I put in a suggestion in 2021 to FIX a problem with how the Production planning process calculates shortages and they first said it was working as designed, then merged it with another Idea that is not addressing the PROBLEM with the production planning calculation. then because the other idea is being deployed, my issue is not being addressed.
@timshuwy any ideas how I can get this looked at or do I need to submit another suggestion and wait another 2 years to fix a broken calculation.
below was my suggestion.
Material sold
If the material is sold in a SO where the due date is after a job, then the job could be considered in shortage status because the sold part has higher priority.
In a perfect world, the part could not be sold, as you need to create another part that required this material and one operation of packaging but it is not reality.
My proposal is to consider the shortage based on the Due date
My suggestion is that you create a new Epicor Idea so that it goes to the top of the ideas. If we get enough interest, then we will consider it. Note that several years ago, we were not as engaged with Epicor Ideas as we are now.
In 2023.2, we just closed out 1883 votes for ideas. Note that we dont always execute the ideas exactly as suggested, but they do become the seeds for new features. Also, it is not always necessary to have a big vote count to get an idea into the system. almost 30 of the ideas delivered over the past several years had only one vote, but it was deemed easy and was thrown in with other features that were being done at the time.
Yes, 91 is a big vote… in fact anything over over 20 votes starts getting attention. that said, if the idea has 200 votes but is an “XX Large” idea, it may not get the same attention as something with 10 votes that is a XX Small item. During our roadmap scoping sessions we have to consider both. otherwise we would end up with one or two ideas completed because the XX large items consumed all our bandwidth.
