Hi Mirja. Yes you should be able to use Time Phased Safety Stock without IPR.

If you look into MRP Part Information screen:

1. Do you see the part in the header portion? Do you have any qty on hand (Beginning Onhand field)
2. Do you have anything in the Gross Requirements tab?
3. Please also look into the Receipts and Deliveries tab. Do you have data there? Can you check the column Safety Stock Desired?

I hope we should be able to resolve this. And as usual with MRP questions, go to MRP Part Information first, not IPAP, coz in MRP you will see what MRP engine considers.

So I hope you will be able to increase your time-phased safety stock prior X-mas and release it afterwards ;-) 

-Mats

HI

I would like to connect to this subject.

Mats, I can see demand created by time phased safety stock in MRP part Information but I would like to see it also in IPAP. is it possible? i can see that it’s calculated in IPAP (projected column) but I would like to se it as e.g. MPR demand or shop order material etc. Visible as separate line in IPAP

Hi @majose , 

in IFS10, is there possibility to calculate time phased safety stock on the basis of forecast in standard version?  we do not have IPR.

If yes, can that be scheduled to run once a month? 

-Hanna

Hi Hanna,

When we did this development long time back, we only focused to enable time phased stock. And to use this time phased safety stock in Master Scheduling and in MRP. 

The idea came from customers in Sweden and Norway. Here is a copy of an old slide from the IFS Applications 9 development project:

So unfortunately we didn’t focus on calculating the time phased levels of the safety stock. Please enter an idea for this in here in the Community.

Cheers

-Mats

Hello everyone,

can theTime Phased Saftey Stocks only be used for a tempo increase or also for a reduction of the safety stock?

Josef

Hello,

The timed phased safety stock must be >= 0

You have an interesting idea; to be able to reduce the used safety stock,  by taking the static safety stock minus the time phased safety stock, by entering a negative value. You can create an idea here on the community.

-Mats

Hello ,

from my point of view there are two ways to realise this.

1. the programme allows negative values here and therefore a reduction. This is currently not possible.

2. when determining the demand, the programme checks whether a valid time frame is entered here in the programme and if so, this value is used.

In my opinion, the second way is the better way.

Why do you need this? In a company where the order situation has collapsed in the short term, it may be necessary to temporarily reduce stocks due to cost-cutting measures. After this phase, the safety stocks do not necessarily have to be increased again. The risk of forgetting is simply too great and can lead to a production standstill.

I simply expect such a tool to work in both directions.