Buying (Procurement, Demand Planner, ASC, SRM)

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Do Gooder (Customer)
LongbeardDo Gooder (Customer)
asked in Buying (Procurement, Demand Planner, ASC, SRM)

Demand Fluctuates Without Input Changes

I’m trying to pinpoint why demand for a specific part in our system is fluctuating from day to day with no input changes other than the occasional order entry.  We have a customer that takes 1,000 units (per forecast).  As I’m still only 2 months into using IFS I’m trying to make sure I understand this properly in regards to flow:-Customer sends forecast-Planner enters forecast into system for finished unit-Forecast drives supply side to enter purchase orders which then show as system supply-Customer sends an actual order to fulfill-Planner enters the order in the system which should then reduce the forecast (ie. order is for 200 units so June demand should drop to 800 with the hard order for 200)-Nowhere should the demand fluctuate for a given part just so no orders are made in excess of the actual forecastNow I may be misunderstanding this but since I started here I’ve been monitoring IFS reports daily to try and pinpoint where there are opportunities to understand the system better.

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Do Gooder (Customer)
1 year ago
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Sidekick (Customer)
KochrimSidekick (Customer)
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Custom Field As unique ?

Hello I created a custom field in Suppliers screen, and i want to make it Unique, is it possible ?    Thank you

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Sidekick (Customer)
1 year ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
SchufflingDo Gooder (Customer)
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Undo customer order delivery

Hello  Has anyone an answer to the below problem ? We need to undo a delivery as a customer has added a new line. There are no invoices created at this stage. Ian  

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Do Gooder (Customer)
1 year ago
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Sidekick (Employee)
Marcin SzczurekSidekick (Employee)
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Cancelling PO line when is authorized

Can anybody explain such situation:In 7.5 version of IFSAPP when user wanted to cancel PO lines wchich was authorized there was POP window appeared with communicate: Cancellation is not permitted when PO is authorizedBut in 10 version cancellation authorized lines is availabed.  

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Sidekick (Employee)
1 year ago
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Sidekick
Sarah NeumanSidekick
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Planning Method "G" - Auto Reservation

We recently began using MRP and DDMRP to create purchase reqs for our planning method “G” and “H” parts. We are having an issue though, because when we allow MRP to create the purchase reqs for a work or shop order, the system does not reserve the material to the work order or shop order when it comes in.Is there a way, or a background job that we can run that will auto reserve material to work orders and shop orders where MRP created the purchase req required for the work or shop order? Thanks,Sarah

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Sidekick
1 year ago
SMANUEL
Sidekick (Partner)
SMANUELSidekick (Partner)
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Customer Order Charges Currency

Hi There,Is there a way to change Charge Currency  in Customer Order----->Charges  ?(we do have the option in Purchase Order-->Charges--->Charge Currency though) Thanks in Advance

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SMANUEL
Sidekick (Partner)
11 months ago
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Sidekick (Customer)
BennySidekick (Customer)
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Sending goods away for refurb/repair

Hi,I’m looking to send items away for refurbishment to then bring back into inventory but I’m unsure how to set this up correctly. The process I have to follow is missing something with this step and I’m unsure how to correct it. How do I do this step below as it doesn’t seem to give me this option or I don’t have the correct access to do so?  The above step completes this transaction below  which I’ve been unable to replicate  

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Sidekick (Customer)
1 year ago
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Sidekick (Customer)
Donna VSidekick (Customer)
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Shop Order material reservations with lot tracking

Has anyone ever seen where you can reserve a part number without selecting the lot# to reserve?We have large parts and they are not necessarily put away by FIFO and would like to be able to auto reserve (RMB from shop order header) the part without reserving a specific lot#.We are running IFSAPP10.Any insite would be appreciated.

