Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Hi, The question I'm asking is not relevant only to CAPA objects, but also to a number of other objects as well. What we want is to configure approvals for each status of an object/line. In CAPA Actions, the line gets promoted through multiple statuses. The requirement is to set two persons as approvers (Person A and Person B) for the "Investigate" status. So, when a user clicks on "Investigate," the system should check whether Person A and Person B have provided their approval, and allow/disallow user accordingly.Similarly, for the other statuses shown in the image, there will be 2, 3, or more approvers set, with the same validation to be done before promoting the line to that status.It is true that this can be done through customization, but is there a standard/configuration way to do this more simply? Version: IFS Cloud 25R2 S. Already tried with attaching Approval Routings but no effect it seems.

Hi Community I’m part of a new small data analyst team created within our company and we have been tasked with documenting all LOV’s in IFS 10 and the screens/fields they are used in.We are focusing on All Part types (Inventory, Sales, Maintenance etc), Customers and Suppliers to begin with, rather than going through each screen, tab and fields manually and writing them all down is there a way of extracting this info directly from IFS?I have it in my head there must be some links/tables in the background of IFS that show how everything is connected, I may be wrong, but anything has to be better than doing it all manually.Any help would be appreciated    

Will an outstanding control plan analysis prevent the shipment of a part?

Hello,We are evaluating Manufacturing Scheduling & Optimization (MSO, IC12816) and would like to clarify the differences between using MSO with and without IFS.ai.From the documentation, MSO appears to be available as a standalone product, while some references describe AI-powered scheduling, simulation, and scenario evaluation capabilities. However, it is not completely clear which functions require IFS.ai Activation Pass and which are available with standard MSO licensing.Could you please clarify the following?Can MSO (IC12816) be fully utilized without IFS.ai Activation Pass? What are the functional differences between: Standard MSO (without IFS.ai) MSO with IFS.ai Activation Pass Is there any official documentation or licensing guide describing the functional boundary between MSO and IFS.ai-related capabilities?Any clarification would be greatly appreciated.Thank you.

Hi,We are currently using IFS APP9 with the Backflush method for material issuing.We have noticed that, for some shop orders, the system issues more material than the required quantity. Upon investigation, we identified the following two issues:Required Material Quantity Calculation, The required material quantity is displayed incorrectly, as the system appears to ignore decimal values during the calculation. Backflush Material Issue, During the backflush process, the system issues excess material, again seemingly without considering the decimal values. As a result, the issued quantity is higher than the actual requirement. I checked the inventory part→ master data. qty round up is properly updated.The lot size is 18, Reported qty is 17.  Please help me on this. Regards, Tharakan                             83 0 85

Hi There,Does anyone know how MRP_HORIZON_IN_DAYS is calculated?or which date is used as the reference point for this calculation? I am following up the case below.CS0503047I found that there is a comment from IFS side on April 9th, but they would like to know more detail because they need to verify if this parameter changes will not impact on their business operation or not. Hence they were requesting us to provide the technical document and Shiromal-san is communicating to R&D team. I am not sure if we can get the document and able to share it but at least, they would like to know which date (the exact date) is utilized for the calculation. Since our customer is planning to have Golive on May 11th and the judgement meeting is next week (April 21th) hence. This MRP slow response is one oof the bottleneck of passing criteria even though it is customer matter.  I would appreciate it if we can get the answer asap. Regards,Chikako Yoshimura 

Hi all,We use IFS Applications 10 and schedule shop orders using APB.I’m trying to model a finite physical constraint: we have a limited number of trolleys, which we call banks, that carry material between operations.Example routing:Operation 10 — Work centre A01, fixed 2 hours Operation 20 — Work centre A02, 1 minute per unitMaterial is loaded onto a bank at Operation 10. The same bank then moves with the material to Operation 20 and is only free again once Operation 20 is complete.So the bank should be constrained from:Operation 10 start → Operation 20 finishnot just during each individual operation.For example, if we only have two banks, APB should not allow a third order to start Operation 10 until one of the first two banks has completed Operation 20.I tried modelling this as a tool:Tool ID: BANKInstances: B01, B02Required on Operation 10 and Operation 20But APB releases the tool after Operation 10, then allocates a tool again for Operation 20. It does not appear to hold the same

