Do not allow purchased items to be phantoms
The system allows to make items with default order type PUR to be phantoms. The slider on the item does let you say "YES" to phantom and the line type on the BOM line lets you make it Phantom for a purchased part . No warning. but serious MRP consequences. MRP will not recognize existing Purch...
Cost calculation should have a "net change" mode
The cost calculation batch program should have a "net change" mode just like MRP. This mode would run , hopefully, considerably shorter so it could be scheduled to run each night and create a cost record for all new items created during the day. Becuase the user cannot filter on the absence of a ...
Adv Warehousing parameters mixed up with MFg Exeuction parameters
The current situation is that MFG execution parameters control the functionality of the Adv Warehousing transactions for Report as Finished. This is very confusing to the user. Suggestion is to reorganize and rename the menu choices and the field names to indicate this fact. If a customer uses...
Change the "accept error" functionality
This parameter "accept error" , used during Report as Finished transaction, is a questionable design. THe design should be changed. 1 it should be clear what type of error is suppresses. Some errors are indeed non-consequential and should be suppressed. (even better. the error should not even ...
ALerts linked to the optimization advisor
The optimization advisor is such a good idea and it would make it more usable if we could create alerts that would mail these opportunities to users to take action on. THis option is not there right now and we suggest as an idea to add this feature.
Add the option "All users" to the document group option
Right now we have to add all the names of the production workers to a list if we want them to read work instructions in the job card device or the job card terminal. Customers so far do not seem very interested in cherry picking certain inviduals. Work instructions are for everybody. We suggest a...
Change the dimension defaults
In many screens in the system where items have to be entered (Item inventory adjustment, Item allocation key, many more) the user faces a time consuming clicking process because the item dimension display by default displays Size Color Style and Configuration. Every time the user gets to that ...
Constraint based configurator should create part numbers
The constraint based configurator can only produce config id's for a product master. Many customers want the configurator to produce new part numbers just like Product Builder could do. This is a much more user friendly way of working with configured products.
Change dimension display behavior
The dimension display idea is a terrible idea and it is time for something better. -If an item has storage or tracking dimensions active, those will be the dimensions showing in the on-hand screen, in the inventory transactions screen, the sales order screen, the purchase order and the production...
No set up job and process JOB Id's please when there is zero time
When I schedule a prod order, the system generates setup job and process job id's for every set up and run time on every operation even is the time on these is ZERO . When you , by mistake, scan one of those you get "job not found". This makes no sense. A routing setup of zero time should wast...