The automotive body shop with its high investment costs and resource intensive high automation level is notsufficiently responsive to the demands of agility and adaptivity. The coexistence of combustion engine ande-mobility platforms, but also design modifications on products during production phase, require constantand agile product adaptation in automotive structural components.These changes to the structural car body design have different effects on production planning. However, insome cases they have a considerable influence on the equipment design, e.g., the choice of jig, fixture, andjoining technology and the number of robots used. This means that investment decisions for the procurementof new equipment or even entire production systems are also determined. In particular, late introduced newrequirements or engineering changes in the product development process (PDP) have a massive impact onthe quality of planning and compliance with established premises at the beginning of the PDP. Measures forthe holistic consideration of engineering changes and their influences require both a product-side and aproduction-side review of influences.In this review paper, existing approaches for the product and production-side handling of requirements andengineering changes are analyzed by a systematic literature review. Existing data-based methods areanalyzed with regard to their applicability on engineering change management (ECM) in body shop. Basedon this, enabling methods are assessed concerning their suitability for the transfer to a holistic, adaptive, anddata-based ECM system for the PDP of automotive car bodies.