Buying (Procurement, Demand Planner, ASC, SRM)

We are currently using IFS V9 and receive an updated price list from our supplier at the beginning of each year. Is there a way to automate the process of uploading the price list into the "Supplier for Purchase Part" - Price List? Manually updating the price list is very time-consuming due to the large number of parts involved, and I’m confident there must be a more efficient solution. Thanks.  

What will happen if include safety stock for planning method G parts?. Here we upload forecast and exists min. & max. stock levels. 

I have a ticket in with IFS about this issue at the moment but I also wanted to post it out here to let everyone else know that this is occurring in cloud today. On the IPAP screen there is a column called “projected quantity”. In the past, if you filtered the list on the “all” tab, projected qty would update based off of the available qty - the qty required for the specific order/filter applied. This was the logic in 10 at least. In cloud this does not happen and our buyers almost bought more material because the filter that’s being applied was not recalculating the projected qty.We regularly filter out MRP messages and won’t do the type of filtering that I’m doing below but the reason for filtering out the MRP messages is because it’s just a suggestion, we may move those orders around. The only way to remove the MRP messages from cloud is to delete the messages which we also don’t want to do.Please see my screenshots. 

I am looking for a report or a page in IFS that will show me an entire product structure including the primary suppliers for each purchase part.  Does such a thing exist in IFS?

Explain unlimited supply date

Hello, We have two sites, Site A and Site B set up in a planning network. Both sites A and B can purchase Part 1 from an external supplier. The Site A internal supplier is setup as a multi-site planned supplier for Part 1 on the internal Supplier for Purchase Part on Site B. If Site B has demand for Part 1 and has no on-hand quantity, the planning network MRP is creating a purchase requisition from the external supplier even though we have sufficient on-hand quantity at Site A to fulfil the demand at Site B.Is this standard behavior? Is there a way to change this to have the planning network MRP recognize the available stock in Site A and create an internal distribution order instead of an external purchase requisition? The external supplier is the primary

Hello, For some reason, the authorizer detail is not fetching in purchase order atheization screen. Is there any setup for that?  

Hello all,We want to use the supplier calendar to reflect the impact of Chinese New Year in the planning leadtime. But for some reason I cannot seem to let it work. The steps taken so far:Created calendar; Entered exceptions to the calendar (start of CNY + start up time); Generated the calendar; Added the calendar to the supplier; Run Calculate Purchase Leadtime.I would expect the expected leadtime in the inventory part would be updated. But I do not see a change. Is the correct way to set it up? Any idea's, tips and tricks are highly appreciated.

Does anyone know if there are a notification option in Cloud for not accidentally purchase a part you already have created a PO for?

Hello, In IFS Applications 10 there was a Leadtime Auto option on Supplier for Purchase Part. I am currently working in a IFS Cloud 24R1 environment and can’t find this option, has it been moved somewhere else or is this functionality not available in IFS Cloud?BRSebastian

When you select lead time auto, do you need to change the lead time to 0 so it kicks in, or will it automatically calculate lead time for the PO and over-ride the number of days entered in the field?

Is there a way to automatically upload PO receipts that need to be zeroed out?

Hello there,How do you categorize your supplier for purchase parts?Is there a possible attribute on Supplier for purchase part that can be used for part categorization ? Kind regards,Johan 

We are using the IFS Demand Plan Client v6.0.3.Our planning team forecasts demand by fiscal week, but sometimes they would like to review the data rolled up to the fiscal month. As is common, our fiscal months do not line up with calendar months, but are groups of our fiscal weeks - in our case in a 4-4-5 weekly grouping.We have the period version on our server set to Weekly, and we have been able to define the correct fiscal weeks for planning. But, when the timeline is changed in the DP client to display Monthly, the system appears to divide the weekly numbers by days, determine how many days are in the calendar month, and then sum those days to give a calendar "monthly" total, instead of grouping the fiscal weeks. We've been told by our technical team that we can change the period version on the server to Monthly to define the months correctly, but we would have to trash all the current flows, lose all history, and then it’s likely that the weeks will not be correct.

Is there any possibility to have issue inventory as entry and another process for approve it and update stock?currently there is only one screen to issue inventory and update immediately the stock quantity.Thank you

So, I am creating a Transport Task From Site 1, Location A to Site 2 Location B (which has a drop off Transit location X).  The Transport Task applies the the drop off location and moves the part accordingly but it does not create another transport task automatically from Drop off Transit location X to Location B. What could be the reason? All previous Transport Tasks are on executed status.I have checked this in App10 and Aurena/Cloud also.

Hi What is difference between safety stock & minimum stock in IFS. Br//Ajith

Hi,Is there a menu in IFS that i can enter purchase price list except supplier agreements?Kind Regards,

Hi Team,System can be defined to reserve stocks based on FIFO (Priority Earliest Date setting) basis. Yet  I am still not sure how system can be configured to handle the reservation process with LIFO. Any expert feedback on this?

IFS APPS 10. We would like to test the usage of the “Estimated Future Demand” lobby element in our B2B Supplier Portal by having just one of our suppliers use it. Once we vet out the process, we will roll the lobby element out to the rest of the suppliers. Is there a way to allow just one of our suppliers to see the lobby element in the portal? Our purchasing team met with IFS on this and was told that it can be done, but I can’t find how. Thank you

For scheduling purposes, we want to be able to see a whole top level parent item and all its components all at once, with the current lead times of each part.  Is there a page where I can see all of that?  Or a report?

Hello experts,I am new to IFS would appreciate your help, We are currently using IFS application 10 and we create purchase order from Purchase requisition. When I try to create a External service order type PR, the No part tab gets disabled ( which I have been using to add freight cost for normal PR / PO)How can I add freight cost to an external service order when No part tab is disabled? Thanks in advance.

Hello, Currently I am trying to improve our manufacturing situation with manufacturing parts. our System is set up with planning method G. The problem that comes up quite often is that when there is a hold up at on of the production lines (assembly line missing a purchase part for example) the manufacturing does not know about that and keeps manufacturing parts according to the orders. now the manufactured parts pile up in the warehouse or at the assembly line while the line is waiting for the other parts. I tried to set the manufacturing to run on Kanban in IFS. so when the parts on hand quantity runs under a certain threshold, the request to produce more parts is created, this also limits the overproduction of parts. but when using the Kanban only for production, the system does not know when to order raw material since the Proposal Release has to be set to: Do not release and the part availability planning goes empty. If I do not set teh peroposal release to: Do not

I am getting the attached error when trying to specify an Internal Supplier and Supplier Site.  The error seems to suggest that there are already Purchase Parts at this site connected to this Supplier.  Do the parts need to be set up differently or is this an issue with the Supplier set up?

When entering punch out adress in Cloud there are options for cXML and OCI but not PEPPOL. Is it possible to use PEPPOL-adress in the other versions or do Cloud not support PEPPOL punch out? Thanks!