Product Change Management with Change Records - Process Industries (5QC)

SAP S/4HANA for product change management with change records flexibly orchestrates the management of enterprise product changes. It can handle several types of objects that are affected by the intended changes, such as materials, BOMs, master recipes, and documents. The change 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 of process route. Collaboration using comments during the change process allows effective communication with all involved parties.

Key Process Steps Covered

• Create change record
• Start workflow
• Review change request (optional)
• Assign master recipes and products
• Assign classification and attachments
• Approve or 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 visual workflow capability combined with a status driven change control
• Improve efficiency with all change information in one easy-to-navigate place
• Get a single source of truth of all the data involved in a change
• Drive the change process efficiently through best practices and workflow templates
• Allow ad-hoc communication with stakeholders
• Leverage insights from engineering cockpit

Additional Information

• This scope item requires an additional SAP S/4HANA Cloud license

Where is Product Change Management with Change Records - Process Industries(5QC) 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

Process flow of Product Change Management with Change Records - Process Industries (5QC)

• Best Practices of SAP S/4HANA On Premise *1
• Best Practices of SAP S/4HANA Cloud *2
• Best Practices of SAP Analytics Cloud *2
• Best Practices of Robotics Process Automation(RPA) with SAP Leonardo *2

• RISE with SAP
• SAP S/4HANA Cloud
• SAP on Azure
• Business Process Management