Master planning should also support Date effective Item coverage setup, e.g. in current month we are producing goods but based on components availability during next moth Planned purchase orders should be generated.
To address this requirement: Item coverage form should be extended by 2 columns: "From date" and "To date" and periods shouldn't overlap per specific inventory dimension combination. The definition should be possible upfront because with current design the order types need to be changed exactly in the moment of purchasing and cannot be defined upfront.
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I agree on this. Our client is a Pharma company and plans 4 years ahead due to long lead times of the products. Due to the long lead time, they often run into scenarios where they change their vendors and warehouses within the planning window.
It would actually be good to also support a from/to date on default order settings, to cater for the cutover of warehouses and make sure that new sales orders in the future are placed against the right warehouse.
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Great Idea, this makes perfect sense.
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I support this idea
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I support this idea
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Great idea Slaw, this is a very essential requirement.
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I completely agree that adding an effective date on the D365 Item coverage is essential. For instance, in my current client requirement, there is a scenario where a client produces finished goods in warehouse A which then transferred to warehouse C for the final shipment to the customers, but due to a planned maintenance schedule, production in warehouse A will be halted for a certain period. During this time, the client will need to temporarily do the production in warehouse B to ensure timely delivery of finished goods to their customers. Essentially the client will need two planned transfer item coverage records for warehouse C to be supplied by warehouse A for a period then by warehouse B for another period of time (should not be overlapped).
Without an effective date on the D365 Item coverage, it would be challenging for your client to track and plan for this temporary change in production location. However, with the effective date feature, the transfer orders with future dates can be correctly planned from the correct production warehouse.
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We are seeing more mergers and acquisitions after Covid economic impacts. Many of these result in resource diversification which implies more planning across sites for similar capabilities.
This requires planning future conditions of item coverage across these sites to align materials and capacity in support.
We have made on client a stopgap tool to help with this, but it has weaknesses by not residing in the MRP calculation itself.
Please take this requirement seriously and include it in Planning Optimization for all the best reasons.
clyde.bennett@stoneridgesoftware.com
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Note that if this is done, we also need a data entity that can insert new records after the current record (basically: data entities that are time effective need to have generic support for update and insert of new records).
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We have this requirement too, for vendor change-over. Up to some specified date in the future we buy from our exiting vendor, at the end of the current contract we are going to buy from a new vendor. From/To dates on the Item coverage record (with vendor over-ride) would be the perfect way of defining that.
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It seems to be pretty much data / dates for maintain. Moreover masterplanning it self should help user see if components for production are not possible to accuire in time, if leadtimes are available. How about a coverage group code implying that the item might both be produced and purchased?
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Beatriz Nebot Gracia (administrator) on 3/14/2023 7:56:38 AM
Thanks for your input! If it gets voted, we will consider adding it to our long term roadmap.
Sincerely,
Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Product Manager, Microsoft