Hello

AF do not use the MTX inventories but having an inventory MPN and MSN manually created and locked or scrapped out will prevent to receipt the same inventory in MTX, the system has a protection on this.

Preventing a purchase, may be by a PART NUMBER BASE requirement? But I’m not familiar with this Requirement.

Best Regards.

@AStelling I would handle this using Inventory Part Statuses.

You could define a status that doesn’t allow demand and supply → this means that the parts that have assigned that status can’t be used on PO or CO.

@AStelling I would handle this using Inventory Part Statuses.

You could define a status that doesn’t allow demand and supply → this means that the parts that have assigned that status can’t be used on PO or CO.

 

Yeah, it’s also important to understand that the “Demands Allowed” & “Supply Allowed” control parameters as FALSE prohibit the creation of new records, but pre-existing records, purchase orders for instance, can still be processed.

Br,

Mikko

Hi,

The above two answers may work well for IFS Apps, or IFS Cloud customers. Whereas IFS Maintenix customers may need to implement alternate solutions.

The solution proposed by Olivier may be the only solution to meet your needs. It will depend on the organization creating and scrapping large amounts of inventory, on the assumption there is a discrete list of all affected serial numbers.

If the problem affects a unique part number and manufacturer combination, then the part can be unapproved/rejected in the baseline configuration. With the part number unapproved this does not prevent any activity other than the installation of the component. A part advisory can be added to the part number, and optionally specify a range of serial numbers, that will warn users at every step of PO creation, inventory receipt, and inspection, but will not offer any hard stops.

@Robert Bellemare  we did test the part advisory with PO creation for this purpose but it did not give any warning to user until items was to be received on stock, which is too late as it has been bought by that time. Using the scrap or locking has the same issue, nothing pops up until part is received. Icelandair has pointed out this issue since starting using the system in 2013.

Hi @gislak ,

My statements about reporting that Advisories will have some kind of visual indicator in the Purchase Order process can be misleading. The first visual indicator for the Advisory is when receiving the Shipment. The Receive Shipment page will show the Advisory on the shipment line beside the part number.

For the Purchase Order process, if the part was rejected, and having a Part Status of OBSLT (Reject Part), the user will be met with a Warning page when Requesting Authorization, Authorizing, and Issuing the Purchase Order.

Ideally with both an Advisory, and having the Part unapproved in the system, the overall solution can meet your needs. However it is notable that these are all warnings, and users can still override the warnings to proceed. As a final validation, any unapproved parts received will be automatically routed to quarantine.