Category Archives: WhatisNew

iPlanner 3.6

Algorithm Algorithm

Buffer: Functionality to be able to control which bucket a plan order is planned in compared to its upstream and downstream plan orders. Thus, sequencing of specific tasks on one operation can be done without effecting upstream or downstream operations as long as the task remains within its bucket.

Transport Routings: Multiple Operations support for Transport Routes.  Transport Resource now can be

Modeling Modeling

Capacity Templates: Ability to model capacity in Repetitive patterns

Often times companies work in shift patterns such as Monday-Friday. In order to facilitate an easier way to manage these patterns, iPlanner has introduced the concept of Capacity Templates in version 3.6.  These patterns can be used by any resources.

Intelligent Color Coding in Graphs MDA

This includes setting Base Colors for Build Late and Build Early.  For Example, setting Red as base color for late, then Dark Red to Light red will show the delay visually.

Platform Support Support

Support for Windows 8 and Windows 2012, and MS SQL Server 2012.

Localization Foundation

Added Mandarin Language Support.

iPlanner 3.5

Algorithm Algorithm

Attribute Based Planning:

  • Control which demand can use which supply based on attributes
  • Determine production process based on Attributes

Item Location Level Build Ahead and Late Limits:

WIP: Functionality to Schedule an Operation for a WIP Manufacturing Order

Supply Consumption Tolerance:

  • Option [SingleLevel / Propogate] determine desired behavior of Supply tolerances
  • Minimum Supply Lot Percent: Determines if Supply Order can be used or not

Manufacturing Orders Control: Control how work order is planned [Demand Driven, Use Start Date, and Use End Date]

Capacity Consumption Criteria: Control how capacity is consumed when there is yield [Use End Qty, Use Start Qty]

Modeling Modeling

Build ahead limits: Specify build ahead limits at the Item Location level and sourcing path combination

Manufacturing Details: Specify input work orders as either a “Scheduled Start Date” or “Scheduled End Date”

Enhanced Shelf Life Functionality: Specify the percent of the overall shelf life time the item is allowed to consume at this location “Shelf Life Pct”

Unconstrained Resource Criteria:  Specify whether non-working hours is unconstrained or constrained for resource that are set to unconstrained

Campaign Overrun Criteria: Specify whether it is OK for Orders that can start within a Campaign can end outside the campaign

Alternate Resource Load balance criteria: Specify if the load balance should be based on utilization weighted on absolute available capacity

Reason Codes Key

Reason Codes specifying the constraints for Delays and Shortages.

Foundation Foundation

User Extensions: Added editing and format capability in Pivot format for User Extension objects

User Interface UI

Intelligent Color Coding for Lateness: Red and Green Color scales.

Contextual Drill Down: Be able to drill down

Inventory Graphs: Plot multiple safety stock lines in inventory Graph

Demand Management: Highlight multiple cells and Apply a formula. See Subtotals of highlighted cells

User Settings: – Added default layouts to Vertical Grids – Functionality to restore default layouts

Excel Add-In ExcelAddin

Demand Planning: Excel plugin to the demand planning suite

Action Messages Message

Manufacturing Orders: Added Problems definitions for Manufacturing Orders

Examples DB Bulb

Ability to create test cases with easy editing and Management of Data and behavior documentation

Localization Support

Languages: Added German Language Support.

Enhanced Korean Swedish Language Support

Demand Planning Performance

Forecasting Algorithms: New Triple Exponential and Double Exponential

Demand View Definitions:

  • Support Editing For Measures with an Average Cube Function
  • Partially Keyed Data functionality
  • Validation Expression for save data check
  • Added functionality that automatically saves new Intersections
  • Add Functionality to allocate changes based on another Measures split ratios (Split Measure)
  • Filter on Measure Data in cube retrieval
  • Search Hierarchies and dimension data in Demand views

Integration Integration

High Performance Integration: Added new “Bulk Loads” for fast integration with high volume data.

NetSuite Integration Adapters: New built in adapters and mappings with NetSuite ERP.

Lawson Integration Adapters: Be able to run several Transactions within a connection

Multi-Dimensional Analytics MDA

Template Synchronization: Functionality to add Fields that are added after saving layout

iPlanner 3.4

Algorithm Algorithm

Operation Level Material Consumption: Consumption of Materials at specific routing steps

Shelf Life planning: New Shelf Life planning functionality with Expiration dates and when planned future supply will be obsolete based on the shelf life.

Sequence Specific Resource within a Factory plan: new functionality select resource which should be planned without overlap in a bucketized plan.

Modeling Modeling

Capacity Constraints: Functionality to control “Constraint Horizon” per resource

Yield changing over time: Yield Calendar functionality on Operation Resources

Routing Operation Resources: Effectivity Dates to control the Resources used

Foundation

Simplified planning Parameters: Consolidated planning parameters into planning options

User Interface UI

Multiple Plans in Memory: Support Data Reload and Multiple Plan Models in memory at the same time

Action Messages Message

Message Parameters: Be able to specify Tolerances for messages as a percentage of Lead time

Highlight the Critical path behind messages: new logic to “Manufacturing Orders” in Demand Source if a firm MO is in the critical path. Also identifies what type of demand that caused the message.

Database Maintenance Foundation

DB Utility: New iPlanner Database utility application for Database management.

Performance Performance

Multi-Dimensional Analytics: Improved Report loading Performance

Integration Integration

User Extensions: User Defined Tables can now be mapped to External Data Source

Logging: Enhanced Integration Logging for with added Business logic checks

Auto Mapping: Functionality to Drag a Source to Destination with binding when Field names are the same

Multi-Dimensional Analytics MDA

User Extensions: User Defined Report Templates can be created by end users

Enhanced Report Designer: Control custom Captions, Formats and formulas.  Labels, Data, and Dimension fields can be added or removed from reports by user

External BI Access: Report View with User friendly names is automatically created to be used for external reporting solutions

iPlanner 3.3

 

What If Analysis Bulb

“What if” workbench: Added a single view to manage data, execute plans, diagnose plan results and view aggregated result (Multi Dimensional Analytics) to simplify and ease “what-if” analysis workflows.

