Engineering Change Management is a central logistics function that can be used to change various aspects of production basic data (for example, BOMs, task lists, materials, and documents ) with history (with date effectivity) or depending on specific conditions (with parameter effectivity).

A change with history has the following distinctive characteristics:

• It takes effect under precisely defined conditions (precise date or specific effectivity parameter value).

The selection is recommended if you frequently carry out complex master data changes and want to document the changes.

Maintaining a Change Master Record

Maintaining Objects with Reference to a Change Number

Displaying a Change Master Record

Automated Processing of Business Transactions Using Engineering Change Requests