Buying (Procurement, Demand Planner, ASC, SRM)

This error in Aurena dashboard is commonly seen for customers who have applied  APP10 UPD7 and it is becaused of a bug in the UPD7  DEMAND component. This has been fixed in UPD  8 but customers can use below workaround untill UPD8 is get delivered. Small configuration change(Demand Server-> File->Setup-> General->select Forecast & IPR; Then restart the demand plan server). 

Open DP client > View > Uncheck Detail View, Forecast Comment, Querry. Open Forecast graph and maximize its size. Then close the DP client a log again. Open forecast graph. It will show without any issue. Close the DP client again and log again. Client will not open as it is crashed.   This has been fixed in APP10 UPD 4 onwards. For any issues reported below UPD4, below workaround can be used.  Go to regedit, HKEY _CURRENT_USER>SOFTWARE>IFS>Demand Client and delete that. Open the Demand Planner client again with settings again. Then DP client will be open without any issue once the registries are deleted.

Hi all, need your help with solution design ideas.Current business process is:Purchase requisition for a part is created on a Site and Released. Users start sourcing, but can ask different suppliers to quote deliveries of that part to other sites. Best offer is chosen with delivery to the site from quotation PO flow is createdRFQ can have only one site on the header and delivery address. What would be your idea for such sourcing solution?Create several Requests disconnected from PR and link them with custom field?Run RFQ site-by-site?Change business process?A bit puzzled here.Thank you!

IFS10 upd6 The customer has project connected non-inventory purchase order lines that should not be matched due to bad references on invoice etc the cost has already been booked, they then manually close the PO stating nothing more will be invoiced.When running the unfinished activity works the customer gets “Some object is reporting committed cost to the activity. Analyze which object that reports committed cost.”Since the company is setup to not create postings for receipts of non-inventory part the committed cost will stay as committed on the project until the PO is matched to an invoice or the project connection is removed as I understand it.Some order lines have been partly match so the arrival cannot be cancelled, is there an easy way to be able to close the project/activity?(I guess after creating a dummy invoice (0,10 SEK) and match the PO and book a minus cost with the same project code string the activity could be closed but the wo

Hi Team, I am trying to create following scenario in IFS: Site A Releases Customer order and the set up automatically created a PO for Site B.butIntersite CO doesn't get created for for site B Do I need to enable some setting which will create intersite CO for site B ? Please let me know. Thank you.  

Using Apps10.  We are using a PO to receive returns from customers because we need to have the parts be customer owned.  If we use an RMA the ownership changes to Company Owned.  We would like to reserve the serial number to the PO line when the PO is created.  When we try to do that we get the message that the serial number is already used by this part.  However, when we do a Receive with Serial Numbers we are allowed to enter an existing serial number.  It seems that if we can receive an existing SN we should be able to reserve an existing SN.  Does anyone know if there is a way to reserve existing serial numbers to a PO? 

Hi All, Using IFS10, UPD7 (on verge of changing to UPD9) We are using shipments to deliver shipments and Order Flow settings are set to create the Customer invoice automatically. Shipments are done between two sites, belonging to two different companies.The problem that we are facing, is that (to us) randomly Collective Customer Invoices are generated and for other orders nothing is generated. For those where nothing is generated, we can manually create a Customer Invoice.We did change settings on the Customer to allow Collective Invoices, but this is not changing anything. Same with changing it to manual creation of Invoices. (E.G. stop the flow before the Invoice is created)When we look in the PL/SQL developer, we actually can see that a preliminary invoice get created, but the actual invoice is not generated.  Anyone has faced a similar issue and can assist on where to look? Thanks.Arend

Customer open Apps7.5, the buttons that normally appear on the top-right of the page are missing. The buttons include populate, search, save, etc.Is there a way to fix this?

Hi Everyone,User who has permission to access only one company can create a deals per part record where “base price site” is not included under assigned company. Based on the user permission, should this be not allowed? Please explain.      

In App-9, Is there any way to define the alternate of an inventory part’s product structure while performing the MRP/MS?

Other MRP systems use 2way matching for Services instead of 3way - so a receipt is not required for Service invoices to pay, just the requisitioner approves.  How do you set this up in IFS 10?  There should be a way to note services, and not require a receipt for it to be paid.

Hi All,Can someone please explain the reason why the Apps 9 version doesn’t allow to create a collective invoice if an advance invoice exists? Upon delivery of the orders, the customer required one collective invoice. Here you’ll notice that create invoice option is available in the Quick order flow handling window. But if you attempt to create a collective invoice from the “Create collective customer Invoices” window for the selected customer, you’ll be present with no search results.Thank youRushdi

Hello, we just went live with Apps10 and MRP is calculating Purchase Lead Time in Manufacturing Days (Monday-Friday schedule). We expect it to run using calendar days (7 day calendar). There are no supplier calendars set up and the help indicates, “If no value is entered in the field, an all day calendar will be used.“ I am confident it is a setting that needs changed, but I can’t seem to find it. Any help is appreciated. Also, we are using Safety Stock to drive demand. Sorry for the vague description, but I feel like there is a simple solution.  

