Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Hi, does anyone know if it is possible to generate a report that is exportable to Excel of the information on the IPAP / Planning Info tab for all/many parts? In other words, a table view of all/many parts (query’able) that lists inventory part no, last year in/out, current year in/out etc etc. I need to be able to get the usage information (for all parts transacted) into Excel to be further analysed. Thanks!

When we make the forecast status as active budget we can use an approval template to authorize the budget as an active budget. But this can be removed by users.Is there a better way to handle this as in Purchase Requisition authorization where authorization is enabled via a rule.

Hello,Due to the nature of contracts and human mistakes, sometimes it will be extremely useful to be able to change the Status of a Sales Contract from LOST to something else. Also, sometimes the customer in a contract will change and if the contracts has move to an status Awarded we cannot change the customer. In general, we have found that the IFS Sales contract are fairly rigid once you reached certain status in their workflow. I will appreciate your comments regarding any potential workarounds changing the status of a sales contract from LOST and also changing the customer after the contract has been awarded.Many thanks and  kind regardsMig

I am trying to see a Non Conformance Report attached to a customer order from the B2B portal. I see it attached to the CO in IEE or Aurena, but not in the B2B. Is there any particular classification of the NCR may I need to do?

I have been approached by an existing customer, who has a specific problem that they need to address and are struggling to find a direct solution. They currently use Project Delivery to delivery different configured items to their customers. However the delivered product can comprise various combinations of parts and revisions within the product structure along with different alternatives for the structure. They have attempted to use Phase in Date (Using a Custom RMB) to align the dates for the different alternatives (which represent the different Engineering Part Revisions, however the revision increment upwards i.e. 1 to 2 to 3, but in many instances there revisions are 2 way alternatives) for the structures, however the issue that they experience is how to determine which Inventory part meets the requirement to 'build' the required product as they cannot determine the 'Revision' of the Inventory part needed to build the product at time of reserving or issuing to the shop-order. Has

Just to provide some insight on IFS replication monitoring and data repairing for replication issues that is being performed for most deepwater drilling customers who maintain a replicating system(s). By definition, Replication makes it possible for several installations of IFS Applications to share basic data. One instance of IFS Applications can be the owner (master) of some basic data and other instances (slaves) can share the master’s data. Whenever data is created or modified at the master site the data is replicated to the slaves and the slave instances are updated.    When data is not replicated properly this will result in errors,   e.g. - Error:                      RecordNo=3 - ORA-20111: PurchaseRequisition.NOTEXIST2: The Requisition object does not exist.   If the above error arises in the Central/Onshore vessel then it has to be determined on whether the requisition object does not exist for real. If it does exist in the offshore/slave vessel (other instance) you can exc

We have multiple sites reporting this issue today after 12am - has anyone else seen this and know what might be causing it/how to fix it? (see attached)Error message will now allow user to save in Production Schedule by Line with information message pop-up: “The field [Schedule Firm?] has a value that is not in the list of approved values”We have not had any system changes in the last 12 hours that would cause this, that we are aware of.

I am wondering if anyone has run into this or has some insight on how to resolve an issue we have. We are in environment IFS 9. We have a serialized part that has a configuration attached to it. At some point we duplicated the serial in the live system. (Same serial number two different config numbers attached) due to the part numbers being connected one was the superior of the other someone decided to scrap the incorrect part out of the system. This made the serial number still in inventory unusable  we do not have the part physically so we need to get this off the books and out of inventory. The part has a current position of Unlocated and operational status of Scrapped, and operation condition non operational when looking in the part serial screen. Any one have suggestions on how to remove from inventory? I have already tried to scrap, count out and issue out the part.

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.