Planning Optimization support for priority-based planning

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Business value

Priority-based planning prioritizes replenishment orders to ensure that urgent demand is prioritized over less-important demand. This enables businesses to increase service levels, reduce inventory levels, and prioritize their usage of supply and available material.

Feature details

Planning Optimization now supports priority-based material requirement planning and demand-driven planning.

Demand-driven planning lets you prioritize replenishment orders to ensure that urgent demand is prioritized over less-important demand. For example, a stockout replenishment order will be prioritized over a standard refill replenishment order. The system can automatically split larger orders into separate smaller orders, with order lines grouped by priority, and then process all high-priority orders first.

Most industries can benefit from this, and a typical company that implements demand-driven planning can achieve:

  • Improved customer service
  • Lead time compression
  • Right-size inventory
  • Lower total supply chain cost

These capabilities enable you to:

  • Assign planning priorities to purchase order lines, sales order lines, transfer order lines, and demand forecasts.
  • Generate planned orders based on priority from demand and inventory levels.
  • Assign reorder points to item coverage rules to add granularity (in addition to minimum and maximum quantities) when planning refill orders.
  • Split replenishment automatically based on priority to help optimize the distribution of limited supply.
  • Group purchase orders based on priority when firming planned orders.
  • Define priority ranges to create a flexible planning priority setup.
  • Assign a default planning priority level for each type of order (sales, purchase, and transfer).
  • Create intercompany orders, which let you establish a planning priority flow that applies across legal entities.

Priority-based planning overview.

Geographic areas

This feature will be released into the following Microsoft Azure geographic areas:

  • United States
  • Europe
  • Asia Pacific
  • United Kingdom
  • Australia
  • Canada

See also

Planning optimization support for priority-based planning in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management (video)

Priority-based planning (docs)