Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Does anyone know on the Auto Process Shop Order workflow what the sequencing is regarding reservation? We understand the SO Start Date and Required Date options but what if we have two SOs with the same requirements/SO Start Date and material line Required Date and only enough stock to satisfy one lot of demand.  What’s the next level of criteria? ThanksLinda

We are currently running Apps10 and starting our Cloud upgrade project.  We own the engineering part module but have never used it.  The last time we looked at it was in our initial implementation project 10+ years ago.  It’s been suggested that we implement the engineering part module as part of our upgrade. My question is - does anyone know where I can find general information about the purpose and general functionality of this module?  I’m looking for what would’ve been a marketing presentation to explain it to someone thinking about buying it.  I need to put together info for our leadership about the module and this recommendation, and I don’t have the time to do a detail dive into the module before this info is due.  I’ve asked our IFS contacts - with no success so far.

Hello together,I just tried some things in the routing. I want to setup the costs for the setup time and the machine time, but for both fields “Setup Labor Class” and “Labor Class” lead both to “Manufacturing Labor Class”. How can I setup the setup costs and the mascvhine costs independently?Thank you.Regards Markus

Hello, Is anyone able to explain what exactly enabling the “Run Integrated with CRP” option does when you perform Site MRP in Cloud? There seems to be conflicting info, which is confusing me. The field help description states: If this option is enabled, CRP backward scheduling logic will be used to schedule shop order requisitions generated from the process. As a result, the start dates of the requisitions/receipts generated will be more accurate. However, this thread explains that the MRP calculation will use the routing information to calculate the fixed & variable lead time to schedule the SOR start date. It will only use the manufacturing lead time value on the Inventory Part screen if the routing time is 0. So if this is the case, what does enabling the CRP option in MRP actually do? This thread explains it is not the same as running CRP separately, i.e. the data in the machine & labour load screens won’t update until CRP is run separately. I think what I’m looking for is

Hi ,While trying to email the report from print dialog it is throwing error message in the Application messages saying SMTP server name or address not specified!. Does anyone know why we get this error.  Thanks in Advance!

We have a few thousand obsolete inventory parts (status = O - OBSOLETE). Is there a way to hide/archive these parts to stop coming up on Inventory Part searches? It is “cluttering” the screen and there is no reason for users to see these PNs.In our old system we [in general] archived parts that had been obsoleted for at least 2 years. Once archived, it would not show up on standard inventory part searches. There was a special way to search for archived parts and it was possible to “unarchive”, but seldom did we ever have a need to do this.Thanks

Hi Everyone, All though the question is for APPS9, I want to resolve there to migrate data from backend to IFS cloud.Why is the qty per assembly different on Product Structure and Engineering part navigator. The quantity required is 1 in every process thus we have 4 process so it shall be 4 in product structure, but system shows 16 which is wrong. Please help.

Hello everyone, Where can i enter the basic data for Inventory Part > Classification > Product Category and where can i use this information? Thank you,Fatih YILDIRIM

Hi,Every time my customer tries to release a shop order , he gets a locked message error saying that it can’t be done, then when he tries again a few minutes later, the release works.It has been a recurring issue for all of his shops orders releases and wants to know where the issue comes from and how to prevent it? Thanks for your help. PS: I have screen shots if needed but it’s in french and I was not able to replicate the issue in the test environment.

we are reporting an operation in a shop order, which backflushes components perfectly. Can the smae reporting of the operation, also do a receipt of the parent part into inventory? 

24.1.5In the Settings dialog for Machine Operations Scheduling, there is a setting for Current Gantt Chart Height with the options Small, Medium, Large, and Auto. When I change this value, all it seems to do is shift the Gantt left-to-right or vice versa, the height does not change.What is the intended function of this setting?

Is there a method to delete an old/ invalid Change Request Type in status “Approved”?I have a case where some of the Change Type Requests were approved by error.Thank you in advance!

