Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Hi, I would like to ask, for IFS “Routing” , How does it support SubAssy?Is there any workaround for it? (the attached pic is the image) background-customer don’t want to create a seprate Routing for SubAssy, because seperate Routing means they have to create dedicate Shop-Order and dedicate Product No for SubAssy.   And they have 20+ SubAssy. 

Is there any way in IFS 10 to make MRP result as Production Smoothing (Heijunka) ? The purpose is smoothing of production quantities or supplier schedule per material within a leveling period.   I see this feature is available at SAP.   https://help.sap.com/viewer/d9bb3b5ddc0945d491068fad15060d5c/2019.1/en-US/a82b32e5d4ba494ab00d708911cce130.html     thanks

We would like to test Incident Distribution List Emailing.   We have created the Incident Distribution List and setup the Distribution List Configuration conditions.   So, when an new Incident is created and the status changes to confirmed then the person in the relevant email distribution list associated to the configuration should be emailed.   When I checked the Release Email Notifications information I can see that the activity is used to send email notifications manually. Note that the status of the notification setting will automatically change to Completed when notifications are manually executed. In the pre-requisites it has the following: In order to send automatic notifications to persons on the distribution list, the relevant event should be enabled in the Event Actions window by the application owner. If different notifications are required to be sent according to the type of actions performed for an incident report, specific values should be added in the Condition for perf

I could convert xml data set to json format using attached xslt transformer, I tested trasformer using online tools and it’s working fine for online tools.But when I am using that transformer from the IFS for the same data set( same format ), the application msg is giving below error. In my xslt I use “xml-to-json” to print the data What should I do for this issue?

Hi Everyone, We have set up a number counter in the Document Basic screen.When adding order lines it is generating a unique number in sequence however as soon as you save the line or refresh the order (in a planned status) the numbers all change? Any ideas? Thanks

Hi all,I need a query that list all users that still doesn't have an employee number.  In order to create their employee file. Much appreciateThanks 

Hi All,Is it possible to hide a Tab in the permission set. I need to hide the ‘COST’ Tab inside the ‘Project’ for some users in their permission sets, is it possible? I only found out that I can hide it inside a base profile.  Much appreciate your help 

Hello Community,We are using IFS APP version 8.In shop order window there in one option Sched Direction as shown below.I want to know what is Backward Scheduling,Forward Scheduling and Manual Scheduling.How can we use it. 

Does anyone know, where we can define “Project Group” basic data in APP7?Can you please let me know the navigator path for that?In App10 and App9, it is available at Financial > Project Accounting > Projects > Projects Groups.However, I’m not able to find it in APP7.Appreciate if anyone could help  .

In "Recipe Structure"1.In Site window > Manufacturing tab > "Number of Decimals in Recipe Structure" > Set value as ‘3’2.Navigate to "Recipe Structure" screen > Query any record for the relevant site 3.Observed the “Quantity per Assembly” field values.4.the “Quantity per Assembly” field has expected decimal places as defined in step 1.But in our test enviornment as done above, still having strange figure of the decimals in qty per assembly.  Please see below. Is this because the components having kg and liter at the same time?  Could you adivse us how to fix this please? Thank you very much for your kind cooperaiton! Kind regards,Kokubo

Hi All, Do you use your part cost calculation method as ‘Weighted Average’ ? What are your reasoning behind that decision? Do you experience performance/locks when the transaction load is high? 

Hello,  I am having issue that people are over production reporting. I cant reverse. What is the correct way to reverse production. Example reported 900 which was really 90. I have shipped 90 and the 810 need to be reverse.  Thank YouCarrie 

we are assigning some permission set to users  and we can able to see what given in Navigator PreviewIs there any option to download the same.

We use IFS apps 9 and we have a scenario where we have a DOP-order connected to a project. In the DOP-structure we are manufacturing configured parts that are to be used as material in the final construction. During the production, the manufacturing cost for the configured part belongs to a different accounting group and different cost element which leads to that the cost first enters the project on the element for the configured manufactured part and then the cost is moved to the cost element for the final product when it is used as material on that. The main problem is that the project has cost and revenue estimates on the element of the final product so it’s not ideal due to that the project manager can’t se the real progress in the projekt until it enters the element for the final product. The problem is also that the manufactured configured parts sometimes is sold as is and we never put configured parts in stock since they have the same PART_NO BUT can be different products depend

A manufacturer’s part has been added to a Part and subsequently used in a Purchase Order Line Part. The error message displays when trying to remove the Manufacture’s Part No line MTG-218-90187.  We would like to remove the Manufacturer Part so that it no longer displays as  Manufacturer’s Part on the Part. By removing it, there is no chance that users will mistakenly use the Manufacturer part (even though it is not Preferred). Any recommendations on how to remove the ‘MTG-218-90187’ Manufacturer’s Part No?

