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Author's profile photo Parag Parikh
Parag Parikh
April 10, 2014 2 minute read

Useful classes and FM for PLM-Recipe Management for process industries

When I started working on a PLM-RM implementation, I could not find simple material like list of classes or FM useful for this module.

I am presenting here list of useful classes and FM from PLM-Recipe Management for process industries.These are useful in reading information about recipe and formula in ABAP program. I hope that this would be a useful reference for consultants implementing this module.

Use method EXT_TO_INT_CONVERT of class CL_RM_INT_RECIPE. This will give us internal number i.e. GUID of recipe. Input is recipe name.


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Read primary output formula of recipe using method PO_AND_PO_FRM_GET. We need internal number obtained in step above as input here.

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We see that we have obtained formula’s internal number. Next task is what if we want to know external formula number? We can use class CL_RM_INT_FRM to get formula information. Method EXT_TO_INT_CONVERT gives internal number for formula.

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Method ROOT_FOR_FORMULA_GET of class CL_RM_INT_FRM gives us reverse tracing i.e. root for formula which in this case will be recipe.

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Use method ITEM_READ to read formula items.

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We need to provide internal number for recipe and formula as input. Method gives us details of all substances in formula along with materials/unit of measure in table ET_ITEM.

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If the requirement is to read a substance only then we can use FM C1F2_SUBSTANCES_READ. Input will be scenario which is 01 for read, key date in I_ADDINF, pas I_FLAG_MATJOIN to get material information. Pass substance internal number obtained from table ESTRH to X_API_HEADER_TAB-RECN.

Parameter E_API_MATJOIN_TAB gives us the material and plant. Using material number we can fetch base unit of measure from master data.


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      Author's profile photo Jan Buchmann
      Jan Buchmann

      Thanks for your great blog! Very informative indeed. I only wished I had come across it a bit earlier - it would have save me so much time...and headaches. 😉

      I've mainly used the following FMs:

      • RCP301_RECIPES_READ to read recipe data
      • RCP742_RCP_FRM to read formula data which requires FRML209_RCP_INIT to be called as well as RCP742_SET_KEYDATE
      • RCP130_PROVIDE_PO_FRML returns the primary output of a formula

      I also found BAPI_BUS1077_GETDETAIL very helpful to read substance data.

      Keep it up!

      Author's profile photo Rohan Somji
      Rohan Somji

      @parag.parikh

      Hi Parag,

      This is really an amazing blog. But I have to ask a query here. At the very start when we get the internal number and go to PO_AND_PO_FRM_GET we also need  I_KEYDATE as an input. How did you find date 07/29/2010.

      Use method EXT_TO_INT_CONVERT of class CL_RM_INT_RECIPE. This will give us internal number i.e. GUID of recipe. Input is recipe name. This gives the us PVGUID for Recipe. PO_AND_PO_FRM_GET needs key date too. How do we find this when initially we have only Recipe number.

      My analysis:

      I tried using today’s date as Key date and I was still able to get the output correctly. The reason being my recipe is valid from 04/09/2017 to 31/12/2099. So any date between this is a valid date for Recipe. So in a way I do have a solution available. But I think you posted the blog in 2014 and the key date used is 2010. So can you please tell me how did we get the date here. Thanks.

      Another way I figured out was getting the RECN number from the same class and to ESTRH. Enter the RECN and get the Valid date from there.

      Regards,

      Rohan