Buying (Procurement, Demand Planner, ASC, SRM)

Dear Experts,Could anyone of you advise me about the usage of Origintiong RMA No. and the steps that need to be followed to create it . 

Hi! I use IFS8. Buyers meet this kind of problem almost once per month. The PO need 2 user’s approval. The buyer released a PO. The first one approved it. Then the PO status changed to Planned. The second one can not approve it. Buyer had to release this PO again and the first one approve it again also. Then the second one can see and approve this PO.Is there someone else have this kind of problem? Is it a bug? Or something happened buy I don’t know.  

Good morning everyone!! Right now we are producing some parts without made issue to the materials, this is because with the material in that way we are unable to ship parts until everything is revised and fully issued. That was our way to prevent any scape to our customers, but, this is creating a lot of confusion between the material in wip and the raw material on hand and is giving bad signals to purchasing department. Did you know any other way to prevent shipments? maybe block the sales order from customer, or block the FG part. Any better way to make this and we can fully issue any parts once released to production? Thank you in advance.Best regards.

Hi everyone!! Is there any way to lock a part number from be buyed?  Example:I have a part under LTA that expires on May 2022, one buyer tries to add a line or create a new PO to buy this part for July 2022, is there a way or a lock that the system doesn't allow to proceed with the buy? Thank you in advance 

Has anyone already implemented a solution that allows you to book labour times (and possibly also machine times) for carrying out the purchase order analysis at receipt?In the standard system, this is currently only possible for the shop order analysis via the operations. Thanks for your inputs.

The following message was received while trying to Revoke an OQAEarlier, we have revoked the PR authorization for the particular line though... 

Under Procurement→ Supplier→ Supplier 360 VIew. Would like to add some comment on certain supplier.  But it seems that we are unable to do so. Supplie 360 view 

Good afternoonCan anyone how to use IFS in order to use the RETCREDIT transaction code?  We need to return certain goods to suppliers at the point of receipting them and we’re stuck as to how to do this.  I was looking through the transaction codes and found RETCREDIT but I’m not sure where to use this in IFS?ThanksDerek 

Hello Community!We are upgrading from 9 to 10.  As part of the effort, we were looking at the data differences on “The Company” and on “The Site”.    On the site record we discovered what seems like hidden data on the “top level” Inventory tab, under the General, Automatic Reservation, and Transport Task Tabs.  But maybe this is a BUG since these are Inventory Part Planning Properties in a new grouping??  Is the “Inventory Part Planning” tab supposed to be invisible?  Hopefully I’ve provided enough information: 

Dear experts,When we performed the inter-site purchase order return, I am getting below error. I can not change the part cost in these two different sites due to one site consisting of a manufacturing plant and the other site consisting of a distribution site and the two different sites have different costs for the same part. Could any of you advise me to fix the issue or comment on the standard functionality of intersite purchase order return with different part cost structures?   

We are receiving the following error when attempting trying to create a Supplier Return.  We have 2 milestone /staged payments both in Invoiced status. Latest date on the last staged payment is 5/13/2021.We still have parts to be repaired. So, how do we get the parts returned to the supplier for the repair? ThanksHayley

We created a purchase order for inventory items on a stage payment purchase order.  We paid the invoice and received the items.  The stage payment process was complete.  We later determined the inventory we received was bad.  What is the IFS process to return the items to the supplier and receive the credit from the supplier?  We cancelled the receipt but now we can’t get the purchase order to close.  Thank you!

Good afternoon, I have a scenario that I am reaching to help for: When a shop order is requesting and reserving material to be moved on a transport task from stores to point of use, let’s say for example an inventory part and the quantity they reserve is 4,000 ea. This inventory part we buy and stock comes in lot sizes of 6,000 ea. Once the material is reserved and on a transport task - warehouse workers cannot edit that amount so they are forced to physically take the entire 6,000/ea lot size to the point of use, but within IFS it shows only a move of 4,000. So we have to take 6,000 physically, but IFS says we are taking only 4,000. According to research the only option at the moment is the handle this offline and make sure the remaining material is returned back to stores.  Has anyone else ran into this issue and is their alternative solutions? 

In a deployment with several company, is required to have differente number for the purchase order by company?, is this possible to configurate in a APP9?How to use coordinators group by company?  

