Thank you very much Unfortuantely the grouping is by project. So all the items for a particular project should go together (the route is only assembly rather than any really production so this is why they want to do base don project rather than items or machines etc) If anyone has any ideas of other products that can handle this type of production I would love to hear from you as the customer is very clear on wanting everything grouped by project Thanks James
_____ From: Axapta-Knowledge-Village@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Di Gomersall Sent: 24 November 2008 11:26 To: Axapta-Knowledge-Village@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Axapta-Knowledge-Village] Re: Grouping of production orders for planning Properties might help you do this. It won't group them in one production order because they are different items, but it will schedule them together or in succession. You can set the property on the route. Here's some more info about it from AX2009 Help. The functionality is the same in previous versions. Production > Setup > Work centers > Properties Use this form to assign properties to the different work centers. These properties are automatically copied to operations, items, and production orders that are subsequently created for that work center. You can use properties in a variety of ways. For example, you can group similar work centers so they can be scheduled simultaneously for a particular production. Or you can schedule operations with inherited properties to run in succession on a particular work center. Properties are also used with production pools. Example A series of productions will undergo the same painting operation, which is set up by putting color in a spray-gun. To minimize setup time, productions that are to be painted with any one particular color are grouped. If you use pools and properties together, you can set up sorting criteria so that production pools will wait for productions that have identical properties. Let's say that you have set up the pool sequence: Pool 1, Pool 2, Pool 3, and so on. Each pool groups productions that share the same properties. Before Pool 1 can proceed to Pool 2, productions with properties 1, 2, and 3 have to be run. --- In Axapta-Knowledge- <mailto:Axapta-Knowledge-Village%40yahoogroups.com> [EMAIL PROTECTED], "James Flavell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good morning everyone > > I am not a master planning or production expert so not sure if my > requirement is available in std AX. If it is not I would for sure appreciate > hearing from anyone who has considered or managed to address the > requirement. > > What I need to be able to do is group all production orders for a given > sales order so that master planning plans them all for the same start date. > So if I have 10 production orders that master planning treats them as one > and works out the latest delivery date of any of the 10s components and then > plans that all 10 will start at that time (even if for some of the > production orders master planning can see they could start earlier). Of > course following on from this would be to have all the planned purchase > orders suggested based on the start date of the grouped production order etc > > I believe this is quite a difficult thing to do but would like to know if > there is anyway (std or otherwise) > > Thanks > James >
