Use Different Manufacturing Components, Materials, and Resources Depending on their Effective Start and End Dates

The way that you manufacture an item might evolve over time depending on the season, varying material properties, new regulations, design improvements, expected downtime, or other planned changes. Starting with this update, you can now specify these production changes in a single bill of resources. Promising will apply the lead time for each operation, then select the components, materials, and resources that are available and that are currently in effect according to their start dates and end dates.

Align the start dates and end dates for each component and resource in your bill of resources with the dates that your fulfillment flows use. Use more than one instance of the same component or resource in the same operation.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Supply Chain Planning

Try it:

  1. Enable the feature.
  1. Specify the start date and end date for each component and each resource in the work definition. For details, see Use Work Definitions with Your Bill of Resources.
  1. Collect data. See Collect Data for Global Order Promising.
  1. Run the Create Bills of Resources scheduled process. This feature depends on the scheduled process to create the bill of resources. Global Order Promising uses this data to determine what components and resources are available according to their start dates and end dates, and will schedule sales orders so these components and resources can meet the order's demand dates. See Create a Bill of Resources.

Tips And Considerations

If you want to use the Use Different Manufacturing Components, Materials, and Resources Depending on their Effective Start and End Dates feature, then you must opt in to its parent feature: High-Volume Order Promising. If you’ve already opted into the parent, then you don’t have to opt in again.

Key Resources

  • See the Automatically Generate Bills of Resources for Capable to Promise feature, which is available beginning with update 22A.

Access Requirements

Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains this privilege can access this feature:

  • Schedule Fulfillment Line (MSP_SCHEDULE_ORCHESTRATION_ORDER_FULFILLMENT_LINE_PRIV)
  • Edit Bills of Resources (MSC_EDIT_BILLS_OF_RESOURCES_PRIV)
  • View Bills of Resources (MSC_VIEW_BILLS_OF_RESOURCES_PRIV)