Automatic Change Management

The Automatic Change Management feature in contract manufacturing helps in keeping the demand and supply in balance.

The key points of this feature are:

• Automatic change management enables you to handle any changes that originate from the demand side, either from a customer or a planned order. It enables you to take action on quantity, date changes, or demand cancellations, and relay that information to the contract manufacturer appropriately. In this process, the feature ensures that the contract manufacturing work order and purchase order are synchronized. If for any reason the requested demand changes can't be met, the order manager is notified of the exceptions.

• Automatic change management also enables a response to any exceptions that originate from the contract manufacturer. The feature enables you to react to any increase or decrease in quantity, date exception, or supply cancellation by relaying these exceptions to the order manager. The order manager can initiate corrective action if necessary. Change management always keeps the contract manufacturing work order and purchase order synchronized.

• The business value of this feature is that, it enables the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to efficiently handle all customer needs and react appropriately to all the supply exceptions in order to meet the customer demand. Supply chain resilience is increased with this feature to meet with any supply or demand changes.