Release notes
6.4.0 (2020/04/04)
Production planning
- Simpler and more efficient modeling capabilities for make-to-order and configure-to-order supply chains. The (complete or partial) supply path can now automatically be made specific to a sales order or an item attribute.In earlier releases this was already possible, but required a more complex data interface.
- Resources can now be assigned to a setup matrix changeover. The extra resource is required to perform the changeover - typically a technician to reconfigure the machine or a tool that is needed during the setup change.Only unconstrained resources can be assigned for the changeover. The solver can’t handle constraints on the changeover resource.
- Faster opening time for the plan editor and support for favorites.
User interface
- Scenario Management: It is possible now to promote a scenario to production. All data of the scenario will be copied to production database.
- Email exported reports: Reports that have been exported using Export plan result to folder command can be emailed to one or more recipients with a new command in the execute screen.
Forecasting
The forecast table has an extra field ‘operation’. It is used to specify a delivery operation for planning the forecast.
The favorites functionality is now also available in the forecast editor.
User interface
- Addition in the inventory report of the field “Consumed by Fcst”. “Consumed by SO” used to include both sales orders and forecast, it is now restricted to sales orders only.
- Addition of a Measure Management section in the Execute screen. It allows a user to copy a measure into another one.
6.3.0 (2020/02/28)
Production planning
- Solver enhancement to improve planning with alternate materials.In earlier releases available inventory and committed supply were considered individually for each alternate material.From this release onwards, the algorithm checks available stock and supply across all alternate materials before generating new replenishments.
Forecasting
A large number of the measures <user-guide/model-reference/forecast-measures.html> that were so far hard coded in the forecasting engine are now customizable. They now come as a set of predefined measures which you can easily tailor and extend.
User interface
You can now save frequently used report settings as a favorite. This can be huge time saver in your daily review of the plan.
A new report manager app allows power users to define custom reports using SQL. This greatly enhances the flexibility to tailor the plan output into reports that match your business process and needs.
Integration
Data files in SQL format can now be processed with the command import data files from folder. For security reasons this functionality is only active when the setting SQL_ROLE is set. It should be configured by an administrator to a database role that is correctly tuned to a minimal set of privileges.
Data files in the PostgreSQL COPY format can now be processed with the command import data files from folder. Data files in this format are uploaded MUCH faster.
Postgresql foreign key constraint on operationplanmaterial and operationplanresource for the operationplan_id field is made cascade delete. As a conseqeunce, there is no need anymore to delete the operationplanmaterial (Inventory Detail) and operationplanresource (Resource Detail) records before being able to delete an operationplan record (MO/PO/DO).
Documentation
Browsing the documentation is now more intuitive. A feature list allows you to find your way by functional topic.
A new section with videos on common use cases is added.
The tutorial for developing custom apps has been refreshed and extended.
Odoo connector
Adding support for odoo v13.
v12 and v13: Export of multiple POs for the same supplier will create a single PO in odoo with multiple lines. If the exported POs also contain multiple lines for the same product, then a single PO Line is created in odoo with the sum of the quantities and the minimum planned date of all exported records for that product.
6.2.0 (2020/01/17)
Production planning
Currentdate parameter now accepts most known formats to represent a date and/or time.
Forecasting
Editing forecast values in the forecast editor <user-guide/user-interface/plan-analysis/forecast-editor.html can now be done faster and better with a new panel at the bottom: edit multiple buckets together, increase the forecast with a certain quantity or percentage.
- The forecast editor <user-guide/user-interface/plan-analysis/forecast-editor.html now allows you to select which measure you display in the top panels.So far, these top panels showed the total forecast in units or in value. Now a dropdown allows you to select which figures you want to display there.
- Add your own custom measures <user-guide/model-reference/forecast-measures.html> to the forecast report and forecast editor.This opens up a lot of new uses cases and building more complex forecasting processes:
use different measure to collect forecast information of all stakeholders and define a consensus forecast.
manage product prices and margins that vary by location, customer and time.
archive forecasts to perform waterfall analysis
User interface
- The last-modified fields and the task execution dates are now shown in the local timezone of your browser.For on-premise installations this doesn’t change anything. However, our cloud customers across the world will be happy to better recognize the timestamps.
