Planning Optimization: new feature to handle different minimum lots beetween product orders and trasnfer orders using default order settings
Production flows of our customer consider minimum lots: this could be hard to manage at the current condition because MRP plans transfer orders taking into account the minimum quantity that instead must be considered only for production order.Â
Example, if we produce an item A with a min...
Master planning auto firm transfer orders
Being able to auto firm planned transfer orders and not only planned purchase orders.
Filter by warehouse on firming planned orders batch job.
Ability to load external historic transactions to calculate the ADU for DDMRP
When setting up DDMRP with Planning Optimization we have the following challenge:
Currently the average daily usage (ADU) calculation based on past, requires historic transactions (InventTrans) for several days, but by the time we go live this history will not be available. Â S...
Simultaneously Runnin of Planning Optimization
The planning optimization is running on another server and there is no control over the actual status of processing between separate runs. We would like to run simultaneously the same Master Plan.
Supply schedule - Product dimension combinations auto-populate
Issue:
On the Supply schedule Modify filter pane, when a Product dimension combination is selected, only the selected dimension is populated. The other relevant dimensions have to be selected manually.
Idea:
Ensure when a Product dimension combination is selected,...
Inter-company Low-level code - Eliminate planning a company twice
There is an "easy-to-miss" system-maintained field on the Released Product named "Low-level code". This has been in most ERP solutions for decades as it dramatically speeds up MRP calculations (NOE: Net-Offset-Explode). It is the lowest level an item appears across Bills of Materials. By proce...
Stockable Phantoms and Use-up effectivity
Could we add another BOM line type of Stockable Phantom? Phantom would remain as "always explode" at Estimation, regardless of any Physical on hand or Physical available of the Phantom item. Setting a BOM line as "Stock-able Phantom" would cause MPS to first check for available inventory if th...
Support for lean manufacturing in Planning Optimization
Currently Planning Optimization does not support items that have planned order type of "kanban" which is used in the Lean manufacturing functionality. Any users who have this requirement are blocked from adopting Planning Optimization
Global Net Requirements
We recommend to add a new form where we can view the Net requirements for all the Items instead of going Item by Item on the released product.
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.).