information System for Equipment Requirement Building Blocks

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(Enhanced

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can search for equipment
requirement building blocks using your own information system.

Effects on Customizing
You make the settings for the process element information system in Customizing for Recipe
Management under Information Systems.

See also
For more information, see Information Systems and Equipment Requirement under the
Recipe Management component in SAP Library.

26.1.14 Formula Explosion (Enhanced)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can influence the explosion of
formulas using new settings:
- You can assign an explosion scope to each formula view.
- You can use two new explosion scopes:
- NTR_CMP: Nutrient Composition/Contribution
- DIE_CMP: Diet Composition/Contribution
These enable you to achieve the explosion results you want in the Nutrient Composition
and Diet Suitability: Summary formula views.
- You can specify the formula views from which the system takes the data in the explosion
in accordance with the reaction category.
You can now save the data determined by the system in the explosion in the property tree of
the primary output.

Effects on Existing Data

Since the explosion scopes are no longer strictly assigned to the formula views, you must
ensure that an explosion scope has been assigned to each formula view in which a formula
explosion takes place. Copy the entries from standard Customizing if required.

Effects on Customizing
Make the following settings in Customizing for Recipe Management:
- Assign an explosion scope to each formula view under Specify Formula View Parameters.
- Make the necessary settings for the new explosion scopes NTR_CMP and DIE_CMP under
Specify Explosion Scopes and Specify Events.
- Enter the following under Specify Parameters for Explosion Scope:

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- The tab pages from which the system takes the data in the explosion when you set
the reaction indicator for the formula
- The value assignment types from which the system takes the data if you have
specified for the explosion scope that compositions are also to be taken into account

26.1.15 Specifying Field Attributes (Changed)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can only specify the field
attributes of input and output items for alternative items in Customizing for Recipe
Management. The new Input and Output formula view allows you to enter the same
substance or the same material several times in different standard items in the inputs and
outputs.

Effects on Customizing
You make the settings described here in Customizing for Recipe Management in the following
IMG activities:
- Specify Field Attributes for Alternative Items
- Define and Assign Values to Environment Parameters

26.1.16 Information System for Process Elements (Changed)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), all recipe process elements in the
navigation area under the Process Element information system are grouped together in
subfolders. The actual subfolders do not have a function of their own, but serve as collective
folders for the appropriate process elements.

Effects on Customizing
You make the necessary settings in the Workbench configuration in Customizing for Recipe
Management under General Settings.

26.1.17 Data Output in the Information System (Enhanced)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), the system provides a number of
new and enhanced functions for the output of recipe, formula, and substance data. The
following output variants are new:

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- RCPCOMPARE Recipe Comparison

- CDPCOMPARE Recipe Costs in Different Plants
- FRMCOMPARE Formula Comparison
This output variant replaces the output variant EXCEL_OUT (Formula Comparison with
Excel).
- SUBCOMPARE Substance Comparison
The FRM_OUTPUT (Output of Complete Formula) and RCP_OUTPUT (Output of
Complete Recipe) output variants now enable you to output all data from all the tab pages
supplied with the standard system as well as standardization data and properties.
Possibilities for influencing the data output have been enhanced as follows:
- In the output layout, you can specify the format used by the system to output dates and
numbers. This setting only affects the output in Recipe Management, that is, your user
settings for these formats in the SAP system remain unchanged.
- You can choose from different text lengths for the units of measure in the output layout.
- You can make a number of settings for data selection in the output layout, for example,
for the output of nutrients, you can specify the nutrient group to which the nutrients that
are to be output must belong. In addition, when you output costs, for example, you can
specify the plant used for determining the costs.
You can now also start the data output in the navigation area from the context menu of a
recipe, formula, or substance.

Effects on Existing Data

The system no longer supports the output variant EXCEL_OUT (Formula Comparison with
Excel), therefore, you can no longer use your own copies of this output variant.

Effects on Customizing
The settings you have to make for the formula and recipe output are in Customizing for
Recipe Management under Set Up EH&S for Information Systems.

