Buying (Procurement, Demand Planner, ASC, SRM)

User A has upload some documents as attachments to a PO (Procurement-Receipt-Receipt screen) but if someone else (users B and C) try to view it on the same day, they cannot open them. However, the following morning, they can open the attachments to view them. Why could this be please? On premise IFS Apps 10 upd14.

Hi All, I would like to request some clarification regarding the behaviour of MRP in this context. As I understand it, MRP does not generate pegged supplies by default. It evaluates demand, and if there is no available stock, IFS creates supply orders that are not pegged to specific demands. Now, let’s consider a scenario where I manually create pegged orders by modifying the supply code (e.g., to Purch Order Trans) at the customer order line level. When the customer order is released, a pegged purchase requisition (PR) is generated as expected. However, after converting this PR into a purchase order (PO) and changing the delivery date, I anticipated that MRP would recognize this adjustment—identifying the order as either early or late in relation to the demand. It appears, however, that when supplies are pegged using supply codes, MRP does not detect these orders in the same way. As a result, it does not flag them as early or late orders during its planning run. Could someone confirm

The Part Ownership is NOT populating on the Purchase Requisition line even though is is defined on the Supplier For Purchase Part Record. As well, when the Purchase Requisition line is converted to a Purchase Order, when the Part Ownership is defined as “Customer Owned”, the value that populates in the Purchase Order line is INCORRECTLY appearing as “Company Owned” … Is this a KNOWN Bug with IFS Cloud, or should it be reported as such?

We have created a PO Authorization rule which is valid for change order and Allow Changes after Authorization = Within Authorizer Limit here’s the description given for Allow Changes after Authorization No Changes Allowed: No changes are allowed that affect the total line amount of the partially or fully authorized purchase orders. If the Include Charge Amounts option is selected for the rule, the system will not allow to add new charge lines. Within Order Amount: Changes are allowed within the approved purchase order amount. Once the order is authorized, additional purchase order lines can be added as well, as long as the total order amount does not exceed the authorized purchase order amount. Within Limit of Authorizer: Changes are allowed within the limit of the applied authorization rule or within the authorization limit of the last step in the applied authorization routing. Once the order is authorized, no additional purchase order lines can be added. If the Include Charge Amounts

Hi All, I am seeing this weird behaviour in count reports window. I want to adjust it in from the count report 1 to 50 but it is not filtering correctly. Instead of 1,2,3 it shows as 1,10,11. Is there a way to over come this, customer wants to see them in a sequence and unable to query for the count reports 1..50 as it would not show those count reports. Thanks,Chamath

I’m in IFS Cloud 22R1 Is there any way to see, in the main application, what Forecast Model/parameters IFS has selected when the forecast model for the Flow/Part has been set to “Best Fit” ? I can see this info in the Demand Plan Client, but can’t find it displayed in any of the Cloud screens. DP Client: Cloud:

Hi Experts, Has anyone faced below issue in Export licenses. My customer is in IFS Cloud 24.1.2 version. Even when the customer orders are connected to export license, net amount of the CO line is not fetched to the below fields. I checked the sales parts prices are defined and the net amounts are visible in the CO line level as well. I checked internal cloud env in 24R2 and it works fine. Just wondering if this is an issue in this 24.1.2 version. Anyone know any info in this please? Thanks, Chamath

Can I also use these two SQL statements as a combination.I need the issues for sales orders plus inventory issues. Thanks for your help. Henning

Hi Is there a way to set the Qty to be inspected on the P.Req or PO lines instead of at receipt or on the part? We purchase quite a lot on the No Part Lines tab as a lot of the purchases are a once of unique purchase that is directly issued/consumed by our projects. Some of these parts would need to be inspected by the engineers who are doing the P.Req and POs. They want to set the line to be inspected when doing the P.Req or reviewing the PO before release. Is that possible?

Hi All, In Apps9, can we have a common Wanted Receipt Date for multiple Purchase Requisitions?Lets say we have 3 customer orders where wanted delivery dates are 5/19/2025 , 5/26/2025 and 6/2/2025. Then we run MRP and create Purchase Requisitions Lines. Lets assume that lead time is zero. Wanted Receipt Dates shown in Purchase Requisitions Lines are 5/14/2025, 5/21/2025 and 5/28/2025. Currently, we manually change the Wanted Receipt Date for a one common date so that all goods will be delivered on that day making it easy for the warehouse. However, this is a tedious task given the high amount of requisitions lines. Is there a way to achieve this more efficiently with minimum manual intervention.

