React to last-minute changes in production
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Users by admins, makers, or analysts | 
Oct 13, 2023 |
Jan 12, 2024 |
Business value
Manufacturers often need to react to last-minute changes to production orders. Such changes may occur due to updated items, updated routes, added margins, or scheduling changes introduced to make better use of on-hand inventory. Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management now supports the flexibility needed to accommodate these kinds of changes.
Feature details
Maintaining agility in production can be difficult in the face of supply shortages, rapidly changing demands, and last-minute changes to production orders. Supply Chain Management now offers the following new capabilities that can help streamline the process of responding to such changes:
- Add margins to manual scheduling: Insert buffer time between production orders by adding an issue margin, receipt margin, and/or reorder margin when rescheduling production orders. This is especially useful for orders with deep bills of material or when you have several related production orders, where having a buffer between orders can help ensure on-time delivery.
- Make the best use of on-hand inventory and planned receipts: Increase your order fulfillment rate by using on-hand inventory and planned receipts for last-minute orders. Master planning will suggest creating a new planned order when an item is needed outside of its lead time while using existing supply if it's needed within the lead time. You can control this using the new Dynamic positive days parameter.
- Avoid releasing to warehouse when materials are missing: You can choose to prevent production orders that require full reservation from being released to the warehouse unless all materials are available for pickup.
- Change items on production orders: Substitute items in scheduled production orders, finish stock of discontinued products based on the registered time of discontinuation or make changes based on the available stock.
- Change routes on production orders: Replace routes on multiple scheduled production orders when changes are needed for setup, run time, or resources.