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If you are using Oracle Engineering, you can create an engineering change order (ECO) from the mass change order that affects both engineering and manufacturing bills. You can then implement the ECO and report on any effected using assemblies.

Bills of Material or Engineering take into account all the actions you enter to determine if the change is applicable. For example, suppose you add component A and delete component B. This change is made only if component A does not exist and component B does exist on the selected bills. The change is applied only if both conditions are met. In this example, two records are affected.

Prerequisites

   You must create at least one bill of material. See: Creating Bills of Material

   You must create at least one change order type. See: Defining ECO Types .

   To mass change bills of material:

1. Navigate to the Mass Change Bills window.

2. Enter a mass change order number and a change order type. If you have Engineering installed and have set up ECO Autonumbering, a default value will appear. See: Defining ECO Autonumbering .

The change order type describes your changes and determines the type of bills to modify.

3. Enter the effective date for the change (for engineering bills only).

4. Indicate whether to increment the parent item's revision by 1 (numeric based revisions only).

5. Indicate whether to update Work in Process material requirements of any unreleased discrete job, or any release or unreleased repetitive schedule associated with the parent items.

6. Specify the parent items to change.

You can use a category set, a category range, or an item range. Alternatively, indicate whether to change all primary bills, all primary and alternate bills, or a specific alternate bill.

Optionally, enter a base model to mass change configuration items related to this model that meets your other selection criteria.

Enter an item type for the parent items.

7. Choose the Changes button to enter component changes.

8. When finished, select the action(s) to take.

For Bills of Material, select Report (to see affected bills), Implement (to perform the mass change), both, or neither.

For Engineering, select Report, Create ECO, both, or neither.

If you make no selection, the mass change order is saved for you to work on later.

Caution: You cannot undo a mass change. However, you can create another mass change to reverse the effects of a previous mass change.

9. Choose the Submit button to launch the selected actions.

   To enter component changes:

1. Choose the Changes button on the Mass Change Bills window.

2. For each component item to change, indicate the action to perform. You can add or delete components to or from a parent item.

Or, you can update existing information about the component on the parent item. With this option a new row is created that you enter new information into.

3. In the Main alternative region, enter the item sequence, operation sequence, the quantity, and the inactive date for each component. See: Item and Operation Sequence.

4. Open the Component Detail alternative region and enter the planning percent. See: Planning Percent.

Enter the yield and indicate whether the component should be quantity related and included in cost rollups. See: Yield

5. Open the Material Control alternative region and enter the supply type. See: Supply Types.

Enter the supply subinventory and locator identifiers. See: Supply Subinventory and Locator.

6. For model, option class, and kit bills, open the Order Entry alternative region and enter the minimum and maximum sales order quantities. See: Minimum and Maximum Quantity.

Indicate whether to check ATP. See: Check ATP.

Indicate whether the component is optional and mutually exclusive. See: Mutually Exclusive and Optional.

7. Open the Shipping alternative region, and choose whether the component should be listed on shipping documents, required to ship, or required for revenue. See: Shipping Details.

   To set Engineering Change Order (ECO) options:

1. From the Mass Change Bills window, choose the Special menu item and choose Set ECO Options.

2. Use the Plan check box to indicate whether you want Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP to include the revised item in the planning process.

3. Indicate whether each revised item's effective date is based upon the planned item's use-up date. If so, check the Use Up check box.

4. Enter an item whose use-up date is tied to each revised item effective date. The default is the use-up item associated with the plan name. This can be the revised item or a component of the revised item.

Oracle Alert automatically notifies the planner for the revised item if the use-up date changes based on information from a new MRP plan.

See Also

Engineering Change Order Schedule Report

Overview of Engineering Change Orders