Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Do we have a simple explanation of what Backflush means?

I sold a finished product with a serial number to a customer. A component part of the sold finished product was sent back to me for repair. The component part that was sent back to me also has a serial number. I will send a replacement for this part.The customer did not send me the entire finished product , only a part of it, which is our main issue.I cannot reopen the shop order I used to produce the finished product and unissue the component part underneath it, because it is a very old shop order, and the cost calculations for that period have already been made.However, the component part also needed to be entered into my inventory. I received this component part into my inventory with a Return Material Authorization.I manufactured a new spare part and shipped it to the customer.Now, I cannot use this returned serial-numbered component part in another weapon, because it gives me an error saying that “Serialized component  <my component part and serial no> exists in catalog stru

Is there an out of the box function to determine which customer order lines have had the promise date reviewed prior to confirming back to the customer? Our current process:Customer service enters customer order line. By default, the promise date is initially set the same as the Planned Delivery Date. Planning reviews the order line and revises the Target, Planned Delivery, and Promise Dates as needed. Customer service sends order confirmation back to the customer. Planning needs to be able to query for order lines that haven’t been reviewed/promised. I’m considering adding a custom checkbox to indicate the order has been promised but want to verify if there’s a standard process for this.  Thanks!Eric

I need some advice from a production schedule guru. I am running a production schedule and midstream, I want to change a component in the structure and then keep running the production schedule.  The component is a lot controlled item.  Any ideas as to how best do this?  I know I can edit components midstream but I need to do a report against the production schedule to allow this.  Also, I am swapping one lot controlled component to another component.Any guidance you may have will be appreciated!

Community,  Sending this to check what is the best practices to have automatic materials flow from one work center outbound location to the next work center inbound location? Thank you.

Hi,If selecting 100 records of Shop Order Requestion and trying to create shop orders. You may get an error message if something is wrong, listing every requestion and message like: No Buildable Structure, No Operation, No allocation etc...If Pressing OK the shop order creation prcosses is stopped and you have to walkthorugh every shoporder requestions to exclude any faulty requestions. In APP9 you could easally continue the shop order creation process, and later take care of the requestions not generated into shop orders .Should it be like this?Can you propose any other sutaible approach to create shop orders from shop order requestions?  

Dear experts,We are using manufacturing control plans with time interval as sample frequency trigger => each 30 minutes, 5 pieces must be inspected.The question mark concerns the way to alert in any way, in the shopfloor workbench, the employee every 30 minutes that a new quality analysis needs to be done. This is imply that the shop floor workbench is continually refreshed and I think this is not the case.Is someone got the same need ? any idea to meet the need ?Thanks in advance   

Hello, When returning parts to stock using the return tab in the work task (work order) there is no field to choose the revision number of the part being returned (in many cases the part returned is of a previous revision to the currently valid and could be components not related to a customer order) Is there a way to specify the revision of the part being put in stock when doing the return in work orders?(We are using cloud version) Thanks in advance for your responses.

Hi, could you please help me to fix the following error. If I complete all the analysis, then this issue is fixed. But, according to the test plan, customer is doing this without completing all the analysis. as, for their business scenario, it needs to be applied. So, could you please let me know, if there is any parameter to function this?  

Hi Community, We are looking into MES systems based on feedback from our management consulting exercise and are currently evaluating Tulip. Would appreciate feedback and inputs from other customers that are using MES systems on the floor along with IFS ERP. Appreciate your inputs.   

Hello,On the Shop Order Costs module, our Production shop order (3845) has a finished Accumulated Cost/Unit of £1.57 for 200 - Labor Runtime and £5.17 for 221 - Labor Overhead cost, see screenshot attached. This is for 1000 units. When we have come to run the Packing shop orders (10x orders at 100 qty each), the final Packing order (4088) has a final Accumulated Cost/Unit of £3.14 for 200 - Labor Runtime and £9.13 for 221 - Labor Overhead cost, again see screenshot attached. Our Packing orders use a different cost bucket which has no overheads applied, hence the Level Cost/Unit being £0, so how has the Accumulated Cost/Unit increased over the 10 Packing shop orders? We are struggling to work this out so any help given is greatly appreciated.Thank you

Hi all, We are looking to optimize the way we perform our Inventory count of the Finished goods product in our warehouses.  Currently, we hold shipping for about 3 days to complete performing the inventory and then resume shipping on the 4th day.  Just wondering what some of the different ways in which you are counting your Finished goods inventory.  Do you utilize a 3rd party team?  Do you count/freeze warehouse-by-warehouse?   Any other ways to shorten the time for performing the inventory count? Thanks in advance!D

Community, I have a shop order in Closed status. in below window, i can see the discrepancy in the Cost Variance field in different tab. I expect cost variance $3000, but just don’t sure how 2600 is calculated? Where we could trace how system calculate this value, i.e.2600? Thank you. 

