# D365 Finance and Supply Chain Change Request Form Template

> Source: https://netray.co/tools/d365-fo-change-request-form-template
> Publisher: Netray (netray.co), AI and integration engineering for ERP and manufacturing systems.
> Section: Free Tools

## Short answer

A change request form for D365 projects and production support with impact on scope, effort, security, data and testing, plus approval lines.

## Category

microsoft-dynamics

## Erp

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain

## Audience

- Project manager
- D365 F&O functional consultant
- Change manager

## Tool

**Kind:** template

**Output:** document

**Fields:**

#### CR number

**Key:** cr_id

**Type:** text

**Default:** CR-0027

#### Project or system

**Key:** project

**Type:** text

**Default:** Contoso D365 F&O Production

#### Requested by

**Key:** requester

**Type:** text

**Default:** Plant manager

#### Date raised

**Key:** date

**Type:** date

**Default:** 2026-10-20

#### Change type

**Key:** type

**Type:** select

**Options:**

- Scope change
- Configuration change
- Extension or code change
- Security change
- Data fix
- Integration change
- Report change

**Default:** Configuration change

#### Urgency

**Key:** urgency

**Type:** select

**Options:**

- Emergency
- High
- Normal
- Low

**Default:** Normal

#### Description of change

**Key:** description

**Type:** textarea

**Default:** Add a second approval step for purchase orders above a value threshold in the Mexico legal entity.

#### Business reason

**Key:** reason

**Type:** textarea

**Default:** Internal audit finding requires dual approval for high-value purchases.

#### Impact assessment

**Key:** impact

**Type:** textarea

**Default:** Workflow configuration only. Approver assignments needed. Retest PO approval and delegation. No data migration impact.

#### Estimated effort and cost

**Key:** effort

**Type:** text

**Default:** 12 hours configuration and test, no license impact

#### Rollback plan

**Key:** rollback

**Type:** text

**Default:** Deactivate the new workflow version and reactivate the previous one

**Blocks:**

#### Change request {{cr_id}}

**Table:**

**Columns:**

- Field
- Value

**Rows:**

**0:** System

**1:** {{project}}

**0:** Requested by

**1:** {{requester}}

**0:** Date raised

**1:** {{date}}

**0:** Change type

**1:** {{type}}

**0:** Urgency

**1:** {{urgency}}

#### Description

**Body:** {{description}}

#### Business reason

**Body:** {{reason}}

#### Impact assessment

**Body:** {{impact}}

Areas to consider: scope, schedule, cost, security roles, data, integrations, reports, training, and update compatibility.

#### Effort and cost

**Body:** {{effort}}

#### Implementation and rollback

**Body:** Target environment sequence: development, test, UAT, production.
Rollback: {{rollback}}

#### Decision

**Table:**

**Columns:**

- Decision
- Date
- Comment

**Rows:**

**0:** Approved / Rejected / Deferred

#### Approvals

**Signatures:**

- Requester
- Business process owner
- Project or IT manager
- Change advisory board

**Notes:** Align the form with your own change policy and thresholds. This is a generic template, not a statement of any compliance framework requirement.

## Content

**Intro:** Change requests protect a D365 project from scope creep and a live system from untracked edits. This form captures what is changing, why, the impact and who approved it.

**Sections:**

#### How to use the form

**Body:** Complete one form per change. State the change in a sentence a business approver can follow, then record the reason, because the reason is what decides whether the change survives a review. List impact across scope, schedule, cost, security, data, integrations, reports and training. Export to PDF or Word and attach it to the work item or ticket.

**Bullets:**

- One change per form
- Always record the business reason
- Estimate effort including test and deployment
- Define rollback before approval

#### Project versus production change

**Body:** During implementation, changes affect scope and budget, so a steering committee typically approves them. After go-live, changes follow the production change process, with environment promotion through test and UAT before release. In finance and operations apps, code and configuration move between environments through deployable packages and data management, so record exactly what is moving and who deploys it.

#### Impact assessment checks

**Body:** Ask whether security roles or duties change, whether data entities or integrations are affected, whether reports must be updated, whether period-end processes are touched, and whether the change interacts with continuous updates. A small configuration change in a posting profile can have a large financial effect, so involve finance where ledgers are involved.

#### Common mistakes

**Body:** Changes are often approved verbally and never recorded, emergency fixes skip testing and are never regularized, and effort estimates ignore regression testing. Treat emergency changes with a short form completed afterward, and review them in the next change meeting.

**Cta:** If change tickets pile up with little context, Netray can help build a private assistant that summarizes impact from your configuration and documentation, with a human approving every recommendation.

**Faq:**

#### Who approves a D365 change request?

**Answer:** It depends on your governance. Typically a business process owner approves need, a project or IT manager approves effort and schedule, and a change board approves risk to production. Finance usually signs off anything touching the ledger.

#### Do configuration changes need a form?

**Answer:** In production, yes, especially anything that affects posting, security or workflow. Even small setup changes can have financial or compliance effects, and a record helps explain later why behavior changed.

#### How do I handle emergency changes?

**Answer:** Allow a fast path with verbal approval from a named authority, then complete the form afterward and review it. Track the number of emergency changes, since a high count signals weak testing or planning.

#### Is this a contractual change order?

**Answer:** No. It is an internal control form. If your implementation partner contract has a formal change order process, follow it in addition and cross-reference the numbers.

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