Planning optimization considers capacities and item availabilty. Production sequence is sorting planned production orders without considering capacities and item availabilty. The result is not usable, when having limited item availabity. Sequence planning must be an integrative part of planning optimization.
It is a common requirement to produce items in a order to optimize setup times. Please vote for it.
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Yes, we need a matrix with setup (or cleaning) times between products.
Category: Planning
In that context perhaps Microsoft could also look into a general approval of the sequencing by being able to setup a kind of advanced sequencing matrix that would enable the user to setup different setup and consider different setup times if one order is sequenced after an other order and in this constellation it required less or even none setup time compared to the case when an other item would be next in the sequence!
Category: Planning