Buying (Procurement, Demand Planner, ASC, SRM)

Dear community, We are reaching out to request a system enhancement related to export compliance for shipments to the United States.As of recent U.S. Customs regulations (Section 232 requirements), we are now obligated to provide specific origin information for aluminum products: Country of Primary Smelt Country of Most Recent Cast These fields must be recorded and included in export documentation (e.g. ACE filings or commercial invoices). Failure to provide this information can lead to customs delays, shipment rejections, or even a 200% import duty when the origin is marked as "unknown."We would need these two structured fields to be added to our ERP system, ideally linked to the product master data.It’s important that these fields can also be exported through EDI or customs interfaces, if applicable.If existing custom fields or attributes are available, we would appreciate guidance on how to repurpose them. Otherwise, we’d like to discuss how this can be added through a system upda

Is it possible to define different default delivery address in site or in company basic data and can that be connected to supplier or to the item? For example supplier 12345 have always different delivery address we have in company basic data.

Hi Community,Something unusual has occurred, and I’m hoping for some insights.In the Sales Quotation > Lines section, the Price Freeze toggle is showing as OFF for each line. However, when I check the Sales Quotation Lines – Overview page, the same lines display the Price Freeze column as ON.This is happening even with a newly created Sales Quotation—without any manual changes, the overview page shows Price Freeze as enabled, while at the line level it's still OFF.Has anyone else experienced this behavior? Any idea how this discrepancy might occur?Appreciate your assistance.Apps version: IFS Cloud 24 R1 Best regards,

Our PM Plans were setup wrong during implementation and have caused a headache with demand planning.  This is going to be a very large project to clean up.However, we still want to us Min/Max order points.  However, the demand is throwing off the reorders.Is there a way to ignore demand and just use the Min/Max just based on what we have on the shelf.So, I want a part to have a 2/4 min/max.  When we hit 2 on the shelf, initiate a purchase requisition to get back up to 4.  Ignoring all demand out there on work orders, etc.  

Community, We are phasing out our current delivery address, and create a new one in Company. Below screenshot in Company window, we are totally closing down address ID 50, so we put this address Valid to Date to yesterday date, and we created a new address id 60, and we make address id 60 as the default Delivery Address. see below screenshot.Address ID 50 are phased outAddress ID 60 the issue is, when I am opening a new PO, or PR convert to PO, system always use 50 as the default delivery address. that’s really annoying.System still fetch default address ID 50Did we miss anything?  Thank you.

Hi everyone,My client is using the Self-service Procurement catalog and would like images added on the master part to be reflected on the catalog.It works when media is imported directly on IFS database. However, they also need the image to be  on the catalog by adding an url link or a link to their shared database on the media of the master part. Is it possible or not?Best regards, Laura

we have a customer that licensed the purchase approver LTU, for their employees that need to approve purchase requisitions, this is the only functionality they use. However, they cannot see or open document attachments on the requisition.  This makes no sense as they need this detailed information to decide whether to approve the requisition or not.   Many of these users are also mobile.How do we get this capability added to the LTU?  How have other customers worked around this issue (other than paying for a full user license)

I am testing the Kanban process in IFS Cloud.  Question on settings and triggers.I have a part that I have setup on Kanban to reorder once below 2.I had 2 on hand and available.  I reserved one part to a maintenance work order so now I have 1 available for use.However, it did not trigger the Kanban circuit.  Is there a setting I am missing or is this standard?The hope was the Kanban circuit would look at quantity available for use when calculating so when I reserved the 1 on the work order, it would trigger a requisition for replacement. 

Hi All,Seeking your help here.I am trying to understand the order point calculation for one of my part. I have set up this part as planning method B and entered the lot size as 10.Purchase lead-time for this part is 10 days. No safety stock is maintained.When I run the “Calculate Planning Data” job for 10 periods but this part is only active for 4 periods and system calculate the order point as 22.258 with some decimals but I am struggling to understand how this is calculated. I checked the IFS help and it says below equation is used.Order point (pieces) = [Average demand (pieces/period)] * [Lead time (period) + Safety stock (pieces)]I checked the average demand from the inventory availability planning and it shows as 125. Not sure this is the correct place that I need to check. In the help it was also mentioned that data for this calculation is stored in On Hand Develop per Period window but still didn't give me proper data to calculate.Does anyone can give me a pointer for this. Any

I’m planning to change the PO creation for the items which configured as recurring. What could be the suitable option…? Note: Not using MRP.

Hello.Can someone explain to me how time-phased safety margin works?My idea with the tools is to be able to specify a safety stock that is above or below the calculated value.When I try to specify a value and date and update the IPR, the value I specified disappears and no change to the safety margin is made.IFS 10IPR

Hello,With PO dates in IFS, the system prioritizes older POs first and newer ones later. When we cut a new PO to replace an MRB'd part, IFS assigns the new PO a target date at the end of the sequence and pulls in the older POs instead.Is there a setting that can disable this behavior? It creates a lot of noise, especially during allocations or when managing MRBs.We’re currently using IFS Apps 10. I have reviewed available settings everywhere I can think of (Site, Purchase Part, PO, Basic Data, etc.).

