Buying (Procurement, Demand Planner, ASC, SRM)

Can anyone confirm the detail around the the calculations relating to DDMRP, mainly the Calculated ADU and background data that is used for the calculations? I understand the set up and what DDMRP does, however it is not 100% clear on the following; When running the Calculate Historical Average Daily Usage, does this calculate based on the Site Distribution Calendar? If a business only operates Mon-Fri, and they have a Distribution Calendar Schedule that has 7 days but working time on Sat and Sunday = 0 min, is this factored in? If this calculates using calendar days, surely this will result in a lower ADU than actual, where the business only operates 5 days in every 7? Is there a way to view the Standard Deviation Calculations and how the Std Dev Issues in Lead Time is calculated? Same question for Avg No Of Issues In Lead Time? If a business is not getting ADU figures that do not seem right, how can these be analysed quickly and effectively? For Avg No Of Issues In Lead Time, what do

Why is it not possible to quickly sort the Register Arrivals screen in IFS Cloud by Promised Receipt Date, i.e. oldest first? Is there a way for functional users to do this easily, and if not, what could possibly be the reason for this? In other screens it is easy to sort by date, but seems to have been removed from Register Arrivals?

Is there out of box functionality to deactivate supplier. I.e. stopping users to raise purchase order against a supplier?

I wonder if the Purchase Authorization Matrix can exclude ‘active’ Supplier agreements? According to my reasoning, this is not possible because there is no parameter to exclude ‘Active’ Supplier Agreements. Has anyone experienced this? And set up a workaround for it? If so, what is it?

When an item is inside a structure which is then returned leads to problems when tracking changes to delivered items. How do you manage that ?

Hi All, Anyone have experience using spend analysis feature in Strategic procurement? I am trying to understand what does this Expenses categorization does in spend analysis and category assortment. Is it just to analyse different expenses based on the category? If so how these expenses are reported in IFS? Couldn't find any info on this in help or release notes. Is this connected to HCM in IFS or I am little bit confused how we can use this expenses category in strategic procurement or in spend analysis. If anyone has any input please feel free to add in here. Much appreciated. Thanks, Chamath

How do we handle Milestone based payment in Sub Contracts?

We tried to setup the PO Change Industry Lobby KPI but it looks like the workflow IndustryLobbyKPIProcurementPOChange is always failing with following error in the BPA_ASYNC_SYS_AUDIT BpaBaseException--BPA_RESULT_SET_LIMIT_REACHED_EXCEPTION_ERROR Same error occurred when we try to debug the workflow using same parameters It looks like the error is with the Get Total Value of Purchase Order Change Orders projection call. This call doesn’t have any parameters so it fetches ALL the change order details. The same applies for Get Total Value of Purchase Orders task as well since it also doesn’t have any parameters. Will IFS provide a usable version of this workflow in a future release? IFS Cloud version: 24.1.8 Best Regards, Damith

How issue project stock in bulk?

Integration to Esker I have a customer that uses Esker for its decentralized purchasing where many people can create a requisition and the customer has put several approval rules within Esker. Esker's website says they have integrated with IFS before but I never heard of it before. Has anyone ever integrated with Esker and if so, what were the integration points ? Thanks for rapid responses!

Under a PO, when RMB on the line, Order Line Details, Detail History. It’s not showing any date changes other than the initial Confirmed Date change. I have changed the Planned Delivery Date several times and I can’t find this history anywhere. I know I’ve looked this up before (presumably the same way). Has this changed?

One example : A calculated leadtime for a Purchase Part gives 92 days: Supplier Manufacturing Leadtime 42 days, External Transport Leadtime 10 days, Internal Transport Leadtime 40 Days Distribution Calendar 5 working days a week. Purchase Proposals is created by a leadtime on 108 days. Can someone explain the difference. From my perspective it seems that leadtime calculation is not using same calender as order proposal for Internal Transport Leadtime. (IFS version 10). This result in wrong information on Inventory Part as well as Inventory Part Availability Planning. Manual order also verifies leadtime as Order proposals. From application help Internal Transport leadtime shall be using internal Distribution Calendar. But it does not. Do anybody have faced this problem before and/or have a good explanation.

Good day, all. When I am revising planned or wanted delivery dates on PO, IFS changes the price. The price also changes when the qty changes, even just +/-1. The price it reverts the PO line are outdated or even zero. Is there anyway to stop the PO module from automatically changing prices when revising dates or qty’s? To add, this mostly occurs in site to site POs. TIA, Dave

Cannot have Order Code as a parameter in the Purchase Order Authorization Rule? It’s in the Purchase Requisition Authorization Rule, but not for POs?

