Buying (Procurement, Demand Planner, ASC, SRM)

HiWe are helping a customer to improve the setup and configuration of IFS 10 implementation.They want to use S&OP but do not have any business process or flow defined.We don’t have experience on S&OP, just the knowledge of IFS help.AS anyone have some documentation where is described the best pratices to setup or configure the processes or flows related to Sales and Operations Planning functionalities. Vasco

Hi,Can anyone tell me why the PO Tot Tax Amt/Curr is 0 even though there are Tax Amount at line items?Where is the setting for this?Thank you.Best Regards,KS Eng

Hi All,The Purchases through the IFS Material Requisition Planning (MRP) module was not approved. The Schedule of Authority (SoA) required authorization of all purchases.Essentially any requisitions raised through the MRP system which is above £5,000 need to have a dual signatory process put in place in line with the SoA. If we are not able to execute this through the requisition rules, then we require a workaround within IFS that will allow the approval process to take place. Since this kind of scenario is on hold now cause of no idea. Please have a look at the screenshot as follows below. Kindly help me in this regard. Kind RegardsSekhar

Hi Folks,I am working on a problem to modify delivery dates for all the PO lines that have same doc ID using below script- declareinfo_ varchar2(4000);n1 varchar2(4000);CURSOR c1 ISSELECT COUNT(ORDER_NO)  from PURCHASE_ORDER_LINE_ALL_CFVWHERE  CF$_ID_DOCUMENT = &CF$_ID_DOCUMENTAND ORDER_NO = &ORDER_NO;BEGINOPEN c1;     FETCH c1  INTO n1;CLOSE c1;    FOR l1 IN n1 LOOP   PLANNED_DELIVERY_DATE := &PLANNED_DELIVERY_DATE;   ifsapp.purchase_order_line_api.Modify__(info_, &OBJID, &OBJVERSION, PLANNED_DELIVERY_DATE, 'DO');   COMMIT;                                     END LOOP;end; now the only problem is that I get the error saying the ORA-06550: line 9, column 241:PLS-00456: item 'N1' is not a cursor. I need to know why am I getting this error this should not be an issue.I already tried using n1 as number in DECLARATION but that didnt solve the issue either.A little guidance or help would be much appreciated.  

Hello Community, Can you please help me understand how can I link the parts from parts master data to the new flow in demand Plan Server? Even though we don't have any historical data for that part I want to see part in flow.

we have install the demand server and client recently (APP9) and willing to use for or business. very simple SQL statement has been written as the master flow to check whether its working!Select contract, part_no, planned_date, planned_qty from IFSAPP.external_invent_part_issue_pub  where contract = 'ABC' and Customer_No ='99999'when I ran this above SQL it in our environment via SQL developer, it returns with 50 records in 6-7 seconds. but when I ran the “Qualify” job via the Server Dashboard, it takes 25,000 s ( almost  7 hours)- Strange! I would expect the qualify job will create the IFS forecast parts records with in the  similar time frame like SQL developer query. can not understand why this was taking hours??really appreciate anyone has any suggestions or thoughts?       

We have 3 remote warehouses, all different remote assortments for their parts Truck 1 - Remote Assortment 1Truck 2 - Remote Assortment 2Truck 3 - Remote Assortment 3We issue off parts from work orders to take parts off the TrucksWe want to replenish our trucks from 1 Main ‘non-remote’ warehouse, according the their remote assortments (refill point qty, and refill to qty). How can we  create transport tasks to take parts from the main warehouse to the remote warehouses?When I manually run ‘refill all putaway zones’, nothing happens. I believed it should have created these transport tasks.I’d like to do this manually or automatically. But must be missing something. My storage zones, Putaway Zone Basic Data, And Site is setup as such: I believed that Putaway Zone basic data eliminated the need to do putaway rankings at the inventory part screen. And instead let you do it at the site level. So mine are NOT setup on the Inventory Part screen.All my remote warehouses trucks1-3, and Main ware

Can a purchase order that is cancelled be reopened?

Hello! do you know if there is a function or menu in which it is possible to see the past consumption split by month of an inventory part  and/or if somewhere it is displayed the average monthly consumption based on a selected period. In alternative, how to create a report  to calculate what I asked? I’m going  to work with IFS10. Thanks 

Hi all,Can anyone access the function body of ifsapp.purchase_order_line_part_api.Get_Greatest_Receipt_Date() and send the details to me? The function generates the earliest possible receipt date but I don’t know the logic so want to see the function body to understand it. Thanks a lot. 

