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I think this should be part of the base functionality, without the planning aspect. A lot of times when our customers ask for a sales quote they want to know both cost and lead time. Based on one of those, they may decide to go somewhere else. In order to accomplish this now (version 27.4) we have to convert the quote to an order, run CTP Order Promising, capture the date information, delete the sales order, go to sales order archives and restore the quote, then update the dates to provide to the customer. Crazy. If we could run a "non-planning" version of ATP/CTP in an order promising window right on the quote, we can give the customer what their looking for in a much more efficient way.
I think this also needs to be included anywhere Edit in Excel is present on transactions, such as Sales Orders, Purchase Orders, Sales Invoices, etc. Users are forced to enter this in manually and if they have transactions with lots of lines this creates a lot of work. Uploading via Edit in Excel would be so much simpler.
CoPilot suggested I add this sentence:“If you’ve ever tried to maintain a true Master Production Schedule using Supply Forecasts and a Frozen time fence, this Idea fixes a behavior that breaks it today.”I also wanted to add that I was told that that one of the main reasons a Supply Forecast existed in AX (I used it in 3.0) was for purchased items to model a Supplier with a limited capacity, to see, in planned orders, their capable deliveries. MPS would critique these with Action Messages and add new planned orders where they did not suffice. These new planned orders would be candidates for alternate sourcing. By the way this was a legacy "trick" to cope with multiple sourcing before Microsoft added the new source by percentage capability. Forcing these forecasts (i.e. the planned orders they would spawn) to beyond the Frozen time fence ALSO makes little sense, whether modelling a constrained supplier or modelling multiple sources.