Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

We’re working with a client for whom certain Product Structures which contain a specified components specify a quantity of “As Needed” for it. This appears to be due to the fact that they always know they’re going to need this component but the quantity cannot be determined until the Manufacturing Process has actually started. Once this has happened the Manufacturing staff simply go and take what they need for the order that is in progress. However in other Product Structures this same component can appear with both a specified quantity and Unit Of Measure so there is no consistencyThis particular component has no unit of measure defined for it (we can manage this using the * No Unit defined) UoM when creating the Part Master and when including it in a Product Structure it is added as 1*, but how can we manage this component both from a UoM (as it needs to have an * UoM in some cases and an oz UoM in others) and also an MRP perspective.

In Apps10 IEE, I want to use the visualizer in the Labor Load Details screen, specifically the Labor Load Summary graphic, to view the scheduled operation hours in a work center for a given day against that work center’s capacity hours. What I get instead for capacity is the sum of labor capacity for the entire labor class. Take for example the below:The work center ELRPR has 9.32 hours loaded on the date 12/10/24. The work center capacity on any given day is 9.56 hours.Therefore I expect the visual to show that the work center is near fully loaded for that day. Instead, the capacity that is considered in the visual is 434 hours (for every work center), which comes from the labor class’s total capacity for any given day. This causes the visual to show that every work center is near 0% loaded for any given day.    The visual therefore is not helpful for viewing work center loads. What do you use to view work center loads?

 Hello All, I am looking at connecting a part to a production line so I can use the unscheduled receipts function to convert unsterile manufactured parts into sterile parts with minimal admin. The steriliser is run several times a day, with multiple parts, so using Shop Orders would create a lot of admin work. The Sterile parts have a forecast and are Master Scheduled. The production receipts for the sterile parts are created manually, as are the Shop Orders for the unsterile parts, but I want MRP to generate the Purchase Requisitions for the components based off the forecast. I’ve set up a stucture like below, and tested out and all seems to be working as I hoped. However, the help function for the Production Line is confusing me - it suggests MRP is cancelled when it reaches a Production Line part, but this is not what I am seeing.​@Björn Hultgren I think we have spoken about Production Schedules previously, so I hope you don’t mind me tagging you. From Help Page:“Demand for parts ma

Hi,The issue we have is that a part is normally purchased. (Part type = Purchased in Inventory Part => cost template P-140 Planned purchased cost template ). But occasionally it is required to manufacture the part locally. When manufacturing locally the shop order also need outside operations.But with this setup the Shop Order is missing cost buckets to collect the outside operation costs and therefor we are unable do arrival for outside operation related purchase order. Currently we are solving the issue by temporarily changing the part type to Manufactured at the time of arrival of the outside operation related purchase order and then immediately change it back. (because we want to ensure that the MRP generated SO-req and not PO-req)I suppose that one solution could be to add manufacturing related cost buckets into cost template P-140 but I don’t believe that is the recommended way to handle this. If so why should we have different cost templated for manufactured and purchased par

How can we remove the permission to create new project transactions from a permission set?

Hello,We are using IFS Applications 9, and I am trying to disable the right-click (RMB) functionality in the "OP Reports" tab of the Shop Floor Workbench for specific users. Could someone please assist with the process to implement this restriction?Thank you in advance for your help!  

From the documentation and experience it looks like if you run PMRP per Activity, it will do no netting at all. But what, if any, will be the difference between running “Perform PMRP per Project PNG” for the whole site and running “Perform Project MRP per Planned Netting Group” also for the whole site if we only have project PNGs? Why are these two jobs needed anyway? To the untrained eye it would seem that “Perform Project MRP per Planned Netting Group” would do the job in both cases (both when you have project PNGs and PNGs over project boundaries).

Hello,We have some manufactured parts that are not appearing in the "As-Built Structure" or "Serial Object."From my understanding, they should show up automatically, but perhaps some settings are missing.Could someone guide me on the required settings?Thanks,Golo

If you’re using the Barcode ID functionality when receiving goods, and also use automatic netting between activities, the barcode ID will become useless the moment the quantity in stock is moved either from standard inventory to a project activity or between project activities. This is since the Barcode ID will have a connection also to the project activity where the part was bought or made.Any ideas on a solution to this problem? Re-labeling is difficult since the netting is done automatically. And I cannot see any way to make the Barcode ID functionality ignore the activity seq key, e g when using WaDaCo. Updating the Barcode ID when the netting is done also seems a bit problematic - maybe not the whole quantity is moved etc.  

I have a question regarding splitting Shop Orders. Is there a solution in IFS Cloud to split an order with a lot size larger than one into multiple orders in one and the same operation? As I understand it now, this has to be done one by one.

Hi,When running Apps 10 I have qualification profiles assigned against routing work guidelines based on employee competencies. I need the work guidelines signed off by a suitably qualified employee. This all works fine in Enterprise Explorer from the shop floor workbench when signed in as an employee, however in Aurena there does not appear to be any work guideline functionality on the shop floor workbench, so that if I was to use the shop order work guideline screen, this does not allow me to enter as an employee and so bypasses qualification requirements.Has anyone had any success in using qualification profiles on work guidelines in Aurena, if so how? Or is this just missing functionality in Aurena? ThanksAndy

Hello,I need help to correctly set the deadlines in subcontracting, I was in V9 we had this problem and I do not see any improvement on the 23r1. I created an external load item and attached a calendar to it, telling it 1 day = 60mm so that I could talk in days but not in hours for subcontracting. I don't know if there's a simpler way of setting this up.The problem with what I'm doing is that when the subcontracting operation is in progress, if I recalibrate my production order, it doesn't recalibrate the external operation dates correctly. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)  as long as the external operation is in Released status, the recalibration takes the 10-day delay into accountRemaining Machine Time is set to 10I have sent my production order to subcontractors and my operation has been placed in work-in-progress.the Remaining Machine Time field is set to 0 and this poses a problem because if I reset it takes this data and as there is 0 it does not correctly reset my phase.

Hi,We’re evaluating systems to help manage EPD & NPD for our products (Bulk Cheese & Whey Powders). One option is to use Engineering Change Management in our IFS Apps 10 system. (We’re moving to Cloud in 2027)Does anyone use ECM for this in a food business and would be willing to show us how they use it? Ideally in Apps 10 or in Cloud Many thanksDave

I have a question regarding Shop Order Req (SOR) vs Shop Order (SO) start dates once they are manually created. We are using infinite capacity, along with backwards scheduling. MRP is driving the SORs and start dates. When manually converting SORs based on SOR start dates, the created SO has a different start date than the SOR originally had. i.e. We review SORs 1-2 days before the the start dates and manually create SOs from then. I would expect the newly created SOs to have the same start dates as the SOR we just converted, but at times they differ.  Looking for feedback on what cause the the SOR and SO start dates to differ?

I like feedback on the possibility of auto reservation of components based on FIFO and LIFO. Any customer scenarios and feedback.

This error keeps appearing in the Shop Floor workbench no matter the user or shop order:   

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.