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Streamlining Engineering Change Control

The document outlines pain points in the engineering change control process, highlighting the manual steps required for stock movement and linking materials to Engineering Change Numbers (ECN). It discusses the limitations of current applications in HANA for mass processing and suggests workarounds such as using custom reports and Excel file uploads. Additionally, it proposes integrating Teamcenter with SAP to streamline the creation of change numbers and material master updates.

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Streamlining Engineering Change Control

The document outlines pain points in the engineering change control process, highlighting the manual steps required for stock movement and linking materials to Engineering Change Numbers (ECN). It discusses the limitations of current applications in HANA for mass processing and suggests workarounds such as using custom reports and Excel file uploads. Additionally, it proposes integrating Teamcenter with SAP to streamline the creation of change numbers and material master updates.

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Engineering change control Process Pain points

Pain point 1: Manual process to move stock to location based on input


class number – based on a class of change can a stock transaction (or at
least a list) be generated automatically

For this process, we don’t have many changes in standards to transfer


materials from one location to another in mass. As the MB1A, MB1B,
MB1C... transactions became obsolete an alternate app called the Transfer
Stock has been made available in Hana.

In the app, you can move the materials from one storage location (101A)
to another (101B). And again not in mass.

Steps - Add storage location using the option in the app. Then, click the
arrow mark in source storage location 101A where the stock is available.
Later click the arrow mark in recipient storage location 101B where the
stock is to be placed.
In the next screen maintain the quantity, date, and necessary data, and
click post.

After posting, the stock will be moved to another storage location and to
quality stock as the inspection type 08 is active.

For mass processing - as a workaround, we can assign the ECN class as a


character to the batches and make it auto-update while doing GR.

Later we can create custom reports in UI5 to get the list of stock based on
ECN class characters and add the functionality for selecting and moving
the components to another location in mass.
Pain Point 2: Manual multi-stage process to link material changed to ECN
– can this be done via sheet import or similar

For this also there are not many improvements in Hana to create the
Change numbers in mass. There are no new tcodes to do mass upload.

We have an app called Manage Change Master.

In that, we can select the ECN and create/change it. But that also goes to
the old GUI CC02 screen.

Also not much improvement in updating the ECN in materials by mass. In


MM17, MMCC there is no possibility.

As a workaround, we can get the Excel files, from Teamcenter and later
upload them to the SAP file director. Then using the Excel files, we can run
a background program to create the ECN and link the master data with
change numbers.
Or else as mentioned by Justin we can integrate the Teamcenter with SAP
with PIP or PDMI to create the Change numbers and material master’s
whenever changes happen in Teamcenter.

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