Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Dear IFS community,Sateba  is just starting his IFS project (We are producing Sleeper & Bearer for rail market).I’m looking for a French company which is already using IFS on manufacturing module to get 1 hour feedback on the following module/functionalities : MPS/PDP, MRP/CPN, shop/production order, component consumption methodology, how to deal with shop floor requirment ( Standard screen, custom screen, Wadaco,…)Best RegardsAlexandre PILZ

Hi,we have a question,in Part A, the serial rule is the In Inventory and/or At Receipt and Issue.  Before receiving Part A on shop order, a serial structure is required. question arise here, is it mandatory that all the sub components have to be serialized and/or lot controlled parts?Thank you.Ron

Hi,The very first time I connect to an APPS10 environment with Enterprise Explorer, I have the Login Window in English (picture 1).I have to change the language in the EE options to have it translated in my language (FR) when I connect the 2nd time (picture 2).Is it possible to have the Login Window translated in a specific language the very first time I connect to the environment ?  Thanks,/Hervé

Hello all, We have a shipment we were trying to undo on a consignment order. Normally this is not a problem, but on this particular part, we are getting this message:“UNCODELOV is not valid for lot/batch master. Contact system support.” When I have tested this, it appears to be related to the lot quantity rule being set to many lots per production order in the master part record, but not 100% sure about this. Thanks,Rich 

Hello, I got a problem with unreleased activity.The MRP runs and generates Shop Order Requisitions (SOR) and Purchase Order Requisitions (POR).The problem is that the MRP creates an MRP Planned Demand needs. This needs are related to Shop Order Requisitions in Status “Proposal Created” not accepted by the planning team. Exemple:I got two Finish manufactured products A and B with planning method A (MRP): Product A = (composed by one unit of B and other of C)Porduct D = (composed by one unit of E and other of F)So, the planing steps are:Execut MRP. Check Shop Order Requisitions (SOR) and there is proposals to Release 2 unit of product A and 3 units of product D for the same date. You decide that you will not accept the SOR for product A and ignore it. And Accept SOR of product B. You run MRP again. (Because I know if I change the demand of higher planning levels the  demand of levels below will not automatically change. The proposals are fixed) Then you go to your Purchase Requisition li

We want to become better at follow up on Scrap in shop orders. Is there any good way to see how much a scrap of 2pcs in operation 50 costs (based on cost on previous operations and operation 50, or based on pre calculated cost per pcs and operation)? The end goal:A report for the “High Scrap Cost” operations last 12 months where we can address the big money and focus on the top 50.  Give imidiate feedback to each production group on their lobby that: The cost of scrap this week was XXX Your top 10 scrap this week was XXXX with a “year scrap” of YYYY (a table element) - Operators often have information on why there is scrap and what we can do to improve, we just want to provide them with relevant data at the right time so they start thinking about it.  @Björn Hultgren ? 

Hi, I am using Aurena, after running MRP I have a lot of Purchased parts that Need Orders, I can only enact these proposals one at a time, is there a way to select all and enact all?ThanksPaul  

Hi community,We receipt bar stock in multiple lengths (1m, 3m & 6m) but the inventory quantity will be the sum total, If a 2.5m lengthis required this leads IFS to assume we have sufficient stock but the 2.m consists of multiple short lengthsIs there a way to capture the qty in stock by individual length ? 

Hi,In our company the Sales team uses English and the production team uses Danish.However the production team have now been forced to use English since an annoying error keeps occuring while they close orders in the WorkBench. If they change client language to English the error does not occur. Here is the error:FndPLSQLEnumeration encoding error !The client value ‘Manufacturing’ is not part of the Enumeration ‘ShopOrdCOde’! This error comes when the production uses DK language, and as you can see the PO Type is not translated in to Danish - it says ‘Manufaturing’ - however sometimes during the day it says ‘Produktion’ as if it “jumps “ between translation DK and English - as if not beeing stable.​​​​​​Has anybody else experinced something like that ? When we were running App’s 9  -we did not have the problem.Now at App’s 10 we have the problem :-( 

Hello all, I am reaching out because I do not know where to begin solving this problem. The issue is that a user account is trying to print a Handling Unit Content Label from the Shop Floor Workbench. No print dialog is shown when pressing okay in the last step. The report is not created in the Report Archive either. What is interesting is that from the window Handling Units it is possible to print this report. But, it it still does not create the report in the Report Archive. When I try this with admin access, I get the print dialog, can choose layout, printer etc. and it works as intended.  My conclusion is that it might be permission related. Here is where I need help from the community. Where is permissions for allowing a user to print and create Reports located? Or is some other printing/report related setting missing?

