From the Microsoft Dynamics AX Blogs: Improving MRP performance; Display fields from multiple tables; AX 2012 Budgeting; WMS issue fix

A selection of the latest insight from the Dynamics AX blogs:

• Checklist for improving MRP performance - Part 1: How to run MRP;
• Display Field Using Values From Different Tables;
• Little more into AX 2012 Budgeting;
• Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 RTM Warehouse Management: How to Prevent The Creation of Two InventDim Records Considered Identical in Dynamics AX 2012 R3 RTM

Checklist for improving MRP performance - Part 1: How to run MRP

On the Dynamics AX Manufacturing R&D Team blog, Roxana Diaconu examines how to deal with long Master Planning (MRP) runtimes.

Diaconu says you should first try these methods out on a test environment and if you see an improvement, then apply the same settings to the production environment. Apply one setting at a time, she also recommends, so you can get a good sense of what helped and what didn't. And the test environment should be as close as possible to the production environment in terms of data volumes: number of products and number of transactions.

"If you're running MRP in recurrent batch, note that some of the settings will be cached, so it's better to make the parameter change and re-create the batch and then run MRP again."

You can get the checklist here.

Display Field Using Values From Different Tables

On his DAXNigel blog, Nigel Deacon says that display fields can be ...