Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Is there an option within IFS Business Reporter to display design rows/ columns even when there are null values when the report is run? For example, our current BR reports will not display rows/ columns where the GL Balance amount is zero. The report only will shows those columns and rows where GL Balance data is not null. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

In standard IFS 10 Functionality of Copy project, I use source project with a Delivery project and have defined a site as well. However, if my destination project does not have a site defined, I cannot proceed.Why default site is not fetching here? If I select copy Delivery Project, you will ended up with following error. To correct this, I have move back to the previous and select the source project site from the list or move out and define a site and redo the same process.This is not a user friendly behaviour and expect default site to be fetch by default. Any standard patch available? Please note this can be recreated only if you select Copy Delivery project in step  2/4. It is because site is mandatory for delivery project. BR,Thushan.

I’m really struggling with the Project Forecast functionality and the matching When I create my forecast I have a new line in it (highlighted) which is not connected to an ActivityWhen I manually add the sub project ID and Activity ID and try and save I get an error messageI do have a snapshot connected but when I disconnect it I lose all the values in the other linesAny advice on what the warning symbol is and how I add the new line to the forecast ?Thank you

When there is a multi-company invoice set up, Is it possible to attach the project invoice to the supplier invoice which has generated in the other company? Customer is having such a requirement since project invoice is will not be visible in Aurena and they compel to jump between different entities to gather the invoice information. The checkbox is only editable when using E-INVOICE media code. (not available for MHS code) However, the customer requirement is “MHS” media code which is not available.(After the document is saved in the same document class of that of the company.) Is there another way or even a workaround for this process?

In MRO interim order structure, when you RMB on a level of the tree navigator and go to Automatic Disassembly, you have the option 'Include Sub Levels'. This is automatically checked. I do understand it's being automatically checked when you RMB from the header, but when you do so from the navigator I believe it shouldn't be checked automatically as we want to disassemble the MRO SO interdependently

Hi  Attached is an example of unexpected results in apb.Shop order 903 is the parent shop order 1000 Disc and spindle is the child wanted for operation 10 of 903Both parts are finiteResult from APB puts shop order 903 finish date ahead 1000, This is a physical impossibilityWhat do we need to do to make sure the parent SO uses the child part for its planning?Thanks

We are looking to Batch create customer invoices and would like to know what this checkbox does.  The IFS help describes it this way:   Invoice Unconnected Charges Separately This checkbox indicates if unconnected customer order charges can be invoiced separately. If selected, it is possible to create a customer order invoice for a customer order charge that is no connected to a customer order line, before there is any delivery against the customer order or when there are no approved stage billing lines. If delivery confirmation is used, unconnected charge can be invoiced before any quantity gets a confirmation on delivery. If not selected, it is possible to invoice unconnected charge only with a delivery or an approved stage billing line. When delivery confirmation is used, there should be at least some quantity confirmed for the unconnected charge to be invoiced. The value of this check box is editable and will be inherited to the dialog boxes used to batch create customer order in

The Shop Order Work in Progress Report does not take over the default life time, which is set in report definition. Any solution to resolve this issue

We are looking into using the Alternate Parts Functionality.  What is the difference between setting up the Alternate Part on the Part Master / Alternative Parts tab and the other two screens (Alternate Purchase Part Base Data and Alternate Purchase Part Base Date). While testing, it seems thatentries made on the Part Master screen don’t have any underling functionality other than copying the information to the alternate part.  No information appears on the Alternate Purchase Part Base Data and Alternate Purchase Part Base Date screens. entries made on the Alternate Purchase Part Base Data and Alternate Purchase Part Base Date screens copy there information back to the Master Parts TabI am trying to determine the business process.I have not seen where any entries on the Alternate Purchase Part Base Data and Alternate Purchase Part Base Date screens effect Customer Orders or Purchase Orders.  What am I missing here… any info would be appreciated. 

DearsI tried to configure the crystal reports (V2013) in IFS app8 following the guidelines however something seems to be wrong . could you support please. Thanks

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.