We are using supplier agreements in IFS to handle the price lists received from suppliers. This is a good way to keep track of updated prices. However, some suppliers also give a more general discount, not based per part or purchase order line, which we want to handle in IFS. The principle would be to handle the supplier’s price list in supplier agreement in IFS and then add discounts on the PO based on discount models: Examples of discount models from the suppliers: Discount per order based per total order value (per order) Fixed discount on all orders We have tried to use the assortment in IFS to calculate discount per order, regardless of purchase part. We could only get the discount collected if there is a price in “Supplier for purchase part” in IFS. If we add assortment to the same supplier agreement as where the prices are defined, the prices seem to override the general discount in the assortment. Please let me know if there is a way in IFS 10 to handle discounts per order or s

Hi All, Managing freight costs and allocating various charges to inventory part cost can be a challenging process. Within IFS, there are several methods to handle this — for example, by defining an overhead or using purchase charges combined with different distribution methods. This process is straightforward as long as we know the charge amounts before the goods are received, allowing us to adjust the purchase order accordingly. However, I often encounter difficulties when freight costs are unknown at the time of receipt. For instance, we may receive the freight invoice two weeks after the goods have been received. I would like to ask what is the best approach to add these charges to the inventory cost of the parts in such cases? Re-receiving the PO does not appear to be an option. Could you please share how you typically manage these situations? Thanks, Chamath

I’ve been testing out seasonal profiles in demand planner (Cloud 23R1), but I am struggling to understand the results and hoping someone may be able to explain the detail. My understanding is when you create a seasonal profile and then apply it to a forecast, the total forecast sum will be adjusted by the seasonality index for each period. To test, I created a forecast part & single base flow. I then created a manual seasonal profile for the part. I created the forecast (18 months, Best Fit) , then compared the figures with and without the seasonal profile applied. Questions: Why does the total forecast sum for Y1 reduce from 166,905 to 102,596? If I calculate the seasonality index based on the 102,596, for Y1, it lines up, but I cannot explain where the 102,596 has come from? Why is the system forecast Jan-June Y2 now the exact same values as Jan-June Y1 when seasonality is applied? Before seasonality is applied Y2 system forecast values are different.

Our PM Plans were setup wrong during implementation and have caused a headache with demand planning. This is going to be a very large project to clean up. However, we still want to us Min/Max order points. However, the demand is throwing off the reorders. Is there a way to ignore demand and just use the Min/Max just based on what we have on the shelf. So, I want a part to have a 2/4 min/max. When we hit 2 on the shelf, initiate a purchase requisition to get back up to 4. Ignoring all demand out there on work orders, etc.

Can you deactivate a non-inventory Purchase Part so it cannot be used again? Essentially, it is obsolete with not replacement. I can’t find a way to keep it from being requested on a purchase requisition.

Hi, Could someone shed a light on the issue below? In IFS9, on the Purchase Req Lines, I am able to see whether the Req line has or not an attachment, which helps me to check any important document before converting into PO. The same does not happen in IFS Cloud. But, the info is on Purchase Requisitions. How can we add the same info that is on Purchase Requisition to Purchase Requisition Lines? Thanks Thanks

I am trying to enable a custom event on the PO to verify if there is an attachment before it it sent for Authorization. I am using the PO Status as the trigger but the alert will only come after the Authorization step. Any suggestions? Thanks

Can anyone confirm the detail around the the calculations relating to DDMRP, mainly the Calculated ADU and background data that is used for the calculations? I understand the set up and what DDMRP does, however it is not 100% clear on the following; When running the Calculate Historical Average Daily Usage, does this calculate based on the Site Distribution Calendar? If a business only operates Mon-Fri, and they have a Distribution Calendar Schedule that has 7 days but working time on Sat and Sunday = 0 min, is this factored in? If this calculates using calendar days, surely this will result in a lower ADU than actual, where the business only operates 5 days in every 7? Is there a way to view the Standard Deviation Calculations and how the Std Dev Issues in Lead Time is calculated? Same question for Avg No Of Issues In Lead Time? If a business is not getting ADU figures that do not seem right, how can these be analysed quickly and effectively? For Avg No Of Issues In Lead Time, what do

Good Morning, I am after some help with Demand Planner and its relationship to forecast part. I have a really old Part that has no sales since at least 2022 on its base flow, yet the Part Classification is still showing Intermittent How can we get this to move to Terminated The combined Flow also has no sales and is also showing as Intermittent. Do we need to Recalculate Historic Demand from the Aggregation type? Using IFS Apps 9

In IFS10 there is in inventory part planning data Time Phased Safety Stock. Can it be used without IRP module? I tried to set it up to purchase raw parts and run MRP, but there was no demand to fullfill the buffer.

Due to tariffs increases and surcharges, we are running into an issue of not quoting correct pricing. Today our pulls from cost set 5, which is what is on our supplier for purchase part, this currently re-calculates once a week. Our issue is that we are beginning to quote out to Q4 and we know we have pricing increases coming and would like to capture theses costs for quoting purposes but not skew current pricing that is being used. We are currently in IFS 10 app 19.

When a user attempts to update the expiry date in a service contract, the "Valid To" date is usually updated automatically in the PM settings. However, for certain contracts, this update does not occur, leading to the following notification.

Does anyone know if there is a mechanism for deleting multiple Supplier for Purchase Part Price List entries rather than having to go into each SFPP record and deleting one by one?

Hello, does anyone know if it is possible to have an RMA show up in the Master Schedule as it is a type of supply which can influence the supply for the MS leading into actions.

How are users handling tariffs in IFS, both from an internal cost and external pricing standpoint? For pricing, can prices be adjusted by Country of Origin? (If so, how do we get the Country of Origin field to populate in Sales Part screen? For cost, is “landed cost” the best way to track it? Thanks all.