- Ability to filter on json fields such as the “Demands” field of manufacturing/distribution/purchase orders table.
When exporting Excel files, read-only fields are now visually identifiable in the header row. A color and comment distinguish read-only fields from fields that can be updated when uploading the data file.
Integration
Export of duration fields will not be in seconds anymore but will use same format used in the tool: “DD HH:MM:SS”. This change is effective for both csv and Excel exports.
Development
New mechanism to build Linux packages. The new, docker-based process makes supporting multiple linux distributions much easier.
Security
- A vulnerability in the django web application framework was identified and corrected. The password reset form could be tricked to send the new password to a wrong email address.The same patch can be applied to earlier releases. Contact us if you need help for this.See https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/dec/18/security-releases/ for full details.By default frePPLe doesn’t configure an SMTP mail server. The password reset functionality isn’t active then, and you are NOT impacted by this issue.
6.1.0 (2019/11/29)
Production planning
Bug fixes in the solver algorithm when using alternate materials.
Bug fixes in the solver algorithm when using post-operation times at many places in the supply path.
The demand Gantt report <user-guide/user-interface/plan-analysis/demand-gantt-report.html> got a long overdue refreshed look and now displays more information.
Inventory planning
- The term “inventory planning parameter” was changed to “inventory policy”: shorter and more commonly used in industry.If you upload excel workbooks or data file with inventory policies, you will need to rename the data file.
Forecasting
- The architecture of the forecast engine underwent a big overhaul, enabling more flexible and advanced calculations in memory across the item, customer, location and time hierarchies.In this release the benefits show in big performance improvements 1) when editing at higher levels in the hierarchy, and 2) when uploading forecast data.You can expect more improvements in the forecasting module in following releases!
User interface
- Filter arguments are now trimmed to provide a more intuitive filtering. The invisible leading or trailing whitespace lead to confusion and mistakes.On the other hand, if you were filtering on purpose with such whitespace: this is no longer possible.
Support for user-defined attributes on purchase orders, manufacturing orders and distribution orders.
Bug fix: Unit/Values buttons of the inventory planning screen corrected. Clicking on the active button was causingg a change to the selection (thank you Steven).
Enhancement of the supply path to draw cases where producing operation materials record is missing (produced item declared at operation level) or produced item is only declared at routing level.
Integration
Renamed the command “create_database” to “createdatabase” for consistency with the other commands.
Bug fix: remote execution API failure on scenarios
Various fixes to the connector for Odoo 12.
Development
A new screen allows to execute SQL commands on the database. This new app is only intended to facilitate development and testing, and shouldn’t be activated in production environments.
6.0.0 (2019/16/09)
Production planning
- The name column in the buffer table is removed. The item and location fields are what uniquely defines a buffer.This data model simplification makes data interfaces simpler and more robust.
- Data model simplification: The suboperation table is now deprecated. All data it contained can now be stored in the operation table.This data model simplification makes development of data interfaces easier.
The default minimum shipment for a demand is changed from “round_down(quantity / 10)” to “round_up(quantity / 10)”. This provides a better default for planning very slow moving forecasts.
The resource type ‘infinite’ is now deprecated. It is replaced by a new field ‘constrained’ on resource. This approach allows easier activation and deactivation of certain resources as constraints during planning.
When generating a constrained plan, the material constraint has been removed. It didn’t really have any impact on the plan algorithm. The constraints actually used by the planning engine are capacity, lead time and the operation time fence.
Improvements to the solver algorithm for bucketized resources and time-per operations. The improvements provide a more realistic plan when manufacturing orders span across multiple capacity buckets.
Performance improvements in the evaluation of setup matrices.
Bug fixes and improved log messages in the propagation of work-in-progress status information.
Forecasting
- Forecast report now displays all intersections when only
intersections in the Forecast table were previously displayed.
- The default minimum shipment quantity of forecast was 0 (ie any shipment size is accepted). This now defaults to 10% of the net forecast quantity, which is also the default minimum shipment size for sales orders.Of course, you can still set the minimum shipment field in the forecast table to 0 to get the previous behavior.
