Better control over generation of notes for constraint based configurations
When a note is generated for a configuration, all the attributes in the model are transferred to the note. it should be possible to control which of the attributes to transfer. Some if the attributes might be technical variables which are totally irrilevant for the buyer e.g. calculation attri...
Hide no longer used items from item selection lookups
Have another parameter at the Product lifecycle state settings so it can hide no longer used items from item selection lookups (or do it automatically)? E.g. from drop downs when creating BOMs.
The main goal is to omit obsolete products from the selection lists without need to use worka...
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Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Program Manager, Micrososft
'Production' unit vs 'Inventory' unit
It is currently admitted that you can purchase or sell in 'pallets' and manage inventory in 'boxes' (assuming unit conversion is setup of course)
Why couldn't you produce or report as finished (or even plan) in 'Units' (e.g for production convenience) and manage inventory in 'boxe...
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Sincerely,
Conrad Volkmann
PM, Microsoft
Export of product Configuration model XML to BYOD
Hi All The old entity "Product configuration models" had the possibility to export the model XML directly. However it would truncate the Model XML for large models, making it useless. Microsoft addressed the problem by introducing the Entity "Product configuration models V2". In this new entity y...
On-hand Inventory to be made visible in related information pane in released product details form
On released product details form, the related information pane has product image, related product variants and product change cases info-boxes. A new info-box should be added which can show on-hand inventory for the released product being viewed. This will be very convenient instead of having ...
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Sincerely,
Beatriz Nebot Gracia, Program Manager,
Microsoft.
Engineering Change Management - items multi-select to Engineering Change Request / Engineering Change Order
At the moment it is not possible to select more than one Released product and initiate the ECR as Engineering change request field on the action pane gets greyed out in such scenario. Also there is no select option based on the query to add multiple items to already created ECR or ECO and the o...
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Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Program Manager, Microsoft
Product configurator lookup enhancement for large size attributes
Using product configurator is very rejoiced. However for new product configurtor UI, I could not search in attribute lookup values that contains very much lookup values. For example , I tied one of my attibute to inventtable table and all records of inventtable are displayed in lookup via Item...
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johan Hoffmann
PM, Microsoft
Copy the Price models in different product configuration model
It should be possible to copy the Price models when product configuration model is duplicated.
When price models are very complex (because of attributes and restrictions) and similar for different product models, it makes no sense to create the price models from scratch when you might c...
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Conrad Volkmann
PM, Microsoft
Product Configurator Enhancements
Product information management\Products\Product configuration models
We want to use the quantity from the sales order line to use in product model calculations. How? In the old configurator there were system variables, but not now.
The alternative would be to reorder the amount wh...
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Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Product Manager, Microsoft
Automatically copy lifecycle state from engineering version to product variant
When the life cycle state of an engineering version is changed, the corresponding product variant's life cycle should also be updated to the same state automatically. User should not be asked to update it manually.
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Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Product Manager, Microsoft
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Sincerely,
Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Progam Manager, Microsoft