Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Hi all,Often when we have created a shop order, we would like to change a work center.That is no problem, when there is no control plan.When there is a control plan, it seems to become a mammoth task, involving new control revision, new alternative/changing rountings, conflicting dates etc.What is best practice on this?  

When the lot size is 100 pcs, but only 5 pcs is received. Shop order is not completely received. When the shop order status is Started in state products: shows Partially received.System is allowing to close the partially received shop order.  But how the state can show completely received.  When lot size is not completely received, How can show completely received? 

I’m trying to use the function Copy Selected rows (1) and Paste Rows (1)to copy only one row from one structure to another but it pastes the entire sub-structure of the part I’m copying.Does anybody know if it’s possible to copy only one row (the selected row) and not the entire structure?Or how to control if it’s only one row or structure that is being copied.(I get the same result when entering the part number manually in the new structure.)  Br, Patrick 

We have a customer order connected to a project and the supply code is DOP. When the DOP headers are created the objects connected to the DOP header are not showing on the project monitoring screen. The cost is hitting the cost element, but stopping at the DOP header level.

I am having a problem with certain shop orders that when Using the infinite scheduler, when I put in an earliest start date, it automatically sets the SO start date to a day earlier than the Earliest start date.  I have not Queue time on any operations and cannot figure out why IFS is doing this,

The employees are able to clock on shop orders that are closed. Is it possible ? If yes what is the logic behind it.

As a day-to-day process, when a drawing is attached to an Engineering Part Revision and the part is Transferred, the attached document follows along to the Purchase Part header and Product Structure header.When a Shop Order is generated for that part, the document again follows along because it is attached to the Product Structure.The examples below. When there is an Outside Process, you RMB on the Operation to be performed in order to create the Purchase Requisition. The Part Number is added ad hoc on the Shop Order. In the example below the Outside Process P/N is 22000886-PROCESS. The question is … is there a way for IFS to automatically attach the drawing that is already attached to the Shop Order for that Operation? Is there a setting we have not used in the past or are we stuck doing this manually?  Thank you for taking the time to look at this.

Hello,I would be really interested to hear thoughts on the following situation. I’ll use a ready meal process as an analogy.We have a process that creates a product (mash potato), from a blend of potato A (peeled potatoes) & potato B (skin on potatoes) . Both types of potato are bought in as raw material. This blend can be a range of 30%-70% potato A, but varies each time the process is run, as done by eye as exact ratio is not important. Over a year it balances out at ~50% which can be the assumption for costing. The mash potato is then immediately used in 10 different end products. E.g. 250g in 10 different types of ready meal.From a costing point of view, assuming the mash is 50% of each type is ok. However from a planning point of view, we need to work out the best way to handle & consume inventory of Potato A & Potato B, so we can trigger the reorder process. Currently, the material isn’t back flushed or issued, the inventory value is adjusted manually after a daily st

Community,please, could you explain me how to insert Warranty dates (valid from / valid to) in Serial part of Apps9 ?thanks  

All,The idea of manufacturers adopting more of a more circular economy is not new, we have been discussing it for years (“Every end is a new beginning” - Volvo Remanufacturing (ifs.com))With our latest IFS Cloud 23R2 release, we have added more capabilities to support customers wanting to expand in this area, so I wanted to ask the question as to which of you are either operating a circular economy, or plan to in the next 12 months.Please add your comments below so that as a community we can learn from each other as to how it is affecting you and others.Thanks,Antony

We need to add below yellow highlighted column in Operation schedule  Gantt chart.I am not sure how do we edit the gantt chart columns, can anyone help in that. Thanks in advance for help !!

Hi, We have created a lobby element with the SQL query builder. However, we cannot enter an order by here. By default, it sorts by machine number (but we have not set this ourselves) and we want to sort by zip code. How can we solve this?  

Hi, We are trying to automate our planners tasks for the start of the day and to use a task chain for the repeatable actions:calc ms lev 1 run mrp automatic shop order processingThis runs but we don't get any requisitions created for the current day. When we re-run MRP manually we get the SO requisitions as expected.  We are on Apps 8 (moving to Cloud) and have spread the tasks out so they don't overlap and run at the same time. We are not sure why auto vs manual running would result in a different result - any ideas? Thanks for any help and considering, Regards,James 

Hi,IFS pulls out the part description from Inventory Part>Identification>Inventory Part Description even though we ticked Use Part Catalog Description for Inventory Parts in the Site setup. I was wondering whether I was missing something.Cheers ! 

