Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM):

Useful classes and FM for PLM-Recipe

Management for process industries
Posted by Parag Parikh Apr 10, 2014
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.

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.

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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Jan Buchmann
Jan 6, 2015 9:28 AM
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!

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