Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

This will include the questions related to Manufacturing, Projects, Engineering, and Warehousing (WaDaCo).

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Do Gooder (Customer)
Kay2013Do Gooder (Customer)
asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

CRO Negative Total Cost for Labor

Does anyone know what causes the “Total Cost” value on the CRO cost lines to be a negative value?We’ve seen this happen with CROs where the repair shop order is processed, material and labor are applied and when the cost lines are generated the LABOR cost category is a negative value even though the shop order cost is positive.Thank you

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K
Do Gooder (Customer)
1 hour ago
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Sidekick (Customer)
zwallSidekick (Customer)
asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Labor Load Details

I am unable to get Labor Load Details to populate after running CRP. I have Man Labor Hours connected to Shop Order Operations. I also have Labor Classes (all set for groups). We do not house employee information in IFS. I have Crew Size, Labor Classes, etc. entered on routings. As a reference, we are in the process of adding a Scheduling Visualizer Tool (i.e. Manufacturing Visualizer) but I am trying to do all of my prechecks to make sure it is pulling all the correct information. Any insight is helpful!Thanks!

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Björn Hultgren
Hero (Employee)
2 hours ago
matt.watters
Superhero (Partner)
matt.wattersSuperhero (Partner)
asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Visual Shop Orders Planning and Remaining Quantity for Group By Options

23.1.4In Visual Shop Orders Planning, the Material Material Availability Summary chart shows (4) orders with a shortage, and the same part is short on these four orders.My Material Lines Availability chart is filtered from the Material Availability Summary chart.When grouping by Material Line, I can see each instance of this part on its four shop orders. The Remaining Quantity on these orders are 30, 30, 20, and 20 for a total of 100. When grouping by Part, though, the Remaining Quantity shows as 30 not 100. Why is this not showing 100 as the Remaining Quantity for this part on this date? 

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matt.watters
Superhero (Partner)
3 hours ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
gjeffersonDo Gooder (Customer)
asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Handling Unit Traceability

Where is handling unit traceability in IFS10? If a handling unit is created from another handling unit, where is that from- to- handling unit information stored?  I ask because I’m familiar with that kind of functionality in SAP.

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Do Gooder (Customer)
4 hours ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
iwnicgDo Gooder (Customer)
posted in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Shop Floor Workbench usability issues causes efficiency problems due to large volume of orders

While testing the Shop Order Floor Workbench in IFS Cloud we have come across Cloud issues we see challenging in the way of navigating using the Shop Floor Workbench.Having to go outside Shop Floor Workbench to another window is a major effort given that the window resets every time. Since the filters are forgotten (when navigating to another screen and then go back) and there is no link between where you went from and where you are going to. You always must remember a lot of information, to be able to perform the next step.This limitation has a major business impact and to avoid this, we want to explore the possibility of following:The specific Shop Order in a popup. Illustration below.Access to the Shop Order in Shop Floor Workbench is used when:• We change the need date for planning purposes• Make changes to the BOM (Bill of Material) to keep traceability in IFS while adapting to real world production conditions• Change alternates• Make changes to the number of units needed on the S

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Björn Hultgren
Hero (Employee)
10 hours ago
Vernon Anderson
Sidekick (Employee)
Vernon AndersonSidekick (Employee)
asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Adjusting Shop Orders for Learning Curve times

 I am working with in aerospace company who is at the moment, very early in the production of their product. As such, they have a heavy learning curve and thus an item may take significantly longer than anticipated. The customer says that there are standards for the learning curve that can be applied per the iteration of the unit being produced. For example, unit 1 may take a learning curve of 3.9 times the operation machine/labor time. Unit 50 may be a learning curve of 1.1 times.Logically, we would affect the operation efficiency on the shop order to reflect the learning curve. However, we do not have the capability of "automatically" adjusting the operation efficiencies as the learning curve has improved.Has anyone ever encountered this and if so, what did you do to accommodate that? Thanks.

