Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

As part of our business agreements, we have the ability to return inventory to our suppliers on an annual basis that show no movement.  We transitioned to IFS in early 2020 and majority of the inventory to be returned was purchased in our legacy system.I am aware of how the RMA works for returns tied to customer orders as well as when a PO was generated within IFS.  Does anyone know how to return inventory when there is no PO tied to it within IFS?Thank You

We use the project management in IFS 10 Update 8.Now the user want to make "Projects Time Registration". We got an error masage "You cannot modify projekt transaction of the company XYZ without a valid position assigment". The employee has a correct position assigment. We had to set the Self-Access Role ID to "REG_NO_AUTH" in the HR-Module Employee File - Employment - Assigments - Organization. After that the user could register his projects time.We have to the set this role? Or is there another option?We don't use the "Time Management" in the company.

We continue to try to provide value added lobby data for manufacturing shop floor personnel using IFS Apps 10 UPD 6 (soon to be UPD 8). We want to display operations currently ‘running’ for each work center (started or interrupted but not completed/closed).  in Work bench, there is a Gear icon and an ! icon that display for started or interrupted shop order operations. is some representation of those statuses held in a table somewhere that we can interrogate? or better yet, is there a ‘canned’ lobby element that already exists? Thanks

  Do you know of a report in IFS8 that includes the operation’s labor factor (routed) , the quantity (lot) produced, and  actual time posted to the operation as displayed by employee?   Currently I run an operation and indirect report and manually key in the labor factor (routed time) per part number produced and then export and pivot table.   I have also tried utilizing shop floor clockings and enter in the quantity produced.  Both activities take a significant amount of time.  

I am trying to see if i can set up graph for trends for our aging DO’s and it is not working for me, i have the data set for my aging DO’s but want to see the rise and fall by month, currently when i try it, it pulls it by only the obj status date, i am trying to see if i have 30 in jan and then 20 in feb and 40 in march for example. thank you in advance for any help, below is the data set i am working with  

Hello,We originally set up multiple Change Order Templates, but have decided to reduce the number of templates that we would like our Engineering team to be able to select from.  Is it possible to remove previous templates from the LOV in the “Copy From” field?  If so, can I have some guidance on how to perform these steps.  Thank you for your support  

Morning, We’re testing Project Time Registration. When a user F2’s on this screen they see time registrations for all empoyees rather than just being restricted to their own - as happens on the Time Registration screen. Have we missed a setup screen? Thanks, Chris.

In shop order operations, it seems that the Overlap functionality does not work correctly. While CBS and APB are not used, and Infinite scheduling is used, see the below example,Calendar configuration has 5 working days (Mon-Fri) 8 AM to 12 PM and 1PM to  5 PM (8 hour day).Work center utilization - 100 %, all operations efficiency - 100%, Resource capacity of the WC - 100Operation 10 has 24 Machine Run Time (unit - Hours) and no set up timeOperation 15 has 12 Machine Run Time (unit - Hours) and no set up time and have a Overlap of 50 percentSame work center for both operation.As I understand, the start date/time of the second operation should be 12 hours (50% of 24 hours) after starting of the first operation, which should be 1/25/2021 1.00 PM. But it is scheduled as 1/26/2021 10.00 AM (18 hours after).  Is system check something other ? Or system calculate in a different manner ? Thank you in Advance. Thushitha

We are trying to create multiple versions on an Estimate.  However, when we try to change either the components or the operations on one version, it changes on both.  How can we adjust these independently?

Hello Community,We are using IFS Version 8.We are observing  opening of shop orders after closing then successfully.What will be the issue.  

Hi All, I’m not sure exactly how to word this, but I’m hoping someone can help.I have a finished good part that I’ve set to have a safety stock. MRP is kicking out shop order requisitions, but I would like to have the requisitions automatically released to shop orders instead. The part isn’t Master Scheduled. I’ve tried a few settings on the Inventory Part with no luck. Does anyone have any advise on how I could accomplish this?

Dear All,   Please share the document with screenshots for how to use batch balancing functionality in Aurena or IEE.   Thanks in advance! BR, HA

When I move SO in APB they end of dropping off the list and I have to close and open APB to get it back.  This started happening in 2021, was wondering if maybe something with yearend calendaring was the issue or another item that I could look at.  Right now the product is unusable to us until I can resolve this issue.