Hi All, I am seeing this odd behaviour in cloud 24R1 version. I received my serial tracked part to an arrival location. I didn't specify any serials yet. Then I performed the inspection and scrapped that part for no credit. Now when I try to Undo the inspection results, it gives me this error message. Anyone else faced the same issue? Thanks, Chamath

Hi , Can someone please explain exactly how the formula works for auto update safety stock functionality ? Help document doesn’t elaborate the details enough to understand the logic behind it. My understanding is that there are 3 parameters which drive the calculation and it uses the Wilson formula ; Safety stock (pieces) = Safety factor * standard deviation for demand (pieces/period) * square root of part lead time (period) I understand how the safety factor is calculated using the service rate, my questions are on; How exactly “ standard deviation for demand” calculated? Is it looking at the ‘No of issues’ in On Hand Development per Period? and doing the excel calculation of STDEV for No of Issues in that said statistical period you are entering in ‘Calculate Planning Data’ ? ( If the period is 6 , does IFS looks at the 6 records of No of issues corresponding to the past 6 periods and calculate the STDEV?) How is ‘Square Root of Part Lead time (period)’ being calculated ? Is it simpl

Hi, In this issue, the end-user has canceled the supplier shipment for return materials. Now the materials are in shipment location with a reservation to receipt. However, the end user now wants to return the material back to the supplier. However, we cannot select the material in the shipment inventory to do the return. How can we do the return? Thank you in advance

Hi All, I have the requirement that a minimum purchase order value must be set on a supplier. Regardless of which parts. Can this be set in IFS Cloud so that a charge to be set automatically appears on the PO if a minimum purchase order value is not reached? Thanks in advance for your help.

We are in the process of adding country of origin data against the supplier for purchase part records however some of our suppliers, typically distributors, could supply the same part from multiple origins which they wouldn’t know until the point of dispatch. If we were to populate the SFPP record with the most likely country of origin, is there any scope in IFS to be able to register the country of origin at goods receipt, should it differ to what has been listed on the SFPP record?

We are running the cleanup of inventory background job daily, we have this set to 0 days before current date so it will clear everything with an old activity date. The job is running each day as I can see that it is clearing out inventory, however I am left with lines that will not clear. These lines have 0 on hand quantity, 0 in transit, are not frozen and the last activity date is prior to the job being executed. The transaction history for these parts are also showing as old dates. Is there anything else that would block these lines from clearing when the cleanup background job is executed? Thanks

Trying to use an Add_info call on the PurchaseReqLinePart and PurchaseReqLineNopart lines. Basically, I want to pop up a warning message when the record gets saved (and certain criteria are met). That’s all working, BUT.. I need to pop up a warning message.. Now, I can use an ERROR_SYS.Record_General('Blah Blah’) , but that stops the transaction and rolls it back. I’ve tried every combination I can think of for the LU_NAME: Client_SYS.Add_Info('LU NAME' , 'Blah Blah' ); ie PurchaseRequisition,PurchaserequisitionLIne, PurchaseReqLinePart, PurchaseReqLineNopart.. .. and.. nothing. I’ve read somewhere that “some” screens have messaging turned off. Is this one of the screens? (Purchase Requisition screen, Tabs at the bottom, system info says PurchaseReqLinePart and PurchaseReqNopart)

Hi, I created a purchase order authorization rule, but schedule orders are also triggered. Is it possible to exclude schdule orders or allow users to add new purchase order lines and trigger purchase order authorization again? Thanks.

While utilizing the MRP Action Proposals I do not see a Supplier showing up in the the “Supplier” column for many of the different MRP Messages. For example, I have an Inventory Part with one supplier up on the Supplier for Purchase Part page, and when MRP runs the Action Proposal says “needs orders” but the Supplier doesn’t show up. If I right click and select the “Follow Up” option the correct Supplier appears in the Purchase Requisition Lines, which is a good thing, but why doesn’t the Supplier automatically show up (as a suggestion) in the Action Proposals page? Is there a setting that I may be missing to have the Action Proposal indicate the Primary Supplier from the Supplier for Purchase Part page?

Is there any way in which you can trace which purchase order lines have been raised against specific material requisitions? I can trace a purchase order line back to the purchase requisition but there doesn’t seem to be a link back to the demand source of that purchase requisition.

Hi All I am keen to know what's newly implemented in IFS 24R1 in Rental Management compared to what was available in IFS10? I know the IFS Academy provides a complete overview, but I am only looking for what's new. Thanks,Asela