Directly derived Quantity update (formula and route selection)
When we get proposal from MRP to produce an item where we have phantom line in the formula, we get in the same time the derived planned order for the phantom item.
Very often our planners update quantities by increasing our decreasing th...
Multisource - Order quantity per supplier additional fields
The default order settings gives you options to specify minimum, maximum, multiple and supplier lead time. Whereas the order quantity per supplier only gives you access to MOQ.
This makes our planning processes more manual than we would like. If these additional field could be...
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Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
Consider transport days for planning intercompany planned demand in upstream legal entities
Currently, when planning intercompany orders, a planned purchase order is created in downstream company (Legal Entity A), but the requirement dates for the planned intercompany demand created in subsequent upstream legal entities [Legal Entity B (and Legal entity C, if it is t...
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Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
Forecast Reduction Principle include Project for Items
When reduction principle by Transaction - order is utilized and a company has both project based and non-project (stock) forecast, any sales order to the specified customer on the project forecast will reduce the forecast for the project.
In order to fix this, the reduction pr...
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Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
Intercompany Master Planning
As requested , please find the business process and business impacts below:
Business Process :
Legal Entity A
Legal entity B
Legal Entity C
Requirement Date
(Purchase order)
Order Date
(Purchase order)
Ship ...
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To note is that there is no delay propagation using planning optimization and this is due to the fact that in each planning run in the companies, the whole planned orders are deleted, dates and planned orders are not kept (unless approved), and then they will not be modified either.
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Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
Negative days and DDMRP coverage groups
New coverage groups have been created recently to manage DDMRP method into D365. Globally these new coverage groups are great and it is nice to have these options. However negative days are not considered by DDMRP model.
Thanks for your input. Negative days are intentionally not considered in DDMRP.
This is due to the fact that the goal with DDMRP is always to maintain a stock buffer of the product so that stockouts do not occur. And in case that the net flow is below the reorder point, indicating that the buffer should be refilled, then an order will be created. The order will come a lead time into the future, so it is true that it is expected to come at that point in time, and if it comes later, it can result in a stockout and in the situarion that is on your business case:
"Let's say we've got an item with no stock. Sales orders (SO) are placed and confirmed for next week. There are purchase orders (PO) to cover the requirements. Unfortunately , according to POs confirmed delivery dates, POs are coming next month. So it is much to late to respect the confirmed shipping date of SOs.
When I'm running MRP, the projected stock for the next couple of days is negative."
It is expected that you update the lead times to be realistic lead times, so the case mentioned above is the exception and not the rule. Or another option, if you have very variable parameters, is that you create more frequent planned purchase orders for replenishing the buffer - which is achieved by adjusting the lead time parameter (on the coverage group) for the buffers needed. By lowering the parameter, the buffer zones will be affected (red and green, according to the formulas) by being diminished, and resulting in that you order more often.
Reduce Supply Forecast by inbound transactions
Just as it is possible to reduce demand forecasts by outbound transactions ("sales orders" or "all transactions"), it would be great to be able to reduce Supply forecasts by either "purchase orders" or "all transactions" (inventory journals, transfer orders, etc.).
Thanks for your input! It is already possible to reduce by purchase orders that match the criteria to the supply forecast. We will consider adding other inbound transactions if it gets voted.
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Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
Bundle forecast and consumption
When the signed off forecast of a bundle is published in F&O the items in the BOM of the bundle will publish in the net requirement as a BOM line reference.
Issue is if an actual SO is entered the SO will explode to the component for the SO requirement. This SO line will not ...
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Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Product Manager, Microsoft
ABC Classification based on quantity sold and have ABC results per Site / Warehouse
ABC Classification based on quantity sold and have all ABC results per Site / Warehouse (new grid)
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Product Manager, Microsoft
Add threshold to MRP to prevent planned orders for minor shortfall in output
We see a need to have a threshold setting on production output. Example we regularly run a little short on production orders, within 5%. The MRP picks up this shortage and generates a planned order to cover the shortage which in turn creates planned purchase orders to fill the requirements bas...
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Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Product Manager, Microsoft
Administrator
Thanks for your input! If it gets voted, we will consider adding it to our long term backlog.
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Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft