Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

A. Brief descriptionSome manufacturing processes require additional finished units to be produced for destructive or non-destructive testing. These units are manufactured together with the quantity required by the original demand, but they are not part of that demand and may be destroyed, damaged, or released as usable products depending on the test result.IFS Cloud does not currently provide a clear and traceable way to distinguish the quantity required by the original demand from the additional finished quantity required for testing. This can lead to manual adjustments, incorrect MRP quantities, unclear supply availability, and limited traceability between production planning and quality assessment.B. Context and scope1) Who is affected?Customers Partners2) FrequencyFrequentlyC. Value and impact1) What is the business outcome?Improves productivity or efficiency Reduces cost or manual effort Enables new capability Supports compliance or reduces risk 2) WorkaroundThe current workaround

All, As a manufacturing business we produce parts that are batch and revision controlled.This data must be physically seen on the parts produced as they are manufactured via shop orders. If there is only one operation this is simple as a label can be produced at the final operation and the part is booked into stock.How do other identify track product that has more than one operation as it moves through production from one work centre to another?Currently we rely on hand written cards and the business wants to move away from this but I can not see a standard way in IFS to produce a label once you report an operation quantity on the shop order. Is this something that IFS can't do as standard or is it a setting that we have not turned on.Any help is very much appreciated, Sarah

In my testing for unpegging an Estimate from a Business Opportunity, I find sometimes I can and sometimes I cannot with different Version Statuses and scenarios.  When I can’t unpeg the Estimate, I get the error:BusinessOpportunityLine. The ‘Business Opportunity Line” has already been removed by another User.  Refreshing the page does not clear this error.  What is this error really mean?  Are there certain parameters that must be met in order to ‘Unpeg Connected Objects’?Thank you,Jo

Hi All,I am trying to unreserve items that are reserved to a Customer Order Line which is supplied by DOP. The reservation was made by performing DOP Netting in the DOP Header connected to the customer order line. According to the documentation, un-reserving can be done by following steps given below.From the Inventory Sub Tab of the Supply Tab in DOP Order, right click the reserved stock line and choose the Manual Unreserve option. It takes you to Manual Netting from Inventory window. From there Qty Res value can be reduced to unreserve Reserved Quantities.  However, I am getting the error Qty Reserved Can’t be Less Than Qty Delivered.  This is due to Reserved Qty being delivered to Parent Order Is there any work around that I can use to unreserve these reserved items while the DOP Header/Order is still open? 

Are there any practical use cases from any customers for the FMEA function in IFS. I am trying to understand how the output from the FMEA flows into rest of the application and how customers are actually using it.

We are on IFS cloud 25R2 and have turned the parameter “Create Part Revision for each Eng Revision” to “NO” on Part Transfer Template screen.Why the system never wants to update the first part revision even if it is with a tentative structure and not in effect part revision 1 ?For a purchased part (with empty structures), the fact that a second part revision is systematically created when transfering eng part rev is a problem.Actually, with 2 differents part revisions for a purchased part, you have to make a distinct counting on each rev when inventorying.If we have decided to manage a technical modification of a purchased part by usage of a new revision instead of a new part number, this is really because we don’t want to make a different stock management on this part..Thank you for the explanation about the specific behaviour of 1st revision 

We are receiving the following error when attempting to test print a Custom Label from the Shop Order Workbench in DEV: The report definition has been configured, and the layout has been successfully imported. What is the recommended approach to resolve this issue?

We have implemented Master Scheduling in IFS Cloud to support raw material forecasting and procurement planning. We have registered all purchasing parts as MS Level 1 parts and import forecasts through a migration job based on our own forecasting logic. We would like to understand whether there is any standard functionality available that can recommend or automatically suggest changes to existing Purchase Orders before creating new requisitions.For example:If forecast demand moves earlier, can IFS recommend bringing existing Purchase Orders forward? If forecast demand moves later, can IFS recommend postponing or pushing back existing Purchase Orders? Can Master Scheduling generate action messages for rescheduling open Purchase Orders instead of creating new supply proposals? Are there any standard planning parameters or setup options that support this process?Our objective is to optimise existing supply orders first and reduce unnecessary new requisitions when demand dates change.Any g

We would like to confirm whether the following requirement can be implemented using only the Excel Add-in, without any custom add-ons or extensions.We have already implemented the process from Material Request creation to Product Issue registration using the Excel Add-in.We would like to create and manage orders using the Note field as a key attribute.Orders should be consolidated when they have the same Note value. If an order with the same Note already exists, we would like to add new line items to the existing order only when specific conditions are met.Is there any way to implement the above requirement using only the Excel Add-in?Our current implementation approach is documented in the attached Excel file. Could you please review it and let us know whether there are any configuration options or changes that would enable this functionality?

