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Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations has rich functionality for manufacturing companies. But the wide range of functionality may seem complex and can be a challenge for the user.

Advanced Production Control takes you to the next level of production functionality by offering:

• "Touchless" ERP, i.e. automatic scheduling, release and start of production orders at the right moment 
• Transparancy of the production progress
• Status information at your finger tips
• Preparation and monitoring of purchase components for production orders
• Clear call to action: what next step is possible, which actions are urgent
• Automated processing of production orders is possible through the detailed order status field

Challenges in standard Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations

The list page "All production orders" displays the production orders and batch orders with the "status": Created, Estimated, Scheduled, Released, Started, Reported as finished or Ended. But finding out whether the production order is ready for the next step can require a lot of clicks. 

The "remain status" displays the next activity, but does not tell whether the activity is possible to start.

The form "Current operations" shows which operations are started and for which operations material is needed, but does not show whether the operation can be started, or waits for a previous operation to be finished.

If the form is filtered on a resource or operation, it is not visible whether the previous operation has been finished.

Generally, the production user wants to see at one glance:

• which production orders are ready for the next step
• which production orders have higher priority because the deadline is near
• at which resource the production order is currently running
• for which operations the remaining lead time is longer than the hours to deadline
• which operations have passed the deadline
• which operations can be started because previous operation is ready
• which production orders are ready to send to the subcontractor

And to accommodate for touchless ERP, automatic batch jobs should schedule, release, start the production order automatically at a suitable moment.

To verify this in standard Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations , it is necessary to open several additional forms and go to:

• the production BOM, inventory transactions to check the current reservations
• the warehouse tab, open the raw material work to view the material picking status
• the view tab, open the capacity requirements to know at which resource the production order is scheduled
• the production route and view what is the current work center
• the production progress
• the production BOM, reference purchase order, search the related purchase order line for the confirmed receipt date Make to Order (MTO) and Assemble to Order (ATO), i.e. the production order has a reference to a sales order, go to
  • the confirmed delivery date of the related sales order line
  • the scheduled ship date and time of the sales order load or the dock appointment of the sales order load

Advanced Production Control combines all the information above in the production list page in an additional field Order status and other fields, and is refreshed by pressing one button "Update status". It saves a lot of time for the production user.

Just press Update status to get the actual status.

You can filter on fully reserved orders, picked, current workcenter etc. and set up batch jobs with this filtering. 

No setup required.

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