Kevin Fons Sr Application Consultant

On the Admin Center, Environments, Manage Sessions, it would be very valuable to add the Idle Time to the session ID. In older versions of BC / NAV Idle Time was often used to kill sessions and it would be good to know if some session ha been idle for a very long period of time (user left the office in BC). This might not be an issue in BC like it used to be with the timeout from the session but it's not bad info to have.

On the manufacturing setup the Dampener % says - Specifies a percentage of an item's lot size by which an existing supply must change before a planning suggestion is made. This is not how most people view the Dampener % or would like it to work. Unless you are a standard cost company you don;t typically fill in the lot size field for manufactured items and never for purchased items. Ideally planning would compare the Original Quantity to the Suggested quantity by planning and if the difference in within the dampener and larger than the demand there would be no planning message presented. Example 1 (dampener set to 10%) Sales Order for 1000 pcs due 6/1/2020 Purchase or Production Order for 1000 pcs due 6/1/2020 Change the sales order to 999 pcs Expected result - would leave the PO at 1000 pcs as it is within the 10% dampener Example 2 Change the sales order to 700 pcs Expected result - Change quantity message to 700 pcs since it is outside the 10%

When bin contents are created all bin contents are being set to fixed. Of course it should be set for the default bin but the customer should have an option to set it for other bins via a setting. Many/most times outside the default bin customers do not want the temporary overflow stock storage to be fixed. If they do have designated overflow bins per item they should be able to manually set them or asked when the contents is created if it should be set to fixed. This would remove much of the noise form the bin contents view fro bins without inventory. There could be a setting on the location page to auto set bins to fixed (could be boolean or Yes/No/Ask). Default bin is of course set to fixed. Users could manually set overflow bins to fixed if the new setting is set to False (do not auto create fixed bins) then other than the default bin for an item, when an item is placed in a bin it would not be marked as fixed in the bin contents.

Page 7374 Bin Contents has a wealth of information that is missing on page 7379 Item Bin Contents. It would be very valuable to either have the flow fields (available to take, quantity on pick, etc.) and other data fields available on page 7374 on page 7379. They could be added to the page or added in a fact-box on the page as it is valuable information the user needs to make decisions.

Ability to assign a default Bill of Material and Routing at the SKU level. Add fields for the production BOM and routing to the SKU card. If a production order is created for a location with a SKU, and there is a bill of material and/or routing populated on the SKU, use these values for the production order and not the item card values. If they are not populated, use the values from the item card. This would apply both to manual production orders and orders created from the planning worksheet. The standard cost roll-up would need to be considered and I would assume the values from the item card would be used of there would need to be a indication on the SKU if it should be the default for costing. We've done this modification from several customers now and others have asked for it but worked around it by manually changing the bill/routing per production order as needed.

It would be beneficial if there was a master list of ALL countries with their appropriate 2 digit and other country codes we could load or was loaded stock with new company setups.

It would be nice to have a full Postal Code listing that could be loaded / updated similar to how currencies are updated via a service. This would allow for better validation when entering master data like customers and vendors. This would populate ad update Table 225 Post Code.

There are fields on the requisition worksheet that are not on the planning worksheet and vice versa which causes confusion especially from a purchasing standpoint related to prices, costs and amounts. If you create a purchase order from the Planning Worksheet, BC will pull the proper price on the PO line, however, you can not see the price and amount in the planning worksheet but you can see it in the requisition worksheet. Alternately the Requisition worksheet does not show item cost (not price) information you can see in the planning worksheet. Add the Direct Unit Cost to the planning worksheet (purchase price) (it is on the requisition worksheet) Add the Amount field to the planning worksheet (direct unit cost * qty) (it is on the requisition worksheet) Add the Unit Cost field to the requisition worksheet (it is on the planning worksheet) Add the Cost Amount field to the requisition worksheet (it is on the planning worksheet)

Create a Pick+Manual flushing method similar to Pick+Backward. Item only set to manual could be treated like backflush items from a pick standpoint and the consumption would be from the open shop floor bin and not require a pick. Items set to Pick+Manual would pick to the to-production bin and require a pick for consumption. This would allow companies to store some inventory in the open shop floor bin and manually replenish for the items they do not want to pick and manually consume. Alternately you could call it Manual - Pick (manual no pick required)?

IF the item is set for FIFO costing the difference and variance should be able to be shown for Expected vs Actual instead of actual vs Standard as standard costs do not apply to FIFO items. This should be for both the Statistics page and for the report.