Bug fix: avoid duplicate outlier problems being flagged when simulating in the inventory planning screen.
User interface
- Bug fix: When uploading a Purchase/Distribution/Manufacturing orders file with the “First delete all existing records AND ALL RELATED TABLES” selected, all purchase, manufacturing and distribution records were deleted.
Addition of the duration, net duration and setups fields in the manufacturing order screen.
Addition of Hebrew translations, contributed by https://www.minet.co.il/ Many thanks!
Give a warning when users try to upload spreadsheets in the (very) old .XLS Excel format instead of the new .XLSX spreadsheet format.
Performance improvement for the “supply path” and “where used” reports for complex and deep bill of materials.
Integration
- The REST API for manufacturing orders now returns the resources and materials it uses.Updated resources and materials can also written back with API.
Added support for integration with Odoo 12.
Third party components
- The third party components we depend on have been upgraded to new releases. Most notably upgrades are postgres 11 and django 2.2.Postgres 10 remains supported, so upgrading your database isn’t a must for installing this release.When upgrading a linux installation from a previous release, use the following command to upgrade the Python packages. On Windows the new packages are part of the installer. sudo -H pip install –force-reinstall -r https://raw.githubusercontent.com/frepple/frepple/6.0.0/requirements.txt
Support for running in Python virtualenv environments.
Documentation
Addition of example models on the following functionalities: forecast netting, alternate resources, resource efficiency.
5.3.0 (2019/07/06)
Production planning
Bug fix: material shortages can be left in the constrained plan, when solving safety stock across multiple stages or in the presence of confirmed supply.
Demand forecasting (Enterprise & Cloud Editions)
The forecast editor screen screen can finally be customized in the same way as all other screens.
User interface
- The modelling wizard that guides new users in loading their first data in frePPLe is completely redesigned. It now provides a more complete, more structured and deeper guidance for getting started with frePPLe.Currently this new wizard is not available in the Community Edition.
A new guided tour is available. Previous guided tour was a journey around the different pages and features of frePPLe. New guided tour is composed of use case questions, illustrated in a short video.
Filters for a report can now be updated easier. Rather than opening the search dialog again you can directly edit the filter description in the title.
Multiple files can now be imported together in a grid. Opening the import box multiple times is a bit boring. Selecting or dragging multiple files is cooler.
Bug fix. When using the Empty Database feature on either manufacturing or distribution or delivery or purchase orders then all orders (manufacturing + distribution + delivery + purchase) were deleted.
Bug fix on backlog calculation of the demand report
Bug fix. Reseting to 0 the net forecast for past forecast periods. Non-zero values could lead to incorrect backlog in forecast report
5.2.0 (2019/05/27)
Production planning
- Modeling simplication: In the operation material table you had to always insert both the produced material and consumed materials.In a lot of models an operation always produces 1 unit of the item. In this type of model you can now choose to leave out the records for the produced material. We’ll automatically add them with makes your modeling and data interfaces easier, faster and less error-prone.If an operation produces a quantity different from 1 the producing operation material record remains necessary.
In the plan editor you can now select multiple operation and change the status of all of them in a single action.
Performance improvements in the solver algorithm.
Operations loading multiple bucketized resource now use the effiency of that resources. In earlier releases we used the minimum efficiency of all resources that operation loads, which is the correct behavior for resources of type default but not for bucketized resources.
Bug fix to avoid creating excess inventory in models with large operation minimum sizes.
- Bug fix for the inventory report when drilling down on the “Consumed by SO” row.
- Bug fix for the demand report when drilling down on the “Net forecast” or “Orders” row.
Bug fix: The web service sometimes didn’t start at the end of a planning run because a previous web service instance can’t be stopped in some situations.
Distribution replenishment planning
Enhanced distribution solver algorithm to handle fairsharing in the presence of expiring demands.
Inventory planning (Enterprise & Cloud Editions)
The inventory planning screen screen can now be customized in the same way as all other screens.
The inventory planning calculations now supports operations with a quantity-per different from 1.
User interface
Various small styling improvements and usability enhancements.
Odoo connector
Bug fixes in the mapping of open and closed sales orders.
