Dual safety stock levels
Add a second safety stock level of "Critical" level or similar name on Item coverage and provide the following additional Coverage group setting "Restrict Action messages for safety stock violations" with the following options:
o Never
o Always
o For flagged Approved plann...
Possibility to specify different storage dimension groups to run MRP for tactic and operational master plans
Because the activate the coverage plan by dimension within the storage dimension group, and because the storage dimension group is defined for every single release products, it is not possible to run MRP with different storage dimension group for items between two master plans.
Thanks for your input! If it gets voted, we will consider adding it to our long term roadmap.
Sincerely,
Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Product Manager, Microsoft
Gantt chart - Notify when selecting not applicable resource
When showing additional resources to the planned/production orders' Gantt chart, the system indicates which resources are applicable because they meet the requiremets set in the route. Is it possible to add all the resources to the Gantt (applicable and non-applicable) however, when moving an ...
Thanks for your input! If it gets voted, we will consider adding it to our long term roadmap.
Sincerely,
Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Product Manager, Microsoft
Prevent blank warehouse in planned orders
Master planning can be set up to plan by site only or by site and warehouse. Most customers plan by site and warehouse.
This means that planned orders are supposed to have warehouses. If not, many cascading problems occur.
MRP is planning for a blank warehouse and demand and suppl...
Thanks for your input! If it gets voted, we will consider adding it to our long term roadmap.
Sincerely,
Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Program Manager, Microsoft
Also include negative stock in Planning Optimization like Master planning
We need to generate purchase- and transfer order advices based on negative stock (products on consignment). Creating an advise from negative stock to zero units was always possible with master planning. Due to the change in the Planning Optimization and request 'Treat negative on hand inventor...
Thanks for your input! We don't have in the current plans for master planning to replenish for negative stock.
We're reviewing all cases where this is needed to provide an alternative or other solution.
To all: please vote the idea and comment with your scenario. For most cases, a change of business processes is needed.
Sincerely,
Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Product Manager, Microsoft
Include negative days into MRP Planning Optimization
The new planning optimization for MRP does not consider the negative and positive days! The official statement of Microsoft is: "This works as designed. Planning optimization does not support negative days and we do not have plans to support the parameter in the current form and shape." The plan...
Delay tolerance (aks Negative days) is supported for Planning Optimization with version 10.0.21 (preview in 10.0.20). Delay tolerance is enabled via feature management: ‘Negative days for Planning Optimization’.
For additional information, see Delay tolerance (negative days) - Supply Chain Management | Dynamics 365 | Microsoft Docs
Marking disregard the batch disposition code
Marking should consider the batch disposition code. BUSINESS SCENARIO: When firming planned production orders with marking, the sales order (demand) will be marked with the production order (supply) in production control module. Due to this marking, reservation are already done at the very first ...
Capable-to-promise (CTP) reservation mechanism shouldn't use marking for reservations.
When Automatic sales order reservation is activated and CTP is used to find a future receipt, a reservation is created (Reserved ordered) and a marking is established between the sales order inventory transaction and the future receipt transaction. The marking should NOT take place (only the r...
Thanks for your input! If it gets voted, we will consider adding it to our long term roadmap.
Sincerely,
Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Product Manager, Microsoft
Order dependent financial dimension-values added when firming planned production orders
When firming a planned production order pegged to a sales order line: The order dependent financial dimension-values on the sales order line, should automatically be populated on the firmed production order header, in the same way as when the production order is created manually from the sales...
Thank you for your feedback.
Currently this is not in our roadmap; however, we are tracking it and if we get more feedback and votes, we may consider it in the future.
Note that we have the same behavior for e.g. planned purchase orders during firming with extended marking update.
Sincerely,
Christian Rytt
PM, Microsoft.
Item substitutions (plan groups) are not considered for Formula/BOM item requirements in PLOP
Customer configured the Plan group and Priorities for Formula/BOM version lines of a finished good item (FG) in a way that Priority 1 item does not have on-hand while others have. Via Demand forecasting a Planned batch order for the FG is created and after running the derived requirements, the...
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Thanks for your input! If it gets voted, we will consider it for our long term roadmap.
Sincerely,
Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft