Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

I have a manufactured part I only want to build when I have actual demand, not to forecast. I would use a planning method of next level demand, however, there are very long lead times for the purchased raw material to build the component and I would like the Finished Good forecast to drive requirements for the purchased material. Consider this example…Finished Good – BikeManufactured Component – WheelPurchased – Tire I want to purchase enough tires to support the Finished good demand. However, I don’t want to assemble the wheels unless there is actual demand for the bike. Reason being there is a very long lead time on tires and a very high cost of assembling wheels.Is it possible to not have MRP generate requisitions for the component or finished good, but still generate purchase reqs for raw materials? Is it possible to accomplish this, and still have the make parts included in CRP?

Listed here is what I can tell is the list I have available to myself to search for approvals.  I don’t see where I can search approvals on projects or requisitions.  Anyone know if this is an option?

Can anyone explain why there is missing numbers the inventory barcode sequence? What happened to 39501 ?

Hi all,Our current Manufacturing Lead Times (as found in ‘Inv. Part’ - ‘Acquisition’) are not accurate.This is because the calculation used by IFS totals all the values we’ve specified, including the queue times (entered manually) for each work center in the routing of a part. This formula doesn’t seem correct. Case:Consider part, P, which has an MLT of 100 days.P could have 3 operations, at 3 different work centers, with 3 different queue times.WC1 - (queue time against the calendar in working days) = 10 WC2 = 20WC3 = 70 In isolation, the values for each work center are true. For example, if anther part, P2, has only WC3 in its routing, it may need to wait 70 days based on the loading of the resources to begin work.  However, the original part, P, routed through WC1- 3 doesn’t have a lead-time of 100 days. Since the 70 working days of queue ti

Is there a way to search by Report Distribution Groups, and individual?

Hi,Is there a way to Filter out work centers from APB Master data. When there is a long list of work centers that are no longer use or RRP work centers which will not used in APB planning, would be nice to  remove from the Master data. 

For example:If you have the same part in two companies/sites. In the Aurena client, first set the search criteria to one site. Then run the search for the part number.Both the parts from the two companies/sites are fetched for the query results regardless of the previously set site search criteria.In IEE client this filtration is available and only the part corresponding to the filtration criteria which was set initially will be displayed.

Hi all,Another one thats driving me up the wall.Apps10Requirement is to insert sysdate + 14 into target completion date when a user creates an NCR.First stop was writing a custom event to populate the field.I’ve made so many code alterations i cant even remember if this is the correct one now so use it as an example.DECLAREpragma autonomous_transaction; INFO_ VARCHAR2(200) := NULL; OBJID_ VARCHAR2(200) := NULL; OBJVERSION_ VARCHAR2(200) := NULL; ATTR_ VARCHAR2(200) := NULL; ACTION_ VARCHAR2(200) := 'DO'; DATE_ VARCHAR2(200) ;CURSOR GET_DATE_ IS select to_char((sysdate + 14),'DD/MM/YYYY')from dual;BEGIN OPEN GET_DATE_; FETCH GET_DATE_ INTO DATE_; CLOSE GET_DATE_; Client_SYS.Clear_Attr(attr_); Client_SYS.Add_To_Attr('TARGET_COMPLETION_DATE',DATE_, attr_);

In App10 Quality Management/Quality Control/Basic Data/Quality Basic Data  - Part window the part lines cannot be deleted as shown below.  However, this functionality is available in App9. Refer below screen capture. Any reason for this change in App10 when compared to App9? 

When i create a fault report system always generate work task with customer order type ‘SEO’.Is it possible to change this default value?Vasco

I would to know if the operation status of maintenance object can affect the manufacturing work center status or availability?Or the other way arround when i report the work center has downtime because a problem. is it possible to automatically generation out of operation in maintenance object?Vasco Silva

I was trying to create MRP (Perform Site MRP) and this is the error text mentioned in the background job.Environment: APP10 Regional TEST CMB  I tried the same in APP10 TECH CMB as well. But received the same error twice.Does this happen because of an issue with the Customer Order? Any thoughts/suggestions on how to resolve this/ complete MRP would be highly appreciated. (There is a similar question for “Perform Project MRP” which is posted 11 months ago but with no answer.)

Is it possible to move an inventory part to a Quality Assurance location if the part was not received on a PO?  Manufacturing would like to move non-conforming parts to a non-conformance location until final disposition is determined.

Hi i am currently using IFS APP10 and have never used the Production Line Management window before.The company I work for are a build to order manufacture and we do a lot of repeat order work and have a core product that is manufactured every day.would a product such as our core product benefit from being set up as a production line in IFS?could anyone provide a brief explanation as to what exactly the Production Line Management window can do and when to use it?  regardsJamie

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 igno

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

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