ItemPlanning 365
Streamlined and intelligent materials planning and management for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Experience the efficiency of streamlined and intelligent materials planning and shortage management.
ItemPlanning equips material planners and purchasers with precise insights, facilitating prompt decision-making and optimizing production or procurement strategies.
In the face of unexpected events, such as delayed purchase orders, ItemPlanning offers comprehensive analyses to manage shortages effectively.
Its capabilities extend across different departmental functions, serving as a valuable resource for decision-making in various aspects of inventory management, procurement, sales, and production activities.
What are the benefits?
Enhanced efficiency
Streamlined material planning and management reduce operational friction, leading to smoother processes and quicker decision-making.
Accurate insights
ItemPlanning provides material planners and purchasers with precise information, enabling well-informed decisions regarding production or procurement strategies, including considerations of quantity and timing.
Effective “When can we deliver?” management
Address unexpected events with ease. ItemPlanning’s comprehensive analyses empower proactive management of shortages in sales and production orders, ensuring operational continuity.
Simulation capabilities
Visualize potential scenarios. With simulation features, users can anticipate outcomes, facilitating proactive decision-making and risk mitigation.
Cross-functional capabilities
Spanning across various departmental operations, ItemPlanning serves as a versatile decision-making tool, facilitating collaboration and alignment across the organization.
Key features
For material and purchase planners
Immediate availability status
Instantly view item availability on open sales and production orders, facilitating proactive planning.
Direct order creation
Quickly create orders/requisitions from shortage items for timely reorder.
Delivery item avaialbility timeline inquiry
Easily determine delivery schedules for items, products, and capacity, ensuring accurate promise dates.
Comprehensive item coverage
Manage various item types seamlessly, from products to raw materials.
Works with limited/constrained resources
Seamlessly handle planning with limited or constrained resources, optimizing utilization and ensuring efficient allocation across production, inventory, procurement, and sales activities.
For production, inventory, procurement, and sales planners
What-if simulation
Explore impacts of order changes with simulation scenarios for better decision-making.
Critical items analysis
Identify key items and prioritize actions to minimize risks.
Timeline alerts for negative inventory and safety stock
Receive alerts when inventory levels are low, enabling quick action.
Optimized resource allocation
Efficiently plan with limited resources, enhancing overall operational efficiency.
Integration with Business Central planning
Work directly within the Business Central Planning Worksheet for simplified planning.
Forecasting versus actual customer order backlog planning
Sales items compared with sales order backlog to guide the master scheduling process
Accurate item availability over time
Get precise information on item availability, aiding in better planning.
The intuitive way to see and work with expected item inventory
A complete overview of item availability including simulation facilities and shortage impact on sales orders.
The easy way to control shortage challenges
Full item shortage overview of production/assembly and sales orders. And the option that shortages can be actioned right away.
Answer the "When can we deliver" questions
Supports non-stocked produced Bill of Material items.
Displays two key dates: a materials completion date—when shortages are resolved—and a finished production due date—when the item can be produced.
quick overview to identify items that require the planner's attention
The ItemPlanning – Critical Items function evaluates potential understocking and overstocking scenarios, both in the near term and further into the future.
You can find the release notes for ItemPlanning here
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