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Procedure documentation Creating an Engineering Change Request  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

In the first processing stage, you create an engineering change request and assign the change objects.

To create an engineering change request:

  1. From the Engineering Change Management menu, choose Engin. change req. ® Create.

    2. – Enter a change type for the change request.

    – Enter any further data required.

  2. Choose Continue.

    3. The Change Header screen appears.

    The change header has the following three additional fields that are not in the change master:

    – Change type

    – System status

    The system shows the abbbreviations of the statuses that it has already had.
    The system status OPEN is generated automatically. This system status is also transferred to the change objects and is shown in the object overview and the detail screens for the management records.

    – User Status

    You can only maintain the user status if you have selected a change type with status profile for the change master record (see Customizing for Engineering Change Management under Define change type for master record).

    To see a description of this status, select Go to ® Status management.

  3. Enter the required data.

    4. You do not have to enter the valid-from date or other effectivity data immediately. Entering the valid-from date is not essential until you want to convert the ECR to an ECO.

  4. Enter the object type indicators.

    5. Later on, you can only enter objects of those object types whose indicators are set accordingly (ie: allow processing).

  5. Enter the objects that you want to change with reference to the engineering change request (for example, material, BOM, task list).
    To do this, go to the specific object overviews (for example, Goto     ® Object Overview ® Document).

    6. Choose New Entries and enter the master data required to identify the object.

  6. Save your change request.