Hello,We have the following setup in Production: Galvanization is subcontracted, so we have configured a dedicated outside operation work center for galvanization and assigned it to the routing. Transportation to the subcontractor is also outsourced. We want to capture transportation costs against the manufactured parts, so we created a separate outside operation work center for transportation and added it to the routing as well. When a shop order is released, purchase requisitions are automatically generated for the transportation operation. Since multiple shop orders may be shipped together, we can consolidate several transportation requisitions into a single purchase order and use one transport service for all parts being sent to the subcontractor.The problem: Our transportation provider issues one invoice for a single transport service, regardless of the number of parts being transported.However, the purchase order generated from the routing contains transportation service lines

Hi, We are looking for a way to create a simple forecast and based on that plan the supplies. The version is IFS Cloud 25R2.The actual demands (COs) of the finished goods for next 3 months can be taken as firm, however the demands beyond that are unconfirmed so forecasts can be setup. There are components with long lead times so better start planning for those in advance, based on a forecast. It is understood that Master Scheduling functionalities would come handy in this. The main concern is, moving the business to plan using Master Scheduling is a considerable change of practice, and might not be feasible with the go-live plans at the moment. Do we have a way to simply enter a forecast in IFS Cloud (not using MS) and plan the rest using MRP ?

We are currently experiencing an issue in our shop order processing where an Operation Deviation Qty appears, even though:No over‑reporting took place No bypass quantity was reported No additional scrap was recorded at the affected operation All previous operations provided consistent and correct quantitiesThe deviation was created solely because the Operation Qty of a downstream operation was probably automatically reduced by the system, without any corresponding user action, feedback transaction, or log entry explaining this adjustment.As soon as the operator reported the correct Completed Qty, the system created a deviation. The downstream operation inherited the same reduced Operation Qty and continued to show the same deviation, even though the actual physical quantity was correct.Here are some process details: A prior operation reports 100 pcs, with 1 scrap, leaving 99 good pcs. → All data confirms the correct remaining quantity: 99 pcs. The next operation (let’s call it Operat

Hi everyone,We are experiencing an issue with the Create Standard Part from Configuration functionality for a Multi-Level CTO structure and would like to know if others have encountered the same behavior and how that was solved. When creating a Standard Part from a completed/excisting configuration, the system appears to include all configured components in the structure, rather than only the components that belong to the evaluated configuration.We observe the following behavior:If "Use Configuration Description as Part Description" is selected, only some components receive a value in New Part Description. When proceeding to the next step, the process fails with the error: If "Use Configuration Description as Part Description" is not selected, the system appears to generate descriptions for all configured components, including components that should not belong to the selected configuration.Because of this, it looks as if components excluded by the configuration rules are still being in

I would like to ask whether there is a way to control material issues for Material Requisitions and Shop Orders separately.Currently, we would like to achieve the following:・Allow material issues based on Material Requisitions from a specific storage location.・Prevent material issues based on Shop Orders from the same storage location.We have reviewed the Part Availability Controls functionality; however, it appears that this setting controls both Material Requisition issues and Shop Order issues in the same manner.Is there any alternative method, configuration, or functionality that would allow these two processes to be controlled independently?

All,  I have had a couple of questions sent me regarding visual scheduling of shop orders.  One of our customer's business units wants to be able to use visual capacity requirements planning to do their longer term assignments to operators on the shop floor.  They then use drag and drop scheduling to move work from a general work center to a specific work center for an operator. When they highlight a shop order to move, the display does not provide any information or the status of the materials required for the shop order.  Has anyone done a modification to the dialog box that shows the shop order information to allow it to show the material status?

以下の要件は、カスタムアドオンや拡張なしでExcelアドインだけで実装できるのかお聞きしたいです。Excelアドインを使って、資材要求から商品発給までの登録を実装しました。注釈フィールドをキー属性として注文を作成・管理したいと考えています。注文は同じ注釈値で統合されるべきです。同じ注釈の注文がすでに存在する場合、特定の条件が満たされた場合にのみ既存の注文に新しい行項目を追加したいと考えています。上記の要件をExcelアドインだけで実装する方法はありますか?現在の実装方針は添付のExcelファイルに記録しています。この機能を実現するために変更や設定できる部分があれば教えていただけませんか?