Is oracle client 19.0.0 support APP10 UPD10 Demand plan server?Note:Customer Oracle DB version is 19.0.0 

Hello lads, Is there some way to enable E-mail order… option in Purchase OrderS → context menu? I know there is a way to do it from Supplier view→ Purchase→Misc Supplier Info→ E-mail purchase order checkbox. Help says:(Select this check box if you want to e-mail the purchase order to this supplier in the automatic order processing.) but we dont want to send it in automatic order processing so we dont want to have it selected.   Is there a way to have it in context menu without need to select this checkbox? btw. in Purchase Order e-mail order… is visible in context menu. I hope you understand what I meant. Greetings Marcin        

I have attached document including prints screens.  Why can’t I update the Sale Price on the Invoice Preview? Work Order 363Task # 1820Added 2 material req lines which have costs associated.  There is qty on hand for both of these items.Part 306454 - Link NQ  10 EA Part 306243 - Rod HRQ  10 EACreated a Purchase req 13246Part line – 0-2431-00280 Hose 25 EA – No Price & I could not enter oneRolled onto po D1000321 Register Arrival for PO D1000321 - received 25 After receiving the 25 the Material tab in the work order show that 3 are issued and 22 are on hand….odd.No Part Line ‘Consumables’  SM Oil  9 EA  keyed a Price @ $29.99Rolled onto po D1000322 Received poOn the Material tab, I highlighted all 3 lines and RMB > Issue. Got warning about part # 0-243-00280 that I didn’t print screen but when I clicked ok it’s now showing tha

Hi Guys, I am using IFS 7.5 Client and I would like to attach quotation or other document provided by supplier into the Purchase Order in order to keep a softcopy at database.I couldn’t find attachment function from the PO screen.Is there anyway to do so?Thanks.Regards,Kim Siang

Hi all,I have linked a customer to a user to register as a B2B customer. When I logged in to the B2B portal with above user, I don’t see the lobby page ‘Order Management For Customers’.What I see is an empty navigator page as below:  What I intend to see is the below page:  When I check the lobby overview, I don’t see any lobby page with client type = ‘Aurena B2B’. I checked the permission sets for the user and user is granted with ‘FND_WEBENDUSER_B2B’. What is the reason I am not seeing this lobby page in B2B portal?  Is it a permission problem or?  Is it due to that the lobby page should be purchased separately or?

Hello, Can any one help me if IFS have template to write SQL in IFS to set up Demand Plan Base Flows? I want to set up the flow for internal, external and specially for customer specific demand for multiple site.

Hello Community,We are using IFS APPS 8.What is the difference between Order Report Vs Quick Reports Vs Crystal Report. RegardsDeepak

Hi Community,Please how can I run Forecast for multiple parts automatically in IFS . I have over 35000 Parts to forecast and this will be very difficult to forecast individually.Thanks  Julius

Can someone educate me of the hierarchy where the Price on the PO line is fetched? Say, when we have an active Supplier Agreement, a Blanket PO, Supplier for Purchase Part record, etc. Not sure what are the other price fetching windows are, but let’s say all are active.  Also if you have an F1 Documentation link to explain further about the above hierarchy, please send that too. Thanks. 

Hello IFS users , Using IFS 9 over here and I have the following issue which causes increase of manual operations and loss of time.When generating purchase requisition lines the IFS projects the demand(it's planned arrival date) just a day before we get to the critical minimum (current stock level).That causes the need of manual change of the desired delivery date for thousands of purchase requisition lines to a date let's say….2 or 3 weeks earlier than the IFS suggested date.Creating safety stock or setting up inspection time or any other does not change the requisitions that IFS suggests.Is there any option that allows you to change the IFS algorithm of generating requisitions….For example to generate the desired arrival date 2 weeks before the critical minimum reach or maybe setup minimum required stock level? Thanks in advance for helping the newbie.

The last day of February is the 29th for year 2020.  Because of this, IFS Support normally sees several cases logged for an incorrect valid to date, in Statistical Periods.  All too often, the customer runs statistics (a.k.a. Aggregate Inventory Transaction Per Period), for the period.  They get a background job error, indicating an incorrect valid to date is entered.  They navigate to Statistical Periods, and try to change the valid to date.  Unfortunately, at this point it is too late.  Once statistics are run for the period, the dates cannot be changed.  That is why it is so important to check your periods now (before February).  At this point the only way to correct the date, is via a billable data repair script. To avoid this type of situation, please check your February 2020 Periods.  Make sure the end date/valid to date is set to February 29, 2020.   

Help please, We bring in the field VENDOR_NO on the DEMAND_LINES, SCHEDULE LINES,However when I look at the incoming customer schedule I can not see this field or the data. Does anyone know where is kept? I am asking as we need to put this detail on our out going ASN message.Thanks in advance for your help, Sarah