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Björn Hultgren
Hero (Employee)
10 hours ago
J
Do Gooder (Customer)
jenmartinDo Gooder (Customer)
asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

MSO Functionality / Resource Breaks / Work Center Capacity

Hi.  We are currently running IFS Cloud 23R1 in the Gov Cloud. My understanding based on release notes is that Constraint Based Scheduling (CBS) / Advanced Planning Board (APB) functionality will eventually be deprecated, to be replaced with Manufacturing Scheduling and Optimization (MSO) functionality.   We recently upgraded to 23R1, but the MSO functionality is not available, presumably because it is licensed separately.  We have security configured to secure ITAR data at the site level, so we have set up a regular non-ITAR site and an ITAR site for such locations.  These locations have work centers that are used for both ITAR and non-ITAR work, so separate work centers are set up in each site for the same physical work centers.  This results in a lot of manual work to maintain the schedules and capacity, so we are looking into a possible customization to have work center capacity / scheduling automatically updated for these work centers - so that when a shop order operation is creat

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J
Do Gooder (Customer)
19 hours ago
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Sidekick (Customer)
hmccabeSidekick (Customer)
asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Shop Order Message Not Enough Reservations ...

We always manually issue materials on shop orders without reserving them first. We currently have a shop order for which we were able to manually issue the materials. But now when we try to Approve the Operation in the shop floor workbench, we get the error message “There are not enough reservations to issue this amount. Part ##### needs to be Reserved before issue. What is the cause of and or resolution to this error message?  thank you

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matt.watters
Superhero (Partner)
21 hours ago
K
Do Gooder (Customer)
KrisBrmmlDo Gooder (Customer)
asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

How update Component Summarized Where Used info

I am seeing there is a Component Summarized Where Used table in IFS and I am wondering how this information gets updated?  We have a part that if you look up on the “Component Where Used” screen does in fact show parent parts.  I read on the help page that in order to show here it must have a part cost.  The part was added after our go-live, and it was originally missing a cost, but I have it valued now.  However, it is still not showing up on the “Component Summarized Where Used” screen.  Is there a job that has to run to update this information?

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K
Do Gooder (Customer)
1 day ago
anbouk
Superhero (Employee)
anboukSuperhero (Employee)
posted in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Manufacturing Overview Video

All,We have recently created a video covering the scope of our Manufacturing solution so wanted to share it with the community.Most of you will be using it on a day to day basis, but if you have people in your company that don’t know what IFS is or how it can be used then it could be useful as an introduction for them.Anyway, let me know you comments on it and if it is useful!Thanks,AntonyIFS Cloud for Manufacturing

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anbouk
Superhero (Employee)
1 day ago
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Sidekick (Customer)
DsquaredSidekick (Customer)
asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Shop order component need date

Hello - We are on apps10 update 21.  I have a question from my production control team.What field on what screen could we use to have purchase reqs or shop order reqs created with a need date 7 days prior to the need date on the shop order calling for the parts?They are looking to put in some safety or buffer days on the shop order level.Thanks

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Sidekick (Customer)
1 day ago
E
Do Gooder (Customer)
Esteban123Do Gooder (Customer)
asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Repeated creation of Part Revisions during transfer

We are currently working through an implementation of IFS Cloud and are running in to an issue when transferring new manufactured parts during our practice sessions.Our current process includes the creation of new manufactured parts that may use some standardized manufactured components. We have released/transferred the revisions for these standardized parts.Our issue arises when we use one of these standard parts in a new top part structure, new revisions of the previously released components are being created every time we release/transfer a new top part. We are currently selecting “Single Level Transfer” when performing the Engineering Revision Transfer Action, is this an unintended consequence?

