Kevin Fons Sr Application Consultant

We need a fixed quantity item capability in bills of material and production orders. There are cases where you need X amount of an item no matter what the production order quantity. For example we use 1 of a component no matter if we run 1 or 100 of the parent item for the standard bill of material. For Production Order Bills of material: We also at time would use this to add additional quantities to an order manually in cases where we may have scrap or need to substitute or add some of a component without the restriction of a quantity per. Another example is the need to add more of an item to get a specific property for the final item and it is not a quantity per., we see this alot in recipe type product where you may need to add more of an ingredient to get to a desired PH or specific gravity or even for ice cream a specific milk fat percentage.

Move or add the Calculate Machine centers to the Machine Center list page and call it Calculate Machine Centers so it is consistent with the Calculate Work Centers. Right now it is buried 4-5 levels deep on the Machine center calendar matrix page and called just calculate,.

When using machine centers and work centers where the work center has a consolidated calendar, it would save time and errors if the function to calculate the work center calendar would calculate the machine center calendars then the work center if the work center is set to use a consolidated calendar. An alternative would be to create a function to calculate machine and work center calendars or be able to select via a dialog box if you want to calculate both. It would then first calculate all the machine centers and then the work centers.

The Bin Code is hidden by default on pages like the Warehouse Pick, Put-away and other warehouse document pages. It should always be visible as the purpose of these pages / documents is bin to bin movements. This has been this way from the start and it doesn't make sense that companies using warehousing have to have every user personalize their page to show the field in BC SaaS.

Not allowing the use of non-inventory items with locations severely limits the functionality of the non-inventory item to the point where companies using locations are not able to use them. Allowing locations will allow non-inventory items to be added to Requisition Worksheets so they can be requested by someone and then placed on a PO by purchasing. it will also be required to allow non-inventory items to be used on assembly orders and production bills of material. This is a highly desired use where these items can be on a production order to show an employee supply items are used but not have the same inventory / consumption requirements of a normal inventory item.

It would be helpful to have a base permission set with out the Page (0) and Report (0) permission that has only the most basic required permissions for a user to get into BC. All the stock basic permission sets have the access to all pages and reports enabled. For any customer actually using permissions, the first thing we have to do is create a copy of the base permission set and then remove the Page 0 and report 0 permissions and then manually add the smaller set of pages and reports all users need. This new base permission set would then allow more flexibility in adding permission set to add specific pages and reports based on the users roles and save time of not having to create the new base permission set. Keep the existing permission sets but add a new one for the more restrictive base set.

Currently the production order Due Date, Ending Data and Start dates are all calculated and validated with any change to any of the dates which makes it impossible to schedule production orders with any flexibility related to starting and ending. Many of our customers would like to add scheduling time into the production process to have component materials schedule anywhere from a day to a week early to allow them to schedule the order into work centers and machine centers based on many factors (priority, capacity, related materials, product color, etc.). We have used safety lead-time to add time between end and due dates which helps to drive the earlier start date since all the dates (due, end and start) are linked the users cannot then schedule the orders without effecting the due date on the order. The current functionality is very restricting and inflexible from a scheduling standpoint. They would like to move start and end dates and not to move the order due date unless the end date would move beyond the due date. They would like to initially plan the orders either from the planning worksheet or via manual creations with a scheduling time added between the end date and the due date (safety lead time could be used or a new field added). They would then "schedule the order" at some point in the process to set a new start date which should adjust the end date as it does now but not adjust the order due date. If the end date moves beyond the due date ideally it would display a message that the change will move the due date and ask the user if they want to make the change or revert it. We do have some very manual workarounds for this but this has always been an issue with manufacturing customers from the initial NAV versions. Prior to extensions, coding this was a fairly simple modification and we could work around it but with extensions in SaaS it is nearly impossible.

The comment function on the item page / ribbon is under Navigate / Availability. This makes no sense at all and should be moved to a place like Navigate / Item or the Item ribbon item menu

The Lot Size field (17) on the Production Order Routing Line Table (5409) needs to be added to the Production Order Routing page (99000817). The field is commonly used on routings and represents the units / run time on the routing. It is on the routing page but not the production order routing page. The field needs to be shown so users know what the value is and can modify if needed per production order.

Add the missing categories to this ideas site like Manufacturing, Warehousing, etc.