I have been spinning my wheels trying to figure out how to update this parameter in the demand planner and I can’t for the life of me figure it out. Can someone please point me in the right direction? I can’t modify it in the demand planner values. The biggest issue we have is that for some reason, even though we have this set to only look back 2 years, it’s looking back until 2018 and I believe it’s because of this parameter.

Hi guys IFS 24.1.9 So one of my users raised a PO and received the goods. Instead of undoing the inspection result to cancel the PO, he did a supplier shipment and actually delivered it. Now he needs to cancel the PO. Since the shipment status is delivered, there's no way to undo the Supplier Shipment. I was thinking of making an RMA [registering supplier as a customer and the purchase part as a sales part, etc] and then getting the parts on the inventory location, but that also seems not possible. Has anyone done something similar in IFS to undo a delivered Supplier Shipment and thereby cancel the PO? Please let me know. Thanks,Asela

Hi,I face this issue as you can find in the screen capture beneath while attempting to post a manual voucher.Is there an issue connected to consents ? Instructions to check in the event that it's the situation ?Best respectsThank you.  

Hello all, I am hoping to have some elements clarified as it related to lead time calculation and MRP for IFS Purchased Parts. On the inventory part record, the Purchasing Lead Time is calculated using the Calculate Purchase Leadtime, which takes several elements into consideration (supplier manufacturing lead time, external transport lead time, internal transport lead time, and internal inspection lead time). If this is not run, the field is blank, or a value can be entered. This seems to indicate the MRP uses the value in here for POR planning? Would this then mean that the Supplier Manufacturing Lead Time on the SFPP is not used for MRP? If the Purchasing Lead Time is left at 0 or no value is entered, would MRP default to using the SFPP leadtime?In this example, the PLT is set to 0 and SFPP record is set to 15 days. When MRP runs, would it default to 15 days even if there was a transport leadtime of 2 days? 

We use certain material to start up a production run, for example, on a mold setup we use a purging compound to clean out the molding machine for a resin change.  What is the best method for capturing the material at the start of a production run where the run size can vary from 10-20 pcs to 1000-5000 pcs yet the usage is material constant?  The intent is for the material to be picked up thru MRP and get ordered as needed rather than manually tracked and ordered.

Hi Team, I have a Customer that is replenishing Remote Warehouses with Shipment Orders. IPAP is showing an offsetting Supply and Demand, as shown below.  Ideally, we would like to run MRP and then see a Shop Order/Purchase Order created, but MRP is not creating any supply.  How do you make a Remote WH create Demand on the Site that MRP can see??Notice below, the Shipment Order Demand of “15”, The Available and On Hand Qty is “0”, ideally this would create a Shop Req.  

Hello,I have a problem where my former coworker's name is automatically entered in the Coordinator field when I'm creating procurement orders, and I have to manually change it every time.I've seen multiple references to the "Sites per User" window as a place to fix this, but I can't find that in our IFS environment (IFS app 10).How can I set it up so that my own user is automatically entered as the coordinator when I perform procurement?Thank you in advance!  

Is a setting available that can include planned Purchase Requisitions as expected supply when calculating the ATP in in a customer Order Line? The MRP runs once a week and Purchase requisitions are not all followed up the first day. This results in customer order lines moved to a later date (when the availability check is set on the inventory part) as the purchase requisition dates are not considered.  

Hello all, We have been impacted by the US tariffs, as some of our supply chain is outside the US. I’ve been able to apply % to our Purchased Parts by using the Purchase Charge Type. This has worked well, however I am looking for an easy way to see the impact on the cost of these charges to the part. It appears the the cost of the material does not change when brought into stock with the charges applied. Is there a way in IFS (IFS Apps 10 UPD 22) to view the impact of charges like this to a part? If we’re buying something with a 25% tariff, our cost may be $100 + $25 per unit. However in IFS Cost, it will show as $100. I have looked through the help and on the forums, but have not found a way to view this impact. Any guidance would be appreciated. Thank you!

Hi all In IFS Cloud, edit all feature in multiple line selection help in various screens like bulk supplier update in PR lines, bulk quantity update in start rentals etc [shown like below]  However, I couldn't help wondering that's its not available when we want to update same location for bulk purchase receipts. Why do you think its missing? Do you think its an enhancement / idea for future versions? Thanks,Asela

Running into an error when attempting to use a specific Organization Code and Position on an Authorization Routing Template.As soon as I attempt to release the Purchase Order Authorization Rule, I’m faced with the below error: If I remove the Organization Code and simply enter a “%”, it works, however, that is not the requirement.  The Positions will be shared, but the organizations will be different.For example, a Position may be “Supervisor”, although the organization may be Engineering or Quality.  Items I have already validated:Authorization Limit per Organization Position Employee is connected to Organization and Position Employee is entered also as an Authorizer with adequate authorization amountEnvironment: 24R2 SU2It seems very similar to this previous topic, but that was on Apps 10. Has anyone else run into a similar issue or have suggestions?

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