The purpose of the ChangeAcknowledgeEngineeringChangeOrder to communicate to a business application module or system that the synchronization of a specified engineering change document has been completed successfully.

This BOD may be necessary to address the Make to Order, Assemble to Order, or Mixed Mode business ordering scenarios in a Order Management to Manufacturing application integration scenario.

There are many possible business applications in several environments that may use this capability. For example, a PDM, MRP, Inventory, or Manufacturing business application could use this to communicate the requirement to Synchronize a Engineering Change Document.