Hi, I’ve been experimenting with 'Manual Pegging of Shop Order Material Line'. I’ve grasped the basic mechanics, which is to search for a part and assign it (by allocating the full qty. ‘available’ to the level above (selecting the relevant order no).   The only discernible change is when I check ‘Inventory Part Availability’ the ‘Pegged’ column is whatever qty. you assigned (both for the supply and demand elements). Are there other benefits besides this? I hope there is, otherwise, you wonder what the point of this somewhat manual practice is.   Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.   Many thanks, Jay

Hello Support Team, is it possible to deliver “Customer owned”  material to back its client. ? we are using IFS9.    Regards, 

We use the Project Transaction, Create Correction Transaction to make project time/dollar corrections in Apps9.  I cannot find anywhere in IFS that shows the date a correction was made.  Everything references the original date of the time transaction.  Is anyone familiar with a field that shows the date a correction was made?  Thank you.

Hi, My customer have a parts that 20% from purchusing & 80% from manufacture . purchusing lead time is 40 days. manufacture lead time is 10 days. While , for IFS ,seems only 1 type lead time can be set: either purchusing lean-time or manufacture lead-time,do we have any workwround for this? esp for MRP Explosion,  if the parent parts demands is 100 pcs on 8/30.for this parts, they want 20 Pur Resq on 7/20   80 Shop Resq  on 8/20can this be accomplish by IFS?   

Hi, Is it possible for this field to pick up the name when information is entered into this field rather than just the customer number?  

The setting for the Site on Shop Orders for the site is set to Auto Close.  When we Create a Shop Order from the CRO line it defaults to Manually Close.  Is there a different setting for CRO?

Does IFS consider material OH costs when calculating the cost of a part in Product Estimate (Estimate Bid Management)? The part uses P-110 purchasing cost template which includes a cost element of 10% estimated material cost as the OH.

I want to know the date when an operation is actually finished, not planned to be finished.What I find to be most accurate was the latest entry of the Date applied below.Created a custom field on Shop_order_operations_CFV that works but it is too slow. select Date_applied from OPER_AND_IND_HIST_UIV HIST, SHOP_ORDER_OPERATION_JOIN SOOJwhere HIST.Order_no=SOOJ.ORDER_NO--'13870'and HIST.Operation_no=SOOJ.operation_no--'20'And HIST.Release_no=SOOJ.release_no--'*'And HIST.Sequence_no =SOOJ.Release_no--'*'And SOOJ.objkey=:objkeyOrder by Date_applied descFetch First 1 rows only Works, but it is to slow to be used in many applications. Is there any available function or field I do not know about? @Björn Hultgren, you seem to know your way around these areas?

Is there a way to limit a particular user’s access to only nominated project/s in IFS? I know there is Project Access setting on Projects - but from my understanding, this works in reverse - i.e. it is more related to limiting specific projects to a defined group of users. We don’t currently use Project Access - i.e. all projects are accessible  by any user that has Project Management permission set. It appears switching it on would involve a lot of maintenance, as we’d have to list all users as having access to all projects, whereas we just want to exclude one user from having access to all but specified project/s? IAny thoughts?

Hi,We have a problem when doing ECR object connection. please refer to the attached screen shot, which I captured in a demo environment. you can see full list of object category available there. but in our PROD, I can only see one object category which is ‘Engineering Part Revision’.Our PROD is upgraded from APP8 years ago.Does any one has a clue, this is due to settings or permission issue? Thank you.Ron

Hi Using App’s 10 I am trying to auto receive inventory parts into a predefined line side location ready for assembly once the operator has closed and approved the last operation. I have been told the best way to achieve this is by using work centre inbound and out bond location.can anyone explain how i should use the work centre in and outbound location for the below example?ExampleI have 3 sub assemblies which make up one finished part, all sub assemblies are built in a different work centre but need to go the same line side location so they are available to be used in the top level final assembly. Once the final assembly has been processed in WC4 the finished part is moved to dispatch for delivery.  does the OUTBOUND location on WC1, WC2 and WC3 need to be the same as the INBOUND location of WC4 Will the system try to locate all part which have a last operation in either WC1,WC2 or WC3 to WC4 or can you select individual parts only to be located in WC4. Do you need to change any of

Hello, does anyone know if you can create a document revision on a batch record and have it ‘follow’ that batch. For example, if i was to attach a certificate to a certain part in the Inventory Part In stock screen I would like to be able to view that certificate from the Material Transaction History on the Shop order.

Hi, There are many things that could be valuable from an analysis perspective if we in a simple way could combine data from one operation with the previous operation and find the prevoius one even if there are parallell operations(then we should find the one that has to be done before).Has anyone a suggestion for that?One application that we are looking at:Adjusted OTD (instead of planned and actual start/finished, look at previous operations actual finish date + transport+setup). You cannot be on time if the previous operation is late, but you can still do your part at promised lead time.

I created a custom page and lobby elements on a column CF$_DOC_RESP_PERS and the count of those values in the element as a list. So the lobby page shows the resposible person and their count as a list If i click on the person it should take me to the custom page where other details about that person are available. In the lobby element i have given as per the IFS documentation  page/Csrmaster/csrmasterpage?$filter=cf$_doc_resp_pers  eq $[cf$_doc_resp_pers]But the filtering is not working. The columns are custom fields. Please guide me Thanks  

I am wondering where could I see in IFS how much '$' each Coordinator are allow to authorize per Purchase Order?