No set up job and process JOB Id's please when there is zero time
When I schedule a prod order, the system generates setup job and process job id's for every set up and run time on every operation even is the time on these is ZERO . When you , by mistake, scan one of those you get "job not found". This makes no sense. A routing setup of zero time should wast...
Use the job card device without the whole time and attendance functionality
Some businesses want to use the job card device basically as a tool to execute and track real-time production and provide instructions and guidance to the floor. They may not have the need to control time and attendance of production workers at all. Sometimes they'd like to but they are not st...
Creation of production order from sales line should consider receipt margin when calculating delivery date
When planned production and purchase orders are created the receipt margin is considered. When purchase orders are created directly from a sales order (NOT via master plan) the receipt margin is considered. When a production order is created directly from a sales order (NOT via master plan) re...
Missing entities for uploading manufacturing execution
Following tables cannot be uploaded with data management as no data entities exist: JmgIpcActivity and JmgIpcCategory (Indirect activity categories). It means you cannot copy them into a second legal entity if you have a second manufacturing plant for example. Also for creating golden configur...
Reset status of a subcontracting production order when purchase order confirmed.
Using subcontracting in Dynimics is a little bit harsh. My case is: Subcontracting work > Creating a production order > Estimate the production order > Scheduling the production order > Confirming the purchase order of the subcontracting work > after that resetting the status of...
Financial dimensions on the production order header needs to be defaulted to picking list line level
When the financial dimensions are mandatory in the account structures and when the production order is started with a finished product which does not have defaulted financial dimensions, system throws an error stating "You must select a value in the dimension field in combination with the foll...
Allow Job Card Devices to Stay Signed-In Overnight
We attempted to use Manufacturing Execution to modernize our time tracking by clocking-in to Job Card Device. We were using manual time cards. Upon deployment into Production environment, we found that the Job Card Device (on a tablet or PC) will not stay signed-in over night. So each morning,...
Reservation control on BOM line level
When you have a production order, some items are just supermarket items that are backflushed and do not require reservations. It would be nice to be able to specify on a BOM-line wether or not the item on the line is to be reserved upon the update specified in the production parameters (e.g. r...
Yield on Bill of materials
BOM at present do not allow yields to be specified. I have seen at a couple of customer situations where they need a yield % to be specified at BOM version or FG item level so that all components accordingly gets factored in master planning and production and overall inventory
Operations not shown in the gnatt chart are also re-planned
Moving around in the Gantt chart works only if ALL resources involved in the route are visible in the chart. In the case of my customer this would mean we need to select 14 resources (as an example). Not to mention that the resources have already other production orders planned in the chart. T...