Multi Tasking: Added ability to execute a plan on a separate thread and eliminating application restart.

Plan Reload: Added functionality to reload plans.

Support Support

Support for Windows 7 and Windows 2008.

Foundation Foundation

Progress Bar: Added progress bar indicating that iPlanner is starting.

.Net: Upgraded .net framework to version 3.5.

User Interface UI

On Time Flag: Added new “On Time” Field for demand records in the Material Registers.

Transaction Number visibility: Added ability to view order number in all plan order, pegging and material register screens.

Pegging Summary: Functionality to personalize the pegging navigation tree per user.

Integration Integration

Plan Order Export: Added new “Transaction Number” field to the “plan Orders”.

Multiple Job Execution: Added ability to run multiple jobs in one command without data reload.

Clear Data: Added ability to clear targeted existing data before imports.

iPlanner 3.2

User Interface UI

Step Priority: Added ability to view the manufacturing order “Priority” in the “Plan Order Operations view”.

Capacity Summary: Added horizontal scroll bar to the Capacity Summary grid view.

Date Range Filter: Added date range filter to the “Capacity Detailed Load Graphs” to control the visible area for usability.

Excel Add-In ExcelAddin

Demand Management Bookmark: Added header to indicate the hierarchy aggregation and filter selection for a Bookmark.

Action Messages Message

Hard Pegging: Added ability to drill down to the final customer order from a specific action message.

Security Security

Enhanced user extension security to control write privileges to the record level.

Web Service Key

Custom reports: Added functionality to retrieve and view Custom Reports through web services.

User Extensions: Added functionality to fetch and updates data for User Extensions through web services.

iPlanner 3.0

User Defined Extensions Foundation

Added Functionality to extend the data model to include user defined elements.

  • Ability to enforce referential and logical business relationships
  • View, create and maintain data in the iPlanner user interface
  • Security restrictions on viewing and editing

User Interface UI

Color coding by Status: Added Color coding of supply and demand records based on Order Status and Order Type.

Detail Capacity Load: Added a Single view of the detailed loads across planning horizon.

Gannt Chart: Broken down to include Queue time, Post Op time and Transit time.

Order Status Icons: Highlight Work in Progress (WIP) and Released Manufacturing Orders in the Pegging Summary view.

Export of Material Registers: Ability to Export (Excel, PDF, Text) and Print the Material Register view.

Transaction Identification: Added flag to identify if a planorder is a transaction.

Exceptions Management: Enhanced Exceptions to show the monetary impact of the exception violation (safety stock, stock out, etc) .

Navigation History: Capture screens visited within a session.

Localization Support

Added Swedish Language Support.

Action Messages Message

Added action message workbench to plan diagnosis to enable root cause and impact analysis.

  • Drill down to inventory profiles
  • Trace action messages across peggings (Upstream and downstream)
  • Ability to filter action messages based on planner code
  • Added functionality to set tolerance parameters for action messages.

Network Navigation Navigation

Incomplete Supply Network Identification: Added “No Supply Path” Button to detect dead ends (No Sourcing path) in the supply chain network.

Network Navigation: Ability to traverse across the supply chain network to view Inventory Profiles.

Multi Dimensional Analytics MDA

Custom Reports: Ability to create custom Reports in Multi Dimensional Analytics module.

Union Reports: Functionality to merge multiple reports in one single report.

Shared Bookmark: Functionality to share bookmarks with others (Individual Users and User Groups).

Custom Captions and Formats: Functionality to customize UI captions and formats for reports.

Report Templates:  Added  new report templates; Attribute Policies and Demand Status Report.

Security Security

View Group Security: Added functionality to filter objects viewable to a user or a group.

Algorithm Algorithm

Advanced Supply Assignment: Added solver flag to re-assign supply after constraint planning to obtain balanced peggings across time.

New Supply within Lead Time: Ability to control if new supply can be created within the Lead time.

Pegging Re-assignment: Continuously evaluate peggings and release and re-assign material assignment to optimize the plan.

Modeling Modeling

Phantom Bills : Ability to flatten phantom bills to

  1. minimize network complexity during plan execution
  2. Eliminate network complexity during result analysis
  3. Reduce Model size

Manufacturing Order Status: Added a Status “NEW” for Manufacturing Orders.

WIP Status: Added a WIP Status “Scheduled” for scheduled Manufacturing Orders.

Integration Integration

Export of Summaries: Ability to export Action Messages, Material and Capacity Summaries.

Import of variable Plan Calendars: Import of Plan Calendars (buckets) of variable size.

Inventory Plan Orders: Included in the planorders export.

iPlanner 3.1

Performance Performance

Memory Management: Optimized memory usage to automatically release memory not needed.

Algorithm Algorithm

Build Horizon: Functionality to control build limits (build ahead and build late) for demand orders.

Alternate Resource Control: Functionality to restrict resources being automatically assigned by the algorithm during planning.

User Interface UI

Conditional Formatting: Ability to personalize views to a specific user with conditional formatting in the Data Editor.

Report Field Formatting: Added additional formatting options for Custom Reports.

Log Output: Simplified log window for usability.

Copy and Paste: Copy and paste functionality for User Defined data in the Data Editor.

Support Support

Network Visualization: Support for 64 Bit.

Integration Integration

Formatting of Exports: Ability to format numeric values and dates.

Planning Output: Added new field “Base Plan order Identifier” in the Plan Order Operations export.