Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Is it normal that IFS (Apps8) does not make any live control on the lot/batch number when receiving parts into stock from a RMA ?IFS should suggest the different lot/batch no related the customer order line. Today, we can enter a lot No totally different from the shipment.Is there a way to do so ? 

Apps 10: Trying to set up Routing Rules to send Report Designer Report PDF to Connect saving the PDFs off to a Network File Share.  Need to include the order number or invoice number or pick list number etc as part of the file name so users can easily find the PDF.  This should be standard file naming to include the object name for users to be able to locate specific files.  I am not finding anything that shows how to configure this.  Output File set up has the %TAG=ANY_MESSAGE_VARIABLE% option but what this means isn’t explained anywhere in the documentation.  Would be great to have more in depth instructions around these processes.

Hi All Guys.          I am looking best third party migration tool for IFS Application 10.         Client have huge amount of data. I am preferring third party tool in my case.         so please suggest me ,if any lead will be more appreciate. 

Hi all,We have experienced an issue where the visualizer tool tip isn’t updating correctly (sometimes!)An example from some time ago shows that our planner went to the visualizer and hovered over the relevant part of the bar and got this. As you can see the Op Load on Week and Total Operation Load show 5.2The times on the shop order had been amended prior to this check (a day before) to reflect a new Op Load on Week and Total Operation Load of 4.5 so was confused as to why the above was still showing the wrong figures. He had logged out of IFS and logged back in fresh the next day so it wasn’t a refreshing issue. When he had manu

Dear Guys,  I have one requirement from client side that they want create part number in part master page upto 100 characters.Kindly suggest us that how can possible without using custom field. And these part no flow everywhere in IFS  10.  Anything leads pls let me know. Thanks in advance. 

Is there some documentation or best practices available on Eco footprint and how to get started with this module?As we work with manufacturers and MPS’s connected to the parts (purchase parts) our feeling is that this data is not on the correct level, it should have been on the part - manufacturer level.Part nr stays the same but preferred manufacturer change overtime.Is there something available in IFS for importing material declarations to IFS (standard xml formats ex. IPC1752) 

The Inventory Part in Stock Screen allows you to multi-select lines and the Move with Transport Task option is available. The box that pops-up has all the lines listed and you pick a single location. This however creates a Transport Task for each line. Has anyone else experienced this or have we ran into a bug?  We are on IFS10 UPD8.

I am new to using IFS, I am looking for help on tracking shortages on shop orders. Can I highlight multiple shop orders using the Shop Orders session and see all of the shortages via planning actions (not sure if that’s the right term, I’m not logged in at the moment). I have customers and even myself, who want to see shortages out say 2 months, to see if everything is on order, are there going to be any parts that aren’t arriving in time etc etc. Do I use this session or is there another session or report to use? I can highlight a shop order and review material availability and see just shortages, but this is one shop order at a time.Any help would be greatly appreciated 

The list in the Shop Floor Workbench is very long and the customer will report many operations simultaneously depending on certain parameters. E.g. They want to “Start Production” (clock time on operation) for 6 operations, because they will all use material from the same batch, and then “Start Production” for another 9 operations that will use material from another batch. Can these operations be grouped depending on what unique component batch they will use? And when grouped, so that is not necessary to mark up all the rows, just one - start production at the same time?We are missing group functionality and the column (used for filtering) for the component batch id  Is this possible to implement? If so, how?Or do we use another view, LU and adapt it from there with RMB functionality and so on?

I am looking at how Comment Functionality works for different File types as Redline? currently I have defined “doc” as view and “docx” as Redline type and expect to open comment with MS Word. however I still manually change the Redline copy from “Doc” to “Docx”. The errorI get is “Can not start external Viewer application”. This is just one example, I am trying to find out how Redline app works for each individual file type. for example for a word file,Excel or Autocad? Thanks, Aida.

I used migration job to update the safety stock attributes in the Master part. The mig job was successful but the next morning the safety stock attributes changed back. There is a task for updating safety stock but it is not scheduled and has no history in bk jobs. What can be the reason?  

We have around 10 sites all running in same database.All jobs like MS, MRP and CRP needs to be run daily due to our line of business.We now run in to issues that the “night window” is getting  too small and jobs are not ready in time in the morning.Especially the CRP is taking very long time to run for some sites, up till 90 minutes.Does anybody know what is impacting the CRP execution time the most?Is it the number of workcenters in use,  or the number of shoporder requisitions in the system (master schedules set to create sp for entire horizon) or a combination.Any advise on this would be appreciated.  

Hi,We are Reporting Component Scrap on Shop Order and everytime we report/unreport component scrap, we can see those Scrap/Unscrap Component WIP transactions in Material Transaction History but we don’t see these transactions being posted to GL account. We have a GL account mapped for Scrap and we are running the GL update task as well. Is there a way to track scrap transactions performed on shop order to a GL account?Thank You.

