Does anyone use the Planner User ID in the "Planning" tab in Part Maintenance? If so, I'm curious as
to how users have implemented it in Visual. Thanks for your assistance.
Raymond
We use it for putting planned orders in to different buckets. For example, all of the planned kits are assigned to planner "INVENTORY", so our inventory controller can search Material Planning and generate all the kits to build. Purchased parts are assigned to planner "BUYER". Production/Fabricated parts are assigned to planner "PRODUCTION", and we search and generate those work orders during our production scheduling meetings. I also have a macro set up that forces the user to select one of these so that no planned orders fall through the cracks.
Hi Raymond! We are a vertically integrated company, so we use the Planner ID field to know where/how each item is replenished, or if it's complete. For Purchased parts, this field could say 'MRP' (purchased when comes up on material demand reports), 'BLANKET' (on a blanket order with a vendor), etc.; for Fabricated items, it could say 'FINISHED GOOD' (complete and salable), 'WATERJET' (comes from the jet), etc. This provides us with extra visibility and any number of queries can be generated using this field as base point, depending how you want to look at each item. An example could be, because we have so many raw and sub-assembled parts, instead of running a report to look at everything generated from our Wire Line based on the Operation, we could simply run a report based on this Planner ID of 'WIRE'.
