Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Hi community. In IFS Cloud you can use shop order process types for manufactoring inventory parts for create the shop order, release the shop order and reserve the material from the shop order automatically.Now I wanna create the shop order report and print it automatically. There is no standard function in IFS Cloud 25R2. Right? I think I could use a custom event with an action with workflow. I have never worked with workflows in IFS Cloud. I have tried to design it with 2 IFS API tasks. But I have no idea, how to set the parameters. Maybe there is an easier way. I hope someone can help me ^^ 

Hi Everyone, We have been told via BSI audit that we need to capture manufacturing tooling used (serialised and that it’s calibrated) per part used. We have tested configuratons in IFS and reporting tooling- but we’ve hit a couple of snags.Firstly- we can report an operation fully without reporting a tool used even though it assigned to an operation. Does anyone know of a way to make this mandatory? Secondly- It will allow us to use non-calibrated tools. It does give us a warning but we’d like for it stop the operator reporting using it. Is that possible? Any advice/ideas will be greatly appreciated! ThanksAlex

We have started testing MSO and many questions are coming up. One of the questions is whether MSO supports the scheduling of parallel operations. From the initial results, it seems that it does not. Is there a parameter that needs to be set somewhere to enable this? The testing was done in the 25R1 environment. 

In Cloud there is this new Co-Product functionality allowing you to receive different PART_NO from a shop order.Let say we have a Shop Order for a Left PART_NO and we have setup the Right PART_NO as a Co-Product.When generating the handling units (HU), only HU of the parent part are generated.Could  the HU for the Left PART_NO (parent part) and Right PART_NO (Co-Product) be generated at the same time?We are printing the Shop Order HU labels in advance and we need both of them to be printed at the same time.Thanks,David

Good Morning everyone, we use IFS Cloud and thinking about, to optimize our processes with the Transport Task handling.Is it possible to set on a Location an automatically Transport task for goods, which has to be deliver back on stock?Idea is, if we deliver Raw Material for the production and they have finished the order, the balance has to be go back in stock. We have separate Location Names for this goods. Plan is to create a TT from Location 1 to Stock automatically, based on the Handling Units. Hope someone can help me!BRThorsten

Hi All, I have this scenario what I cannot figure how to set-up and support, either in core or with a CRIM.. The customer has products, planned according MTO and use DOP in IFS for 6 levels. The Top Product has a leadtime of 5 days and multiple operations.The componets are connected to operations, planned demand spread over the 5 days routing. All sub-assemblies and purchase parts are backward planned according to start date of each DOP Order Operation/Shop Order Operation. Now to the issue.I want all sub-assemblies to be planned the week before start date of the Top Shop Orders. Equal “gap” between 1st level sub-assemblies to 2nd level sub-assemblies and so on. I have multiple operations but one work center per level which means that I cannot use Queue time as the add queue time for all operations. I cannot use off-set time as the compnents are and must be connected to operations.I

In Shop Order Cost, Actual Cost tab, we have “Total Accumulated Cost.”In Shop Orders Costs, there are “WIP at Aggregation Date”, and “Actual Accumulated Costs Total” fields.All of these fields have different values on some shop orders.What are the differences between each?Which field is best to use to determine the current actual accumulated cost of a shop order?Thanks,Eric

This post is relevant for manufacturing customers using operational reports. It is a heads-up that we are planning to deprecate below listed operational reports. BackgroundAlthough the transition to paperless manufacturing is still in progress, the demand for printed documentation or reports shared as PDFs has noticeably decreased. We have several reports that we believe are either not used or have numerous alternative options available in IFS Cloud for sharing such information. Maintaining these reports still consumes time that could be better spent developing new functionality. Therefore, we plan to deprecate these reportsReports planned to be deprecatedKanban Audit Report Kanban Supplier Receipt History Report Capability Graph Data Qman Sample Value SPC Graph Sample Data for Variables Analysis Result History Recipe Print Out Routing Report

We have an internal process that dictates that customer orders received after a certain time cannot be processed and shipped until the next day. Is there a way to configure this is IFS? In specific, we want to see that the planned ship date lands on the following workday. So for example, any customer orders that land on Friday after the cutoff time will not be processed or shipped until Monday.

One of our IFS Cloud 25R1 customers has a somewhat unusual requirement. They would like to use the Shop Floor Workbench (or any other suitable functionality) solely to track the progress of Shop Order Operations — for example: Whether an operation has started If it has been interrupted Actual production start and end times Whether the operation is currently ongoing Similar status-related information typically tracked via the workbench However, they do not want to report quantities or scrap through the Shop Floor Workbench.In addition, they do not want the machine and labor times recorded through Shop Floor Clocking to be transferred to the actual cost of the Shop Order (they are using the weighted average valuation method). Instead, they prefer to report operation quantities and times directly through the Shop Order and want only those manu

