Evert Bos Technical Fellow

When there are untransferred time registrations I cannot end the prod order. The error one gets is not specific . One has no idea which date? which worker? has the problem. We suggest to improve the error message by stating that detail. Then the user can solve the problem. Unless a prod order had only one routing op and only 1 worker it can be an endless task to figure out the problem. Example: an assembly prod order that is processed over 4 weeks and 5 people work on it. It becomes a nightmare to solve the problem of untransferred registrations ! Please.

The grid screen for the PRoduction route shows the resource that was used for the scheduling of the prod order. When an operation is completed, that field is cleared. Nobody knows why that is and it confuses the user. But it has been that way from the very first version of AX. 1 year ago a new feature was added to "reverse" the complete status of an operation. This was very good news however the feature fails to REPOPULATE that resource field. Our request is to make that happen so the behavior is consistent. This is a small program change. It really would be better to forget this entire blank-out process and add the "complete" status field to the Prod route grid screen so the user can see in one glance which operations are complete. To be decided by the product manager. But the way it is now is not acceptable and creates user confusion.

Typically a planned prod order, after firming, is created in the scheduled status. This means that any subcontracting PO has already been created. It will be line line PO just for this one prod order. Most customers don't want that. They have a lot of subcontr work they want to combine in one multi line PO. The system will do this when you firm a bunch of planned prod orders at the same time. But how do I know which planned prod orders have a subcon operation and what is the vendor for that WE NEED VISIBILITY OF THE SUBCONTRACT VENDOR in the Planned prod order grid. Then we can sort.. and firm together.! and bingo we have our multi line PO without customization. This requires a sortable vendor field on the prod order and I know it is a problem if I would have more then one subcon operation. that does happen too. But I suggest we ignore that more rare scenario and create a solution for the planned prod order that have a service item wiht a vendor in their BOM. We want to display that vendor on the planned prod order grid.

Asset management has a completely unique set up for lifecycle states and lifecycle models that is found nowhere else in the system. But it is not workflow. Maintenance requests should be routed for approval, much like purchase requisitions. This is missing. Idea is to add workflow to maintenance requests.

People we really don't want to always personalize the Product name in the BOM line grid and move it to be next to the item number, That should be standard. If you don't do this personalization, the BOM line grid is not user friendly because you can't see what that part number stands for without scrolling each time. This is not acceptable, Please move this NAME column permanently to be to the right of the part number.

The on hand screen we access from a PO or a Sales line has this feature: choose in which unit to display the on hand,. But in the on hand screen you access from the Released product, this option does not exist. That is very inconvenient, and not logical. I want to check my on hand and switch between purchase and inventory unit, without being in a transaction.

If I have an approved planned order, MRP is backing off completely . That is good for the dates and the quantities. A big problem is that it also freezesthe BOM> If I get a new active BOM (pretty common with manufacturing revisions), the planned order will NOT see it and when I firm the planned order, it will become a production order with the old, no longer active BOM. This is a VERY BIG problem. The "approved" planned prod orders should still take the active BOM, MRP should check this for every MRP run.

I can create a vendor without a language and I get no error. As soon as I create a PO for that vendor, I get an error. This is wrong. The language field on the vendor should be mandatory. I think the entire vendor should be reviewed and many more fields should be mandatory. Only the vendor group as mandatory field is not good. A vendor without an address is also strange. At least there should be a warning: "vendor has no address:". same thing for payment terms. TBD.

THis is a source of confusion for all customers for many years. At some point you get used to the mistake but the first time customers always get confused. This is not necessary. In the Released product we define item cost. Call it that. Item cost as a menu choice. in the cost version screen don't use the word price. Say COST. That is the change we strongly suggest.

When creating calendar working times, the user has to select a working time template. But one can forget this. The result is a worthless calendar where all days are in status "closed", The result then is errors during MRP because MRP cannot generate planned production orders when the planning calendar mentioned in the parameters has no working days. All this misery can be easily prevented by making the working time template a mandatory field. Creating calendar working times without a template should be impossible.