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matt.watters
Superhero (Partner)
2 days ago
R
Do Gooder (Customer)
RSLEIGHTDo Gooder (Customer)
asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Custom Field isn't showing values

I’m making a custom view to pull the labor class from Routings to show in Customer Order Lines, it functions by checking the first number of the labor class and giving it a 10, 40, 50, or using the site number from COL otherwise based on the result. The issue is if there is no corresponding entry in Routings then it would default to the site instead, it will just show up as null. Is there a way to force IFS to use the source field? Here is the main code I have in the SELECT custom field.SELECT CASE WHEN SUBSTR(labor_class_no,1,1) = '1' THEN '10' WHEN SUBSTR(labor_class_no,1,1) = '4' THEN '40' WHEN SUBSTR(labor_class_no,1,1) = '5' THEN '50' WHEN :catalog_type = 'Non inventory part' THEN :contract ELSE :contract END FROM ifsapp.routing_operation where part_no = :part_no and contract = :contract and routing_revision = (select MAX(routing_revision) from ifsapp.customer_order_join left outer join ifsapp.routing_operation where part_no = :part_no and contract = :contract and alternative_no =

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Do Gooder (Customer)
2 days ago
S
Do Gooder (Partner)
SandyDo Gooder (Partner)
asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Modify Posting cost group does not apply for previous transactions

I have introduced new overhead cost and my posting controls are run on ‘Posting cost groups’. As the purchase arrival transaction went on to Erroneous status I have ‘modified’ posting cost group and rerun Erroneous distribution and manufacturing postings.I noticed that  inventory transaction does not pick the posting cost group even after run erroneous postings. My posting controls are dated back. New purchase receipts done after update of the modify posting cost groups works fine. Can somebody advise on how to fix the transaction happened before modifying the posting cost group?Thank you

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Do Gooder (Partner)
2 days ago
R
Do Gooder (Customer)
Robert RossDo Gooder (Customer)
asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Inventory Parts List of Values

Hello I have recently started a new data analyst role, we have been tasked with reviewing all the master data we have in our system looking for errors, missing data, etc. One of our new tasks is to identify all of the List of Value Fields in the Inventory Parts, Sales Parts, Purchase Parts, Engineering Parts and Master Parts screens.We are currently going through this one screen and all the associated tabs at a time listing out all the LOV’s manually.We are using IFSAPP10I came across the Target Table Definitions screen while looks through the IFS community help screens but it says this is for IFS Cloud, is an IFS10 version f the screen shot below as this would provide us with a lot of great information.    Any help would be appreciated

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Do Gooder (Customer)
2 days ago
A
Do Gooder (Partner)
ADDMIWADo Gooder (Partner)
asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Extended Analyse for parts not delivered/produced for long time

Is there anyone that have runned into a situation where the demand is to have an extended control plan if it has been very long since latest delivery/latest shop order?When frequent deliveries /frequent shop orders  ordinary control plans is ok to be used, but when there is a gap between occations there is a need for a extended analyse.I have not found any obvious way of solving this. Is there anybody that have an idea how to solve this demand?

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Do Gooder (Partner)
3 days ago
Armaghan
Sidekick
ArmaghanSidekick
asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Timeout Lobby Element

Hi,In IFS app09 it was possible to change the Timing Out Lobby Element.I just want to know how is it possible to change this setting in IFS app10?

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Link
Superhero (Customer)
3 days ago
W
Do Gooder (Partner)
Willy MandiauDo Gooder (Partner)
asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Shop Floor Workbench identification with NFC badges

Our customer wants Employee ID's not selectable and visible during identification in the IFSCloud SFWBench. Abuse must be prevented and one wants to be sure that all time clockings are done by the employee who owns the badge. For this reason, the aim is to identify the employees by means of NFC badges.  Does anyone have experience with such a link or guidelines to set up an interface with NFC tags?  Any help or advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Willy

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Do Gooder (Customer)
4 days ago
H
Do Gooder (Customer)
HildebrantDo Gooder (Customer)
posted in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Customer owned stock used in production