Is there a limit to the number of Shop Orders that can be Reserved in one hit? Seems to be 120?   Is there any recommended alternative approach where we have more than 120 to reserve in one go? Thanks

Shop Floor Reporting User Settings per SiteDefault Register Time for EmployeesWhen I need the default value for Approve Operation - Register Time for EmployeesRegister Time for EmployeesThe settings for Register Time for Employees   

In IFS Cloud 24R1 UPD 5, Inventory Part has a classification called Product Category which is a drop-down list.  However, I could not find any basic data page where values can be added to Product Category. Couldn’t find any content in the IFS Product Documentation regarding this field and the Inventory Part page has no Field Description for it either.  Can someone help please?TIA

Hi, I’d like to suggest some enhancement for the very useful Quick Preview feature IFS Cloud offers for some files types when using Document Management.Currently, we can : Rotate Zoom in/out with a slider (with no real-time preview)I suggest 2 other functionnalities that would be more ergonomic to use, especially with touch devices :Zoom In and Zoom out buttons : zoom in or out by increment (10% ?) Full page : auto scale the document to display the full picture (if image) or full page (if PDF)    This would seriously increase the ergonomy to view some technical drawings in the Shop Floor Workbench screen for example.Best regards, Pierre

Hello,As seen in the attached picture on the Quality Basic Data page, the marked parts are not marked. However, its status is inactive as seen in the 2nd picture on the Control Plan page. Then, when activated as shown in the 3rd picture, it automatically marks the Mandatory part. Then, on the Quailty Basic Data page, the marked area in the 4th picture becomes ticked. How can I avoid this situation? 

Community, Any experience, how to create project safety stock in IFS?  We are in APP10, UPD9. Thank you.

Will there always be MRP make entries in MRP Part Information and Inventory Part Availability Planning for phantom parts? I guess they are needed for the correct explosion of demands to the next level, but users think it is confusing since they will not create any shop order requisitions.

In any version, is it possible to determine if a shop order was the result of a comprehensive shop order split?

Hello,I can’t change some of shop orders size. When I want to change it or increase it, it says “The shop order estimate cost of the manufactured part will be negative. This is not allowed. Check By-Product setup.”How can I change the lot size of shop order?   

Currently, we are encountering a hard stop error at shop order receipt whenever we attempt to consume a subassembly part that is associated with an open MRB into the parent shop order. The error message reads: "Component part serial 'part number/' exists in an open MRB case; receipt cannot be processed." While we are able to issue the component to the shop order, we are unable to complete the shop order receipt due to this issue.For context, the MRB pertains to a limited subset of impacted parts, not all parts of that part number. Additionally, these parts are both serial and lot-tracked, but it seems the MRB screen does not support the use of unique identifiers so it’s grouping all inventory tied to that part number. We’re currently on Apps 10 Update 20 in the IEE Client.I’m interested in learning how other members of the community are managing MRBs (Material Review Boards) for subassemblies. Any insights or best practices on how to handle this situation would be greatly appreciated.

​​​​​​Hi, Has anytnig  changed in that topic? Is there  any way to force the system  to  take the tool for calculations?   If we have 1 tool that we used for manufacturing several products and we have  1 work center with several resources that this tool can be used.  How can I set the system not to schedule this product at the same time?   

Hello IFS family, As we have a standard functionality in ‘Inventory part in stock’ screen to print barcode we want to have the same functionality on Transport task line, first of all is that feasible? I tried creating a custom menu for the same and stuck here, as in the process to trigger a barcode from a data line when we click on the custom menu a new barcode Id needs to be generated and stored in the ‘inventory_part_barcode_rep’ view as it works for the existing functionality. But I checked and this - ‘inventory_part_barcode_rep’ is in read-only state as seen below, so how do I add the data for triggering the data. Please suggest a way out of this or maybe a total new approach to meet the requirement. Thanks !!

In shop order operation using IFS Apps10 we have assigned the operation to 2 employees with different labor class. I found that in estimated cost for the shop order the labor cost is taken from the labor class of operation line level and not from assigned employees. how this point can be resolved?Thank you.