Planning Optimization release process and release history

Microsoft updates Planning Optimization on a monthly basis. However, based on business requirements, we occasionally release other updates between the scheduled releases.

Each release is published to the individual regions where Planning Optimization is available. The process typically takes three days.

While Planning Optimization is being updated, master planning might run a bit more slowly than usual.

All environments that use Planning Optimization automatically receive the latest release regardless which version of Supply Chain Management you are using. Therefore, no backports are needed. No user action is required: the service is automatically updated. However, no breaking-change functionality is ever automatically pushed to environments. By default, any changes that are considered breaking are turned off and must be explicitly turned on by using feature management. Therefore, those changes won't appear in environments until you choose to enable them.

Because notifications aren't shown when Planning Optimization is updated in your environment, you can review the release notes in the following table to determine when changes were released and what functionality they introduced. This table shows the changes that were released for Planning Optimization, whether those changes are associated with a feature from feature management, and the date of the release.

Changes	Feature management details	Release dates
General performance, quality, and stability improvements.	No feature management required	March 15–20, 2024
General performance, quality, and stability improvements.	No feature management required	February 10–15, 2024
General performance, quality, and stability improvements.	No feature management required	January 19–25, 2024
Planning items support. General performance, quality, and stability improvements.	No feature management required	December 10–15, 2023
General performance, quality, and stability improvements.	No feature management required	October 12–19, 2023
Positive days support. General performance, quality, and stability improvements.	No feature management required	October 2–6, 2023
General performance, quality, and stability improvements.	No feature management required	September 20–22, 2023
General performance, quality, and stability improvements.	No feature management required	August 15–20, 2023
Custom inventory dimensions. Transport days. General performance, quality, and stability improvements.	No feature management required	July 3–7, 2023
General performance, quality, and stability improvements.	No feature management required	June 15–20, 2023
BOM lines with rounding or multiple setups. BOM/formula lines with negative quantity. General performance, quality, and stability improvements.	No feature management required	May 22–31, 2023
General performance, quality, and stability improvements.	No feature management required	May 4–8, 2023
Process manufacturing support for Planning Optimization. This includes support for creating planned batch orders for formula products, co-products, and by-products, formula measurement, and formula versions with yield, but doesn't include support for planning items or item substitutions (plan groups). General performance, quality, and stability improvements.	No feature management required	April 17–21, 2023
General performance, quality, and stability improvements.	No feature management required	March 27–30, 2023
General performance, quality, and stability improvements.	No feature management required	March 13–17, 2023
General performance, quality, and stability improvements.	No feature management required	February 15–24, 2023
Bills of material with constant scrap or variable scrap defined Demand with specific BOM or route requirements defined Calculated delays: Add the calculated delay to the requirement date settings on master plans	No feature management required	January 10–15, 2023
Batch disposition codes Include on-hand inventory and inventory transaction parameters on master plans Released production orders that aren't started, where scheduled start date is earlier than today General performance, quality, and stability improvements	No feature management required	October 10–14, 2022
Resource scheduling with finite capacity General performance, quality, and stability improvements	No feature management required	September 19–23, 2022
Master planning for products with limited shelf life General performance, quality, and stability improvements	No feature management required	August 29 to September 3, 2022
Centralized calendar maintenance Suggestions to optimize existing supply Support for subcontracting General performance, quality, and stability improvements	No feature management required	March 7–11, 2022
Planning priority support for production orders	Available with version 10.0.25 as part of the feature named Priority driven MRP support for Planning Optimization.	November 12–18, 2021
General performance, quality, and stability improvements	No feature management required	November 12–18, 2021
Support for process time calculation formulas, production route with overlap, and production operation number on requirement transactions Enhanced error messages for production scheduling related to timeout, capacity couldn't be found, and cyclic route Improved consistency when calculating receipt dates and issue dates on both planned orders and firmed orders General performance, quality, and stability improvements	Feature name: Infinite capacity scheduling for Planning Optimization	October 22–27, 2021
Support for considering scrap percentage in processing time calculation Support for operation number and materials usage during scheduling	Feature name: Infinite capacity scheduling for Planning Optimization	October 5–7, 2021
Support for production route job types: Queue before, Queue after, and Transport time General performance, quality, and stability improvements	Feature name: Infinite capacity scheduling for Planning Optimization	September 25–30, 2021
Support for master plans with Scheduling method set to Operations scheduling On the Route groups page, respect settings for the Activation, Working time, and Capacity check boxes for rows with a Route/job type of Setup or Process General performance, quality, and stability improvements	Operations scheduling is available in feature management as of version 10.0.20 Feature name: Infinite capacity scheduling for Planning Optimization	September 9–17, 2021
General performance, quality, and stability improvements	No feature management required	August 25–30, 2021
Added Lead time field to planned orders. General performance, quality, and stability improvements.	No feature management required	August 12–17, 2021
Added resource type requirements for infinite capacity scheduling Improved resource efficiency and calendar efficiency for infinite capacity scheduling For more information, see Scheduling with infinite capacity	Available in feature management as of version 10.0.20 Feature name: Infinite capacity scheduling for Planning Optimization	July 6–12, 2021
General quality improvements	No feature management required	July 6–12, 2021