Hi,we have quite recently implemented IFS Cloud and have this issue. Customers deliver to us certain components for production of their devices free of charge. We need to register them and move around the company (stock, shop floor...). We planned to book them in as customer owned stock but it seems this option is totally not suitable for it. We don't see that stock as available and can't reserve and use it in production. Also purchasing is damaged, MRP doesn't calculate with this quantity. What is the purpose of this functionality? It is useless. We have to book it with 0.01 Eur value as owned by company which is not true. Wouldn't it be more correct if we can do all operations with it?Thanks 

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PRODQ
Hero (Customer)
6 days ago
J
Do Gooder
JoherMDo Gooder
asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Definition of 'Project MRP' (pMRP)

Hi, The business I'm employed by is considering the purchase of Project MRP (or pMRP) to compliment our existing packages (IFS Apps 10 and APB).   However, it's not entirely clear what additional features pMRP provides (and the problems this tackles that the 'stock' planning tools can't).   Can you please outline its key contributions to production planning or at least some information with respect to it. I can't find any detailed resources online for reference.   Many thanks, Jay    

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Do Gooder (Customer)
7 days ago
Sivanandan
Sidekick (Employee)
SivanandanSidekick (Employee)
asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Inventory parts of negative quantities cannot be included in Count Report

Why the Inventory parts of negative quantities cannot be included in Count Report Have recreated 3 scenario in 23R2 Regional test LKP . Site: WFMscenario 1 Inventory part with 0 qty,  scenario 2 Inventory part with 10 qty ,scenario 1another one with -80 qty. Count report is created for the SIV-M0003-1 = 0 Qty and SIV-M0001-1 = 10 qty.  But For SIV-M0002-1= -80qty count report not created.   In additional I found, in the Background job with warning  Its shows Error Key value  Why we have in the Error information it show Error Key Value.  Can anyone can explain me why the inventory part negative quantity in stock not able to create count report.

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Sivanandan
Sidekick (Employee)
7 days ago
Sivanandan
Sidekick (Employee)
SivanandanSidekick (Employee)
asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

How the shop order can be closed, When there is enough quantity in stock.

How the shop order can be closed, when there is enough purchase part in quantity in stock. Shop order is reserve partially. Recreated in 23R2 Regional test LKP.Manufacture part: SIV-M0002Purchase part: SIV-M0002-1, Note Purchased, Negative On Hand Allowed: On Shop orders no 204774Receive inventory part  in stock SIV-M0002-1 . only 20pcs*Created shop order with lot size 100  > Release the shop order > Manually reserve the inventory part*Now the shop order in partially Reserved.( because we have only 20 pcs)*Just directly issue- When I issue shop order status is completely Reserved.  *Next step I Receive the item. Now the shop order is closed. Shop order closed due to the option Negative on Hand Allowed: On  , in the purchase part. Why no Warning message is pop when receive the material. 

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Sivanandan
Sidekick (Employee)
7 days ago
matt.watters
Superhero (Partner)
matt.wattersSuperhero (Partner)
asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Downtime Cause not entered for Clocking

As of 22R2, a Downtime clocking can be started without providing a Downtime Cause.At what point in the production clocking/reporting process is it required to have a value in the Downtime Cause field, e.g., a value must be entered before ‘X’ occurs or before ‘X’ can happen. What is ‘X’?This field cannot remain blank forever, or can it?

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Björn Hultgren
Hero (Employee)
7 days ago
R
Hero (Customer)
ronhuHero (Customer)
asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Master Production Schedule Proposal Problem

Community, Does anyone happen to know why system push the proposal on May.27 to May.28 for Qty 20? it was PTF 21days, I changed to PTF to 22, i am expecting Fixed MPS created on date May.27. Thank you. 

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Hero (Customer)
7 days ago
F
Do Gooder (Customer)
Frank HDo Gooder (Customer)
asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Cloud Functional Object

We are trying to make our Functional Object ID (aka mch_code) be an auto incremented field.  Does anyone know how to do this or if it is at all possible?  Maybe with control - datasource or something in Page Designer?  I am not having much luck looking for help or examples in existing posts.

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Marcel.Ausan
Superhero (Partner)
8 days ago

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