Change management
The extension brings the change control procedure required by the IATF into Business Central following the 6M principles, and walks a change from the internal decision through customer approval to the post-rollout effectiveness check without paper.
- Platform
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
- Type
- Extension (AL)
- Standard
- IATF 16949 (6M, APQP)
- Languages
- Hungarian, English, German
- Licence
- Demo mode up to 50 documents, subscription beyond
What it is for
At a manufacturer audited to IATF, every material swap, supplier change, routing change and machine replacement has to be documented, including who decided on it, what evidence was produced, whether customer approval was needed and whether the change worked.
Based on the setup, the change request document builds its own decision and task lists, calculates the deadlines and only opens the next step once the previous one is complete, while everyone involved sees their tasks on their role centre.
The system advances seven document states itself from preparation to closure, so an audit can trace when a change went into production, on whose decision and with what evidence.
What it does
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6M matrix and change categories
Each type of change can be mapped to the actions and documents it requires, such as a DFMEA or a control plan, and the document generates its task list from that.
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Internal decision chain
After the departments assigned to the area decide, the final decision maker closes the loop, a rejection must be justified, and every decision maker has a substitute.
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Evidence and attachments
A task can only be set to done after the documents required by the matrix are uploaded, and they can be downloaded from the info panel in one click.
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Four-eyes task verification
Completed actions are verified by the area's decision makers, nobody can approve their own task, and a rejected task goes back to the person responsible.
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Customer approval (PCN, waiver)
When customer approval is needed, the app sends the request built from the uploaded documents and holds the document until the customer replies.
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PDCA effectiveness check
After rollout the before and after values can be recorded per KPI, and the app calculates the deadline of the check.
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Task lists on the role centre
Everyone sees their own open tasks ordered by deadline, with overdue and soon-due items highlighted.
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Automated background tasks
A daily job closes expired temporary documents and sends a weekly notice about them, and the e-mail texts are editable with placeholders.
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Reports
Document printing, period statistics on change requests and a summary that tabulates the setup.
What it is built on
The app is written in AL and installs as a Business Central extension, the installer performs the basic setup, and notification e-mails require an e-mail account configured in Business Central.
Documentation
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