Buying (Procurement, Demand Planner, ASC, SRM)

Hi All,Need to know if there a functionality in IFS to handle following scenario.Assume that there are 3 parts (A, B and C) and they need to be put into a Box (handling unit) in the Shipment level Is there a way to provide instructions to the user, on how to pack the parts into the box. eg: the Part-A need to be put in the leftmost corner of the box.IFS Version: APP10Any suggestion and comments are welcome.Thank you in advance for the help. 😊

Hi,where can i find "matched PO receipts to invoice"? (IFSv10) Best Regards,

We have difficulties understanding how to set up and use QSL for our business. Since all QSLs are ranked, and two QSLs cannot have the same ranking, our impression is that they need to be part of the same quality system. Can you explain the purpose of the ranking and an example of how it is used in the real world?

I am trying to set up multiple demand planner servers to allow for different period versions, one weekly and one monthly as there appears to me no way to flip between the two.So I am looking at how to have separate Demand Planner Servers for IFS to connect to.The IFS client setup seems to support this with the only challenge being the host and port.What do I need to do on the demand Planner server end, is it multiple instances of demand planner on the same server, if so how or multiple servers running one instance of demand planner each?thanks

Hi All,I couldn’t able to add a PR to existing PO. PO is in received status. Kindly help me to resolve this issue.  Best regards,Theja

Is there an accepted way to create receipts for items that do not have a Purchase Order (or Customer Order). We have a business requirement to track miscellaneous items that did not originate from a Purchase Order. We are on APPS10 using EE.

I’m looking for a screen that shows demand against package parts. It won’t show under the “inventory part availability planning” screen because these are picked to order. How would I see all open customer order lines for a package part and demand for the components in IFS? Do I have to look by component to see demand?

Hi All, Is there any option or way to hide the Blocked Master Parts numbers in PR & PO window for all users, users should not be able to select blocked part no. 

Just seeing if anyone else has had the same requirement and if there is an out of the box solution for this.Cheers

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. 

Good Morning - Can anyone assist with the queries below relating to Supplier Payment Terms:Thank you for your supportIs there a search function that will be able to pull out a list of suppliers who have had their payment terms changed since 1st March 2023= Assuming above is "yes", is there way to "bulk update" any impacted PO's with the correct terms, rather than go through each supplier one-by-one. Is there a search functionality that will bring up a report for all Suppliers Payment Term.

Good afternoon. We have been implementing DDMRP and have now also purchased demand planner and IPR. I am curious if it is more advantageous to use DDMRP than IPR? Is DDMRP the next step beyond IPR? Is it that we may want to use DDMRP for some parts, while using IPR for others? All the best, Sarah 

I am trying to root cause the reason for a PO not calculating tax.The PO in question here, 3065, is for Site 16.  The address COLA16230 is assigned to this site and at the company level, 3.7% tax is assigned to that address.Part lines on the PO are set to TAX and Taxability Yes.Any ideas what else I am missing? 

Is there a function in IFS Cloud for updating the field “Price” in “Supplier for Purchase Part” from the view “Purchase Order” when we recieve an order confirmation with price difference? Or must we manually navigate to “Supplier for Purchase Part” and make the change?  

I would like to test settings in Demand Planner multiple times and for this I wouldike to run the job " Create Forecast" multiple times. How can I "delete" the forecast and run the job again? Is there a possibility in the cloud?Thanks for ideas and your help.

Is it possible to tie an expense sheet credit card transaction to a purchase order receipt?

There seems to be some correlation between the status of a PO and changing the Purchase Group.  Purchase Group drives posting controls and AP not able to update from the invoicing side.Received an error message that is preventing the Buyer to update the Purchase Group directly on the PO.  It is prompting a Change Order just to make this correction.Does anyone know how to get around this?  We would prefer not to make a new change order just to correct an incorrect purchase group entry.

Hi All, Please let me know why the UOM from source is not fetched to the part lines in the incoming dispatch advice. This is for App10. The UOM is fetching to part lines from source in App9. TestGo to Incoming Dispatch Advice window From available source line select one of line that has the source UOM RMB and click connect part lines Then move to the Part Line tab, selected Part has been assigned to the incoming dispatch advice, but source UOM is missing Thanks.

Hi all,We are trying to set up a Commission Agreement tied to a Sales Group. We have created the Commission Agreement and entered the values.  In this test case, 20% commission is awarded until 500k in sales, then 15% and then 10% after a million.We tested by fully invoicing a few sample orders.  The first 2 orders calculated correctly at 15% commission (500k each).  The 3rd order should’ve calculated at 10% since 1M has been reached, but it calculated at 20%. Am I missing something in the setup?  We chose Additive calculation method so the percentage would change when sales reached the targets, but the lines seem to be calculating individually.  I made sure to enter the Sales Group in the agreement and invoice parts with that same sales group. Thank you,Steve

We are in IFS9 - I need to set-up an authorization Routing template or rule - not sure which might have what I need, that will allow me to have a back-up authorizer.  In other words, we only need one person to authorize, but we want to add another to cover when they are not available.  I have it set-up in the Routing template with both Authorizers at Step No 10 - but that requires both to authorize.  If I change the set-up so the Step No are 10 & 20, it still requires both to authorize but in an order.Is there a way to have 2 individuals but only require 1 authorization?  If not through the template, may another option?  Thanks!

Is there the possibility/functionality via one or more articles or flows to make a percentage adjustment to the forecasts.

I am trying to set a default value for the Order Proc Type field for Purchase Orders so they automatically release after being approved.I have set the field to Required and Default to Previous, but it is not working as expected as it does not default to previous.  We only have one processing type and it will always be used, but they have to enter it on every line, sometimes 50 times...be much more efficient if defaulted. 

Hi, Is there any functionality in Apps10 to print barcodes/QR codes for Purchase Order Lines other than from the ‘Receipt’ screen? Thanks!

Post Upgrade from Apps 9 to Apps 10MRP planned demand lines from SO REQs, are NOT visible in IFS10, as of initial data importRunning PMRP manually beings them backBut this would be a huge task to do for each project manuallyIt's as if it didn't bring across the previous SO REQ demandsAre such demands are not expected to come across as part of the upgrade?   Other demands are OKCan anyone please advise.

I wanted to expand on a reason you could get the error ‘Error snapshot MRP Supply/Demand. MRP can not find required date of Order No in calendar’  based on the thread below.  The issue could be caused by more than your manufacturing calendar not being extended far enough.  If you make a mistake setting up you part information within the Inventory Part on the Planning Data tab you can cause this issue.  The below mistake where one of our users switched the Safety Stock and Safety Lead Time caused the exact error.   The error in data entry caused the MRP to think the safety stock lead time was 10000 days which would exceed our generated calendar but the root cause was the inventory part setup not the calendar generation.   Here’s how it should have been entered.  Once changed MRP successfully ran again.  It’s very important to know who to troubleshoot issue within IFS to determine the root cause of the issue.  Regards,William Klotz