diff --git a/docs/sp-migration/generate-manifests.sh b/docs/sp-migration/generate-manifests.sh
index 83f16a16..22f6803d 100755
--- a/docs/sp-migration/generate-manifests.sh
+++ b/docs/sp-migration/generate-manifests.sh
@@ -1,13 +1,25 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 set -e
 
+# shellcheck disable=SC2034
 version_aws=v0.37.0
+# shellcheck disable=SC2034
 version_azure=v0.34.0
+# shellcheck disable=SC2034
 version_gcp=v0.34.0
 
 rm -f "sp-manual.yaml" && touch "sp-manual.yaml"
 rm -f "sp-family-manual.yaml" && touch "sp-family-manual.yaml"
-kubectl get managed --no-headers -o jsonpath='{range .items[*]}{.apiVersion}{"\n"}{end}' | grep -E '(aws|gcp|azure).upbound.io' | sort | uniq | while read -r line
+
+if [ -n "$CONF_PATH" ]; then
+  echo "Generating manifests from $CONF_PATH. No runtime Managed Resources will be included"
+  apiGroups=$(grep -rh apiVersion: "$CONF_PATH" | grep -E '(aws|gcp|azure).upbound.io' | sort | uniq | tr -d '[:blank:]'| cut -d ":" -f 2)
+else
+  echo "Generating manifests from current cluster"
+  apiGroups=$(kubectl get managed --no-headers -o jsonpath='{range .items[*]}{.apiVersion}{"\n"}{end}' | grep -E '(aws|gcp|azure).upbound.io' | sort | uniq)
+fi
+
+echo "$apiGroups"| while read -r line
 do
   service=$(echo "${line}" | cut -d. -f1)
   provider=$(echo "${line}" | cut -d. -f2)
@@ -28,7 +40,8 @@ do
       providername="family-$provider"
       filename="sp-family-manual.yaml"
     fi
-    if ! cat "${filename}" | grep provider-${providername}:${version} > /dev/null; then
+    # shellcheck disable=SC2154
+    if ! grep provider-"${providername}:${version}" "${filename}" > /dev/null; then
     echo "apiVersion: pkg.crossplane.io/v1
 kind: Provider
 metadata:
@@ -39,4 +52,4 @@ spec:
     echo "---" >> "${filename}"
     fi
   done
-done
\ No newline at end of file
+done
diff --git a/docs/sp-migration/sp-migration-conf.md b/docs/sp-migration/sp-migration-conf.md
index be5f9349..09054140 100644
--- a/docs/sp-migration/sp-migration-conf.md
+++ b/docs/sp-migration/sp-migration-conf.md
@@ -24,6 +24,14 @@ export KUBECONFIG=<path of the Kubeconfig file>
 ./generate-manifests.sh
 ```
 
+Alternatively, you can generate the provider manifests out of the local
+Configuration files. No runtime Managed Resources will be included in this case.
+
+```bash
+export CONF_PATH=<root path of the configuration files>
+./generate-manifests.sh
+```
+
 4. Install family providers with `revisionActivationPolicy: Manual`:
 
 Verify that `sp-family-manual.yaml` files are generated with the correct content
@@ -107,4 +115,4 @@ export CONF_PATH=<root path of the configuration files>
 
 ```bash
 kubectl patch $(kubectl get managed -o name) -p '{"spec":{"deletionPolicy":"Delete"}}' --type=merge
-```
\ No newline at end of file
+```