Making Reservations in Engineering Change Management
Usage
Documents are integrated into a change process by entering the change number in the basic data. This change number controls the change process.
When the change department enters all the objects that are affected by the change in the change master record (for example, BOM, routing), documents can be preselected for the change. Reserving documents for certain changes guarantees that only one change number which the processing status of the document is relevant for can be entered in a document version.
Integration
You reserve a document for a change in the change master record. When you process the document info record, you decide which of the change numbers should be copied into the document.
Prerequisites
Change master records that you want to reserve documents for must support document processing (object type settings).
Scope of the Function
You reserve a document for a change master record by creating an object management record for this document.
As soon as there is a reservation for a document version, only one of the change numbers can be chosen for the version, or no change number is entered.
You can either reserve one version (for example, version 08) or all versions of a document (enter * for the version) for the document key (document number, document type, and document part).