Introduction

Maintaining excess inventory ties up capital and incurs carrying costs, such as storage, insurance, and depreciation. An efficient MRP system can help optimize stock levels, reducing carrying costs and improving overall cost efficiency.
These tools can provide valuable insights into how much stock is needed to meet customer demand. This ensures that the company doesn't overstock or understock, which can lead to financial losses or missed sales opportunities.
An MRP tool helps prevent stockouts by ensuring that necessary items are reordered in a timely manner, maintaining production continuity and customer satisfaction.
Communicating requirements to suppliers accurately this helps build strong supplier relationships by ensuring that suppliers can meet demand without excessive rush orders or shortages.

As is situation

While the Master Planning module excels in optimizing supply chain management, it is missing a tool to provide a quick, consolidated overview of results for specific sets of items.
With standard D365 F&O, there are 2 ways to get a requirements planning overview :
- The “Net requirements”
- The “Supply Schedule”

Both solutions are not user-friendly and can only be used for one item at a time

Need for a tool to provide a quick, consolidated overview of results for specific sets of items :
- concise visualizations, graphs, and summaries that highlight key performance indicators and metrics
- drill-down capabilities to enable you to obtain more in-depth information on trends and anomalies
- creating new orders or enabling item coverage parameters to be updated

Operational tool for visualizing the projected on-hand for a set of items
Colorful vision of projected inventory by customizable color and range
Colors are regarding safety stock, Min/Max or EOQ quantity of each product
Graphical view of projected inventory by customizable period
Expanding function for drilldown analysis by customizable movement type
Preview panes of all opens purchase, sale, production, transfer, planned orders per selected product.

As an operational tool for items coverage, actions button allows you to:
- A. Refresh, expend / collapse Master Planning Center lines
- B. Directly create new orders
- C. Export the matrix to excel
- D. Access to all relevant actions for item coverage settings
Quick change of master [plans] to simulate the impact of different forecast scenarios:
Quick change of [Period template]
Quick change list of items to display or focus on one in particular:
Quick change of storage dimensions that Master planning uses

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