Conrad Volkmann

It must be possible to find available inventory based on a combination of engineering attributes, ideally with the possibility to specify a range of values as well.

So far, you can use the properties to search for all items that exist, but not with focus on availability.

This may be something to be solved with the inventory availability service or with co-pilot capabilities.

This is mission critical for customers in manufacturing, especially in complex engineering, electrical engineering, and obviously in the Food and beverage industry (Assumption: allergens and other critical attributes are engineering attributes).

In many cases, the traceability to a vendor related material is not done with Batch or serial references, but basically by using other Vendor references for traceability:

• Purchase order number
• Delivery note number (Receipt ID in Dynamics)
• Shipment ID
• Invoice number
• Vendor package ID / Handling unit ID / Container- ID
• Obviously, an important reference to track is the delivery date.

If no batch or serial number is defined or tracked, those references are the preferred references to track back to the Vendor traceability. The Vendor might also provide additional tracking references in an ASN or in an As-build-BOM Report that are NOT used as inventory dimensions in Dynamics, but should be registered in the Tracking solution.

It should be possible to:

• Export of additional purchase references to the traceability solution
• View and analyze traceability based on those document / reference types
• Import additional references to the traceability model that are NOT registered in Dynamics directly.

When raw materials are stored in silos, often a new batch is filled into a silo without the silo completely empty. For traceability, this results in a mix of batches (what may be one solution to solve the scenario: create a new merged batch.

The other solution would be to allow to create tracking references on consumption for more than one Batch at a time.

This also applies to scenarios where a production line may be provisioned with material from multiple batches at the same time.

In a way, this could be solved with a concept of "staged batches" on a specific location, that create more than one traceability reference on consumption.