26.1.18 Hierarchy View (Enhanced)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), the following information is available
in the Hierarchy view:
- Authorization group
- Responsibility
- Status
- Valid-from date and valid-to date

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- Preferred Recipe indicator

26.1.19 Changes to the IMG Structure in Recipe Management

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), the structure of the Recipe
Management Implementation Guide (IMG) has changed. You have to regenerate the project
IMGs in order to transfer these changes to them.
Deleted IMG Activities
- Formula -> Set Up EH&S for Formulas
- Recipe ->
- Configure EH&S for Recipes
- Set Up EH&S for Equipment Requirements
- Set Up EH&S for Process Elements
These four IMG activities have been grouped together to make one IMG activity called Set Up
EH&S Customizing.
New IMG Activities
- Set Up EH&S Customizing
- Information Systems -> Set Up EH&S for Information Systems
- Formula ->
- Specify Formula View Parameters
- Specify Parameters for Explosion Scope
- Define Key Figures and Key Figure Groups
- Formula -> Extend Formula Views to Include User-Defined Fields ->
- Extend Formula Views to Include User-Defined Fields
- BAdI: Filling User-Defined Fields in the Input and Output View
- BAdI: Filling User-Defined Fields in the Ingredients View
- Formula -> Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) ->
- BAdI: Conversion of Formula Data to EH&S Data
- BAdI: Preferred Recipe Check in the Explosion
- BAdI: Define Usage from Value Assignment Type
- BAdI: Check Nutrient Composition in Property Tree
- Recipe -> Define Properties for Specification Category
- Recipe -> Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) ->

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- BAdI: Allows Authorization Check to Be Extended/Replaced

- BAdI: Allows Validity Change to Subsequent Status IN PROCESS
- BAdI: Allows Long Text Dialog Box to Be Displayed for Dependent Formulas
- BAdI: Check for Deactivating the System Status Pushbuttons
- BAdI: Version Check for Creating and Deleting Recipes
- BAdI: Consistency Check for Recipe
- BAdI: Checks Whether a Recipe May Be Deleted
- BAdI: Checking the Preference Indicator of a Recipe
- Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) -> BAdI: Checks Whether General Recipe Can Be
Transformed to Master Recipe
Renamed IMG Activities
- The Set Up Generation of Formula Views and BOMs IMG activity is now called Set
Up Functions for Formula Views.
- The Specify Field Attributes IMG activity is now called Specify Field Attributes for
Alternative Items.
Moved IMG Activities
- The Specify Formatting Profiles IMG activity can now be found under Information
Systems. This activity was previously directly under Recipe Management.
- The BAdI: Check when Setting the Standard Explosion Indicator and BAdI:
Protection of Output Substances from Changes IMG activities can now be found
under Formula -> Business Add-Ins (BAdIs). These IMG activities previously came
under Business Add-Ins (BAdIs).
- The BAdI: Enhancement of Table-Based Value Assignment IMG activity is now
located in the Implementation Guide (IMG) for the SAP Environment, Health and Safety
component. This IMG activity used to be under Business Add-Ins (BAdIs).
- The BAdI: Document Link IMG activity can now be found under Recipe -> Business
Add-Ins (BAdIs). This IMG activity used to be under Business Add-Ins (BAdIs).

26.1.20 Material Views and Substance Views (Enhanced)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), there is a new Input and Output
formula view for entering material and substance data. This view allows you to enter all input
and output materials and substances in one table. The new view gives you the following
advantages:

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- It significantly reduces data entry because you no longer have to enter material and
substance data twice in two different views or generate one view from another. If you
enter a material to which a substance has been assigned in the SAP Environment, Health
and Safety (EH&S) or Material Master components, the system automatically adds this
substance to the Input and Output view. The system also adds the material assigned to
the substance when you enter a substance, in the same way. If you made
substance-material assignments in EH&S or in the Material Master afterwards, you can
also allow the system to add the substances or materials to the view later on by choosing
the Generate Substances or Generate Materials functions.
- Possible data entry errors are reduced because material data and substance data can no
longer deviate from each other.
You enter the inputs and outputs in one table in the Input and Output view and they are
separated by an empty row. Entering the inputs and outputs in one table gives you more room
in the view. In addition, the following functions have been simplified:
- The system calculates the primary output automatically after each change in the table that
affects the primary output. For this reason, the Recalculate Primary Output pushbutton
no longer exists in the view.
- The system checks your entries automatically when you confirm them or when you leave
the view. For this reason, the Check Entries pushbutton no longer exists in the detail
view.
The separate I/O Materials and I/O Substances views are no longer supported by the system.
If you still want to enter material data and substance data separately, you can use new views
with the same names to do this. As in the Input and Output view, these views also only
contain one table in which you enter inputs and outputs separated by an empty row.
Recommendation:
SAP recommends that you use the Input and Output view because it simplifies data entry
and because the separate I/O Materials and I/O Substances views will not be developed
any further in the future.
Effects on Existing Data
If, in previous releases, you used the I/O Materials and I/O Substances formula views, the
system automatically transfers the data from these views when you call the new Input and
Output view for a formula for the first time. You specify the view from which the system
transfers the data in the FRML_IO_CALCULATION_BASE environment parameter. For more
information, see the documentation for this environment parameter.