When a Handling Unit is attached to a Shop Order, Why does it gets detached when closing the Shop order.

Hello, I am hoping to understand MRP Action Proposals better. I thought MRP would propose reschedule days for actions, however, there are instances where I see both fields are blank. As an example, I have a part with action proposals for Plan Supply is Past Due and Demand is Past Due. Would the system not propose I move the MRP SOR to make the stock sooner? Would this field be blank, in the event that the proposed move is before today’s date? We do not have availability check enabled for our parts, so a lot of this is self inflicted, I am trying to best understand how to properly use action proposals to make the best planning decision possible. Any guidance would be appreciated.

hiI occurred something strange,I have got a pallet in system, Status Of this pallet is reserved ( Pallet in Stock Overview), I Checked “inventory Part in Stock” overview and seen Reserve Quantity Has Got Value For that pallet, but when I check the “inventory Part in Stock Reservation” overview, there is no reservation for that pallet.how can resolve this issue? and why this scenario has happened in system?thnx  

Hi,In my company we assemble and sell machinery. The machines are configured in the IFS configurator but we have a challenges with adding functions that are pure software.The goal is that the client can choose a software function to the configuration and then this is added to the product structure or the routing to ensure that the software engineers remembers to add the feature during manufacturing. Any ideas on how to do this? BR Thomas

Is there a way to create a repair shop order without needing a repair product structure and routing?  Repair is a non-standard process. Routings are standard data.In our organization, routings are maintained and controlled by a different group than those that create shop orders.  If a special repair PS and Routing are required to create the repair order, this creates inefficiencies in the process of creating the shop order.Please let me know if there are ways to create the repair shop order without creating a repair PS and routing.Thank you for your help!Robin

Hi Community,When I try to create a “New Repair Work Order” (this is in the cloud) for a Serial/Non-serial part, it only shows serials that are only in inventory (current position = in inventory).But in Apps 10, it shows issued serials also for repair.Is this a bug or a new setting in the new release of Cloud? Thank you! 

Hi everyone, we are urgently looking for production-based IFS customers who have implemented S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) with the associated connections to RRP and Master Planning.It would be a bonus if the IFS business planning were also linked to the tactical planning.We and our international manufacturing customer want to get insight into the companies that have already implemented strategic and tactical planning in IFS. We would really appreciate it if there was an opportunity to exchange some information about the approach and setup during a short call.Thank you, Willy

Hello, I’ve set up a calendar where I have a shift pattern like this:Shift 1: 10pm - 6amShift 2: 6am - 2pmShift 3: 2pm 10pmWhere I’m using the “Last Period Belongs to Next Day” flag as follows: Schedule looks like this: This works fine/as expected for capacity generation. However, I’ve tried to create a Period Template using this calendar (set as site manufacturing calendar) and I get an error message. I think this is because ‘Sunday’ does not exist in the calendar, because the working period belongs to Monday. However the period start date is Sunday, so this is what the system is trying to use to start each period. Is there any way to correct this? Or should I just create a new calendar that runs 12am-12am to use for the period template?    

I had a customer ask me to provide a 10,000 foot overview of the Cost Value Analysis and frankly, this is the first time I have ever encountered it.  Does anyone have any knowledge of  what it is, how it works and the data prerequisites.  The help text is woefully inadequate but if I had an existing example, I could reverse engineer its functions. Thanks!

I am helping one of our sites clean up information and during the pandemic they made the decision to make more parts PMRP planned, now that lead times are not as long, we would like to revert parts back to standard planned on the part.I have been able to test out breaking the connection on Purchase Orders and Shop Orders that have been created. We have Projects that are showing PMRP Planned demand, and when I flip the requisition to an order the connection is still there.Is there a way to break that connection on projects for parts that have been switched back to standard planned?  There are numerous parts that need to be flipped that have future demand, we don't want to create issues down the road for parts that are connected to project that shouldn’t be. And would like to do one clean up not multiple. 

We are in IFS 10 update 19.  Since going live with the new update, we have encountered an information message:  You cannot modify value if Inventory Part already exists for this part! -  when trying to transfer part revisions for an expense part. The part is at site level already as an expense and is a revision to the part. The original part revision was transferred as an expense so there is no mismatch between the two-part types. We get the message when we are trying to change the part type to Expense from Purchased (raw), we are able to click through it and the part stays transferred as an expense part, but we would like to figure out why we are getting this message.