Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Hi all, I happens that we have to repair manufactured parts. We do that by creating a RMA and a repair shop order. But we cannot find a easy way to connect the RMA to the repair shop order (without using a custom field). How is that done?

Has anyone ever created an integration to manage some business processes in parallel between SAP and IFS (i.e. SAP for Finance and IFS for Manufacturing/Distribution or SAP for all SCM/Finance and IFS for Manufacturing)? Thank you!

It seems that IFS Apps10 only uses Machine Time when planning Manufactured Parts and Shop Orders. How should we plan Manufactured Parts (MRP) and Schedule the resulting Shop Orders with labour only? We are not using CBS or APB, just Apps10.

Hello, Does anyone knows what permission need to give to access in Characteristics Tab at Bottom of Each Screen to Select Technical Class? Thank you.

Hi, We are facing the issue where the interval from our Shop Floor Workbench Filters is not looking at the manufacturing calendar. We have for example an interval of -10 days in the past and 3 days in the future. This is causing issues on the Fridays where users are not able to see the planning for Monday and Tuesday. Is there a fix/workaround for this issue?

We have one Shop Order that we have split (from the Shop Order Screen) which has resulted in UNISS transactions occuring, causing us grief with our data. The Shop Order has a status of “Started” and some operation lines are “Partially Reported”. I have other Shop Orders that are in the same state, but which do NOT generate UNISS transactions. Any ideas as to what is causing this? I am hoping it is a specific setting we are unaware of on the Shop Order or Inventory Part but cannot see anything.

I am curious how/if others have a working process to build/track production of parts with a customer approved deviation.

Is it possible to change the layout/format of the BACS output file. If so where can I do this.

Has anybody implemented the full automation Kanban program? I want to set it up to automatically calculate ROP’s and generate req’s but I need to know a few things first.

Hello! I decided to join the community and seek some help from you :). I’m struggling to create a custom logical page based on IAL. I need it to add a custom tab in Employee screen with the information about requested material from Material Requisition (custom field with Employee Id there). Is there any way to reflect the table of requested materials in custom tab of an Employee? Thanks in advance. Regards ;)

Customer needs to use Kanban but don't want it to move any stock with any Availability Code on that stock. Customer knows there is a setup within Availability Code to "Not Allow" on Part Movement Control, but don't want to stop moving items with an Availability Code. Customer just don't want Kanban to use that stock. Is this something has seen before and is there any way round it. How does it work in IFS10?

Kanban Reorder point does not create transport task line to move a part/lot batch no from a location with different or no availability controls id to the destination location. Not all the stock is to be available for MRP or automatic reservation; this is achieved by the application of availability controls ids. It is then sometimes necessary to replenish either the maintenance or research location (Kanban or manually) and it not possible to move if only one lot/batch is in stock. With the new tick box in the Site > Extended Site info > Inventory > Transport task tab A new tick was introduced, [ Allow Deviating Part Availability Control] it enables the transport task to be executed irrespective of what availability control ID in source and destination location. This was only valid for manually created transport tasks. A customer is looking for this same control for a transport task created via Kanban replenishment. (auto). Would like your feedback in handling this scenario?

Hi, I am looking to create a production run book that the factory line operator can click on & produce a Crystal report showing relevant IFS data (part description, pack weight, bbe etc. etc.) and then also pull in the pallet stacking pattern PDF and the pack artwork PDF. Both PDFs are attached to the inventory part record for the packaging part. I can pull all of the IFS data no problem, but i am struggling to get the doc man attachments. Can someone point me in the right direction please? Thanks Steve G

In IFS 8, is it possible to calculate the stock ageing if the raw material is maintained in a single line(not lot batch wise, material is shown in a single line,lot batch as “*”)? I have seen if we use the FIFO method for the costing, it properly costed as the first in first out. If there is any table used for this what is the name of it? so i can use that table and calculate the stock ageing in the BI Tool.

Are there any recommendations for a 3rd party software package to use for bar coding ability in SSRS 2008 r2?

when is the EOL support for IFS 8 ? Also is there anybody implemented other than Oracle as a backend… It would be great if you could drop a line. We would be happy to get an assistance from you.

