| change type |
The change type controls the process flow of change objects in engineering change management. You can define this for an entire change master record, or for individual objects (such as bills of material or routings) which are allocated to the change master.
The process flow is defined internally using the system status, and you cannot change it manually.
The workflow workbench gives you the option of defining specific workflow tasks for specific processing statuses, which are monitored and controlled by the workflow manager.
If you want to organize the business transactions for a specific processing status in more detail, you can define a status profile in Customizing and assign the profile to the change type. In the change master, this process flow is controlled by the user status.