How To Fix C5516 - Plant & already allocated to recipe group &

C5516 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: C5 - Master Recipe

• Message number: 516

• Message text: Plant & already allocated to recipe group &

What causes this issue?

You have entered a recipe group for which
recipes exist, or
recipes that have existed are (logically) deleted but have not yet been
archived.
For this reason, a specific plant is allocated to this recipe group.
However, you have entered a different plant or none at all.

System Response

The system overwrites the entry in the field "plant" with value &V2&.

Error message extract from SAP system. Copyright SAP SE.

C5516 - Details

• The SAP error message C5516 indicates that a specific plant is already allocated to a recipe group in the system. This typically occurs in the context of production planning and recipe management within SAP, particularly in the SAP Production Planning (PP) and SAP Recipe Management (RM) modules.
  
  Cause:
  The error arises when you attempt to assign a plant to a recipe group that is already associated with that plant. This can happen due to:
  
  Duplicate Assignment: The plant is already linked to another recipe group, and the system does not allow multiple assignments for the same plant to different recipe groups.
  
  Configuration Issues: There may be configuration settings in the recipe management module that restrict the assignment of plants to recipe groups.
  Data Integrity: There might be inconsistencies in the data that lead to the system not recognizing the current state of assignments.
  
  
  Solution:
  To resolve the C5516 error, you can take the following steps:
  
  
  Check Existing Assignments:
  
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