5.1.0 (2019/04/22)
Production planning
In the plan editor you can now temporarily disable the automatic resolution of constraints. This makes it faster and easier to make a series of changes to the plan without distractions.
Performance improvements for the bucketized resource solver.
Distribution replenishment planning
Documented the modeling of shipment size and delivery days constraints
Enhancements to the distribution solver to correctly respect the maximum demand lateness and the auto-fence window for operations.
Forecasting (Enterprise & Cloud Editions)
The forecast editor screen now visualizes the past forecast. This allows a forecast-versus-actual comparison that is important for reviewing and measuring the forecast accuracy.
User interface
- A new filter type is introduced for date fields. You can now easily filter records with a date within a specified time window from today.In earlier versions you had to explicitly change the date argument for the filter every day. Which was quite boring, error-prone and not very user friendly.
The number format in grid no longer has a fixed number of decimals, but flexibly adapts to the size and number of decimals in the number to be shown.
- The login form now offers the option to remember me the login credentials. This avoids that a user has to login every time a browser session on frePPLe is started.The user session information is persisted in a cookie in your browser. The session cookie will expire after a period of inactivity (configurable with the setting SESSION_COOKIE_AGE), after which the user has to log in again.Security sensitive deployments should set this setting equal to 0, which forces users to log in for every browser session.
When logging in, the user names and email address are now evaluated case-insensitively.
5.0.2 (2019/05/15)
Production planning
Bug fix for infinite loop when setting the completed and closed status on manufacturing orders of routing operations.
5.0.1 (2019/03/25)
Production planning
Bug fix and improvements in the way that the completed and closed manufacturing order status is propagated to upstream materials.
5.0.0 (2019/03/16)
Production planning
- The reference field is now the primary key, and a required input field.The required reference fields is an API-breaking change.
- A new status “completed” is added on purchase orders, distribution orders and manufacturing orders. It models a status where the order has already completed, but the ERP hasn’t reflected this yet in its inventory status.When changing the status of a manufacturing order to completed, there is also logic to assure that sufficient upstream material is available. If required the status of feeding purchase orders, distribution orders and manufacturing orders is changed to completed.
- The resource detail and inventory detail tables are now editable.This allows to import detailed information on allocated resources and consumed materials from the ERP system, and model the current work-in-progress in full detail.In earlier releases these tables only contained output generated by the planning algorithm. From this release onwards they also contain input information for manufacturing orders in the status approved and confirmed.
- The default of the parameter plan.autoFenceOperations is changed from 0 to 999.By default, the planning algorithm now waits for any existing confirmed supply before proposing a new replenishment.The new default avoids unnecessary duplicate replenishments and results in more intuitive plans.
- The search mode to choose among different alternate replenishments can now be controlled by the user.In previous releases this could only be controlled on operations of type ‘alternate’, and automatically generated alternates always used priority as the selection mode.From this release onwards the field ‘operation.search mode’ can be used to specify the selection mode from among ‘priority’, ‘minimum cost’, ‘minimum penalty’ and ‘minimum cost + penalty’.
The item table gets some read-only fields which capture some key metrics: - number of late demands - quantity of late demands - value of late demands - number of unplanned demands - quantity of unplanned demands - value of unplanned demands
The resource table gets a read-only field to store the number of overloads on the resource.
The weight field for problems of type ‘late’ is now indicating the quantity being planned late. In earlier releases it represented the delivery delay.
Performance optimizations for various corner cases.
Forecasting (Enterprise & Cloud Editions)
Bug fix for the corner case where the manual enforced forecasting method isn’t applicable.
Odoo connector
Workcenters assigned manufacturing orders are now also imported.
Bug fix: Manufacturing orders in the state “ready to produce” were not being sent to frePPLe as work-in-progress.
4.5.0 (2019/01/25)
Production planning
The default allowed delivery delay of sales orders and forecasts is changed from indefinite to 5 years. This improves the performance of the algorithms in case there are unplannable orders.
A new resource type time buckets is introduced that represents capacity as the number of hours of availability per time bucket.
The capacity consumption from a bucketized resource now also has a constant component and considers the resource efficiency.
Addition of the field size maximum to the item supplier and item distribution tables.
