Dampener % to use Original Quantity and not Lot Size
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 ...
Do not Automatically Set Bin Content To Fixed
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...
Improved Item Bin Contents Page
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 add...
BOM and Routing by SKU
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 produ...
Country Code master list
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.
Postal Code Master File
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.
Align Cost/ Price fields on Planning and Requisition Worksheets
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 th...
Pick+Manual Flushing Method
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 r...
Production Order Statistics for FIFO
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.
Release from Purchase Blanket in Planning
We have not used blanket purchase orders for any customers as they do not function the way most Purchase Contracts work in the US. They only work for companies doing manual purchasing. The Blankets should have a start and End date (which can be adjusted) We need to get messages in Planning for b...