The issue that we were initially encountering was that we were experiencing large variances in our production costing. Upon further investigation, what we found was that the variances were coming from a subassembly that had been created and was being utilized in the finished good.
If you have the “FIFO date-controlled” option marked on the Item model group and the “Use warehouse management processes” option marked on the Storage dimension group, it would be working as designed that you are receiving this error as you cannot use the two of these options together.
 This could be working correctly if the following factors are true: The resource requirement was a resource group. The ‘Update capacity plan’ option is enabled on the journals tab of the Production control parameters form. Previous Route card journals have been posted to meet/exceed the capacity reservations.
Historically, there has been no user option or global setup for selecting or defaulting a scheduling direction used for automatic scheduling when the scheduling step is skipped on a production order.