Engineering Change Management with Change Records (1NF)

Engineering Change Management with Change Records (1NF)

SAP Engineering Change Management with Change Records flexibly supports the management of engineering changes. It can handle several types of objects (such as materials and documents) that are affected by the intended changes. The engineering record keeps all information in one place. The progress of the change is controlled by a dedicated status management, and the change process is supported by workflow capabilities. Communication with SAP CoPilot during the change process allows effective communication with all involved parties.

Key Process Steps Covered

  • Create change record
  • Start workflow
  • Review change request (optional)
  • Rework request
  • Assign design document
  • Assign product/engineering structure
  • Approve/reject change record
  • Modify validity date in change master
  • Perform design changes
  • Perform product master changes
  • Perform engineering structure changes

Benefits

  • Handle various object types with and without change numbers and model workflows flexibly
  • Gain transparency with powerful workflow capability combined with a status driven change control
  • Improve efficiency with all change information in one easy-to-navigate place
  • Single source of truth of all the data involved in a change
  • Drive change process efficiently through best practices and workflow templates
  • Allow ad-hoc communication with stakeholders (Copilot)
  • Create and easily manage customer specific attributes in order to determine the best fit template and responsibility
  • Leverage insights from engineering cockpit

Where is Engineering Change Management with Change Records(1NF) being used?

This Scope item is used in the following way:

  • As a support function of Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management within R&D/Engineering Scope Item Group
  • As a core function of Product Lifecycle Management within R&D/Engineering Scope Item Group

Process flow of Engineering Change Management with Change Records (1NF)

Find below the process flow of the scope item Engineering Change Management with Change Records as it is defined for release s4h-2021.


Download Process Flow of Best Practice scenario Engineering Change Management with Change Records (1NF) - S/4HANA OP
Ref: R&D/Engineering of SAP S4H-2021
Best Practices related to S/4HANA*1) Yearly Updates are released per September of each year
*2) The Quarterly updates are released per Februari, May, August and November
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