One of my customers is encountering errors of various types when they run the costing calculation and the encounter of the error shuts down the background job.  So they correct the error and rerun the process.  Now, if they run the process again and another error for another part is encountered, the second background job also fails.Does anyone know if there is a process that can pre-check the calculation for all the possible errors without actually writing the newly calculated costs to the part cost records? Thanks

Will someone please explain to me the purpose of an Inventory Part Revision? Note: We do not use the engineering part functionality.

We create our supply orders through Project Demands and have a manufactured part, including several sub-assemblies, that is used across different activities within the same project.Inventory Part data for one of the sub-assemblies is configured as follows:Variable Lead Time (Days): 36 Fixed Lead Time (Hours): 0 Manufacturing Lead Time: 36 Expected Lead Time: 5We have a customer order line with a Wanted Delivery Date of 26/03/2027, and PMRP/MRP is executed overnight.Recently, the resulting Shop Order Requisition was created with what appears to be no manufacturing lead time being considered:Shop Order RequisitionProposed Start Date: 16/03/2027 Due Date: 17/03/2027Based on the lead time settings above, we would have expected the planning process to schedule the start date earlier and take the 36-day manufacturing lead time into account.What makes this particularly unusual is that we processed a similar demand for another activity within the same project, which was released earlier, and t

WHen we go to add records to a spare parts forecast, do I need to turn on the online consumption flag on the inventory part?

Issue with Part Revision: A new revision was automatically created when the most recent revision was marked as "phase out." * New part revisions are being automatically created after the most recent revisions are marked as "phased out."  * Many of the affected parts are components of the mentioned finished goods.  * The issue was especially noticeable between December 15 and 16, 2024, affecting 89 parts.  **Question:**  Is there any adjustment or configuration in the system that automatically triggers changes in the revisions of component parts when changes are made to finished goods?  

I need an inventory part for water that will be used in bills of materials and production orders.I would like its consumption/issue to be recorded in the production order. Is it possible to do this without receiving it into inventory first?I created an inventory part called “zero cost forbidden”, but in order to issue it from a production order, I first have to post a receipt into inventory (as an alternative solution, this works).I tried using “Negative On Hand Allowed”, unfortunately without success. In this case, it seems that there must also be at least one received quantity in inventory before an issue can be posted.I also tried “Allow as Not Consumed”, but then it is not possible to issue the item from inventory.Is there any other way to record the issue/consumption of water for production while having an inventory part with zero cost and no inventory quantity?Thank you in advance for your answers.

Dear Team,I am new to IFS cloud deplyong the solution on-premises. Kindly recommend third-party tools that I can deploy to help me with managing user licenses and that can also be used on other platforms. Also if there are tools i can use for helping in administration and they are not part of the default delivery.

Hi all,We have a situation where MRP plans manufactured parent and component parts sequentially, while in reality production can start before the supplying shop order is fully completed.Example:Part A is a manufactured component. Part B is a manufactured parent part that uses 1 piece of Part A. The routing for both Part A and Part B results in approximately 1 hour lead time per piece. For a shop order quantity of 40 pieces, the total lead time becomes approximately 1 week.As a result, MRP plans:Shop Order for Part A from Monday to Friday. Shop Order for Part B starting the following Monday.This means MRP assumes all 40 pieces of Part A must be completed before Part B can start.In reality, once the first pieces of Part A are completed, production of Part B could already begin. Therefore, we would like MRP to generate requisitions and planned shop orders with some degree of overlap.Additional information:The product structures and routings have been migrated from our previous ERP system

Hi everyone,I have a question regarding inter-site transactions between sites belonging to different IFS databases.The IFS documentation states that Distribution Orders cannot be used to move parts directly between different databases. However, it also mentions that Inter-site Purchase Orders and Inter-site Customer Orders can be used between different databases, with Message Handling configured to send the inter-site PO to the supply site.My question is specifically about the technical connectivity between the two IFS databases.For example:Database A → Company A → Site A (Demand Site) Database B → Company B → Site B (Supply Site)If an Inter-site PO is created in Database A and needs to create the corresponding Inter-site CO in Database B:How is the connection between Database A and Database B established in IFS Cloud?