Buying (Procurement, Demand Planner, ASC, SRM)

Please take a look at postion control screen and Pur Req below. I expect that cost center value is mandtory on pur req screen.   Control type C58 may require cost center value with Mandatory. As Pur Req registered,  pre posting sub screen is pop-uped when saving. However, saving transaction without cost cent value could be allowed. After saving, pre posting pop up screen no longer is shownd again. Mandatory rule doesn’t work when Pur req resister process. Is any  setup insufficient?      

Master parts have manufacturers. A number of them have been combined in the real world (either consolidated or bought or whatever). What would your idea be how to generate a new manufacturer and move the ‘old’ manufacturer parts under the new one? Steve

We are notice that when looking in Inventory Part Availability Planning that if we have a purchase order coming in the same day we go negative with demand there is no place that we see it showing up easily. I was hoping to find it in the Inventory Part Availability Exceptions but since the projected amount no longer shows negative it does not show up under the MRP message of Negative On Hand. When using MRP Workbench and the MRP Message of Late Order it does show when there is a PO coming in and has dropped below the safety stock level and when we go negative on the same day a PO is coming in. Not necessarily and easy screen to look at when you are having to look at each part and then decipher if it is just late or if we have gone negative.  I have yet to come across a different MRP Message or screen that we can easily see when we go negative on a part the same day it is being delivered.    We are currently in IFS 9.   

Hi, Due to summer holiday in the company, we have created the Schedule Exception with “day type” weekend for the period of time( two weeks ) in July 2020, as an example see  below for the 13-07-2020. However, we will still like to be able to create PO’s and recieve PO’s. Since our department for goods recieve is not closed. Does anybody have experience with that scenario ? What to do ? Best Regards, Marianne

In our site, we have one part number, for which we use Inventory Part Planning Manuf/Acquired split (50%/50%)   What of course means that 50% of supply is purchased and another 50% is produced   But there is one problem with that parts with Lead Times Differences   Of course, Purchasing Lead time is far ahead of manufacturing lead time.   It entails the thing that we are releasing purchase order much earlier than prodution order   And lets say we have a demand for the date X for 200 pcs. Because of the split 100 of them has purchase requisiton and another 100 has shop order requisition   When the Purchase requisiton is released and SO req isn't then there is 100 covered by PO and 100 uncovered. After next MRP this uncovered 100 pcs is again netted and calculated with the 50% split So on next day we have a 100 PO released. 50 pcs po req and 50 pcs SO req. In total it gives us split of 75% vs 25% instead of desired 50/50   Do you believe is there any way to avoid that, an

Hey guys, does anyone know a smart and automatic way to unattach parts from HUs when receiving a PO via dispatch advice? We have huge EDI shipments which will be received automatically via the Receive_Dispatch_Advice___ functionality, but as far as i have seen in the system and in the code it will only not consider HUs if you receive it to default location. I don’t think there is a setting to ignore HUs when receiving, but would be glad to be proofen wrong here. Does anyone have any experience with this or some good ideas/workarounds? Thanks, Johannes

We use Inventory Valuation Method = Weighted Average (on Apps9) and we receive inventory parts from a PO and we match the supplier invoice and pay the supplier.  Then the supplier sends us a credit. Our Supplier Invoice Consideration = Transaction Based and we would expect this credit to update the inventory value of the part.  How should this credit be processed?  We have never set up any type of “supplier credit” series but maybe this is possible?

Hi Community,   In a similar manner to the question relating to Apps 10 Purchase Order and Project linkage, in Apps 9 Update 15, the No Part Order Line entry has the Delivery Address as a mandatory field. What would be the process to enable removal of the line delivery address? The rationale for this is that we have the head office site and the specific delivery location is at a different site, and the application of two different addresses is confusing to Suppliers. Before UD15 we were able to remove the line delivery address without error. Are we simply restricted to the process of changing the line or header delivery addresses to match?   Any and all thoughts/guidance will be appreciated.   Kind regards

Is there a way to archive or close customers so that they do not appear on any list of values search? We are looking to use the Service Quotation functionality and when opening the list of values we a customer list of 1600. A number of these customers will no longer be active but I cannot see how to set a customer to expired or closed, so that they no longer appear on lists of values.

IFS 8 SP1 Page: Purchase Order Receipt Category: Advanced Search Function - SQL   Hi all, This is my first post on these forums, so please guide me if I’m posting at the wrong area.   Lets say I’m search all deliveries received in >2020. This is thousands of results.  Is there a way to get a list with UNIQUE PART_NO values, where only the first delivery (ACTUAL_DELIVERY_DATE) of the unique part numbers are listed?   I’ve tried:  ARRIVAL_DATE > to_date( '20200101000000', 'YYYYMMDDHH24:MI:SS' ) and UNIQUE (PART_NO) Based on: https://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_unique.asp

Does anyone know why this extra line called “Manufacturer No”  would print on your embedded purchase order print out ?    It just started happening for us for all Sites  PO’s  (all lines regardless if part  or no part line)     Thank you

