Recipe Editing with Engineering Change Order (SAP Library

Recipe Editing with Engineering Change Order

Engineering Change Request (ECR) / Engineering Change Order (ECO)

Engineering change orders have the functionality of change master records. However, they comprise the following additional functions:

A procedure for the approval and release of changes during which an unapproved engineering change request is converted into an approved engineering change order; see Approval Procedure for Engineering Change Requests/Orders.

When creating a process order, you can use the order type to determine that only approved recipes are used (see Creating Process Orders with Approved Master Recipes). Note, however, that the system does not take bills of material (BOMs) of phantom assemblies into account.

A restriction of the authorization to change only those objects (for example, master recipes or bills of material) for which you have created an object management record in the change master record

The possibility of triggering a workflow task such as sending a message to the person responsible at a particular processing stage

Like change master records, you create engineering change requests within engineering change management. They are identified via a change number.

See also:

SAP Library LO - Engineering Change Management

You can set up an approval procedure similar to that of an engineering change order by assigning a user status profile to your change master record. You may want to do this if you want to use more than just the system statuses of the engineering change order in your approval procedure.

Recipe Editing and Documentation of Changes

To create, change, or display a master recipe with reference to an engineering change order, you must enter the corresponding change number on the initial screen for recipe editing.

You can only change or display the recipe with the change order if the following conditions are met:

The engineering change order must be approved and must contain an object management record for the recipe.

If a corresponding change rule has been defined for the recipe, the change type of the object management record must be identical to that in the recipe header.

To edit material component assignments, material quantity calculation, and the bill of material (BOM) from within the master recipe, you also need an object management record for the BOM.

You can create a production version in the recipe provided that object management records have been defined for the recipe, BOM, and material.
Otherwise, you can only change the attributes (lot size, validity period, and apportionment structure) of existing production versions.

As far as the validity and change documentation of recipes are concerned, the same rules apply as described in Recipe Editing with Change Master Record.