Effects on Customizing
You set up formula views in Customizing for Recipe Management under Set Up and Activate
Formula Views.
You specify environment parameters in Customizing for Recipe Management under Define and
Assign Values to Environment Parameters.

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26.1.21 Displaying Key Figures (New)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can calculate key figures from
the formula data and display them in the Key Figures formula view. You define the necessary
calculation rules in function modules.
You assign key figures to key figure groups. The system only displays the key figures of the
key figure group currently selected.

Effects on Customizing
You have to make the following settings in Customizing for Recipe Management to use key
figures and key figure groups:
- You activate the Key Figures formula view under Set Up and Activate Formula Views.
- You define key figures and key figure groups under Define Key Figures and Key Figure
Groups.
See also
For more information, see Key Figures under the Recipe Management component in SAP
Library.

26.1.22 Configuration of Table Columns (Enhanced)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can tailor the layout of table
columns more effectively to your requirements. The changes are valid for one working session.
See also
For more information, see Configuration of Table Columns under the Recipe Management
component in SAP Library.

26.1.23 Language Concept for Recipes (Enhanced)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can specify that you can edit
text elements of a recipe only if your logon language and the reference language of the recipe
are the same. If this is not the case, the text fields are not ready for input.

Effects on Customizing
You specify whether you are only allowed to edit text elements if the logon language and the
reference language are the same, in Customizing for Recipe Management under Define

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Properties for Specification Category.

See also
For more information about the language concept for recipes, see Language Concept in
Recipe Editing under the Recipe Management component in SAP Library.

26.1.24 Locking Objects (Enhanced)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can specify how many objects
the system locks at one time:
- You can specify that you can open several objects at the same time in change mode and
edit them. This locks all open objects for other users until you save. When you save, the
changes are saved for all objects that you changed.
- You can specify that the system initially only displays each object that you open. If you
then choose edit mode, you lock only this one object. When you save the object and open
a different one, you automatically unlock the object you were previously editing.

Effects on Customizing
To specify that the system only ever locks the object you are editing, set the Lock indicator
for the Recipe Workbench under Set Up Workbench, subdialog Service Groups in Customizing
for Recipe Management.

See also
For more information, see Locking Concept for Objects under the Recipe Management
component in SAP Library.

26.1.25 Editing Long Texts (Changed)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), there is a new Long Texts view in
which you can enter long texts. The long text for an object is visible on the tab page. You can
display the long text and it even remains visible when you switch between the views. To edit
the text, you either open the SAPscript editor or you edit the text on the tab page itself
(without text formats). It is only possible to edit the text on the tab page if you have made the
relevant settings in Customizing.

Effects on Customizing
You activate the Long Texts view in Customizing for Recipe Management under Recipe
Settings.
You specify whether to edit long texts with or without text formats in Customizing for Recipe
Management under Define Properties for Specification Category.

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See also
For more information about editing long texts, see Texts under the Recipe Management
component in SAP Library.

26.1.26 Formula Explosion Modeling (Enhanced)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can use two different types of
modeling:
- Modeling in modeling mode
If you perform modeling in modeling mode, the system displays the explosion result in the
individual formula views. You have to exit modeling mode to be able to start editing the
formula again.
- Modeling outside modeling mode
This function has not changed. Modeling takes place outside the formula views. The new
Input and Output formula view contains the Model Formula Explosion pushbutton for
this purpose.

See also
For more information about formula explosion modeling, see Formula Explosion Modeling
under the Recipe Management component in SAP Library.

26.1.27 Copying the Process Hierarchy to Equipment Requirements (New)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can automatically copy the
complete process hierarchy to the Equip. Requirements view. The system creates a new
equipment requirement entry for the process and for each existing process object (stage,
operation, and action). You perform this function using the Copy Process Hierarchy
pushbutton in the Equip. Requirements view.

See also
For more information, see Equipment Requirement under the Recipe Management
component in SAP Library.

26.1.28 Assigning Nutrients to Nutrient Groups (Changed)

Use
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nutrient groups at once.

26.1.29 Nutrient Limit (New)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can define plausibility limits for
nutrients. In doing this, you specify the quantity limits within which the nutrient occurs. The
reference quantity of the nutrient serves as a reference value.
If you enter nutrients in a real substance, the system compares your entries with the plausibility
limits. The system only accepts entries that are within the plausibility limits.

