Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Hi, I have just joined a manufacturing/defence company that has chosen IFS apps 10 as their erp of choice. I have supported users in the past but never been part of an implementation. They are asking me to put together a list of information we need to gather from the users that will help the implementation and config. Does anyone have any pointers/document?The only info I have is that IFS has listed these modules as within the scope: Distribution, Engineering, Finance, Project, Human Resources, Health & Safety, Maintenance, Program Management, Production (work orders etc.)

To simplify for Manufacturing operators using Shop Floor Work Bench, we are trying to set a default Work Center when the manufacturing user logs on and is taken to his homepage (Work Bench). We have tried setting a filter then saving the user profile but it did not work. Can this be done? Thanks

We have IFS installed in one Site and will start the rollout into other entities soon.On the one hand, we are hesitating to grant access to all employees to all data, new and old sites, but on the other hand is might be useful to have read only access on other sites.Desadvantage of having access to other sites data: may lead to confusion, more results out of a search, but not all within the own site.Advantage: being able to copy data, which might be useful.Another idea would be to add a globally used company and site for masterdata and knowledge exchange.What approach have other IFS 10 customers for this challenge?Thank you for sharing your solution with me.Regards Martina 

We are on Apps 8 and we assemble products that are configured to order.  We never fully setup our Advanced Planning Board.  Is there anyone using this for configured items?  Looking for a consultant that could help with this.

Dears, when opening the advanced planning board, all shop orders appear in an assigned status and are not visible in the Gannt chart. The problem is not with all users. It appeared when installing a new environment. Anyone knows which settings need to be changed? Thanks!IFS10

Hello, I am working on a process to salvage a component part from an Inventory Part. Essentially, we manufacture a top level part 12345. At times, the part may fail inspection. We are able to push out the internal components and salvage the exterior part: 54321. The components themselves would be scrapped (PN: 98765).I am not sure if I could use the Repair Shop Order function to handle this process. The help section does not go into specific detail about how to setup the Routing and Product Structure for this process. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Is it possible to make the Non Conformance Code Flied, or any other field on the Creeate NCR Assistant mandatory? 

Hi,Is it somehow possible to connect a DOP order to a project after the DOP order has been released?Thanks in advance!/Kerstin 

Hello everybody,hope you can help me on this, we are moving from IFS8 into IFS10 and have been discussing the possibilities in IFS10 of condition controlling of Non-serialized parts …..does any of you return non-serialized parts for overhaul in IFS 10 ???THX in advanceBRG Kristian M

Hello,We have a need to disassemble finished goods and put the components back into inventory. The component may be serial and/or lot tracked. We would also like to track labor to disassemble product if possible. Below is a list of things we have tried so far but are currently stuck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.Disassembly Shop Order Multiple IFS consultants have told us this transaction is tied to the Repair module and isn’t meant to un-manufacture Inventory Parts. Manually count components back into inventory Cannot track labor to disassemble Throws off cycle count accuracy Creates inventory from nothing Individually counting in 50+ parts with serials/lots is very time consuming and has high potential for user error. Reverse Shop Order (Reopen, Unreceive, Unissue, etc.) Cannot track labor to disassemble May have to disassemble across financial periods (months, quarters, year) and Finance does not want us to do this. Creates variance on Shop Order Repair Shop Order w

Has anyone done any customizations or modifications with respect to Acceptance Sampling set-up for Control Plans?  Specifically, I am looking to see if anyone has used the ANSI version of Acceptance Sampling versus the ISO 2859 standards used in IFS.  Also the ISO 2859 standards only apply to Data Points of type “Attribute”.  I have a scenario where we would like to use the ISO Standard to calculate the sample size, but would like to use that on a Variable data point.  Currently this is not possible, has anyone found a work-around or done a modification to enable this?  Thanks! 

Hello All,We recently had a bunch of turnover in our Accounting department and with that a good portion of IFS knowledge went out the door :(  Anyway, all our parts have the following set-up on the inventory part record:   What we are trying to understand is how does the Unit Cost on the Inventory Value tab on the Inventory record gets updated?  We have lots of parts (both purchased and manufactured) that have estimated material costs as well as  (latest purchase price or average purchase-if purchased) whereby the Unit cost = 0.00.  Example:  Is there IFS jobs or processes that need to be executed to have this value updated?  Basically, how does the inventory values get maintained in the system?  Thanks, Mark

