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.).
Master Scheduling with Multiple routes & Master planning at same time
Finished good should be able to tag to multiple routes with different resource capacities so that cost and time can be saved during production.
For one of my client, I am looking for a process ...
Minimum order threshold addition for the multisource policy
A function is desired in which a minimum quantity per product can be defined from which a purchase order can be placed at a supplier.
This should make it possible that for example between 1 to 5 pieces an planned order for vendor A (Intercompany vendor) and above 6 pieces a planned order...
'Manual' Setting on Warehouse in Planning Optimization, for Site-based Storage Dimension Groups
It is observed that items with a Storage dimension group per Site do not consider the 'Manual' setting on the Warehouse when performing Planning optimization. As a result, we are unable to have the option to exclude or include the Warehouse at the Site level. We believe that i...
Include BOM/formula step consumption in Planning Optimization
The use of step consumption on a BOM/formula line greatly reduces the number of BOMs/formulas to maintain. For example, if I have 10 formulary items and just one component on the formulas varies based on the number of liters produced from 1 to 10 in steps of 1, I will only need 10 formulas us...
To have confirmed delivery dates in correct sequence
The customer is having a sales order with 3 different dates, and when executing ‘Calculate confirmed delivery dates’ on a sales order, neither the line number in ascending order, nor the requested delivery dates, are considered when the different lines are calculated. Instead, it looks like th...
Ability to filter on additional input criteria for Planning Optimization
Currently the only filters on input for Planning Optimization are related to which items should be included in the planning run or whether the forecast should be included (plan filters, runtime filters, coverage groups, etc.) but some businesses have scenarios in addition where they want to ex...
CTP: single confirmed delivery date in Planning Optimization
There's currently no possibility foreseen within CTP for Planning Optimization to return a single delivery date for the complete sales order. This feature is often requested by customers (and their customers) in order to organize production and transport efficiently. It reduce...