Overview of Change Orders

Change orders let you process changes to user-defined item attributes, structures, packs, associations, and item revisions.

Product managers can create change orders within predefined change types, author product changes, view product changes, submit changes for review and approval, track change statuses, and implement changes on a scheduled date.

Changes are submitted through a formal review and approval workflow to ensure successful and validated completion of change orders.

Note: The Product Development work area doesn't support approval of change orders at the line level.

Changes to item structures can be implemented in other organizations by propagating change orders to multiple organizations using predefined propagation rules while still having the flexibility to adapt implementation schedules based on individual organizations.

Individual lines in change orders can be moved to existing or new change orders to avoid bottlenecks in processing and implementation.

Note: In the Product Information Management work area, change orders can be accessed through horizontal tabs or side tabs. If the navigation provided in a help topic doesn't match with navigation in the user interface, the administrator might have enabled the Simplified Change Management Interface. If you want to use a different interface, contact the administrator.