We get a lot orders where customers do not indicated exactly when they want the product delivered because only really indicate they want the product shipped using the cheapest shipment code (i.e. Ground), so they just simply submit the order and the order is entered into IFS. These orders are either entered manually or done electronically. The issue is that we cannot have customer service reps go through every single order to determine what the Wanted Delivery should be for these orders, so IFS calculates the Wanted Delivery Date the same date as the Created Date. We don’t will call or do same day delivery, so the Wanted Delivery Date should never be the same as the Created Date.We have created pick and external transport leadtimes for all customer ship-to’s in the Customer Supply Chain Matrix. However, these only work if the Wanted Delivery is not the same same date as the Created Date. Some customers do indicate future Wanted Delivery Dates in which case the leadtimes in th

Hello,I want to start using a scrap factor for some purchase components. I’ve been testing  the two options.1)Inventory part, planning data , scrap factor field. This looks like it only applies the scrap factor to purchase requirements and PO’s qty. No demand is created, nor does it change the qty available in stock.  2)Change the product structure to include the scrap factor. Adding the scrap factor to the BOM looks like it will create additional demand, reduce the available inventory qty and require purchase action to satisfy the assembly + scrap factor.I don’t see any advantage to using #1 since it will not recalculate the current inventory available qty or shop order demands. I see the only change that will take place is on the purchase order level if a purchase order does exist. Is anyone using the scrap factor in the Inventory part screen with good results?  

Import External Product Structure in IFS CLOUD it’s the best solution?IFS Cloud Documentation Prepare the file for import: The file should be in Excel format and contain the items you want to import. Ensure that the file is ready for import by removing any headers and saving it as a CSV file with semicolon as the delimiter.File without headersConfigure the external layout: Be sure to configure the external layout correctly by paying attention to the conversion of the file to CSV or TXT format.Open Import External Product Structu

Hi community, I’m looking for a way to synchroize a subcontract from Company A, sent to a sister Company B with the sales contact B; something working like MHS between purchase order and customer order. When company B submit the AFP, it should generate automatically the Received Application in subcontract of company A.When Company A make the certification it should be automatticaly received on Company B.Etc... Any kind of information will be appraciate. Thank in advance. BR, Jean-Christophe 

Hi,I tried to build a link to another window within a column in a Quick Report, so that after running the report, the link would be clickable (highlighted) in the browser. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to achieve this, as it seems that the data in Quick Reports is always displayed as plain text.Has anyone managed to get this working?For example, imagine we have a report with customer orders, and the last column contains a constructed link. When clicked, it should take the user directly to the order with the corresponding number.  

Hi,Lets assume we are using MSO in automatic.We have shop orders outside of the planning horizon in the future.The planning is rolling and reaches the next day.The corresponding shop order are now within the planning horizon.Will the automatic MSO run consider them and plan them as soon we reach the next day?what happens in automatic mode?Kind regards 

Planning Method E+F uses Order Overhead in the MRP calculation. Can someone explain in detail how the Order Overhead is calculated? Is it related to Cost Buckets/Elements. It seems that the Ordering Costs in Inventory Part are also will be considered for manufactured Parts. 

Is it possible to define the start number of a serial no and have the number system in a specified format?  i.e.  SN123456-01 without  Setup:IFS Cloud 25R2IFS Managed Service

Hello,I am creating a few new parts that I get from another site, for some reason, the new parts that I am creating are not getting a Purchasing Req when I run MRP. I get an error saying that it needs a DO coordinator. I can get the DO if I add the coordination, but I want it to be PO/CO instead. Not sure what I am missing here. Thank you!

I have an alternate component set up and the product structure has the Alternate Exist checkbox checked on the component line.  There is no inventory of the original part and there is inventory of the alternate component part.  But when I try to process a shop order the Alternate Exist checkbox is not checked on the shop order and when I right mouse on the line and choose Alternate component/replace, I get an error that No alternate component is defined or component qty required is zero, but that is not true, what am I missing? 

Hello, is there a way to store dimensions of a part in IFS i.e the length and width of a part?

Is there a particular way to address the alphanumeric fields while sorting?I feel restricted in effectively sorting my data currently. In the attached screenshot, the alphanumeric fields make it impossible to sort the values in an ascending order.Is my only option then is to use some other header column ? 

We are migrating one of our sites from Bravad to IFS and the following query has come up from the team working in Sales. We are migrating to IFS10 UPD26.  When a customer asks us to come back to them with a price of a new product structure, we can in our current system easily copy a similar structure, do any necessary changes to it and get a quick overview of below details. We can copy an equivalent hose (i.e., we find a component or hose type that is part of a structure we can quickly copy).In the structure registration, we get a quick overview of:• TG1• TG2• Setup cost• Physical balance (no consideration of reserved balance)• Latest date for cost priceWe are now moving to IFS and need a way to get all this information out quickly. This is something that we are doing up to 10 times a day and would prefer not to create new parts and build new structures everytime we need to do this. Is this something that

Hi, In some IFS screens (Ex : Shop order Material Tab), it’s impossible to apply a filter by [Part description]. Only [Part code] is available. But sometimes (ex : Shop Orders vue), we can apply a filter by [Part description]. So users have to swith between différent screens in IFS. Thanks