- The blog series will cover master planning in Dynamics AX, AX 2012, and Dynamics 365, focusing on the basics.
- Two main ways to learn master planning: testing functionality in a test environment and starting small by isolating variables.
- Master planning in Dynamics 365 is a calculation engine that ensures supply meets demand to prevent inventory shortages.
- Supply includes on-hand inventory, purchase orders, and production orders, while demand consists of sales orders and transfer orders.
- Master planning creates planned orders as suggestions to replenish inventory when demand exceeds supply.
- Planned orders can be in the form of transfer orders, production orders, Kanban orders, or purchase orders, and require human confirmation.
- Planned orders are suggestions that need to be reviewed and confirmed by planners to become actual orders.
- The blog series will delve deeper into how MRP determines order sizes and ensures inventory availability.
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