Master planning must match Customer Batch Attribute requirements for On-Hand inventory
When a customer has specific Batch Attribute requirements, pegging in Master planning must match these Requirements against available Onhand with batch dimension.
Operations material overview form should support product variants
If you open Production Control > Operations > Current Operations (ProdRouteOprOverview) And then select an operation and open: Operation details > Materials You get to this very useful form: (ProdBOMOprNum) Unfortunately it has no capability to show product dimensions/variants – nor other typic...
Shift planning/dispatching for MES Workers (Generic resources) - and eventually Warehouse and qualtity workers
In the current Operations resource model, it is not possible to plan for shifts, as a job cannot be split by shifts (Often the worker is the secondary resource on a machine resource, what makes it even more complex). The consequence is that you have to set up "Generic" worker resources, that have...
Item allocation keys for Catch Weight items for forecasting
It must be possible to define Item allocation keys for catch weight items, that allows to enter the forecast quantity in catch weight unit. This could be managed by a simple flag on the Item allocation key that marks the allocation key as catch-weight. On such an item allocation key, only items...
Planning for subcontracting: create the purchase order for the scheduled vendor
When selecting the resource by capability scheduling or by any other manual scheduling methods the Vendor that is used to create the subcontracting purchase order must be derived from the scheduled resource, not taken from the BOM line (or: the Vendor in the BOM line needs to be updated before fi...
Production order or Kanban wave templates should have a line threshold (Performance)
Currently, there is not line threshold to be set on Production order or Kanban Wave templates. Given the fact that Wave-processing results in critical long running transactions, if waves have more than 500 lines, there should be threshold definable, else there is a risk of servere performance pro...
Add the where used analysis button to the released product variant form (and all other functions where a direct entry on variant level is required !!)
The released product variant listpage only has a few functions compared to the released product form. All functions that relate to further inquiries - like the Where Used analysis form - would be very helpful, as today, the user needs to go to he master, select a function, and then filter on the...
When copying from an engineering template, copy the Unit of measure conversions as well
A product cannot be effectively released and used, if the unit of measure conversions are not copied (actually BEFORE) the release to a legal entity is done, as this release might fail, if the purchase, sales or BOM unit do not have an existing conversion set up.