26.1.30 Packaging (New)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can also edit specifications of
the specification category packaging in Recipe Management. The system provides a specific
node for this purpose in the navigation area of the Recipe Workbench. Packaging has its own
information system that you can call via this node.

26.1.31 Process Parameters (Enhanced)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), the following has changed in the
Process Parameters view for recipes:
- The units of measurement of the target value and of the minimum and maximum value are
all displayed in separate columns. If you create a new process parameter, the system
displays the unit of measurement defined in characteristics management. You can overwrite
this unit of measurement with a unit of measurement of the same dimension.
- You can use the input help for the EH&S-specific classification system for each field that
refers to a characteristic (exceptions are: descriptions, minimum value, maximum value,
target value, and default unit of measurement).
- You can change the column layout.
- The system checks whether the target value is between the minimum and maximum value.
- If you have defined permitted values for a characteristic of data type character in
characteristics management, the system displays the description instead of the characteristic
value, for example, the description green instead of 1 for the color green in the Color
column. Furthermore, the system displays the phrase text instead of the phrase key for
phrase-related characteristics.

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Effects on Customizing
You make settings for process parameters in Customizing for Recipe Management under
Define Process Parameters.

See also
For more information, see Process Parameters under the Recipe Management component in
SAP Library.

26.1.32 Quality Management (Changed)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can specify that master
inspection characteristics are used as a copy template when you transform a general recipe or
site recipe to a master recipe. This means that the system copies the attributes of the master
inspection characteristic to the master recipe and you can change them there.
If you do not make this setting, you can specify for each individual inspection whether the
master inspection characteristic is used as a copy template or as a reference.

Effects on Customizing
To specify that the master inspection characteristic is used as a copy template, you set the Sets
and Locks "Template" (Inspection Chars) Indicator environment parameter in Customizing
for Recipe Management under Specify Environment Parameters.

See also
For more information about using master inspection characteristics, see Master Inspection
Characteristics as a Copy Template or Reference under the Recipe Management
component in SAP Library.

26.1.33 Navigation Area in the Recipe Workbench (Enhanced)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can use the following functions
in the Recipe Workbench:
- The Select Current Object pushbutton to select the object in the navigation and detail
area that is active in the application area.
- The context menu to sort the content of the folder.

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26.1.34 Reaction Category (Enhanced)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can specify one of the following
reaction categories for each formula for which you set the Reaction indicator:
- Standard reaction
- Formula-specific reaction
You can specify for each of these reaction categories which of the following formula views is
ready for input:
- Composition
- Ingredients
- Nutrients
Furthermore, you can specify for the reaction categories the formula view from which the
system reads the formula data in a formula explosion.

Effects on Existing Data

If in earlier releases you set the Reaction indicator for formulas, the system automatically
defines these formulas as standard reactions.

Effects on Customizing
Make the following settings for the reaction category in Customizing for Recipe Management:
- In Define and Assign Values to Environment Parameters, use the
FRML_REACTION_TYPE environment parameter to specify whether the system displays
the reaction categories for you to choose from or whether it automatically uses a particular
reaction category when you set the Reaction indicator for a formula.
- In Specify Formula View Parameters, define the formula views that are ready for input
depending on the reaction category.
- In Specify Explosion Scopes, define how the system processes formulas in the formula
explosion that are reactions.
- In Specify Parameters for Explosion Scope, define the formula views, from which the
system obtains the data when exploding formulas that are reactions.

See also
For more information, see Reaction Indicator for Formulas under the Recipe Management
component in SAP Library.

26.1.35 Creating Relationships (Enhanced)

Use

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As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can create the following
relationships of dependent operations automatically:
- General relationships
- Stream-dependent relationships
To do this, use the Generate Relationshps(General) and Generate Relshps (Stream-Dep.)
pushbuttons on the Relationships tab page.

26.1.36 Saving Calculated Data (Changed)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can save data determined in
formula explosions to the property tree of the primary output, provided that the primary output
is not a stream. To do this, use the Write Data to Primary Output pushbutton in the
appropriate formula views.
The data in the formula is not exactly the same as the data in the property tree due to
accuracy differences in the format of the data. You can correct these differences.

Effects on Customizing
To be able to save calculated data to the property tree of the primary output, you have to
make the following settings in Customizing for Recipe Management:
- Enter the value assignment types for the appropriate formula views in Specify Parameters
for Explosion Scope and Define and Assign Values to Environment Parameters.
- Define the usage for the current formula view in Specify Formula View Parameters or
implement the Define Usage from Value Assignment Type Business Add-In (BAdI).
- If you want to avoid accuracy loss when saving the data to the property tree, implement
the Conversion of Formula Data to EH&S Data BAdI.