We are currently using IFS Apps 9 UPD 13. We are looking to become more efficient in our handling of shortages. Upon receipt of a part, we receive a notification that a shortage exists for that part. We then go to the Resolve Shortages for Inventory Part and search for that part no. We can then add  a Qty to Reserve to the orders that shortages exist. Our question, is there a way to issue the part to the Order and print a shortage tag instead of simply reserving the part? I have created a custom report and custom menu to print a tag but it is still a manual process. Also, would then need to issue the part from another window. Does anyone have a more efficient workflow that they use for shortage handling? Is there improved functionality for shortage handling in IFS Cloud (that we will be soon upgrading to)?

Using the “Report Rule” we can set the P.O. filename in the Report Document Archive to something a bit “smart”, like “SUPno-PO-Pxxxxx ”.  Nice!   But what we’d also like to do for the benefit of our vendors, as we RMB - Send Order, is send them a “smartly” named file.  The IFS attached PDF default filename is  a concatenation of the Report Title and Result Key; which may as well be a random number.  Is there a way of defining the e-mail attached PDF’s filename?  Thanks! 

Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone knew if there was a plan to introduce a functionality to auto match a licence for an order upon release?At the moment the user has to right mouse click on the CO line to find and connect a licence and then update the end user country and/or end usage. This is all very well if there is only a few CO lines but my customer can have up to 100 lines on an order all of which will have to be connected to a licence. Doing this manually is not an option so we are in the middle of creating something bespoke for them.I can’t imagine them being the only customer having that problem so maybe there is something in the pipeline I am not aware of? Or is there anyone out there who had the same problem and has already created something for their customer? ThanksMaria  

Hi  We’re running Apps 8 and have had an error message that we’ve never seen before: ‘A Supplier may not be specified as Owner when Purchasing is not installed’ Can anyone advise what this might be?

While working with Work Tasks in Aurena, the user receives the error “Insufficient Privileges” when selecting the tab “Allocate Resource”. This did not occur prior to UPD8, but wondering if this is a simple permissions changes brought on by UPD8 or another bug?

Hi, I am having an issue with a  Inventory part not creating a requistion. The Part which is needed on a work order  has ‘maintenance material req’ set as released.Has anyone encountered this problem or know how to resolve please? Thank you in advance 

Hi all, I’m new to IFS and we have limited information after several IFS users have left the company.My question is, once all the shop orders are closed, and the only items sitting in inventory are the items to be delivered to the customer, how do we ship the inventory item in IFS ? does this happen once the project has been invoiced and and closed? Many thanksMark

Hi, I cannot figure out why MRP does not take a released shop order into account. I have the following IPAP :On hand/usable/available qty: 18720Shop order with due date 06/08: supply of 24020, giving a projected ammount of 42740Cust order with due date 24/08: Demand of 49720 I run MRP,  and the system gives me a shop order req with due date 24/08, of 31000. This will bring my projected qty on 24020, exactly the ammount of the already created SO. Does anyone know which settings could cause this? The part has planning method A, on the shop order we have the boxes ‘Include as Supple’, ‘Include as Demand’ and ‘Include as Load’ checked. There is no minimum/max lot size  

Hello Community,We are using IFS  APPS 8 SP 1.After creating Purchase orders we have defined two level authorization for releasing Purchase Orders. 1.First Level (User level) who has created the PO. 2.Second Level(manager level) he authorizes the created PO by the buyer. First level user can not cannot authorize second level but he is using supersede Authorization option. We need to restrict it. How Can I do this please help.

We are processing an RMA for 2 lines.  Line 1 originally was shipped from our warehouse.  Line 2 was shipped from our supplier.  All parts were returned to our warehouse.  As we were Receiving in Line 2, we received the information message stating: Please provide information of what happens if we answer OK to this financially? Is there another way to receive in parts shipped from a Supplier?   Thanks

Hi everyone. I kindly ask for your help. How can i assign a location for a site as default? Thanks.

Is there a way to highlight/select all lines on a screen (‘Parts’ for example) without having to click on the first record and drag down until the bottom of the page? This can be cumbersome when you have hundreds/thousands of records. 

I’ve created a new shop order by following a training doc support. I’ve got the following error message : “Structure Revision is null. Issuing is not allowed”. And during the flow, the following question (Popup) appears : “The shop order is for revision of part XXX-YYY. The location you selected in row 1 have different revison for the part. Do you want to continue?” I’ve answerd yes after checking that they are both rev 1. All advices are welcome. Thank you.

Hello, Does IFS provide a way to set the credit limit a supplier has provided a company similar to the credit limit on a customer record? Our accounting department would like to have IFS enforce a credit limit from a supplier so purchasing can not release purchase orders which would exceed our credit limit with a supplier.   I’ve searched on the supplier record but I could not locate such a field. Regards,William Klotz

Our company is wanting to have the sales team update the Target Sales Plan in Demand Forecast by a product code.Demand Forecast within IFS doesn’t allow the column to be changed. Is there a way to edit that column? Can an adjustment be made at a product code level instead of SKU level. We forecast at the family level.