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Sidekick (Customer)
1 year ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
BOACMCCUTCHDo Gooder (Customer)
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Supplier Schedule Transfer

Hello, I have released as supplier schedule and am trying to generate a new schedule. When I run MRP again, a new schedule does not generate even when new demand requirements have been entered in the system. Do I have to transfer the schedule first before MRP can generate a new supplier schedule? I have selected the manual transfer option in the supplier schedule agreement part, but when I try to transfer the schedule I get an error message stating:  the the message transfer is not enabled for supplier. What setting do I have to enable to transfer the schedule? Thanks,

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Do Gooder (Customer)
1 year ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
NkadamDo Gooder (Customer)
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New Part Assistant - Creating Purchased(Raw) Inventory Part

Hi All, I am testing the New Part Assistant to be used by our Procurement team to create new parts. When we Selected the Purchased Inventory Part in the New Part Assistant, it creates everything correctly, except that the inventory part is Purchased. We woukld like the inventory part to be Purchased(Raw). Is there some configuration that we can do to maake it create the inventory part as Purchased(raw).

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Do Gooder (Customer)
1 year ago
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Sidekick (Customer)
ravi.soniSidekick (Customer)
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Customer specific projected sales

Hello All,  I need help to know how can I get customer specific total sales and total projected estimated sales under Forecast and Demand planning module? Thanks, 

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Sidekick (Customer)
1 year ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
JSMDo Gooder (Customer)
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Error Trying to Register Inspection Results

I am trying to scrap an inventory item.  I do this regularly.  I am getting the following error when I try to register my inspection results:Field [PART NO] is mandatory for InventoryTransactionHistory and requires a value.We are stuck on how to correct this.

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Do Gooder (Customer)
1 year ago
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Hero (Customer)
TosohLBlumHero (Customer)
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Automatically Print Arrival Report

Is there a way to have the Print Arrival Report box automatically checked, so it always prints and the user doesn’t need to check it every time?  

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Do Gooder
1 year ago
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Sidekick (Customer)
HAYLEY.WILLIAMSSidekick (Customer)
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Register PO Arrival Project Error

Team, please assist & point us in the right direction to resolve the following. We are on Apps9When Registering PO Arrivals on PO 8737, the user received an error stating: Connecting a Purchase Order to a project is only allowed when the Purchase Order is in Planned Status.The Order of Operations for our order is:Customer Order created with a connected Project Customer Order Released - which created Purchase Order with linked project in Planned status Purchase Order Released - sent to Supplier.  Supplier sent parts to our warehouse Team trying to receive in the parts, and is receiving the following error:  Confirmed there were no changes on the line items for the customer order, purchase order or the project activities.  Please help determine why we are receiving this message on this Purchase Order.Thanks 

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Hero (Employee)
1 year ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
tjhendrikseDo Gooder (Customer)
asked in Buying (Procurement, Demand Planner, ASC, SRM)

How do you pay a supplier invoice if the PO is not received in yet (FOB Origin)

We have some oversea suppliers that have 30 day terms on the supplier.  The goods are FOB Origin, meaning we take ownership of the goods when the freight carrier picks them up at the customer.  We would like to pay the supplier invoice within 30 day, which is typically before the goods arrive at our factory.  Is there anyway to set up the supplier to allow us to match against the PO and not match against the receipt?

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Superhero (Customer)
1 year ago
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Sidekick (Customer)
ravi.soniSidekick (Customer)
asked in Buying (Procurement, Demand Planner, ASC, SRM)

Exported Forecast Quantity Discrepancy

Hello Community I need help understanding the difference in forecast in exported forecast and Demand Planning client. I am using Bayesian as a default forecast model. Forecast for XYZ part in Demand planning client is 2.90 for the month of June, but under exported forecast in Aurena I am getting 4.972. Can someone please help me understand why both numbers are different for same month?thank you in advance for help. 

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Sidekick (Customer)
1 year ago
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Sidekick (Partner)
Kurt DesmedtSidekick (Partner)
asked in Buying (Procurement, Demand Planner, ASC, SRM)

Multi-site planning & Supply loop

Hi, I have a customer who is using 2 sites (A and B) for inventory and manufacturing. For that they have defined inventory parts that are existing on both sites, also as supplier for purchase part:Site A: primary supplier = external ; secondary supplier = Site BSite B: primary supplier = Site AWhen I want to make this parts “Multi-site Planned” at both sites, I get the error message of a “Supply Loop”. I understand that there is a loop created, but not as default supply chain. We still want the possibility to use both site A and B as supplier for the other site because we will keep inventory at both sites and in some cases it will be quicker to supply from the other site then externally.Is there a way to overcome this issue?thanks,Kurt