Hello. When using component parts across a multiple lot size, say 10, IFS wants to split the Qty Per Assembly if the split is not “all”. For example, lot size 10, qty req per assembly is 1, if we use 5 qty of alternate component part, the qty per assembly is 0.5. In the case where the part cannot be physically split, i.e. a bolt, then i’d want to issue all 10 to the shop order and use qty per 1 per assembly, and just use 5 of part A and 5 of part b. Is this possible? Apps9-upd15. Dave

I will take an order for 96,000 lbs and will have multiple shipments against that 1 line. How do I know which lots went with each shipment? I have checked Lot Batch History and this shows all Lots for the Customer Order, not the individual shipments.

Is there an option to set an Engineering Revision not to transfer until the Revision status is Released? There is no other way to check whether Approval completed, all required documents is attached, etc. before the transfer.

Hi, I come across an error when adding a new Shop Order. The error is as below. Server error messages: 6737a415-d237-4619-a979-f1b1db266565 Ifs.Fnd.FndSystemException: Unexpected error while calling server method AccessPlsql/Invoke ---> Ifs.Fnd.FndServerFaultException: ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error Failed executing statement (ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error ORA-06512: at line 16 ORA-06512: at "MELL1APP.ERROR_SYS", line 259 ORA-06512: at "MELL1APP.ERROR_SYS", line 1059 ORA-06512: at "MELL1APP.SHOP_ORD_API", line 24428 ORA-06512: at "MELL1APP.SHOP_ORD_API", line 24468 ORA-06512: at "MELL1APP.SHOP_ORD_API", line 17474 ORA-06512: at "MELL1APP.SHOP_ORD_API", line 17499 ORA-06512: at "MELL1APP.SHOP_ORD_API", line 17519 ORA-06512: at line 10) at Ifs.Fnd.AccessProvider.FndConnection.ParseErrorHeader(FndBuffer buffer, FndManualDecisionCollection decisions) at Ifs.Fnd.AccessProvider.FndConnection.UnMarshalResponseHeader(Stream responseStream, FndManualDecisionCollection dec

Hi, does anyone know if it is possible to generate a report that is exportable to Excel of the information on the IPAP / Planning Info tab for all/many parts? In other words, a table view of all/many parts (query’able) that lists inventory part no, last year in/out, current year in/out etc etc. I need to be able to get the usage information (for all parts transacted) into Excel to be further analysed. Thanks!

When we make the forecast status as active budget we can use an approval template to authorize the budget as an active budget. But this can be removed by users. Is there a better way to handle this as in Purchase Requisition authorization where authorization is enabled via a rule.

Hello, Due to the nature of contracts and human mistakes, sometimes it will be extremely useful to be able to change the Status of a Sales Contract from LOST to something else. Also, sometimes the customer in a contract will change and if the contracts has move to an status Awarded we cannot change the customer. In general, we have found that the IFS Sales contract are fairly rigid once you reached certain status in their workflow. I will appreciate your comments regarding any potential workarounds changing the status of a sales contract from LOST and also changing the customer after the contract has been awarded. Many thanks and kind regards Mig

I am trying to see a Non Conformance Report attached to a customer order from the B2B portal. I see it attached to the CO in IEE or Aurena, but not in the B2B. Is there any particular classification of the NCR may I need to do?

I have been approached by an existing customer, who has a specific problem that they need to address and are struggling to find a direct solution. They currently use Project Delivery to delivery different configured items to their customers. However the delivered product can comprise various combinations of parts and revisions within the product structure along with different alternatives for the structure. They have attempted to use Phase in Date (Using a Custom RMB) to align the dates for the different alternatives (which represent the different Engineering Part Revisions, however the revision increment upwards i.e. 1 to 2 to 3, but in many instances there revisions are 2 way alternatives) for the structures, however the issue that they experience is how to determine which Inventory part meets the requirement to 'build' the required product as they cannot determine the 'Revision' of the Inventory part needed to build the product at time of reserving or issuing to the shop-order. Has