Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Hi there:  any one have experience or use SSO on IFS APP9?

In IFS 10 FAP17 Posting Control not avaible, could you please please suggest another way. In IFS 8 it is available. 

We often pre-define product routings based on traditional routing operations for all lot sizes. However, what if the ERP application can select the correct routing for the defined lot size in your shop order? IFS Applications has the ability to simulate ‘Unit Cost Per Alternate’.Now, if we can gain cost benefit via Economies Of Scale, then why not use a selection of routing alternates to cater the varying scale of your operation.Solution: Unit Cost Per Alternate functionalityDefine several Alternates in your Routing; Simulate Cost Per Unit based on the Cost Set (2); Define alternate recommendation for the varied range of lot sizes.

When comparing shop_order_operation with routing_operation not all fields are considered/updated. E.g note_text. You have to delete the shop order operations first. Is there a way to compare all fields?

There is  ‘Shop order Allocations Per Part’ window in APP8. What is the window similar to this in APP10?

When deploy database files using IFS Solution Developer when do patch merging for IFS App10, we mostly get “Database code generation failed” Error as below and files are not deployed correctly in internal environments. Is there any workaround for this to get deployed the database files after patch merge?

Business process automation is a hot topic for few years now. Automate routine, high-volume tasks that are prone to human error and consume valuable staff resources will provide lot of benefits to companies, and in turn a good business opportunity for ERP vendors. In the "Accounting" field what are the main areas that we can think of Automation? > for. e.g. Supplier Invoicing Process - 3 way matching Very much interested in knowing the possibilities of how we can automate Accounting processes.

There is a question regarding the possibility to disable the auto populate functionality on the Shop Floor Workbench when a user logs in.

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My customer has a Sales Contract with the valuation method "Quantity". However, the quantity is not shown in the Project Invoice. Why is this?

If a Project is connected to multiple Shop Orders and one of the shop orders is connected to a Department (from an operation/work center), it is populating all the Shop Orders when loading Advanced Planning Board with the Department. This seems to be the current application behavior. Does it go in line with the real-world production scheduling?

Hi guys, one of our customers has asked a question which I hope you can help with. The customer is is running Apps9, Update 1 but their MWO version is currently UPD9 PS2, HF1. The question is: Android have recently released their new OS and we have found some issues with compatibility with our current version. I understand that at present IFS only support MWO 9 up to Android Version 8. I just wanted to confirm the status with regard to support and how we can resolve this issue. It is likely that going forward any new devices that we receive will be pre-configured with Android V10. Any help would be gratefully received.

When the valuation method is Weighted Average (WA) , it takes longer time to receive 3000 serials through purchase order arrival registration ( issue occurs in In APP10 too) . System gives time out error. Do we have any suggestions to improve the efficiency?

Is there a single screen to see all existing configurations ? Also can we export/import configurations from one environment to another ?

Pick by Choice is a functionality introduced in App10, there we have the option to select the scope of the choice we should be given when making the choice. My question is when I allow this functionality to be used on stock for which the pick list has been created and printed how does it work when a change is made to the existing picking plan of that stock since the previous pick list has been already printed.

In APP9 when customers are in the “Shop Floor Workbench” screen, customers can clock in labor on multiple shop orders at the same time, both on the same resource and not on the same resource without the system asking or warning. The system does continue to clock labor on each shop order that is running concurrently, and each shop order that is running continues to show the gear icon. Question: If customer have “ask” selected under the “allow concurrent operations” for the labor class, why isn’t the system asking before clock in under multiple shop orders?

The customer is upgrading to APP9 and they are asking about the new History tab on the Shop Order. There is now an Order History tab and a Material History tab. I believe the Material History information was always available but now it is included under a History tab with Order History information. The customer wants to know that when they are tracking this Order History, how long will this information be available? Is this working with History Logging where they can have this automatically cleaned up based on the setup for History Logging or is this Order History on the Shop Order independent of that? The customer is also asking what is the impact that this additional history logging could have on our system.

Have a customer question related to FIFO as below: How is it possible to revalue FIFO costing method inventory parts? We updated the cost set 2 and copied to cost set 1 however the inventory value did not changed? Please advise me.

When entering a Resource into a Project Resource Forecast, a warning is given that the Project Cost Revenue Element (PCRE) is mandatory. After ignoring the warning, looking at the Cost Element shows the PCRE has an entry. However, the checkbox for missing Code Part remains which prevents further processing.

I have installed a delivery for an issue relate to Advanced Planning Board. I have manually copied the necessary .dll files and SchedServ.exe to the runtime folder. When trying to launch APB from IFS Application I get an error and it does not load. This was working before the delivery installation. What can I do to fix this issue?

In App10, Customers face with an issue of no vouchers being created after running "Transfer Project Multicompany Reporting" which should transfer Time and Project Transactions. Even though the transactions were approved, vouchers still weren't created. Please verify.

The following question was raised by a customer: The customer would like to know if there is a way to include supplier material on a purchase order for an outside service. The customer encounters a scenario where another inventory part will need to be send to a supplier during an outside service (i.e. Heat treating). The customer would like to use supplier material for this, since it will never be charged to the supplier. When I attempt to make a product structure for the purchase part, I am unable to create the record for because there is no revision no (assuming this is because the outside service part is WIP and not inventory.) Is there any way to accomplish this?

One of my customers are encountering the following issue. Would like your advice and feedback on the below issue. Use of QA trigger for production scheduled parts We are using IFS Production Schedules and would like to create QA control plans systematically for the QA analysis. IFS Control plans do not work for IFS production scheduled parts. Question: How can we create automatic creation of QA control plans for QA with using IFS Production schedules for the manufacturing process? Error Message: Sample Frequency trippers cannot be used for production schedule parts Test plan 1. Create a manufactured part that will be produced by a production schedule 2. Create a QA control plan for the part 3. Attempt to create Sample Frequency Trigger (tab) a. Any parameters b. Save and note error message Are

I received a question by an IFS conultant regarding upgrade scripts of updating project posting types in App10 RTM. The question is ; We advise customers that ‘PRE’ scripts do not change data, and it is safe to run in current production versions of IFS when we do upgrades. But it seems that ‘PRE_PRJREP_APP10_UpdateProjectPostingTypes.sql’ changes data in the database. Could you please advise the reason that data changes in ‘PRE_PRJREP_APP10_UpdateProjectPostingTypes.sql’ are built into a ‘PRE’ script than a ‘POST’ script? In addition, can we guarantee that this will not interfere with the existing production versions’ functionality?

In App 9 IFS copy item (F6) in Engineering parts browser​ does not copy the IFS number and leave some objects blank. The F6 function works well in the Parts browser but not in the Engineering browser.