See also
For more information, see Saving of Formula View Data in the Property Tree under the
Recipe Management component in SAP Library.

26.1.37 Scaling Quantities (New)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can scale the quantities specified
in the Input and Output formula view from this formula view:
You can either multiply the quantities of all items by the same factor or enter a new quantity
for an item. In this case, the system changes the remaining items proportionally. You can
display the results of your calculation in the Input and Output view.

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26.1.38 Information System for Process Element Building Blocks (Enhanced)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can search for process building
blocks and all process element building blocks (stages, operations, and actions) using your own
information system.

Effects on Customizing
You make the settings for the process element information system in Customizing for Recipe
Management under Information Systems.

See also
For more information, see Information Systems under the Recipe Management component
in SAP Library.

26.1.39 Finding Primary or Secondary Outputs (New)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can use the extended search
function for output substances and output materials in the formula search to specify that the
substances or materials specified must be primary or secondary outputs in the formulas that are
to be determined.

26.1.40 Standardization (Changed)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can trigger standardization in the
Input and Output formula view even if you are in display mode or if the status of the
formula does not allow editing.
However, in these cases, you can neither save the standardization parameters nor write the
results of the calculation to the Input and Output formula view.

26.1.41 Changing the Validity Period for Obsolete Recipes (New)

Use
If, as of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you set the Obsolete status for a

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recipe before it becomes valid (that is, the valid-from date of the recipe is in the future), the
system makes the valid-to date the same as the valid-from date. This enables you to
recognize obsolete recipes that were never productive more easily.

26.1.42 Quantities Formula View (Changed)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you set the Consistent, Reaction,
and Evaporation indicators in the Quantities formula view. You also start the consistency
check in this formula view. The actual indicators are shown above the formula views
irrespective of which formula view you are currently working in.

26.1.43 Trial Management (New)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), Trial Management is available in
Recipe Management. Trial Management enables you to optimize the product development
process from the first trials and prototypes to industrial production. Trial Management supports
you when carrying out a number of different trials, linking to all trial-related areas and objects,
such as Project Management, Quality Management, planned orders, and process orders.

26.1.44 Entering Material Quantities (Changed)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), the system only checks the material
units of measure you enter in the Input and Output formula view against the allowed units of
measure you specified in Customizing. The unit of measure you enter no longer has to be of
the same dimension as the base unit of measure of the material entered. This allows you to
create a formula even if you have not yet defined the conversions for the units of measure in
the material master.

Effects on Customizing
You define the permitted units of measure in Customizing for Recipe Management under
Define Allowed Units of Measure.

26.1.45 Version Check in Recipes (Enhanced)

Use

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In the standard system, a version of a recipe is only checked and deleted if it is the final
version in the version chain.
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can specify more checks for the
system to perform when you create or delete recipes.

Effects on Customizing
If you want the system to perform additional checks when creating or deleting a recipe with
versions, use the Version Check for Creating and Deleting Recipes Business Add-In (BAdI) in
Customizing for Recipe Management.

26.2 PLM-IFO Interactive Forms

26.2.1 Interactive Forms for Creating and Changing Products (New)

Use
As of SAP ECC 5.00, PLM Extension (EA-PLM 500), you can create and change products
by using the following interactive forms:
- Request form New Product
- Request form Change Request for Product
These forms help you to put together the necessary product data or material data offline, and
transfer it to the ERP system only when it has been approved by the manager.
The design of the forms and the editing processes have been modeled with the functions of the
Guided Procedures (CAF-GP) component. You can use the processes as they are, or use them
as a template for creating your own company-specific processes.
Content
These electronic forms contain data on the requester and the reason for the request. In the
New Product request form, an expert can add important product data or material data.
This data is presented clearly and according to the task areas of employees, with additional
hints for editing.
Editing Process
The forms are edited in standardized processes.
- The chronological and logical sequence of processing steps (workflow) is linked to the
evaluation of conditions. For example, the data required for one step must be complete and
correct before the next step can be started.
- The employees responsible are automatically integrated in the individual process steps, as
requester, expert, and manager.

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- Although forms are edited offline, information from the ERP system is available to the
processor. For example, the processor can use the field help for system data in many
cases, and entries are checked for validity.
- The control center or dashboard of the Guided Procedures component informs the
manager of request forms that are to be checked. Here, the manager either approves the
data for transfer to the ERP system, or initiates an information message to the requester in
the case of a rejection.

See also
For more information, see the SAP Library, component Interactive Forms, Interactive Forms
in PLM.

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