Evert Bos Technical Fellow

This idea is an enhancement for the existing cross docking framework. The scenarios described below are very common in the discrete industry, especially in the complex equipment industry. scenario 1; No advanced warehousing. A production order has been released and started but there are material shortages that are expected to be resolved soon When the Purchase order with the short part number arrives, the system searches for started production orders that needs this item (quantity would show as "on order". A marked production order would get priority . When the user clicks "prod receipt" a window comes up "want add to picklist of prod order xxx? Y/N". When Yes, the system will receive this item and also immediately create a picklist for the production order and post it . We call this "receiving into WIP". The exact same functinality exists when I do RAF for a production order and this item happens to be short in another prod order that is waiting for it. Prod order needs to be started, quantity for the item is 'on order'. Scenario 2: advanced warehousing is used. Purchase order receiving into WIP: when the user says yes to the questoin, the pick for purchase receiving is done but the put is suspended to become a put right into the input locatoin of the resource group on operation 10 (or higher) of the production order with the shortage. Cross docking. Prod order receiving into WIP: the exact same. the Put is suspended and becomes a put directly to the input location of the resource group in the routing of the prod order waiting for this part.

When using advanced warehousing it may happen that a prod order is erroneously picked and we have to 'reverse the pick".when my Prod BOM has 40 or more lines, this is a tremendous job. Each individual line has to be unpicked. The idea is to provide an unpick transaction wiht one click for the entire order. It is kinda like 'reverse work' or "undo".

The GANTT chart for production has a timescale feature that allows you to switch from days to hours or from days to weeks etc. This is rather inefficient and not very intuitive in today's world where all graphical displays have a zoom feature. We request if we can have a zoom feature on the chart. using a button just like on map applications. This would make the user a lot happier and the chart would be used more.

GANTT chart only available for Job scheduled prod orders is a pity and it seems a limitation that has not very profound reasons. Many customers in MFG are using operation scheduling. They would like to use the GANTT chart also

The BOM designer shows quantities (Net quantity of BOM line) however only in two decimals. The BOM net qty field has 4 decimals and these should show in the designer also.

The WOrk Report for Raw material picking and sales order picking can be printed. However: it has no print status. If you want to run a batch that prints new open picking work that is generated, (the batch can be set up) it will never work because you can not filter on Work that has not been printed yet. It will print the same work again and again until the work is no longer in open status. We need a field on the picking work that is like document status that is on PO's Without that, no good business process can be implemented. Without that batch, a person is necessary every time I need to print picking work. Printed picking work is the only available trigger for a picking person to get to work. The mobile app does not have a "push" mechanism like an inbox where newly generate picking work is presented.

When doing a manual unpick for Production orders, the item ends up as on hand in the Input location not in the original storage location. so the item is not really unpicked because the process is not really reversed. The consequence is that the next prod order that needs this item will see it in the Input location, and will not create warehouse work, confusing the user. This problem arose because there is no advanced warehousing unpick functionality. The unpick we can use , the only one that is available, is the standard AX one from the old days. This makes unpicking for prod orders in essence not possible. The unpick I can do makes inventory avaiable again but I would have to transfer it after the unpick to really restore the situation to how it was.

There is no solution for Floorstock in D365. It should not be hard to get a solution for it. We need a line type on the BOM and the PROD BOM that will make sure this floorstock item: - is not showing up on the Picklist - is not creating a "remaining quantity" on the PRod BOM - so does not require a consumption transaction. Floorstock is an item that is NOT inventory managed in the system. We need a solution for that. The service item, a logical choice for this floorstock behavior, is completely behaving like an inventoried item. I need to consume it... and it wants to have inventory for this service item . A strange contradiction. (we cant pick negative becuae that would affect all normal items too)