| # Change Management Change Management deals with the fundamental concept of change. This module controls the processes of product changes. Change, particularly in industry, is a constant and critical factor. Effectively, in the real time scenario, the frequent upgrade and customization of products--due to quality improvements, cost reductions, manufacturing innovations, and customer satisfaction issues--requires an accurate and foolproof method to manage the change implementation process. Change Request The change request is the preliminary step in a change process. You can initiate change from various sources (internal or external to the organization) in the form of change request. These requests are processed by eliminating trivial requests, or by combining similar requests. An authorised user can create a change request. Change The change refers to the change header. All related change requests are linked to one change. If you create a new change, the first version of change proposal is created automatically. You can also create a change without a change request. Change Proposal The change proposal is a version-controlled entity of a change. A new change proposal is created by default when a change is created. The proposal can be approved or rejected. When the proposal is approved, the status of change changes to Approved. If the proposal is rejected, the status remains the same ( Created). If the proposal is rejected, you can create a new proposal with all the linked entities. Change Order A version of the change proposal has a list of proposed effectivity dates, which are recorded as change orders. A change order can exist independently of a change proposal. Change orders are linked to the change proposal. A change order can be selected for effectivity dates. To control the effective and expire dates of more than one change order, you can define a parent child dependency between two change orders. The hierarchical dependency between two change orders, creates a bill of change orders (BOCO). A BOCO has two levels of hierarchy. You can link the change orders in BOCO to the change proposal. Change committee The committee of a chairperson and reviewers who implement a change using change management. Only authorized users can create a change committee. the reviewers of the change committee submit the change proposal for review. The reviewers provide their recommendations and the final decision lies with the chairperson of the committee. |