Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Hi all, We are just now starting to use the Manufacturing Visualizer for our Shop Order Planning/scheduling and haven’t quite advanced to thew APB and CBS processes. Is there a way to display the Shop Order Routing Operation Transport Time on the visualizer? We are using this data as curing time and are reluctant to create a specific line of operation just for curing. Any and all advice will be appreciated.   Regards   Ken

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When clicking on the link in the mail about “Important Information / Related to IFS Applications”, regarding “Following Oracle’s update about changes to the support of its database suite, we want to inform you about the implications on your IFS Applications™ implementation”, it fails. The link throws an “You are not authorized to access this page. - This content is restricted to a select group of members. Please contact the community manager to request access” message. After creating an account, it still doesn’t work, so where is: "https://community.ifs.com/news-and-announcements-21/oracle-database-support-changes-impact-for-customers-operating-ifs-apps-9-1109" ?  

Hi There, Need your assistant,  We had to create multiple Work types for each site ( we have around 10+ Sites) in order to cater business requirement at posting control level. However now each users at sites can see 100+ work types to select even though they want to display around 10+ work types.    Current Workaround for this is create a global search condition and save it to user profile. Users are not educated enough to make this so IT have to logon to their account and do the necessary things    My question is , Is there any chance to create the global search condition at super user level and grant the permission for relevant users without login using their user profile ?   or Any Suggestion please   

We have started using Consignment Stock for Supplier-owned stock. We want to be able to identify such stock within the “Inventory Part In Stock” data. I could join to Inv Trans Hist using the Part_no/contract/Lot_batch_no to get the CO-ARRIVAL record, but at 75 million Inv Trans Hist rows, even forcing an index takes a very long time in an SQL statement. Any ideas as to how I can include/exclude within some of our Inventory Part In Stock reports? We are running IFS2003!

I’m curious what the Parent Part Field is used for on the Material Tab in a Shop Order?  I understand what parent means, but I’m curious who uses that field and what it’s used for, or tied to?  We don’t use IFS as our engineering tool, is that what it would pull from, or?   Thank you!

Hi All, Is there a mobile app for purchase approval on IFS, similar to the MWO for the engineering mobile app.

IFS has support issues under support center. Just wondering if anyone has used this module and if there is any functional document available. Looking at IFS screen help it seems to allow sending email from the support issue, which emails issue journal. However, when user emails reply does it automatically get appended to journal. I am trying to understand if this module is like Zendesk type ticketing system.

Hi, this may be a really simple question but I am accessing the Apps 10 Aurena PPE environment on a chromebook. It works really nice but I can't find an obvious way of accessing  the help. Of course, on a chromebook there is no F1 button and I can't see a link to the help. Please help! Thanks everyone.

The customers that am working with raised the following question. Would like to request your feedback and advice to assist the customer. Description: Project Gantt Performance Issues   To move one activity without saving or scheduling takes 1 minutes and 9 seconds a time.  3 minutes to save saving before scheduling; 1 minute to schedule on only 4 activity changes and a further 3 minutes 17 seconds to save the scheduled changes. Effectively looking at up to 9-10 minutes per overall change and the business currently makes daily changes due to various reasons.  If I had to move 120 linked activities that would be 2 hours work?! Test Scenarios: Open a Project in Gantt view Move Activity and Save Schedule Project and Save

We would like to be able to track ownership of our Product’s within the system.  That way if we ever have a product change we can notify the correct people or groups of people within the organization. Example Product:  Instrument Landing Example Ownership Matrix:         Product Functional Owner = Jane Doe                                                           Product Technical Owner = John Smith                                                           Product Safety Owner = US Safety Team In a perfect world, we would be able to track different people for a Design Product vs an deployed equipment. Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

The customer experiences the following issue and would like your advice on a resolution. Issue Encountered: When we create project deliverables from the project, the project ID is not defaulting. Issue to re-create: 1) Go to Project window. (Project Management > Plan and Excute > Project) 2) Right mouse button on the header and select the option > Project Deliverables > Create new 3) It opens the window Project Deliverables Definition window. Where the Project ID is left blank. 4) Even after saving the issue seems to be present.

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We have a need to send purchase orders to multiple people at the supplier (procurement and quality group for example).  How do we do this with an Event?  We have the same issue with Customer Invoices needing to go to Customers (Procurement, Quality and Finance).  If we have one, we would be able to figure out the other.

Is there any way to implement some sort of approval flow when entering scrap for an inventory part so that if a certain scrap code is used, it then must be approved? Some scrap codes we use need to be verified/looked at, while others are considered normal process types of transactions.   With all that said, we do not (and do not want to at this time) use the scrap functionality from the workbench.

During manufacturing operation(s), it very well may be the case that you'd want to restrict the Manufacturing Employees from re-opening the Shop Orders based on your exact requirement and operating guidelines. In this scenario, you may edit the user profile settings as follows: 1) Navigate to 'Users' screen 2) Click on 'Create New User' 3) Search for the User Identity in question using the Search Option 4) Locate the User Setting enabled for this user (Permission Set) from the navigator 5) Click on this enabled permission set 6) Click on the 'View/Edit Permission Set' link 7) This opens the Permission Set (in more detail) 8) Select the 'Database Objects' tab 9) Enter 'shop_ord_api.open' in the search bar, and click on 'Find' button 10) Select the Database Object(s) - 'Open' and 'Open_' 11) Upon each selection, you may uncheck the method calls pertaining to Open and Open_ against the SHOP_ORD_API as the logical

Hello, A user recently brought to my attention that the ‘Export’ button is missing from the IFS BR ribbon/ toolbar in Excel when the report is run/ exported from App10 IFS IEE. We are currently using version 5.0.8.0. Additionally, the IFS BR ‘Export’ button seems to appear in Development mode when logged in to IFS BR application on PC.  Is the recommended workaround to use the native Excel ‘File → Export’ functionality?  

​Dear all, I am asking again  Is Anyone can confirm that Supplier Delivery Pattern does not exist in IFS 10? I have searched anywhere but nothing found, whether at the documentation or the IFS Application. If it confirmed, why it has gone?

I’m having a problem in proceeding survey functionality in IFS app 8. Here I created a survey and did not select the checkbox regarding ‘Answer Once’ assuming that it will allow me to answer to the survey more than once. But, when I’m going to attempt it for 2nd time, the error message pop up stating that ‘ you have already answered the survey, if you have not please contact the system administrator’. Further when I contact system administrator he does not know what to be done? Could you explain the functionality of  ‘Answer Once’  check box? Is there anything that system administrator can do?

IFS Setup:  IFS Apps 10 Barcode Printer:  Zebra ZT-420 Crystal Reports:  2016 I am trying to create the inventory part barcode label in GS1 format.   This looked to have worked in IFS Report Designer by using a custom field to generate the code required and using the DataMatrix label format.   However, although I have amended the page layout to be 10cm x 7cm it still appears to be printing as per A4, the label prints in the centre of the width of the page.  If I look at the layout in report designer layout it still specifies A4 and will not let me change the value.   How can I do this? Secondly, can anyone recommend a GS1 Barcode Font provider that can be used in Crystal Reports as that was my second choice to create the barcode label. If we have to purchase from a GS1 Barcode Font provider, how is this implemented into IFS.  I think the ‘plugin’ would have to be installed on the middleware server.  Is there a specific folder that the font needs to

When logged on certain pc on trying to view the IFS field help I receive a incorrect file type error.   If the same user logs on another machine they do not experience this problem, the field help displays correctly.   Any ideas?

Can anyone please advise on what work would be required to carry out this task.

My company is on Apps 9 and I have an issue with a subcontracting purchase order. The purchase order was created from a purchase requisition whose demand came from an outside operation on a shop order. The purchase requisition generated one line for the total quantity on the shop order. When our purchasing department converted it to a purchase order they added additional lines, reduced the quantity on the original line and all lines now total the original first line. By doing this, the original demand code was changed from Demand Code “Shop Order" to Demand Code "Non Inventory” on the added lines. Now when we Register Purchase Order Arrivals for the added lines, they are not connected to the shop order and we are unable to complete the operation on the shop order. What can we do to enable us to receive in the purchase order and have it connected to the shop order. Example: Purchase Requisition generated from Shop order for 500 EA. Purchase order created for 5 lines of 100 EA.

We want to create a custom field RAG_STATUS on the Supplier Info header screen. if Insurance Renewal Request = ‘YES’ THEN RAG_STATUS = ‘GREEN’ If Insurance Renew Requested = ‘NO’  and Insurance Renewal Date has not expired but is >= TODAY’S DATE -30 DAYS then RAG_STATUS = ‘AMBER’ If Insurance Renewal Date has expired then RANG_STATUS = ‘RED’ Finally, if possible we would like the field to highlight the RAG_STATUS field in the colour of the RAG_STATUS answer. Probably achieving the above via a custom event. Any ideas on how I can achieve this.

Inventory Part in Stock Reservations lets you search for a part and you can see where this part is reserved on Shop Orders. Is there any functionality in IFS which lets you mass unreserve part from several shop orders rather than going into each individual shop order and then unreserve material? This would save lot of time for users. It may be done using Custom Menu option but wondering if it is available out of box.