An engineering change rarely ends at the drawing board. It hits BOMs, production orders, purchase orders, sales orders and remaining stock. CHANGE Impact makes those consequences visible across the entire process chain – cross-object, inside your SAP system.
Engineering, purchasing, sales, planning and production are all affected by the very same change – each with its own perspective. SAP Engineering Change Management documents the “what” and the “effective from”, but reveals little about open purchase, production and sales orders.
The decisive question stays unanswered: what happens to everything that is already in progress?
That is exactly where CHANGE Impact steps in – a solution that consolidates the consequences of a change across objects and makes them assessable.
New geometry, new part, new standard – the change is born.
SAP Engineering Change documents validity and timing.
Open orders, purchase orders and remaining stock stay in the blind spot.
CHANGE Impact follows the change across the entire process chain and shows you exactly what is affected.
Which bills of material and materials are affected in the running process – including where-used across all levels.
Impact on document info records, 3D models, drawings and the digital design folder.
Monitor the entire procurement side with respect to the change – from supplier to goods receipt.
Keep track of committed orders and delivery dates that are touched by the change.
Identify open production orders and remaining stock still to be consumed before the effective date.
Set the effective date deliberately – with full knowledge of lead time, coverage and transition.
Every change ends in a decision. CHANGE Impact provides the factual basis to get it right.
The change is form-, fit- and function-neutral. Existing stock may be consumed – you avoid scrapping and free up capital.
The change improves the part but keeps it interchangeable. A new version records the history cleanly – without a new material number.
Form, fit or function change – old and new are not interchangeable. A new material separates the two worlds cleanly and safely.
This logic belongs in the process – not in gut feeling. CHANGE Impact assesses it at the push of a button.
From change request through assessment to release: CHANGE Impact maps your change process inside SAP – including workflows, notifications and an audit-proof history. The “CaRD – Change Request” guides requesters and boards through every step in a structured way.
Who is the process owner, who owns the document, who is responsible for product design? CHANGE Impact asks the decision-relevant questions along a configurable questionnaire and collects comments, evidence and approvals in one place.
If SAP standard functions are enough, we deploy them to their full potential. If you need more, our solution steps in. You decide – we bring the experience.
We examine your current change process in joint workshops and identify concrete optimisation potential.
Where the standard ends, our solution adds the cross-object impact analysis – tailored to your processes.
From request through approval to change order: workflows, notifications and releases – end to end in SAP.
Remaining stock, open orders, purchase orders and effective dates: we clarify lead time and all follow-on processes cleanly.
Unique know-how in change management – with comprehensive support for new and existing solutions.
Interfaces, workflows and seamless integration into SAP GUI and Fiori round out the portfolio.
CHANGE Impact speaks to both worlds: the steering view of decision-makers and the detail view of the doers.
You carry system responsibility and must keep risks, costs and deadlines under control.
You run PLM, engineering change and master data – and have to keep it all together.
You change the product – and want to know what your change really triggers.
CHANGE Impact is an SAP solution by CaRD that makes the consequences of an engineering or technical product change visible across objects – on BOMs, material masters, documents, purchase orders, sales orders, production orders and remaining stock. This lets you assess what is affected and how to handle it before the effective date.
No. If the standard functions of SAP Engineering Change Management are enough, we help you deploy them optimally. The solution steps in where the standard does not cover cross-object impact analysis or approval-based change management.
SAP MOC and engineering change control the approval and validity of a change. CHANGE Impact adds the missing view of the running stock: open orders, purchase orders and remaining stock – and delivers the factual basis for the form-fit-function decision.
If the change is form-, fit- and function-neutral, remaining stock can usually be consumed. If it improves the part while keeping it interchangeable, a new version is mostly sufficient. If form, fit or function change, old and new are not interchangeable – then a new material is the clean way. CHANGE Impact assesses this logic against your real stock and order data.
Yes. CHANGE Impact targets SAP ECC and S/4HANA – on-premise, private cloud and RISE scenarios. Integration is standard-near via SAP GUI, Fiori and SAP Business Workflow.
CHANGE Impact is a solution by CaRD Gesellschaft für EDV-Beratung mbH from Wiesloch, Germany – specialised in SAP PLM, change management, variant configuration and the related development technologies for over 30 years.
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