
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
Additional Information
- This scope item requires an additional SAP S/4HANA Cloud license
- This scope item is excluded from the default activation
This scope item is only available for customers who have licensed these features before SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1908 including maintenance for these features. For further information, see SAP Note 2792363.
Where is Engineering Change Management with Change Records(1NF) being used?
This Scope item is used in the following way:
- As a core function of Product Lifecycle Management within R&D/Engineering Scope Item Group