Hi,One of our customer wants to upload a consolidated forecast into IFS so it can be expanded out to show the growth in raw material and component demand and allow the Purchasing Team to see the longer term requirements for several years.This is very top level rather than at customer level by which they normally enter forecasts.Ex: My question is can we upload this forecast into MS Level 1 and derive raw material/component demand for coming periods, with/without generating supplies (PRs, Shop Order Reqs etc?Also, would that be possible to register this forecast and calculate the demand for raw materials separate from the actual forecast register for this year using a different MS level set? I appreciate any feedback you can share.Thank you 

We have run into an issue where shop order operations were accidentally over reported and then subsequently cancelled. However after cancelling the reports, the Operation Qty has become negative, the remaining open operations were closed, and the outside operation purchase order was cancelled.  I was able to recreate this in our test environment. This issue occurs when the Adjust for Op Qty Deviation toggle is enabled and the over reported operation reports are cancelled in the incorrect order. Essentially what happened in the above screen shot was 141pc were completed through op 160. Then, 500pc were accidentally over reported on the same first 4 operations. Operator brought this to a supervisor to correct their mistake. The supervisor cancelled the operation reports, however they cancelled the report on op 50, then 75, then 110 and finally 160 which caused this compounding Deviation Qty, which in turn drove the Operation Quantities negative. If the reports get cancelled in the revers

Dears,  can anyone of you point me what might cause this error when I’m trying to load Shop Orders to APB ? IFS10 App  

Hi all,We are using the standard IFS Outside Operation / Subcontracting process and have a question regarding the creation and management of purchase requisitions and purchase orders.When a shop order is released, IFS automatically creates the related purchase requisitions or purchase orders for the outsourced operation, depending on the selected supply type. In practice, we often face situations where:Previous operations are delayed and the planned quantity is not yet available for outsourcing. Only part of the quantity can be shipped to the supplier due to transportation capacity constraints/ delays in previous operations.  The standard approach is to split the shop order, which updates the purchase requisitions/orders and creates new requisitions/orders with a later delivery date.However, managing these splits requires significant effort because it is difficult to determine exactly:How much quantity has already been reported as Ship WIP to Supplier. How much quantity is still waitin

Hello All!Does anyone use Project transfer Borrow-Payback functionality?We have a requirement for a lending project to temporarily transfer material to a borrowing project.The lending project has a special discount and gets material at a low price and when the borrowing project procures replacement material to send back to the lending project, the price will be higher.We would expect the variance between the original material cost vs. the replacement material cost to remain on the borrowing project and that the lending project gets material transferred back at the original cost.I see that there is a screen that shows Borrow Cost, Payback Cost and a Cost difference, but I don’t know how it works or how to test it out.Does anyone know how to do such a transaction and know whether the cost difference would somehow remain on the borrowing project in a situation like this?Thank you!Doug Slater

Is it possible to estimate when improvements to conditional formatting will be available in the IFS Cloud?The options for conditional formatting in the IFS Cloud are significantly more limited compared to APPS10.The number of available colors is considerably smaller. Only the background, not the text itself, can be formatted. Text styles (bold, italic) cannot be adjusted. The available operators are also significantly restricted. We particularly miss the ability to search for parts of labels (e.g., "~pipe" for "contains pipe"). We are currently unable to replicate all the formatting options used in APPS10.Conditional formatting is a valuable tool for ensuring readability and a quick overview of tables. We hope that the familiar functionality will soon be available in the IFS Cloud as well. Best regardsJakob

Hi All,.Do we have any inbuilt report in IFS which can tell what is the waiting tine between two operations.?(historic)  What I mean is it will provide detail of  SO no  Current operation Status ( When started) and Closed? and what is the next operation starting time so that we can see what is the waiting time between two operations?  or any useful report which can tell the which operations has delayed or which job has currently delayed? etc

I have a buildable manufacturing structure/routing and a buildable disassembly structure/routing for one part number, MW-M-103.The manufacturing structure uses these component parts:The disassembly structure produces these disassembly component parts (each inventory part type is Disassembly Component):I have calculated the standard manufacturing costs for MW-M-103 in Cost Set 2 and copied to Cost Set 1 using the standard template M-110.Each Disassembly Component has cost template D-110, with Use Distribution Cost 'on', attached in all Cost Sets.When I performed the Disassembly Cost Calculation for MW-M-103 in Cost Set 2, no material costs from bucket 110 were distributed to the components, only operation costs. Should these material costs have been distributed to the Disassembly Components?From the documentation:The disassembly cost calculation is performed by Disassembly Cost Calculation. Before calculation of disassembly cost it is important that the cost for the disassembled product

Hi,Has anyone translated IFS Cloud into the Traditional Chinese Language? I know this is technically possible, but I am looking for someone that has actually done it.Thanks!