Looking to start a conversation with users that have similar requirements/processes and maybe even a solution that you wouldn’t mind sharing. All parts get setup in our PDM system and and are configured in the form of an Engineering Bill of Materials (EBOM). These EBOMs are generally built from the bottom up and contain every part needed to cost the final product. These BOMS may feature Technical, Design and Electrical parts. We need to bring these parts into IFS in the form of a product structure that is configured for manufacturing (MBOM).These MBOMs differ from EBOMS as the component parts may be combined in different ways in order to best facilitate the manufacturing process (effectively create sensible Shop Orders in IFS). If this resonates with anyone on this forum please reply. Many thanks,Pete

Trying to create a repair Product Structure where the byproduct is a serialized part.  Receiving an Error Message that Serialized Byproducts are not supported.  Is there a way to correct this? 

We are running Apps10 UPD8I’m wondering if anyone has any suggestions on how to make the following process easier.We sell some off the shelf products that require calibration or testing before we ship them to the customer.   We currently use Repair Shop Orders to do this.  This process works well because the same techs that do regular shop orders also do this work.  We need to use repair shop orders because the part# we are shipping doesn’t change based on calibration/test.Our one challenge is order entry.  Since we are using Repair Shop Orders, we can’t use supply code shop order.  It automatically creates a manufacturing shop order.  The only way to set this up is toSet the supply code to Invent Order Manually Create a shop order, set type to Repair Add the appropriate operations Manually peg it back to the customer order

Hi all,We use the “Inventory Part Original Tracing” window in IEE when we need to trace customer order components back to the suppliers. But if the CO is an Invent order it does not show up. Customer order line: I was expected to find it here, but it is not (I know It originate from 115181):Anyone know why is it not there and how we then trace invent CO?

Hi,Is it possible for IFS to generate a unique Configuration ID per item raised on a customer order? At the moment it is creating a new number however once the configuration is saved, if there has been the same item booked previously in the same configuration it is automatically assigning it to an old Config ID.Ideally we want every item to have its own new unique configuration ID. Many Thanks

Hi Is this possible to mix an alternate of Product structure and product routing ? What I mean by that, we have Top Item T (as “T”op) and T consist of components C1, C2 Whereas components C1 and C2 are done in 2 separate routings. This differences in routings are the suppliers (let’s call them S1/S2) of Outside Operation (this OO is a operation within a SO for C1/C2) And the thing is we need to keep C1/C2 as same parts whenever they are done through S1 or S2 supplier (1 inventory part at least) And we need to choose on the Customer Order creation if T shall Contains C1/C2 made on S1 or S2 (both shall be made in this same supplier) So in my understanding, we could possible have 2 separate structure alternates for Tand this structure alterantes should differ only of the ROUTING use in the C1 and C2 products  That would be the simplest i think, but I don’t see any possibility to mix structure and routing alternate Do you see a way to bypass that ?  

Is there a mechanism to associate specific lot/batches in inventory with specific customers or customer groups so that the customer order reservation process reserves from specific lot/batches before trying to reserve from others? We are trying find a way to associate specific lots that have the same part number but an alternate structure (e.g. the alternate structure contains a coupon on the packaging) to specific customers so that it reserves the correct lots automatically.

Hi,If I have a part that has 15 days ,manufacturing leadtime set on the Inventory part,  when MRP runs and creates SOR and then I convert to Shop Order why is the system not using the 15 days to calculate start date to finish date,  the dates below only calculates 10 days.  (our working week is 4 days Monday to Thursday)  15th - 18th  = 4days,   22nd -25th  = 4 days  , 1st -2nd = 2days  

Is there an work around step that we can do to count back in to inventory of a SN object and not have to create a new SN* object?I believe the reason for our stockroom doing this is due to the time lapse where shop floor held part that was needing rework for month then closed out the shop order.  Which in turn make it difficult for us to move that SN part.   Any thoughts? 

Hi were are currently in the process of upgrading to apps 10 and ran into an issue.All of our inventory parts are set to Part Type “Purchased” - as we sometimes will buy and other times build the same part. We also have both Purchased & Manufactured product Structures for each of these parts. When quoting customers we use a business opportunity that we link to an Estimate (if we are manufacturing the part). In doing so, the estimated end item will use the default part type as being purchased (rather than manufactured) and will not allow the user to update it to Manufactured Part Type.  So when the user builds the product structure - they are building the purchased part structure instead of the manufactured product structure. IFS recommended we simply update the Part Type to be Manufactured on the inventory part record. This resolves the issue on the estimate but creates another problem for procurement since the part is now manufactured and it is no longer considered for stock reple