Buying (Procurement, Demand Planner, ASC, SRM)

We are not a manufacturing organization, but a Project based service organization. We are looking forward to follow a ‘Procurement Plan’ in IFS to align with Project Demands.  I heard that there are things like DDMRP in App10, but not sure how to implement it since we don’t have a manufacturing component. Can someone give me insight into that functionalities in IFS that would fit for us well? Would like to keep it simple too to start with. A test plan with IFS window names would be ideal.Would love to hear from both IFS Consultants and Industry experts like IFS customers. 

One of our customer has a custom menu in a way that If a person right-clicks on that ,it changes the planned delivery date of all the PO lines and replace all those dates with the date of the line on which user did right-clickNow the issue here is that there are multiple dates in the system that are connected to this planned delivery date which should also get changed .So need to clarify the logic that changes all kinds of dates in PO Line and in Inventory Part Availability Planning Screens.

Hi all,Please  I will appreciate if someone can show me where to find the forecast quantity in Inventory module or IPR. This is to enable us track actual inventory consumed against forecasted quantity. Also to help generate Replenishment at Re-order point. Thanks  Julius

Per the organizational standards, I need to automate the SA number generation to the next one in the sequence of XB0000767 and there onwards +1 automatically every time someone creates an agreement. I can manually do this in IFS. How do I set it up in IFS to fetch the number automatically?   

Hi all,We are looking to find the “recommended solution” or best way to do this on apps10 as im sure someone would have come across this problem.The issue is linking shipment ID’s or Customer orders to Freight purchase orders so we can track PO spending on freight companies against what the customer gets charged etc etc.For example; 1 customer order is converted into a shipment and then a PO is later manually raised which contains the freight cost depending on the company being used but there is no link between the Freight purchase order and the original order/shipment. Shipments can contain multiple customer orders for the SAME customer.Freight Purchase orders can contain multiple lines for different customers & orders.Customer orders can contain multiple freight line charges depending on order size.One PO line can have multiple shipment ID’s but only be for the same customer. Current thinking is to have a custom field on purchase order no part tab for customer order no whereby ea

1)    Is there an ability / process to setup parts and part characteristics in Demand Planning Client for thousands of parts at once vs. setting up each part individually?2)    Is there an ability / process to import external data in demand planning client to create a basis for running demand planning simulations / plans?

  We are trying to return stock to a supplier that was received in error against the wrong supplier. The process I was shown by IFS during our initial training was to register an inspection, then return. This process works for normal orders, however, it doesn’t work for returning direct deliveries.   I have tried using an RMA, but this just returns the stock against the customer order into a local warehouse, not back to the supplier. It does not do anything with the Purchase Order.   What is the correct process to use in this situation?      

Hello,On a direct delivery from supplier to customer, we would like to make a return in two steps :First step : We return part from customer to our site.Second step : We return part from site to supplier.We have seen that first step can be done easely on a RMA, but we don’t found how to do second step. Do you have an idea of how to manage this?Regards

Does anyone know if it is possible to change the unit for an inverntory part?In the application the unit i locked but is there a workaround to change the unit?Thanks!

I am trying to figure out the connections between the manual supplier invoice and the payment method but cannot figure out where/how the payment method and payment address information is saved for each supplier invoice. Can anyone help? thanks

 Dear Sirs; Please advise me that how to schedule a talk for RMB function  as below.  Regards;Yasuda

Is there an impact from “Departure Route” on the calculation of earliest unlimited supply date on a part purchased from an internal supplier?If yes, to which lead time (external transport lead time/transport lead time/internal transport lead time) does it affect?Appreciate if someone can also share any help documents related to this functionality. Thanks 

We are currently running Apps 9.  We are ordering inventory items in our accounting currency (USD) as well as our parallel currency (PEN).  For items that are order in the parallel currency (PEN), the inventory receipt (posting type M10), creates the transaction in USD, but the clearing via Invoice is done in PEN.  This clears out the GL, however causes issues with we do our currency revaluation since IFS shows a balance in both USD and PEN and doesn’t clear for the currency revaluation purposes.  Does anyone know how to get the M10 transaction to post in the currency of the PO?  I tried adding a posting control for M10, for currency, using the Currency of the Purchase Order but this keeps returning errors saying that the currency is not defined.  I’m not sure where the Currency of the Purchase Order comes from.  I assumed the header.  I cannot prepost that code part on the PO (the option is grayed out).  Any ideas?  

Hi,I added a custom filed on Register Purchase Order Arrivals screen, can I know which table will the custom filed be saved to? I checked the debug console but didn’t find any clues, could someone help me on this?Many thanks. 

How does ASC Transport Order functionality works to allocate the transport service / freight  costs from forwarder to ASC shipments / Consignment?

Hi !Can some one share the material related to CRP(Capacity Requirement Planning) in IFS APP 10?

(Apps 10, Upd 7) Anyone having experience from setting up “Order Reports” like for example “Order Confirmation Reminder” as an scheduled job ?  I have seen earlier issue (https://community.ifs.com/topic/show?tid=3909&fid=50) and also tried to setup as a “Task Schedule” job  but would need some input if anyone done this before ?   

Hi Is it possible to reverse or cancel if you have already received the quantities from an RMA?We did the ‘Receive parts’ in the RMA line, but afterwards saw that the quantity in the RMA was wrong, so we have returned back too much in the inventory.Thank you.

We are adding material to a work order on the materials tab. If it exists in inventory we want the system to reserve it and create a transport task. If it does not we want it to create a purchase requisition and purchase order. Does MRP do all of this. If so what screen do I set up this functionality and rules? Thanks,

Hi Experts, In case of LC used as method for payment, how to set payment terms and its installment in IFS. Payment is normally made after Shipment and its documents submitted to the bank. How do you guys cater Letter of Credit into IFS Application?

Setup a new User and associated them to a Supplier.  Once logged into the B2B Aurena portal I am wanting to see the Coordinate Work Lobby.  This user doesn’t have access like that of the Application Owner user.  I review this Lobby and it is categorized under IEE Lobby.  So when I try to grant Lobby access to the Permission group that this user is assigned it doesn’t appear.Help in understanding how to grant access to Lobbies and Navigation items.  It seems I have the Projections that seem to make sense assigned but still not showing up under my new user.Any help or guidance would be appreciated.

I would like to be able to buy an existing part (no changes in specification) from a new supplier, but these deliveries should not be allowed to be used in regular production as the new supplier is not yet validated. Any ideas? 

What does this message mean exactly and I do not see an option to ‘Allow Manual Update of Authorization Routing’ in Purchase Authorization Basic Data?For reference, this is from Purchase Order P440 in IFSAPP @ lkpcosdemo3 - APPS10+UPD8  

I am new to IFS and want to add the arrival qty to the purchase order lines screen.This is the column I wantSQL Column:    &AO.Receipt_Info_API.Get_Sum_Qty_Arrived_By_Source(ORDER_NO, LINE_NO, RELEASE_NO, NULL, 'PURCHASE_ORDER', NULL)added to View:        &AO.PURCHASE_ORDER_LINE_ALL based on purchase order, purchase order line, release number    

Is there a way to resequence the lines on a PO?  Line number 2 should be Line number 1 for example