Evert Bos Technical Fellow

The project item journal line has a field for the cost. This field is editable . It displays the active cost of the item. But it should not be updatable. The user gets the impression he can post any cost . This is not correct The system will ignore whatever the user types in and wil post the active cost It has no meaning to make this field editable. Request is to make this field read only.

When creating warehouse raw mat picking work for prod orders, the system sends an error message when certain parts are not available and cannot be picked. It talks LOT ID. Nobody remembers lot ID's. IT should talk part numbers so the user knows what the shortages are!

Something seems not right with vendor collaboration. I send a PO to the vendor.My status now on the PO "in external review' this is true. I am waiting for the vendor. The vendor accepts PO without changes . The PO disappears from his PO review tile and shows up in the "awaiting customer action" tile. The customer is now hopefully placing the PO by confirming it. But the customer still sees his PO in status 'external review" which is not correct. The vendor is done The status should change. The customer will not know unless he clicks on menu choice "vendor response' which is lit up regardless whether vendor answered or not. Not good . I suggest design changes (1) change the PO status to "Vendor-responded" when the vendor has given a response (2) only make the menu vendor response be lit up when there is actually a vendor response . The way it is now is not going to delight the buyer in D365 The vendor functionality is fine.

WIth the use of ADV Warehousing in prod order picking, it has become clear that there is a black hole in the information regarding the prod BOM items between the time they were picked and the time they were consumed via a picklist journal. The three quantity columns we have now "Estimated qty", "Released qty" and "Remaining qty" require a fourth one called "Picked quantity". And maybe a fifth "Remaining to be picked qty". This value or these values can easily be taken from the inventory transaction record corresponding to the Prod BOM line.

It is a very common user error to put the subcontract service item in the BOM, and forget to make the line type = vendor! This will of course stop the show and no Sub PO will be generated. The idea is to generate an error message when the Prod Order is estimated and the system detects that there is a service item in the Prod BOM that has a line time = item". This error condition needs to trigger a warning.

We have meekly tolerated this for years but now is the time to fix it. If I create a return type Purchase order, obviously the quantity has to be negative. THe amazing thing is that the system does not default a negative sign in the PO line. So you get an error. Then you have to manually put a negative quantity in. If something in functionality has no options and can only be one way, the user should not be made responsible to remember this. A returned type PO only allows negative quantity. THen make this quantity negative already so the user does not have to remember this minus sign.

Customers always ask for a Resource group and resource efficiency report. ERP systems typically have it. It is not hard to calculate but the system does not have it. It should be part of the prod performance KPI out of the box. For a chosen time interval the system shows, for each resource group or resource : 100/ quantity scheduled to RAF * actual quantity RAF If resource "keeps up" with the schedule, we have 100% efficiency. Lower output per period then expected, the efficiency is lower then 100%. etc THis would be a big success with customers.

Reversal of picking is an important functionality. With sales orders we get to chose what to do if we unpick. Where to put the items. In Production we need that same choice. Right now in Production you have no choice. The system will unpick but leave the items in the input location. This means they will never get on a picklist again because sitting in that location, the next "release to warehouse" will instantly switch them to "picked". We would have to do a manual transfer to the regular locatoin where the items came from. This is so much work that nobody would go through that trouble. Request is to provide the production unpick functionality with the same window we have in sales orders unpick and one of the options there is: put items back in original location.

We really miss a screen for Purchase agreement lines. So we can filter on part numbers. Just like we have a purchase lines screen for Purchase orders, we need this for Purchase agreements.