- More detailed modeling of work in progress.The parameters WIP.consume_material and WIP.consume_capacity control whether a confirmed manufacturing order consumes material and capacity.
- More detailed modeling of in transit material.By leaving the origin location empty, no inventory will be consumed at the origin location. We assume the material has already left the origin location and is in transit.By leaving the destination location, the distribution order doesn’t produce any stock. This represents a material transfer outside of our supply chain.
Ability to use powerful regular expressions in the definition of setup matrices rules .
Bug fix: calculation of operation time for 0-duration operations was wrong in some situations.
Bug fix: incorrect operation duration when different resources in an aggregate pool resource have different working hours.
Bug fix: corrected corner cases where the solver got into an infinite loop.
User interface
Ability to cancel any running task on the execution screen. Until now only the plan generation could be canceled while it was running.
Improved performance and reduced memory footprint when downloading and exporting big reports.
Added field duration to the execution screen
Added tabs to see the manufacturing orders for a specific item, location or operation.
Update of the “in progress” fields of the inventory report. Are considered in progress for a given bucket all orders starting before the end date of that bucket and ending after the end date of that bucket.
Forecasting (Enterprise & Cloud Editions)
Improved algorithm to detect seasonal patterns.
Performance optimization when reading forecast data in memory.
Inventory planning (Enterprise & Cloud Editions)
Fix the distribution used to calculate the service level all along the horizon.
API
The database backup command and database restore command now use the faster and smaller compressed binary backup format of PostgreSQL.
4.4.2 (2018/10/20)
Production planning
- A new solver is introduced, specifically designed and tuned for distribution models.The default solver loops over all demands in order of priority and due date, and reserves material inventory and capacity along the supply path of that demand.The distribution solver first generates a unconstrained plan, and then solves all infeasibilities together and propagates the impact along the supply path. This solver distributes the shortage proportionally across all impacted demands. In distribution models the solver is also much faster than the default solver.See the documentation of the planning algorithm for more details.The new parameter ‘plan.solver’ selects which solver to use.
Performance optimization for models with post-operation times by avoiding ineffecient search loops.
The naming convention for distribution operations is changed from ‘Ship ITEM from ITEM @ SOURCE to ITEM @ DESTINATION’ to the simpler and shorter ‘Ship ITEM from SOURCE to DESTINATION’.
Bug fix for a specific corner case where material requirements for work in progress aren’t propagated at all.
New parameter plan.resourceiterationmax allows user control over the number of searches for a free capacity slot on a resource. Contributed by Mateusz Knapik.
Forecasting (Enterprise & Cloud Editions)
Performance optimization when uploading forecast override data.
User interface
Added field net duration to the resource detail report
Added fields total in progress, work in progress MO, on order PO, in transit DO to the inventory report
Bug fix: Deleting an object from the edit form in a scenario was incorrectly deleting the object in the production instead.
- The import data files from folder and import a spreadsheet functionalities now ignores spaces, dashes and underscores in the recognition of the content type from the file or worksheet name.So far, only a worksheet called ‘sales order’ was recognized as containing sales order data. Now “sales-order”, “sales_order” and “salesorder” will also be recognized.
Openbravo connectors
Addition of the importDistributionOrders that read the distribution orders issue from Openbravo.
Export of approved distribution orders issue from frePPLe to OB.
Use of Fpp_InventoryByProduct entity that aggregates the onhand by warehouse (frePPLe connectors are not looking at the storage bins anymore). The Fpp_InventoryByProduct entity handles the onhand date change meaning that it can now be used in delta mode.
Use of the Fpp_ConsumptionHistoryDetail entity that aggregates the demand for a given item-location at bucket level. That makes the connectors read much less records. The time bucket (week, month…) is configurable in OB.
Handling of product name change. FrePPLe connectors rely now on the object id rather than on the product name.
Third party components
- The Ubuntu binaries will be compiled on Ubuntu 18 LTS from now onwards.Compiling for Ubuntu 16 LTS remains fully supported, but we recommend to upgrade Ubuntu.
4.4.1 (2018/09/10)
Production planning
Bug fix in the calculation of the lateness/earliness of a manufacturing order, purchase order or distribution order. The calculation was incorrectly based on the start date rather the end date of the operation in question.
