Settings in M3 BE
M3 Business Engine settings for Inventory Planning Workbench
Use these settings in M3 Business Engine to access the full functionality in Inventory Planning Workbench.
APS policy in (CRS798) selects a group of items which are planned in the application. Based on the type of company and industry, you can have several APS policies for item groups. You can select which APS policy to use and which item groups to display.
Warehouse group in (MMS009) selects one or more warehouses which are planned in the application.
Note: To take manufacturing decisions, you must have only one main warehouse where manufacturing orders are created. This is defined by acquisition code 1 (Manufactured) in (MMS002/E).To take purchase decisions, you must have a purchase warehouse that is defined by acquisition code 2 (Purchased) in (MMS002/E). If there is more than one warehouse with acquisition code 2, then it is the first item or warehouse record received from MMS080MI/SelItemWarehous.
To take forecast decisions, you must have a sales warehouse that is defined by acquisition code 3 (Sales) in (MMS002/E). If there is more than one warehouse with acquisition code 3, then it is the first item or warehouse record received from MMS080MI/SelItemWarehous. If there is no warehouse with acquisition code 3, the warehouse with acquisition code 1 (Manufactured) is updated instead, which covers the scenario where the item is both manufactured and sold from the same warehouse.
According to the product structure type defined in (CRS787), the planner can create Manufacturing Orders (MO) and Manufacturing Order Proposals (MOP) in the application.
As M3 Business Engine can contain several Master Demand Schedules (MDS), you can use MPS300 to define which MDS is going to be used in MRP to create order proposals.
To manually overrule forecast values in the application, you must define a Master Demand Schedule (MDS) in (MPS300) for manual forecast from Inventory Planning Workbench.
This setting defines planning buckets in the application. These statuses are applicable for this setting:
- 30: Delivery in time which also defines buckets in the grid
- 10: Used if there is no records with status 30
- 40: Order pacing used in forecast pacing
You can use production line to sort items into groups based on how or where the items are produced.
You can define three IPW roles:
- IPWADMIN
- IPWPLANNER
- IPWVIEWER
Note: If IPWADMIN is defined in (MNS405), the IPW roles are used.Link the user to IPW role. If you have several IPW roles, the IPW role with most rights is used.
You must have the Security role, IPW-User.