User Defined Extensions
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
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
Added Swedish Language Support.
Action Messages
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
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
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
View Group Security: Added functionality to filter objects viewable to a user or a group.
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
Phantom Bills : Ability to flatten phantom bills to
- minimize network complexity during plan execution
- Eliminate network complexity during result analysis
- 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
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.