A new field “feasible” is now added to the inventory detail report, resource detail report, operation detail report, purchase order screen, distribution order screen and manufacturing order screen. The read-only boolean field indicates whether the order is violating any material, lead time or capacity constraints. This is useful in interpreting the results of an unconstrained plan.
- The criterion for before current problems is updated for confirmed orders. The change should result in less problems that are also more meaningful to the users.For orders in the status approved or proposed a before-current problem is created when the start date is in the past.For orders in the status confirmed the criterion the problem is now created when the end date is in the past, i.e. the order is overdue and should have been finished by now.
The natural key in the suboperation table is changed from operation + suboperation + operation to operation + suboperation + effective start date.
User interface
Ability to make the data anonymous and obfuscated when exporting an Excel workbook. The names of all entities are obfuscated in the resulting spreadsheet. You will still need to carefully review the output to clean out any remaining sensitive data.
Ability to customize the names for the time buckets used in the reports. The time bucket generation command now has extra attributes for setting the name of the daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly buckets.
Third party components
- Support for Ubuntu 18 LTS.Ubuntu 16 LTS remains fully supported.
- Windows installer now uses Python 3.6.Python 3.5 remains fully supported.
4.4.0 (2018/08/02)
The Windows installer of this version isn’t working correctly due to some packaging mistakes.
Production planning
Resources can now have an efficiency percentage. This allows the resource to perform an operation faster or slower than the standard operation time.
The resource report now displays the available capacity as a line, replacing the green bar in previous releases to show the free capacity.
- Performance optimization of the solver algorithm. The solver now passes down the minimum shipment information from the demand to all upstream entities, which allows the algorithm to perform a more efficient search.In complex models, the resulting plan may be slightly different - for the better.
Resource build-ahead penalty calculation now also working for 0-cost resources.
New rows to the purchase order summary and distribution order summary reports to show the quantity on order or in transit.
New rows to the inventory report to show 1) days of cover of the starting inventory, 2) the safety stock and 3) more details on the supply and consumption type.
- The minimum field on the buffer defines a safety stock. In previous releases this safety stock was effective from the horizon start in 1971. Now this safety stock is effective from the current date of the plan onwards.This change will give a different result for safety stock replenishments in an unconstrained plan. In a lead time constrained plan the results will be identical.
Remove buffers of type procurement from the planning engine code. This buffer type was already long deprecated and hasn’t been accessible to users for quite some time now.
Simpler and more generic modeling of fixed material consumption and production by operations. The types ‘fixed_end’ and ‘fixed_start’ on operation material records are replaced with a field ‘fixed_quantity’.
Renamed the “demand plan detail” report to delivery orders, and enable uploading confirmed or approved shipments to customers as input data.
- When expanding a confirmed manufacturing order on a routing operation, the automatic creation of the child manufacturing orders for each routing step now also considers the post-operation time.Note that such child manufacturing orders are only generated if they aren’t provided in the input data yet.
Inventory planning
The safety stock and ROQ minimum/maximum period of cover are now expressed in days. It was before entered as the number of period buckets, the period bucket being the value of the inventoryplanning.calendar parameter.
Forecasting (Enterprise & Cloud Editions)
Forecast parameters forecast.Net_NetEarly and forecast.Net_NetLate are now expressed in days (previously they were expressed in seconds).
User interface
Bug fix when copying a what-if scenario into another what-if scenario.
Bug fix when uploading data files using the Microsoft Edge browser.
Deprecation
- Operations of types alternate, routing and split should not load any resources, or consume or produce materials. The suboperations should model all material and capacity usage instead.Note that in the majority of models, the explicit modeling of alternate operations is no longer needed. The planning engine detects situations where an item-location can be replenished in multiple ways and automatically generates an alternate operation.
4.3.4 (2018/06/08)
Forecasting (Enterprise & Cloud Editions)
- The forecast error used in frePPLe is SMAPE. This has a counter intuitive property that provides values in the range from 0% to 200%.We redefine the SMAPE metric now to half the previous value to give a more intuitive range between 0% and 100%. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_mean_absolute_percentage_error for the alternate definitions of SMAPE.
