Buying (Procurement, Demand Planner, ASC, SRM)

As part of a carbon reporting initiative, from 2023 we are being asked to record the weight and material type of components being ordered. (currently an Apps 9 user).We use a mixture of purchase parts & inventory parts. However, the vast majority of our goods are no part order lines. I am trying to consider the best approach for a solution. I see on Inventory Parts there is a Weight Fied, we might just need to add a field for material type. Also custom fields on the no part order line tab for weight and material type is my current line of thinking.Is anyone else considering or have a solution in place for this? Any alternative ideas appreciated.

Hi, using cloud, how can we easily visualise the high level planning from DOP’s and projects? The question is quite simple: we want to visualize when DOP’s and projects will start and finish. Just with a bar from start date to end date. Not too much details, not broken down into different shop orders. Just a broad view of every DOP and project that is running, for example to show to sales or manegement meetings. Does IFS have such a screen?

I have question regarding Planning Method B and On Hand quantities.We use planning method B for inventory management on higher volume items. When a customer order line is entered using “Invent Order” as the Supply Code, the parts from stock are reserved. This makes the On Hand Qty remain the same (until shipping the stock, if I understand correctly) and the Availably Qty drop.The issue I have is the Order Proposal is triggered by the On Hand Qty falling below the Order Point, rather than the Available Qty. So if I have 6 months lead time, by the time the On Hand Qty drops below the Order Point, I might already be too late to purchase more stock to avoid back order.Could perhaps someone explain the replenishment process behind Planning Method B and why it uses On Hand Qty instead of Available Qty?Thank you!

Hello,We want to minimize IT’s roll controlling (by permission set) who can create purchase requisitions (PR’s).  As a matter of fact, we want to grant “Create New” PR to all users, moving the entire process to “The Business” (they control who is allowed to create PR’s).  How can this be accomplished?

Hi,Is it possible to change the Components for Purchase Order Line stored BOM alternate for an purchase order?Currently the system always uses the alternate '*', but I would like to use the alternate 'SPEZ'. Can I change this somewhere in the purchase order or in a purchase requisition?Currently, I have only seen that I can manually change the components and quantity here in the Components for Purchase Order Line. @Malsha Amarasinghe and @matt.watters, do you know more about this? Thanks for the help 🤗

Right now if you select multiple parts and move to TT, it creates different TT for each part. We would like to have all selected lines under one TT. We usually do not have our parts ‘Serialized’ but if there is a Serialized part maybe it can create a different TT for the serialize part and one TT for the non-serialized part. Has anyone come up with a way of doing the above request?

As all suppliers can be viewed by all in Supplier 360. Can i create certain suppliers can be made private to the business and only to be seen by named people through the supplier 360 view ? 

If you use suppliers webshop in Self Service Procurement portal are there some instructions what to agree (or how the set up at webshop should be) with supplier in order to get what you selected as Product Line back to IFS and if you have added suppliers part no to supplier for purchase part info should it be updated to the Product Line as Part no or not?   

How can we apply authorization routing retroactively for POs which have already been approved. example if our rule was disabled by mistake when the PO was released? No routing steps show up in order to reject the order. 

A purchase part connected to a supplier can be blocked from usage by setting the status to 'Not Active' in Supplier for purchase part/General tab.For an inventory purchase part,  we can block the part being supplied by changing the Part status in Inventory part/General tab.Is there any other way to block the usage of a non inventory purchase part and purchase parts not connected to a supplier? 

Dear All good day,This is a race environment. When we trying to open Demand Forecast page on aurena. it keeps loading. Multiple times refreshed the web page. Also I tried this in application server. But we couldn't get any output from the page. In IEE, that page loads without any issue and shows all the data. In aurena other web pages also work fine. Can’t determine what is causing this issue. Kindly I am expecting solutions or sugesstion regarding this issue from you.Thank you and Best regards 

Hi, I have setup multiple steps for Auth based on spend amount. For high dollar spends the system requires each step to be authorized in order to view the next step in My Purchase Order Authorization screen in Aurena. Does anyone have a method to only trigger the last step in these scenarios?

This may be standard functionality and something we just need to be aware of, but if we have manually updated a price on a purchase order line and then the line is updated for quantity via purchase order change order, this is also reverting the price for the part back to the price on the supplier for purchase part.  The result of this is that it goes unnoticed by the person transacting the change order and later causes an invoicing query when the prcie no longer matches the manually updated price given by the supplier.  Is there any way to prevent the change order from reverting to SFPP prices when a change to quantity is made?

Our users would like to see a sum of the Price/Curr field on their Purchase Requisition Lines (generated via a work order). We can peform and advanced query and sum the field, however I do not see a way of saving this setting onto a base profile, this means we would need to perform the search every time. Any way to keep this sum field always on? We are using Apps 9 and are on the latest update.  

How can I get this job to work for the Purchase Order instead of the purchase requisition?

Hi All, How to prevent adding new PO lines to an existing PO in Auto Processing. maybe leasing the existing POs will prevent this. Do we have any other setting to prevent this?  BR Champika

 We have created a custom field to store a piece of metadata for our purchase orders. The field is selected from a list of values which is then ‘filtered’ by using a search that filters the values based on the supplier id. I can get this to work for me, but is there a way to make this search/filter the default for all users so that when they click the LoV they always get the sub-select search?   

Is it possible to receive a DIRDEL message of an external company which is not in IFS?If yes, how does this work?

Hello,is it possible to change the product code/family while having on hand quantity?Thanks, Golo 

Does anyone else have the Remove Purchase Order shortcut on their dashboard? I am trying to understand where the data is pulling from. Also in the “demand qty” column it says 0 for each part.

Hi We have an item that in in stock that is faulty and  we want to return it to the supplier for repair.The Po has already been invoiced so return via PO receipt is not possible.Is the only workaround to create a customer order for the supplier in order to create a shipment or is there something i missed ? Ian 

can we return the goods to supplier that has already  been received in our inventory?

Community,do you know how to automatically fill the column Destination Warehouse ID on purchase order line? see screenshot attached. Thank you.

please help me to join below views?what is the field that can we use for join? &AO.inventory_part_in_stock&AO.INVENTORY_PART_PLANNINGRequirement is need to get  safety stock with on handy quantity.

We have two parts in Internal Order Transit -- 70-00001 and 70-00002. When we go to do a Direct Delivery from Internal Order Transit, the parts are not displayed to be received. See screen captures below. Any suggestions as to why the parts aren’t showing in the Direct Delivery dialog box?