The purpose of the ShowEngineeringChangeOrder is to communicate to a business application module or system the sending systems representation of a specified Engineering Change Order. This request may be used as a response to a Get request or as a push notification of an event.

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.