We are looking to start using Order Proposals for some of our inventory items.Set-up is:Planning Method BOrder Point 100Lot Size 25 There is 0 Qty on Hand as this is a new part.(with no demand coming from any work order, etc..)Create Order Proposal job is initiated.A Purchase requisition is created with 100 being recommended to purchase. This is then crated into Purchase order, received into inventory, and then closed.All works as expected to this point. Now we relieve some inventory, either by Count, or by material requisition. The Qty on Hand is now below 100, and actually we’ve taken it to 0. We expect the Order Proposal to create another purchase Requisition...but it does not. It will only create one if we change the Order point to 101 or higher. Ex. - we changed it to 2,000, only to have the Requisition call for 1,900. Can someone explain what we’re missing either in set-up, or understanding of how this process works?

Is it possible to migrate to a custom table (xxxxxxx_CLV (only CF))?If so what do I need to think of to be able to do this? 

We have over 1000 components needing the cost updating in the estimated material cost field- is there a bulk upload for this please?  

Hi, anyone knows hot to add a new incoterm or delivery terms that isn't loaded in the list?

Dear Sirs;I know that Here below is a function to reset current view as your reference.I’m wondering why my view customized sometimes is reset without the following function launching.Any system batch job work for this reset???Regrads;Yasuda 

I wonder if anyone can help, I have raised a po req for a number of inventory parts, this Req has then been flipped to an order. I had a descrepency with supply and demand on my part availability screen and eventually traced it back to the Demand Code on my Req line.For some reason the demand code has automatically come through as Non Inventory and i cannot find the route cause. what is more worrying is that i cannot replicate the problem when i recreate the req (comes through as Invent Order)Iv  searched on the overview screan and there about 30 PO Req lines (converted to PO) in a DB of 60k inventory parts.Can anyone point me in the right direction here ?TIA 

Hi Everyone, I’m new to this forum and I’m told I might be able to have my question answered.  Does anyone know if there is a way to print multiple shipment handling unit labels at once out of IFS Aurena Apps 10? See below image: I am at my shipment handling unit structure screen where have all 6 handling units highlighted and when I click on Preview, I only see a PDF file with only one of my shipment handling units. I haven’t connected my printer to IFS yet and have been printing out single documents through my browser after hitting preview. Having said that I’m wondering if I would answer my question if I connected a printer to IFS? Within the report & output window you can select which handling unit to print but that does not really help.  Any kind of assistance is greatly appreciated so thank you in advance!

In the prepare work order > requisition tab when you click New, the Requisitioner defaults the code  found in the character and numeric value defaults.   Is there a way to change it from “WO” to the user’s requisitioner id?  ie:  Is there a formula we can enter to make this dynamic?  I tried &REQ_NAME but then it just shows that as the requisitioner id.   I have shown users how to create a template with their id then default it as a workaround but was curious if there was a better option. IFS9 SP17

Hi! I meet a strange question today.  In one Purchase Order, the Total Tax Amt/Curr and Total Gross Amt/Curr is not equal the summery of all lines.Is it IFS bug? Or buyer give some other data error? Is anybody can give me some clue? Thanks! 

Hi all,I have a customer (Apps 10) requirement in which they want to have Purchase Requisition Authorization rules with varying approval templates based upon the Project, Sub-project or Activity.  For example, when the PR is released, the application is checking to see which sub-project or activity is associated with the PR and fetch the corresponding PR Rule and associated approval template.  Within Purchase Authorization Basic Data, we can define the applicable Project Role ID, however on the Purchase Requisition Rule itself, we can only define a Project ID or Project Category 1 or 2.  Is there anyway this can be accomplished with core functionality?Thanks,Faraz

Hi,Im just working my way through some action messages, we have just started using MRP and im quite happy with the majority of the messages and investigating the problem but iv encountered an issue with the ‘ Not Buildable’ message, this is clearly not working as my bom is buildable and the phase in date is 3 years prior so it not date related.the IFS official definition is ...”The manufacturing structure is not buildable or planable. No shop order requisition was generated.”……This last sentence worries me a little as it seems a little random.Am i missing something obvious or is this a bug ?Thanks in advanceAndy