Waris Khan

Planned orders within the master planning freeze time fence Sorry. I’m a bit of a master planning grove with posts this week, but I’ve just been working on an issue with a nice little ‘gotcha’ in it, and as it’s the second time I’ve come across this particular master planning wrinkle I’m putting in out there in the hope that it’ll save you some time and frustration. On the Item coverage record you can see the Freeze time fence: It’s inherited from the item’s coverage group: The  help text  says: “Specify the period during which planned orders cannot be created. You also use this field to specify where planned orders from previous requirement calculations cannot be changed. All requirements that are not covered in this period are covered by a purchase order or a production order that is created at the end of the period, together with an action message that suggests advancing the date of the planned order. During the period, if an earlier requirement calcul...

Dynamics 365 Finance and operations – Master Planning Overview What is Master Planning ? A grouping of business processes that includes the following activities:- Demand management, which includes the forecasting of sales, the planning of distribution, & the servicing of customer orders Sales & operations planning, which includes sales planning, production planning, inventory planning, backlog planning & resource planning Master scheduling, which includes the preparation of master production schedule & the capacity plan Master Planning Flow Diagram Types of Master Plans Static plan:-  The static plan remains unchanged until the next time that you run the master planning task, and provides a stable basis for analysis and actions. Dynamic plan:-  The dynamic plan will be updated by subsequent transactions, which can result in constant changes to planned orders, for ex. in case of Make to Order products.   NOTE:- While creatin...

MSDyn365FO: Inventory blocking In this blog post we are going to review the different approaches of the inventory blocking and their effect on the master planning: Manual inventory blocking Inventory blocking through Quality order Inventory blocking through Inventory status Inventory blocking through Quality order and batch disposition codes Manual Inventory blocking With this approach you manually block items or rather its inventory from being issued/consumed.  Nothing else than items that are available on-hand can be blocked. This can be done through inventory blocking form. Navigate to  Inventory management > Periodic tasks > Inventory blocking. In this case, Inventory blocking type will be set to Manual. While you are manually blocking the existing inventory, you have an ability to decide whether the blocked inventory should be considered by master planning or not. If you set Expected receipt flag, then blocked quantity will be included in th...