Forecast report is now also showing the cumumlative backlog of the orders and forecast, i.e. the demand that is planned later than its due date.
Production planning
- The plan editor now automatically initializes the Gantt chart rows and the color codes for the item and operation category and subcategory values.Personalized configurations are preserved, and the new logic is only used to initialize the screen with new values.
Added new reports purchase order summary and distribution order summary to summarize the purchase orders or distribution orders per time bucket.
For consistency with the previous change, the operation report is renamed to manufacturing order summary.
Integration
Extended the exporttofolder command to export additional plan results into CSV or Excel files.
The data type of all numeric fields is changed from 15 digits with 6 decimals to 20 digits with 8 decimals. This allows a larger range of numbers to be accurately represented in the database.
The remote web commands API now supports user authentication with JSON Web Tokens to launch tasks, download data and upload data.
4.3.3 (2018/05/03)
Forecasting (Enterprise & Cloud Editions)
Bug fix: In some bucket definitions, the forecast consumption was not consuming from later buckets.
Inventory planning (Enterprise & Cloud Editions)
Ability to control the priority of a business rule
Bug fix: simulation capability in the Inventory Planning report not working when there are multiple forecasts for a single item+location forecasts.
Production planning
Solver performance optimization where there are availability calendars. The plan generation time can be reduced with a factor 3 to 4 in some models.
Solver enhancements for planning with setup matrices.
Solver optimization to handle infinite buffers more efficiently.
Bug fix: Compilation error with Python 3.6
Odoo connector
Correction to maintain a single root hierarchy.
Openbravo integration (Enterprise & Cloud Editions)
Bug fix: sales order mapping incorrectly used the document status.
Log file of the connector now accessible in the user interface
4.3.2 (2018/03/19)
Forecasting (Enterprise & Cloud Editions)
Internal refactoring of the forecastplan table.
Inventory planning (Enterprise & Cloud Editions)
- When defining the ROQ period of cover for an item with the global_purchase flag set to true, the forecast is now based on the total demand for the item (rather than only the local demand).Note that the safety stock calculation remains based on the local demand for the item.
Production planning
- New operationmaterial policy ‘transfer_batch’ which allows material production or consumption in a number of batches of fixed size at various moments during the total duration of the operationplan.A new field operationmaterial.transferbatch is introduced.
A new field ‘end items’ is added to the manufacturing order, purchase order and distribution orders screens. It is similar to the ‘demands’ which shows the demands.
Solver enhancements for planning with setup matrices.
API
Bug fix: backward compatibility after command renaming in 4.3.
Third party components
Upgrade to PostgreSQL 10. PostgreSQL 9.5 and 9.6 remain fully supported.
4.3.1 (2018/02/17)
Production planning
Solver engine improvements to reduce resource setup changeovers (Enterprise & Cloud Editions)
New step to make the initial work-in-progress data feasible. (Enterprise & Cloud Editions) Constraints are resolved by delaying approved manufacturing orders to feasible dates. Confirmed manufacturing orders aren’t changed during the new pre-planning step.
Forecasting (Enterprise & Cloud Editions)
Ability to display only 2 dimensions in the forecast editor screen.
Performance improvements in the export of results.
Improved & more intuitive values when entering forecast overrides at different levels in the hierarchies.
Bug fixes
The autofence now also considers approved supply, and not only confirmed supply.
Excel files with some non-standard internal structure are now also recognized.
Work-in-progress operationplans with quantity 0 are no longer rejected.
Deprecations
Command frepple_run is renamed to runplan.
Command frepple_runserver is renamed to runwebserver.
Command frepple_copy is renamed to scenario_copy.
Command frepple_importfromfolder is renamed to importfromfolder.
Command frepple_exporttofolder is renamed to exportfromfolder.
Command frepple_flush is renamed to empty.
Command frepple_backup is renamed to backup.
Command frepple_restore is renamed to restore.
Command frepple_simulation is renamed to simulation.
Command frepple_createbuckets is renamed to createbuckets.
Command frepple_createmodel is renamed to createmodel.
Command frepple_loadxml is renamed to loadxml.
Command frepple_runworker is renamed to runworker.