Morning all,   We have an issue where we have certain suppliers who “chance it” and send us material that they have finished early (sometimes months early). Obviously we don’t want to be taking on this stock until we actually need it however as some of it is sent by courier i.e. FEDEX, UPS etc we get the courier dropping the item off, takes a quick signature and then they are on their way. It is only after manual inspection of the delivery later that we realise that we have something we didn’t yet need. I know what you are all thinking. just tell the supplier to stop doing it! (apparently they don’t listen) For audit obviously we have to register the purchase order arrival but after this we have 3 options.  Leave the stock as registered and keep stored in a goods-in location Return for Credit Return for Rework The only one that works in the way they want is Return for Rework in so far as it halts the payment, creates a return note and upon it coming back we can just re-registe

Seems like this should be easy, but we are having difficulty sharing product from one activity sequence or project to many other activity sequences or projects.  We don’t want the inventory from those other projects to be shared at all.  We’ve messed around with a few settings in PMRP and can’t seem to get it right.  Has anyone else had to do this? Like I said it seems ‘simple’. Many thanks!

We are currently using APPS 9 and would like to introduce purchase order authorisation via mobile. Am a little new to IFS, so wondering if that technology works in APPS 9 and if so, how can I set this up?   Thanks! for all feedback!

Is there a way to connect Supplier creation to an approval template? meaning a specific approval template comes automatically every time trying to create a supplier rather than adding a template manually each time. 

What is the best way to work according system logic in the cases when you have select the online consumption in inventory part and you will get the customer order which is not matching master schedule plan (un-forecasted demand).   There is two option used in our case: Modify MS before proceeding with order → Need to wait with order Changing Supply Code in order line to Not decided → Order can be entered Following IFS logic, what is the best way to proceed to not cause un-expected issues in demands in planning time fence or outside planning time fence.

I’ve created an object connection for PurchaseReceipt that allows me to to manually link a PO Receipt to an NCR that I created using the NCR wizard.   Is this the correct process flow? Register Inspection Results, then Create the NCR, and then link the 2 together?     Thanks, Chris.

We are working to set up inter-site processing in IFS.  Everything appears to be working in the PO/CO transactions, however the INVOIC transaction is getting rejected in Connectivity Inbox with the below error.  C00 in the message has an appropriate invoice type so I am confused as to the cause of the error.   ORA-20124: Error.NULLVALUE: Field [INVOICE_TYPE] is mandatory for Invoice Header and requires a value.   Any ideas as to where to go look? 

Does anyone know how you can activate and therefore populate the Input UoM / Input Quantity on a purchase order line?   Thanks

We have inactivated a bunch of inventory parts. But, they are still showing up in the inventory part queries. Is there anyway to remove/hide these inactive parts from the inventory part queries? 

I can add substitutes for purchase orders, but cant seem to add for supplier invoices. Normally, when I populate on the purchase order substitutes, the authorisers appear and I can add a valid from/to  - but no functions allowed, even with IFSAPP_ALL - permission sets look good too.   Any ideas what am missing here?    

Hi, Is there a way of running the “calculate MS level 1” in a smart way. We have multiple sites and we are distrubuting slaes parts betwen them all. To get the drive thrue the system now i need to run them all two times. Sie 1 Site 2 Site 3 Site 4 and then again Site 1 Site 2 etc So All sites has shared Theres needs to each other. We hare sending parts from site 1 to site 2 and 3 and we are sending parts from site 2 to 1 etc. Is this the right way or?

Does anyone use the Inventory Part > Planning Data set up for “Planning Method = B” order point to automatically reorder spare parts when the quantity goes below the order point?    This seems to be working well except if a  PO is created for a spare part reorder and the supplier has the part on back order so will be beyond the lead time, the job will keep recreating a new PO to order the part thinking it’s not in place.    Aside from extending the lead time  in the acquisition tab, which we do not want to do, is there another solution to prevent this from happening?   We’ve tried confirming line with differences so we could change the date but the job still recreates a new PO.   Thanks!  

I am trying to make the receipting process more efficient. We have a number of low value items we would like to automate the receipting for. These are goods that go directly from the supplier to our sites. Is there an easy way to achieve this or do I need to look at customisation? Perhaps it could be set up by cost centre rather than value

IFS Apps 9 Update 10: We’re looking at purchasing control plans, and wanting to begin to use those in lieu of the other system we currently use to do inspections on incoming parts. For most cases, we find that the purchasing control plans will work very well.   We have a particular case, however, where we are wanting to drive a certain sample size based on the lot quantity, using the ASQR-20.1 (aerospace) standards. This is difficult because this particular AQL plan is based on a c=0 acceptance. Meaning, the quantity driven for inspection is presuming that there are no non-conforming items within the sample size. Using the existing acceptance sampling logic, it looks as if we’re forced to adhere to the whatever the system generated inspection quantity values are, which do not seem to be based on a c=0, but rather what the “acceptable” c= value is based on some background math that I can’t see. Given the particular constraints, we cannot simply use a sample percentage either, it would s