Dear Support,  Am gating this error while loading the report for IFS business, Please advise.  

Is there a way to refresh/update the attributes globally or multiple parts at the same time. If a technical class has been updated with new attributes, characteristics data of the connected parts need to be updated one by one within the RMB “Refresh Attributes” for those parts to be updated with newly added attributes. If there are hundreds/thousands of parts been connected to the same technical class and need to be updated, this is huge time consuming. Is there any option to do this globally or multiple parts at the same time ? Or refreshing server cache would update it ? Thank you in advance ! Thushitha 

We are running into errors when we are trying to receive a RMA where the items was serialized between being sold to customer and coming back in as a return.   Anyone know how to make this work

Hi All, I am having a inventory part with “Online consumption” option as shown below.  Further, MS Level 1 promised method for the inventory part is “Unconsumed Forecast”   When I create a  CO with supply Code “Internal Purch Trans” , It is not allowed to save the CO line and it seems it evaluate with the  “Unconsumed Forecast” of CO header site. But  if i save this line by adjusting the quantity or date, This particular CO line is not captured in MS Level 1 ‘master schedule calculation’ job.  CO lines with Supply code options ”Internal Purch trans /Direct” should not consider the MS Level 1 “Unconsumed Forecast”  when saving the record since it is not shown as a Actual Demand  in the MS Level 1 window. Appreciate your comments on this. Kind regardsChanaka 

Hi,If the Shop Order has a Weighted Average component, you can’t Cancel it even after revers all the transactions and perform Transfer Inventory Transactions. Feels like the correct functionality due to revaluations happening with Weighted Average components each time when cost is changed.But would like to know the real logic behind this.Cheers,Aan

We’re on APPS10 UP6.   I’ve configured the IFS History Log to show changes to a specific field on the inventory Part.  The logging works and as an administrator I can see all changes,  but when a user on the Inventory Part does View - Record History  they can only see the changes they made not the field changes that another user made.  To me that defeats the purpose of the Record History - to see who changed a field and to what value.  If I set system Privilege = Administrator in their Role, then they can see changes from all users.  But we don’t want to give Administrator Access to any users.   Is this by design or is there a setting in the Roles that allow this action without setting as Administrator?   I’ve tried to give access through the role but can’t get it to work. 

In our production process we would like to have a different routing after each 50 units which are produced. This alternate routing should send the produced items to an external control center (outside operations) is there a way to implement the requested process in standard IFS. The lot size will not be higher than 10 pcs at the time. So, the alternate routing should be triggered based on the cumulative units produced.

Hello,I am attempting to create scheduled count reports that display 10 records per report. The issue with this is that most of the rows in every count report are for zero quantity part numbers / locations. Is there a way to exclude the zero quantity records? Thank you,Matt

I have a team of engineers who belong to a company, “VISA” which is comprised of two sites “VP100” & “VP110”.When the team are trying to assign an engineer manually to the resource tab of “Single Page Report In Work Order” the engineers available in the list are only those that are assigned to the site at that time rather than the full list, there are seven engineers in total, the attached screenshots capture 4 engineers assigned on one site and 3 engineers on the other.Is there any way to configure this to have visibility of all seven regardless of site? If not, what is the best or prescribed way of allowing the engineering team to switch an engineers site? Through accessing the “Organization Basic Data”?Many thanks,Matt

Is there a way to prevent special chars from being entered into IFS fields by users? For example, percent sign %, ampersand &, underscore _, etc. I seem to remember there being a basic data / system setup screen in IFS whereby you can list characters which you want to be “disallowed”, but I don't remember the name of the screen that holds this system setup/ basic data setting, and haven't been able to find reference to it in the help system. Thanks in advance,  

Good Morning, I am trying to get the Requisition line to populate in my data set, it is a viewable collumn from the Maint Material Requisiion line screen, but does not populate in the column selection. any suggestions  

Is it possible to set by inventory part the number of days from receipt into stock that the expiration date needs to be? From looking at the IFS help the expiration date field appears to be a manual entry and can not be auto populated on receiving a shop order. Thanks for your help in advance, Sarah