Hi Justin,

I think your requirement will be covered through the Shipment order development in the IFS cloud.
If you click the below help link you can get a basic idea about it.

http://docweb.corpnet.ifsworld.com/ifsdoc/Greenhouse/documentation/en/ShipmentOrder/AboutShipmentOrder.htm

BR,

Indika

Hi, thanks for the link, but I get an error msg if I click on it in your reply or copy and paste into a browser:

Hi Justin,

It seems the document link can’t open outside the IFS domain but I extracted its content and save it to the word file that is below attached. Also, the Shipment order page looks like as below.

BR,

Indika

Thanks very much for this, I will pass this information on to our team. Just one more question though - is there any reason or scenario where someone would want to use a distribution order over a shipment order, or can the shipment order do everything that a distribution order does? Just wondering why both order types are in the system, if shipment order can do anything a distribution order can. Thanks for clarifying this.

Hi Justin,

You are welcome!
yes, you are correct, if the shipment order(SO) covers all the Distribution functionality why we support it further. But still, RnD does not cover all the Distribution order functionality in the SO, so far it supported with the same company sites set-up but it needs to support different company sites set up.
Once it is fully implemented then Distribution functionality will be scrapped.

BR,

Indika

Hi, I marked this query as answered too soon. After a session with our project team to look at Shipment orders, we cannot find any reference to them in the EE client, which is what our business is using for daily work. Is this order type something only available in the Aurena client, and if so, will it be made available in the EE client also soon (and if so when)? If it is already in EE under a different name, please let me know the navigation and name for shipment orders in EE.

Thanks again.

Hi Justin,

The shipment order functionality only available in the IFS cloud application and it released on March 18, 2021. The IFS cloud track only supports the Aurena client.
Therefore it won’t available in the EE client.  

BR,

Indika

In this case, how do we get a request for improvement to IFS development to improve the current distribution order type to allow for multi-line distribution orders for customers using EE, as having to create many single line distribution orders and then having to merge them is  a time consuming task, and should not be necessary. Our very old system that is being replaced with IFS has had this functionality for a long time, not sure why IFS chose to only allow for single line distribution orders in the EE client? Thanks

Hi Justin,

At my level, I could help you up to a certain limit. But this is something you must raise to the RnD leadership team via the support process.

BR,

Indika

Ok, thanks, do I need to open a support case, or is there somewhere else to suggested improvements and changes customers would like to see?

Hi Justin,

You are welcome!

I think you can enter your idea https://community.ifs.com/ideas

BR,

Indika