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...
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
Planning for subcontracting: create the purchase order for the scheduled vendor
When selecting the resource by capability scheduling or by any other manual scheduling methods the Vendor that is used to create the subcontracting purchase order must be derived from the scheduled resource, not taken from the BOM line (or: the Vendor in the BOM line needs to be updated before fi...
Create routing matrix based on item and resource attributes
It is not currently possible to set up a single Route with capacity/resource that varies according to resource and item attribute.
e.g. fill rates per bottle size and per machine.
Ideally: create a new attribute on the item (not Item group - often already owned/defined by finan...
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.
Sincerely,
Christian Rytt
PM,
Microsoft.
Planning Optimization Suggests Orders Before Requested Date
Planning Optimization currently generates planned orders with dates earlier than the required demand date, even when no clear planning constraints (such as lead times, safety stock, or capacity limitations) justify advancing the order.
Inconsistent Scheduling for Production Orders with Pegged BOM Lines: Forward Scheduling from Today Instead of Scheduled Date Using Resource Dispatching
we have an idea that we need to deliver an order in package, the scenario is in order to do this we create a main end product [finished goods] and connected are often 2 sub production parts. We keep them scheduled together using pegged supply.
Scheduling backward from promise...
Possibility to consider just working days set on a calendar for calculating Average daily usage in the item coverage of an item
Currently, when "Average daily usage=Past" in the decoupling point coverage group, the calculation of average daily usage takes into account all the past days starting from the current date. Since many companies have production and warehouses closed on Saturdays and Sundays, during these days ...
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Sincerely,
Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
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
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
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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