Manage Change Requests
Application component: Fiori UI for Material Requirements Planning
App type: Transactional
Line of business: Manufacturing
Leading industry: Cross Industry
Solution capability: Production Execution (S/4)
Description:  With this app, you can create change requests for existing purchase order schedule lines based on the list of rescheduling proposals from MRP rescheduling checks. You can send these change requests to suppliers using an external system to request a change of the quantity or delivery date for a purchase order schedule line so that material availability can be ensured and customer requirements can be fulfilled. In the external system, suppliers can accept or reject the change requests or send new proposals. After you have received an answer from a supplier, you can either apply or discard the changes included in a specific change request.  
You can use this app to follow up on changes you have requested from your vendor as well as place requests for changes you have collected. You create change requests when using the apps for managing material coverage or uncovered requirements.
Key features:  You can display purchase order schedule lines according to different filter criteria, which you can define directly in the app or by using the settings for default values that are available from the user actions menu. Default filter values are automatically applied to all apps that reference them and support the default values option.Note Default filter values for suppliers are currently not taken into account by this app. For the selected purchase order schedule lines, the app then supports you with the following tasks:  Create change requests based on the list of rescheduling proposals   View the change requests for purchase order schedule lines that were sent to suppliers, with change request details in a table   Change the proposed delivery dates and quantities of rescheduling proposals for which you want to create a change request You can request a change of delivery dates and quantities or a cancellation of purchase order schedule lines that are no longer required.   Change the reason codes of change requests to indicate why they were created Reason codes are determined automatically based on the information that is available from rescheduling checks or based on the criteria that have been determined by using the Business Add-In Retrieve Reason for MRP Change Request. However, you can adapt the reason code for each change request as required.   Add a priority to change requests or change the priority that has been assigned automatically Based on your configuration settings, a default priority can be assigned to new change request proposals. This priority is copied to MRP change requests that are created based on these proposals and can be changed manually before the change requests are sent to suppliers.  As an alternative, you can use an implementation of the Business Add-In Retrieve Priority for MRP Change Request to automatically determine a change request priority for change request proposals based on different criteria.   Add notes for one or more change requests You can add notes to exchange additional information with your suppliers. After a note was created, a preview is displayed in the Create MRP Change Requests app. You can add text to existing notes as required. To view the complete note or to edit or delete a note, you must use the Manage Change Requests app.   Send change requests to suppliers   View the responses from suppliers, including details for new proposals   For change requests that were rejected, view the reasons for the rejection, if provided by suppliers   View the costs of change for change requests, if provided by suppliers Note The costs of change are displayed only for your information. They are not processed by the system.   For change requests where automatic handling of responses is not performed, apply or discard change requests or apply changes that are included in new proposals after you have received an answer from suppliers   Download an Excel template that you can fill with your proposal data   Upload the Excel to overwrite the proposed data   Discard change requests if they are outdated or no longer needed   View a history of discarded change requests When you create a change request, the system automatically checks whether a change request with the same parameters has been discarded before.   Navigate to the Manage Change Requests app, for example, to enter responses from suppliers manually or to see the details of change requests  Note Depending on your configuration settings, change requests and new proposals from suppliers can be applied or discarded automatically if they match the specified criteria. In your configuration environment, use the search function to open the following activities:  Define Automatic Processing of Responses to MRP Change Requests   Define Times to Respond for MRP Change Request Priorities  You can also use the Business Add-In Retrieve Settings for Processing of Responses to MRP Change Requests to define the criteria for automatic processing of responses to MRP change requests. 
Business roles: Material Planner - External Procurement
Material Planner - External Procurement: (is an add-on role to the Material Planner)
Ensures the availability of materials for production supply plans and monitors and adjusts material supplies procured externally. Collaborates internally with production planners and externally with suppliers.