Change Order Approval

Who Reviews a Change Order

The Initial Reviewer - The first review must be done by the initial reviewer
- By default the initial reviewer is the request owner, but the request owner can chnage it so this review is done by someone else. This will be done before the change order is initiated.
Approval Group
- Once the initial reviewer approves the change order, the approval group of that domain will be required.
Functional Groups
- One person from each functional group must approve if the scope of the request requires an approval
- The functional groups that were selected on the request will display on the Reviewers tab along with their approval status
- If an approver is in multiple groups, they only need to approve once. That approval will count on behalf of all groups the user is in.

When you are in the domain's change order approval group, you will be requested to review the change order
When compliance products are selected, compliance group will be added to review the product change order
Change orders that require your review will show up on Tasks page - My Change Orders tab under Need My Action
Click on the Review Now button to open the change order with the approval side panel

You can approve or request additional info and send the request back to the request owner
Comments made by reviewers will display under the Comments tab
You can see the approval group members that approved or sent back under the Reviewers tab

You can provide comments back to the request owner for both approval and Request Additional Information review
A comment is required when requesting additional information
You can attach files to your comment. Files are versioned in the system
Click Add another comment to add additional comments
Click submit to send your review

To add an attachment to the request, drag or select files.
To add an attachment to a comment, click attach file and drag or select the file you want. Then click continue.
All files, whether added to the request or a comment will display on the change request

When an approver sends back requesting additional information, it will show up for the request owner on their Tasks page - My Change Orders tab under Change Orders to Complete
Click on the Edit button to address comments from approver
Resubmit change order for approval

The system will track the approval round of the change order. This is based on the number of times that the change order has been sent back.
Each time one of the approvers sends the change order back for additional information, the change order is put on hold and no one else can approve/send back until the change order owner has addressed the comments
After they have resubmitted, the change order goes to the next approval round and the approval starts over
Once all product, tooling, SIG and firmware are approved or completed, then the updates in the Vault happen.