I am trying to generate a GS1 QR Code in IFS Report Designer but cannot find a way to create a group separate to separate the columns that will create the QR Code.   Wadaco Configuration has been created so that FNC1 code 10 = LOT_BATCH_NO and code 241 = PART_NO.   I therefore created a READ ONLY custom field that using the following SELECT statement:   SELECT '10'||lot_batch_no||chr(29)||'241'||part_no FROM INVENTORY_PART_BARCODE WHERE objid = :objid   If I copy and paste the value from the custom field into Wadaco GS1 Barcode 1 on clicking SAVE the the value of the LOT_BATCH_NO is displayed in the Lot Batch field and the value of PART_NO is displayed in the Part No field. Unfortunately, adding the custom field to IFS Report Designer the ascii value appears to be ignored as copying the value displayed on the report and pasting it as above the full value appears in the Lot Batch field. Can someone please advise on how to get the group separator ascii value 29 - CHR(29) to work. Many th

Using a Configuration Combination table to return the component part number and this works OK unless the part number that it returns is a Configured Part. The supply code on the Customer order line is DOP and when I add the configured part as a component it works fine, but when I have a ‘place holder’ part as the componet part (ie just a dummy purchased part part), and then I use a configuration combination to ‘SET’ the componet part to a differant part number, it fails when the part is the configured part.  The error message I get is ‘Unable to process due to error action ‘SET’  Component part XX-XXX must not be a configured part.

The daily values of the theoretical capacity for the future can be seen in the Capacity tab in the Work Center.Where can I see the theoretical capacity of Work Centers or Manufacturing Labor Classes of the past days, weeks and months?We need the value for a productivity analysis.Thank you :-)

What is the difference in Sales Contract and Service Contract. I am sure services can be sold and managed in Sales contract management. When to use Sales Contract and when to use service contract.?

Hello IFS Community,im trying to create a permission set with read only access to a few screens, one of the is the part cost, i have the projection set “PartCostHandling” as Read Only and my user goes into the screen called “Part Cost", the user gets the message“Your System Administrator has not granted permission to complete that action”what permissions is this talking about? what am i missing in order to let the user just VIEW this page?I appreciate any help out there.  

Community,a question about how to disable auto close shop order operation when completed quantity meet the planned quantity/tolerance.We are on APP10. 

Where in IFS would I go to modify how shop orders get released so that I can force a “Customer Owned” Ownership on certain parts? Is this even possible?We have an issue where when the shop order gets released the parts from below get wrongly marked as Company Owned and they need to be manually changed to Customer Owned. 

Error: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host while fetching General Ledger report. I am getting this error after 15 mins of transaction. Checked the JTA configuration. <Timeout Seconds> = 36000s, <Abandon Timeout Seconds> = 900s. I changed <Abandon Timeout Seconds> value to 1200s as well still it gave error after 900s.

When using Shop Floor Workbench, Filter by: Manual filter. Entering Work Center.Dispatch List populatingEntering  a shop order to view details.Going Back to the Shop Floor Workbench, the recent filtration of the work center is gone.This was not the case in  Shop Floor Workbench in Apps 9.Can we overcome this in anyway?I didn´t succeed in using page designer: Default to Previous.​

Helllo,I am trying to sum all the raw(purchased) material (MATERIAL1, MATERIAL2) for my product. (According to qty_per_assembly) I just generated simple structure of L1 product. It looks like this: What i need to do is to sum the MATERIAL1 and MATERIAL2: MATERIAL1 (8,25kg) goes to part_no L4.1 (1 pcs) and component L4.1 (1 pcs) goes to part_no L3 (16 pcs) that means: 8,25 * 1 * 16 * 1 = 132 kg (level4 * level3 * level2 * level1) MATERIAL2 (0,75kg) goes to part_no L4.2 (2 pcs) and component L4.1 (1 pcs) goes to part_no L3 (16 pcs) that means: 0,75 * 2 * 16 * 1 = 24 kg (level4 * level3 * level2 * level1)  How to do it in oracle? Thank in advance.  MANUF_STRUCTURE view - basicwith data as (select 'L1' as part_no, 0 as eng_chg_level, '' as alternative_no, 'L2' as component_part, 1 as qty_per_assembly, 'PCS' as print_unit from dual union allselect 'L2' as part_no, 0 as eng_chg_level, '' as alternative_no, 'L3' as component_part, 16 as qty_per_assembly, 'PCS' as print_unit from dual

Community,Anyone has experience below error? We are investigating how to use S&OP planning, when we start creating a new S&OP, this error prompts. we have fixed the inventory static period issue in Statistic Periods window. Thank you. 

Hello,We are producing a part in UoM = PC. To manufacture that part, we are outsourcing operations on the shop order for:transport  manufacturing processBoth are assigned with an outside operation items for which the purchase requisitions are generated upon shop order release. Those are then converted into purchase orders and upon arrival of the physical items, we receive all of them and close the shop order.Items on the shop order are in UoM = PC, Outside operations items are a non-inventory parts (paying for the service) however one of the suppliers for the manufacturing process is charging us and sending an invoice per kg for one of those outside operation items (manufacturing process)Question/Problem to Solve: Is it possible to have purchase order for this non-inventory part in UoM = kg, but receiving it in UoM=PC on the shop order? How to solve this differentiation?Goal: We need to be able to issue orders for outsourced manufacturing process in the supplier's billing unit, that is