In Supply Chain Orchestration, Automated Change Management performs which two functions?

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• Bsplitting of a sales order
• Cchanging the ship method on a sales order
• Dchange to item attributes
• Echanging the supplier on a purchase order

Explanation

Automated Change Management in Supply Chain Orchestration handles downstream propagation of changes that originate on supply documents - specifically, changing the ship method on a sales order (C) and changing the supplier on a purchase order (E). These two operations represent the kind of fulfillment-level attribute changes that SCO can detect and automatically cascade to linked supply chain documents without manual intervention.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• B (splitting a sales order) is an order management operation (often called order line splitting or fulfillment line splitting), not a function of Automated Change Management - it restructures the order rather than propagating a change to supply.
• D (change to item attributes) is managed in the product/item master domain; item attribute updates flow through product management, not through SCO's change management engine.

Memory tip: Think "ACM = changes on documents that need to ripple downstream." Ship method and supplier are fulfillment-routing attributes that directly impact how and from whom supply is fulfilled - making them natural candidates for automated propagation. If the change is structural (splitting) or upstream/master-data (item attributes), it's out of ACM's scope.

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