As an ERP IT Business Analyst who helps users set up and figure out new functionality they wish to use, I am a regular user of all the ‘normal’ IFS Help: Process help, Topics, page help, etc. What I am looking for and cannot find is ‘set up’ help or documentation. Example: DDMRP and eventually Manufacturing VIsualizer.  I used to be able to use e-learning for that purpose, since it often started with related basic data, etc. I have checked/searched IFS Technical Docs and Community and did not find documents or guidance there. Is the way of the future to use the available help and Business Process Diagrams to figure out set up? Thanks 

Hi,How can we add the expiration Date in below drop down list 

I am trying to see Aging Distribution Orders, currently what i have shows me the object version of the report which if anything changes then it drops off my category, i want to see only the status history change that is over a certin amount of days. any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance below is how my current SQL is written objstate NOT IN (        'Closed',        'Cancelled'    )    AND   (        trunc(TO_DATE(objversion,'yyyymmddhh24miss') ) <= (            SELECT                trunc(SYSDATE) - 61            FROM                dual        )        AND   trunc(TO_DATE(objversion,'yyyymmddhh24miss') ) >= (            SELECT                trunc(SYSDATE) - 120            FROM                dual        )    )

A question is raised by one of our customers regarding App75 and App9 functionality. In App9, when we create shop order components which has "Not Consumed" lines with expense parts are no longer showing zero in the following columns: Quantity per Assembly, Comp Qty Req, and Qty Remaining But in App 75 those fields are shown as zeros. Please verify.

Hi all, Does APB consider/schedule shop orders with a PARKED status? My understanding is that it doesn’t regardless of how APB is ran. Thanks,Jay

I would like to know if there is a way to manage actions sequencing in the change order actions because some actions cannot be done if the previous ones are not completed (Apps 8).Thanks

I duplicated a project from the IFS Projects window, I changed the project id, saved it, then I open the copy project wizard to copy everything from the original project to the new project.  I accept all of the defaults, put in an early start day of a couple weeks ago.  when I run this I get the following error:Server error messages: 4a558c3f-b8a1-4c66-b435-d24dc82b275d Ifs.Fnd.FndSystemException: Unexpected error while calling server method AccessPlsql/Invoke ---> Ifs.Fnd.FndServerFaultException: ORA-00001: unique constraint (IFSAPP.TRANSACTION_SYS_LOCAL_PK) violated Unique index constraint violated. (ORA-00001: unique constraint (IFSAPP.TRANSACTION_SYS_LOCAL_PK) violatedORA-06512: at line 19ORA-06512: at "IFSAPP.TRANSACTION_SYS", line 653ORA-06512: at "IFSAPP.TRANSACTION_SYS", line 1257ORA-06512: at "IFSAPP.TRANSACTION_SYS", line 1277ORA-06512: at "IFSAPP.PROJECT_CONN_REFRESH_UTIL_API", line 981ORA-06512: at "IFSAPP.PROJECT_CONN_REFRES

We are in the process of implementing IFS for the first time, so this might be a newbie problem, but this is my first time working with the RESTful APIs in IFS10. We have a 3rd party application that scans the barcodes of each product as it comes off our assembly line, and records a timestamp in a separate SQL database identifying when each finished good was completed. They are identified by the Work Order and Sequence # from the shop order. I’ve been tasked with modifying the app to push this info into IFS updating the work order. Unfortunately, I can’t simply close out the order line each time a product is completed because most order lines have large quantities. If the order line has a QTY of 70 (for example), I need to be able to log each one of the products as a unique transaction incrementing them until the total equals 70, then close the order line. How would I log these transactions in IFS? If it matters, we do not log finished goods into inventory. They are li

How do I configure the attachment type when scheduling a quick report.  Currently it is attachment without any file type.   Attached is how I configured the quick report schedule

Hello,I would like to register automatically purchase costs in the “Project cost registration -Non personal” window.When an expense sheet is authorized, automatically it is registered in the “Project cost registration - Personal” window. But, when a purchase order is invoiced or posted, it is not registered as a cost in this window.I could create an event, but I wonder if there is another way to get it.Best regards,Amaia

I am using IFS 8 and no matter what I have put in as an Expression, I get the error that the expression must return a date. I tried the solutions in other Topics, but none work for me.I even tried something really simple: SYSDATE + 1/3600; which comes directly from IFS Online Documentation and get the same error.Is there something weird about IFS 8?Any help is appreciated.

Hello,  We are currently in the process of implementing IFS Apps 10. The system is setup as multi-site. We are a manufacturing company, and often times we have a part that will be manufactured across multiple plants. We may perform a stamping operation in one site, ship that part to another site for consumption in a Product Structure to create a finished part, which would then be shipped to a customer.  We are finding that part setup can be quite tedious and time consuming. There is a lot of manual entry to setup an Inventory Part, Sales Part, Routing, Product Structure, Purchased Parts, etc. There are a few shortcuts I’ve used such as Standard Operation, Routing Templates, Copy Part, and creating a Sales Part first to have the Inventory Part automatically created.  The vendor we are working with has suggested using a custom spreadsheet to create the parts and import them into the system from the spreadsheet. My feeling is that IFS has enough functionality built