Dear all,Is there a way in IFS Cloud to assign shop order operations and allocate labour hours to individual employees, rather than assigning them to a labour class?If so, could you advise on the functionality or configuration required to support this?  Thank you and kind regards,Samiru 

Hello Lovely people,I have spotted   unusual issue with IFS.   We have BOM structure as per below.Item A-   Sub con  process ( Item type  purchased)Item A1-Sub con process ( item type purchased)we use item type “purchased” for Sub con process.here itemA1 is child part of itemA.  Now After MRP run I could only see the demand generated for  “Item A “ only..   However “ ItemA1”  does not show any demand?I am not sure if anyother MRP set up needs to be done in order to allow both item to be planned in IFS?I came across below  set up in “ Inventory Part” Screen?  What is the importance of this field ? is it auto populate by IFS or someone need to do manually?  

Hello,I would like to know whether there is a parameter in IFS that allows the configuration of a pattern for automatically generated Part Numbers when creating an Engineering Part.For example, if I enter only "test" in the Part Description field and leave the Part Number blank, IFS generates a Part Number such as 100025.Is it possible to configure this automatic numbering scheme so that generated Part Numbers follow a specific format, for example:MAT-000001 MAT-000002 MAT-000003or any other prefix + sequence pattern?If so, where can this be configured in IFS Cloud?Thank you for your help. 

So we have a situation where we are trying to adjust the On Hand Qty of a part that is sitting in an Arrival type location. Somehow after this part was received and subsequently moved out of the arrival location, a very small quantity than 1 (see 1st screenshot) remained in the Arrival location and now we cannot adjust it out. We have tried doing an inventory issue as well as a count per inventory part but the arrival location does not show up as a location we can do the adjustment for. We have tried backing out that quantity from the PO which was somehow cancelled, but we couldn’t do it. As you can see from the second screenshot, somehow IFS performed a move for 3029.xxxxxx. And I kinda why the On Hand Qty that was left behind is what it is. This part in Inventory Part had the Qty Calc Rounding set at 16. How do we get rid of the 0.0000000000000001 qty.    

Hi all,Building a CTO proof of concept on IFS Cloud 25R1 and hitting an issue I can't pin down.SetupConfigurable part created, Configurable = Yes, linked to a Configuration Family Configuration Family has Configure By Category enabled, with 7 categories and characteristics assigned to each 12 characteristics: a mix of Discrete Option and Variable Value (numeric) 3 Configuration Formulas built and approved to Valid status Part Configuration Revision at revision 1, status Test, all 12 characteristics imported Configuration Structure exists but all rules removed for testing (in case of silent issue) No sales rules currently activeBehaviourLaunching Edit Configuration from an interim order works correctly. All category tabs render. I can enter values across the first three or four tabs but then the later categories have no chars.  They can be added manually but then disappear.  My first issue.  Then If I remove configure by category I can enter all values (Discrete Options accept selection

Hello All,I have observed one thing which is different then other ERP system.We have various shop orders currently are in “ Released” status.. Our process is we review them daily and which ever necessary based on demand we reserve & Print them for shop floor to take act upon.  My query is I have see various shop orders as “ Released” status which does not have demand / no SS generated demand/ So other criteria based demand to have this shop order , why after MRP run system is not asking to “ Cancel” this shop orders like other ERP systems?    I am still learning the IFS so still not sure where can I see such MRP based signales 

Is there an option to set an Engineering Revision not to transfer until the Revision status is Released? There is no other way to check whether Approval completed, all required documents is attached, etc. before the transfer.

Hi,I hope that you are well.Shop order forward load is not visible against the individual Person on the Resource Analysis page, but the forward load is visible for each employee in relation to work tasks.Is there any way within the system which we can plan at individual level to assess the demand (from shop orders) vs their available capacity?Or is there a way in which we can somehow manually populate the "shop order hours" column in the resource analysis screen?      Thank you for looking into this. Kind regards,Samiru

In 26R1, was there a way to adjust the available capacity when a Work Center was unavailable for a number of days?Ideally, we're looking for a way to set the available capacity to 0 for the specific days when the Work Center is not available.