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Sidekick (Partner)
1 year ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
snawaz77
asked in Buying (Procurement, Demand Planner, ASC, SRM)

Connecting PO Lines to Incoming dispatch advice

Hi,In Incoming dispatch advise, while connecting PO lines an error pop up changes are not allowed after authorization of the order.if you can advise reason. Regards  

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Do Gooder (Customer)
1 year ago
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Sidekick (Customer)
Marika Solgård-OlliSidekick (Customer)
asked in Buying (Procurement, Demand Planner, ASC, SRM)

Using Kanban for expense parts

Hi Is there a way to use Kanban or to scan and replenish expense parts? We have some spare parts that we do not want to have on stock but we would like to make it easy for the ones purchasing, so they could scan a barcode of the part and then the requisition /PO would be generated with a set order quantity (that could also be scanned from a barcode) and then the cost is booked to  expense and not added to stock value when received. Would appreciate some ideas how to solve this in a good way in IFS.Regards,Marika

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Superhero (Customer)
1 year ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
dhookDo Gooder (Customer)
asked in Buying (Procurement, Demand Planner, ASC, SRM)

Receiving Non-Inventory PO

Interested in how other companies have granted security and assigned responsibility for receiving noninventory PO’s.  We have a fair amount of project work with Non inv PO’s.  Is all receiving done by shipping dept,  by proj managers , purchasing ?  how have you utilized security and ensured segregation of duties ?

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Superhero (Customer)
1 year ago
Mdangelo
Sidekick (Customer)
MdangeloSidekick (Customer)
asked in Buying (Procurement, Demand Planner, ASC, SRM)

Best Practice to send Suppliers Purchase Order Terms and Conditions

Hello IFS Community, We just went live on APPs 10 Nov 1 2021.  Prior to IFS, our ERP had our boiler plate terms and conditions attached to each purchase order when emailed to the suppliers.  We have since lost that capability in IFS.What do other IFS users do to ensure that their suppliers have their standard terms and conditions? Our preferred is that they go with every purchase order, but if that is not possible, what is the best practice solution that others are using?Thank you!

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Mdangelo
Sidekick (Customer)
1 year ago
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Sidekick (Customer)
david.harmerSidekick (Customer)
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New Part Warranty and Returns

Dear Community. I was hoping someone might be able to share some information on this topic.I know we can do inspection management when performing Purchase Order Receipts, but if we receive a new item into stock and pay the invoice and then subsequently find that it is non conforming what is the best process to handle the Supplier Warranty? How do we get the part out of stock and returned to the supplier and then process a warranty claim? usually for a full credit. This appears to be a pretty standard request so I am keen to see how others handle this scenario. Thanks, 

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Sidekick (Customer)
1 year ago
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Hero (Customer)
NMALKIHero (Customer)
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NOTIFY_PO_AUTH_COMPLETED

I just enabled this event but no notifications sent to the buyer :( Just wondering do I have to add a schedule via “Notification Schedule - Purchase Authorization” for the event to be triggered ?I just need a notification to be sent to the buyer directly once the authorizer approve it .I also simply try to create an E-Mail custom Event Action to be performed upon ‘NOTIFY_PO_AUTH_COMPLETED’  without luck. Thanks for your help. 

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Hero (Customer)
1 year ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
THeerDo Gooder (Customer)
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Demand Planner ORA28000 the account is locked

Hi, User is trying to do a load into demand planner and is getting the following error‘ORA28000 the account is locked’There account is not locked, however.  

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Manoj Ruwanhewa
Superhero
1 year ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
THeerDo Gooder (Customer)
asked in Buying (Procurement, Demand Planner, ASC, SRM)

Delivery Note Sequence Error

Steps –Customer order created. Release, reserve and pick the customer order. This was done through both EE and on WaDaCo. Same outcome. Deliver the order, and then check the background jobs and gives the below error.     Even though IFS has a warning the order does still get a delivery note number.

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Do Gooder
1 year ago

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