Master planning | Dynamics.FO - F&O Documentation and References

Restart and resume logic for the forecast generation batch process.

This feature enables the forecast generation batch process to be restarted or resumed after an infrastructure failure occurs.

Finite material scheduling for Planning Optimization.

This feature enables automatic scheduling of production orders based on material availability, ensuring that planned production orders are not delayed due to material shortage.

Group transactions in Planning Optimization

This feature can help reduce the number of planned orders generated to supply a single sales order line when you are using Planning Optimization.

Make-to-order supply automation

Make-to-order supply automation enables you to do the following:

- View the resource capacity load for a user-defined period, thereby enabling long-term evaluation of the capacity load.

(Preview) DDMRP for Planning Optimization

This feature adds functionality that enables Planning Optimization to support the principles of Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP).

Consider inventory lead time when creating a planned transfer order

When a planned transfer order is created, this feature causes the system to consider the inventory lead time specified in the item's default order settings when calculating the receipt date of the

Planned orders simplified

This feature makes it faster and easier to view, approve, and firm planned orders.

Priority driven MRP support for Planning Optimization

This Planning Optimization feature enables master planning driven by planning priority with reorder point.

Resource planning with maintenance

This feature will add planned maintenance work orders to resource planning overviews and gantt chart.

Saved views for planned orders

This feature provides a collection of simplified views for planned orders. Each view only includes the most often used fields, thereby providing a quicker overview and a streamlined work process.

Planned order firming with filtering

This feature enables selective firming of planned orders, based on a user defined filter.

Parallel authorizing of adjusted demand forecast

This feature allows parallel authorizing of adjusted demand forecast from the Adjusted demand forecast form.

Negative days for Planning Optimization

This feature enables Planning Optimization to consider the Negative days parameter defined on Coverage groups.

Master planning progress visualization

The feature makes it possible to visualize the progress of a master planning process and estimate the remaining processing time.

Margins for Planning Optimization

This feature enables Planning Optimization to use issue, receipt and order margins.

Infinite capacity scheduling for Planning Optimization

This feature enables capacity scheduling with infinite capacity for Planning Optimization.

Include items with on-hand when pre-processing filters are enabled

This feature ensures that items with on-hand will always be included in the Master planning run when the ‘Pre-processing: Automatically filter by items with direct demand’ flag is enabled on the Maste

Enable master plan setup wizard features.

This feature allows access to a business-oriented wizard that will help you set up master plans and master planning optimization parameters.

Batchable firming and consolidation for planned bulk and pack batch orders

This feature lets you use batch jobs to firm and consolidate planned bulk and pack orders.

Azure Machine Learning Service for demand forecasting

This feature allows Azure Machine Learning Service to generate demand forecast based on historical data.

Auto-firming for Planning Optimization

This feature is in preview. This feature allows auto-firming of planned orders after Planning Optimization runs.

(Stock transfer for India) Set up the default transfer type and price type for transfer orders created from Master planning

This feature impacts stock transfer functionality for India. It allows you to set up a default transfer type and default price type for transfer orders that are created when firming planned orders.