Suggested by Nic Fitzgerald – New
There is no Engineering Change Management (ECM) category to choose, which is odd, but this should fall under that category.
Currently engineering product categories are designed to only apply to a portion of the item master because they can only be created with a production type of BOM or Formula. The means that any co/by-product that is output on a formula cannot be engineering controlled, because they would have production types of Co-product or By-product. This means the following functionality cannot be utilized on an entire item master. (Listed on the Feature Overview from the MS documentation)
- Product versioning
- Enhanced product release functionality that lets you maintain product master data in one legal entity (the engineering company) and publish the fully configured released product to other legal entities
- Rules for validating that required information is entered before a product version is activated (readiness checks)
- Improved product lifecycle management through fine-grained control over when a released product can be used in specific business processes
- Engineering change requests that are supported by workflows
- Engineering change orders that are supported by workflows