Material Planner

An excellent tool for purchasers and production planners

Are you frustrated with MRP (Material Requirement Planning)? Worried about not having control or a full overview of inventory and planned stock movements? Material Planner is a smart alternative to MRP.

With one click, you can see a product overview and it’s status. From a single page, you can see the entire decision basis at once. You gain valuable insight into how much you sell, produce, have in stock and need for an item.

For each item you can see the:

• estimated availability
• inventory
• quantity on sales orders
• quantity on purchase orders
• safety stock

…and much more.

Save yourself a lot of time

You can easily filter items, for example by location, item number, item category, the items that a specific supplier sells, projects or item group. You can create projects or groups yourself in the Material Planner. By filtering your search, you will quickly receive results and see what you need to buy. The Material Planner will also highlight items that require immediate attention.

Easily replenish your inventory

You can easily create either a purchase order or a production order for the items that need to be replenished using the valuable item availability insight provided by Material Planner without leaving the Material Planner overview page.

Simplify forecast entries

Material Planner will automatically create forecast records for the components from the item's BOM (production BOM) for each level. Material Planner provides an easy-to-understand overview of goods that must either be ordered or produced to meet customers' or company's needs.

Pricing

Availability

Material Planner is available for both Business Central online and Buisness Central On-Premises and only requires the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Essentials license.

Interested in trying out Material Planner?

If you are using Business Central Online you can get Material Planner from Microsoft AppSource and try it out for free for 30 days.

For the On-premises version please contact us using the form below and we will help you to get up and running.