Hi guys,  How does a user run Advanced Planning Board (APB) to schedule a single project? I have released demand for a single end-item, under a specific project ID/code. I then accepted all the requisitions (shop order) for the parts under that structure (as found in Product Structure - Multi-Level...). I then inserted the project ID ‘TOL000058’ in the relevant box in APB (first tab ‘Load Options’) But when I count hits the result is no orders found under this criteria. Despite 60 shop orders being at a PLD state, with their dependent demand coming from the project in question. See below: 

In EE, I have commonly deployed advanced saved searches to query across two separate LUs. For example…To search for all Inventory Parts of type “Manufactured” for which Serial Tracking is enabled on the corresponding Master Part record, we would use a SQL advanced search on the Inventory Parts screen, as follows…TYPE_CODE = 'Manufactured' and Part_No in (select Part_No from &AO.PART_CATALOG where RECEIPT_ISSUE_SERIAL_TRACK_DB = 'TRUE')Is it possible to perform an equivalent search via the advanced search feature in Aurena?Copy and pasting the same SQL doesn’t work, as it seems Aurena search seems to require Projection names rather than View names, but after I edited the search term to try accommodate that, Aurena still didn’t accept it. I’m not sure if the issue is with the nested select statement (or maybe it just doesn’t like the “in” operator)?Any advice would be appreciated!

We would like to add Tooltips to our Aurena screens.  Currently a tool tip pops up but it is only the Label Name repeated. 

I’m trying to build some Power BI reports based on outputs from IFS but am struggling with a few tables.I particularly interested in resource management, forecast loading and capacity vs planned hours.From Resource Management > Analysis > Resource AnalysisI can see good detail by day, week, month etc, with each option showing me the scheduled capacity hours, utilization capacity hours and available capacity hours however when i then look at the Resource Activity Load Detail for that individual the Schedule Capacity Hours and Utilization Hours show as 0  The ‘Use HR Schedule’ is selected and schedule capacity is set as ‘Finite Capacity’ in the Resource Navigator.I don’t understand why the scheduled capacity hours are not showing on the activity load detail view.

Before I open a case with IFS. I was wondering if anyone have an idea about the following error window. It happens when I try to access the Shop Floor Workbench. The window error only pop up for some users no all the users. It looks like pop up when the user try to access Shop Floor Workbench the first time. 

Hi, We have  products that can have different ratios ( so the iterations are high) of the same components on different days depending on the status of components (rejections, volumes etc).  Our plan is to phase in/out revisions and change the Qty required.  We will however quickly build up the revision count over time on certain products. Is there a better way to do it?  Can you run into problems if the revision number gets too high? Can you re-use a previous revision and update the  phase in/out dates for example? Thanks

Hi, currently, our customer has the following requirements:For one certain Engineering Part , eg: Parts-A,after “Engineering Transfer”:in Site-1 , it is manufacture partsin Site-2,  it is purchause partsCan IFS do this? and how?(because manufature/buy is attribute of “Engineering Part”,  not “Part Transfer Template”, seems IFS cannot meet this requirement. )  

In the Inventory Part, under the Manufacturing tab, there is an option called "Overhaul Scrap Rule". MRB Scrap can be selected here. This should automatically create an MRB case when scrap is booked. Unfortunately this does not work. Is there anything else that needs to be taken into account here?

I have 8 users who we are enabling in Aurena for use of Shop Floor Workbench on a mobile device.  7 of the users, with identical permission sets, work just fine but one gets this error - Any ideas? 

Hello, could someone please point me in the right direction for training documents, webinars or videos that may help with Dynamic Order Processing (DOP) setup and functionality. Thank You

Hello, could someone please point me in the right direction for training documents, webinars or videos that may help with Demand Planner setup and functionality. Thank You

 I would like to a quick report on the 12th of the month for the prior month.  So on April 12th it will run for the month of March.  On May 12th it will run for the month of Apr and so on.  This report is also run manually by the users.  Is there a way to dynamically set the From/To date to be the prior month or do I have to create  copy of this report with the dates dynamically set in the select statement?  I obviously don’t want two exact reports because of having to remember to make all changes twice.  Below is the a screen shot of the server task schedule.  

Hi,We are using an integration from our external configurator to feed the DOP structures with parts and routings. When looking at the Shop order costs for the DOP controlled parts they do not seem to follow the same logic as for the parts that are manufactured to inventory. As an example, if the routing say 10 h for an operation and the worker is clocked in for 5 hours, we want production to get paid for 10 h, but being able to analyze the clocking to see that the worker did it in 5h. This works for regular shop orders, but for the DOP controlled, the Actual cost calculated is based on 5 h instead of 10. Shop Floor Workbench is used for reporting the Shop orders. The checkbox “Default time to report” is ticked on Site. Anyone who knows what goes wrong?