3806139 - How Order Change Management (OCM) Works in Production Orders — Process Steps, Change Profile, and Prerequisites

It is not clear how Order Change Management (OCM) works for production orders or when it should be used instead of manually changing the order. Questions arise about what triggers an OCM change process, what the five process steps are (search → simulate → determine → check → execute), what order statuses are set during the process (NOCH, CGFB), how the Change Profile controls conflict handling, what prerequisites must be configured, and how to process OCM changes in the background.

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