Workflow for Firmed Planned Purchase Order
After planned purchase orders are firmed, the ‘Approval status’ is default to ‘Approved’ on purchase order screen, which is skipping the purchase order workflow. Suggest to default the ‘Approval status’ to ‘Draft’ while workflow is enabled; or ha...
Production pool on planned orders form
Please consider adding the production pool to the planned orders form. One of our customers is requesting this feature.
The production pool is equal to the buyer group – it is the same idea – buyer group for purchase items - production pool for manufacturing items.
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 does not consider Vendor Purchase Calendar closed days when calculating Delivery Date due to Lead time days
Summary:
If a Vendor typically shuts down completely for a month (ie Chinese holiday season) or typical 2-3 week MFG holiday shutdown or yearly long-term plant maintenance. Would like to use the Vendor's Purchase Calendar in D365FO with Working Days = Yes to account fo...
Thanks for your input! If it gets voted, we will consider adding it to our long term roadmap.
Sincerely,
Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Senior Product Mananager, Microsoft
Supply schedule for multiple items report
As I see the Item allocation will give me the supply schedule as a SUM for all items together not per Item as we need, we need a way to extract the supply schedule per item but for all items in one report, so we can know and define the results as per item perspective.
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Sincerely,
Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Product Manager, Microsoft
The sequencing and sequence value functionality in planning is only applicable to Formula type items
Currently, the "Master planning > Setup > Sequencing > Sequence value" screen allows for the addition of Formula type items. However, it is needed to extend this functionality to Bom type items
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Sincerely,
Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
Planned Order Type Hierarchies/Sequencing
Setup hierarchy levels/sequences for applying planned order types to fulfill demand.
Businesses that utilize the same materials across multiple sites and warehouse often purchase material that may already be stocked in another location.
It would be incredibl...
Thank you very much for your input. We do not have any current plans to provide such an extended capability in Planning Optimization. We will however continue to monitor how much in demand such an extended capability is.
The Supply Chain Planning Team
Material substitution in manufacturing - take into account the FULL QUANTITY by master planning
A food manufacturing company is making a sauce from a formula that has 20 ingredients. One ingredient in the formula can be substituted by one of two other ingredients. However, because these two ingredients are more expensive than the preferred ingredient, substitution is used only if the pre...
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Sincerely,
Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
Setup matrix for production scheduling
Instead of having a flat value, a setup matrix should be implemented offering more flexible and powerful setups. New setup matrix will be able to cover scenarios like: - less setup time when switching from light to dark - different setup times a-->b vs. b-->a
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Sincerely,
Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Product Manager, Microsoft
Parameter for Job resource preemption
In legacy MRP, a line of code was introduced some time long ago related to Property planning. This line of code allowed for one planned order to be split into many small parts during capacity reservations.
Due to a client need to not have one planned order reserve capacity in ...
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Sincerely,
Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
Overview of planning for multiple items
Currently, there is a form or report that gives planners overview of planning (Supply schedule) for one item,
It would be better to see the same supply schedule form for multiple items, not in a consolidated way, but separately for all the items.
Item group ID or buyer group can b...
Thanks for your input! If it gets voted, we will consider adding it to our long term backlog.
Sincerely,
Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
Administrator
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,
Roxana Diaconu
PM, Microsoft