Engineering change management for materials in MDM

Hi,
we want to replace a home-made material master data system by MDM, but need some Engineering Change Management functions like
- versions of material
- release dates
- different release dates in relation to different factories (i.e. client systems)
Any idea, how this could be handled in MDM ?
Michael Tegethoff
KONE GmbH

Hello Michael:
All of that information you mention can be included on MDM as plain attributes on the Materials table.
As for Versions, if materials are updated thru MDM Import I'd suggest  include the new version number and as import action choose "Update all mapped fields", that is, while importing the old version number will be updated.
for different release dates you can maintain as many date attributes as Factories you have. When harmonizing data (syndicating) you can map each factory to its correspondant release date, so the other factories won't even "notice" the other dates.
Please let me know if that helped at all.
Greetings!
Alejandro

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