Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Hi. We are currently running IFS Cloud 23R1 in the Gov Cloud. My understanding based on release notes is that Constraint Based Scheduling (CBS) / Advanced Planning Board (APB) functionality will eventually be deprecated, to be replaced with Manufacturing Scheduling and Optimization (MSO) functionality. We recently upgraded to 23R1, but the MSO functionality is not available, presumably because it is licensed separately. We have security configured to secure ITAR data at the site level, so we have set up a regular non-ITAR site and an ITAR site for such locations. These locations have work centers that are used for both ITAR and non-ITAR work, so separate work centers are set up in each site for the same physical work centers. This results in a lot of manual work to maintain the schedules and capacity, so we are looking into a possible customization to have work center capacity / scheduling automatically updated for these work centers - so that when a shop order operation is created/upd

We are seeking a solution to the creation of material purchase requisitions directly from the Shop Order Materials tab within the IFS Application. This essential functionality is currently Not Available is the IFS Application, At present, users are required to manually input material requirements through the Purchase Requisition screen, which can be time-consuming. and the function of “MRP” is available, however there is a connection between the “demands” and “supply” so a user cannot identify if his required materials have been ordered or not. Can we do it functionally or configuration? By adding the material purchase requisition creation process to the Shop Order Materials tab, the requisition would be linked to the shop order making it user-friendly and have accurate tracking of purchases to shop order. This will help to streamline operations, enhance accuracy, and ultimately improve productivity. Thanks

Good afternoon, I have the following scenario: I have a Customer Order for a Cost per serial part. In order to build that part, I am sending components to the supplier (The CS part has attached a Product structure to include the components). The Purchase Component Method is Customer Order and the items are not charged. The Cost on CO does not show the whole cost for Cost per serial part, it has only the amount that I pay for assembly. I run the same test for a non-serial part and the cost includes the cost of the components. Do I have an incorrect setting somewhere? We are using IFS 10 UPD 16. Thanks, Cora

Hi All, When using the inventory cost setting; Standard Cost, Cost per Part, Zero Cost ForbiddenIn previous releases of IFS, you was forced to calculate cost and copy to cost set one, before receipt of the part as inventory value zero was not allowed. The calculation of cost and set standard cost is a fundamental concept for many companies. We are now running IFS Cloud 23R2 and notice that you are not forced to calculate and set standard cost anymore, is that a new parameter implemented to get old logic to be used?I have read release notes from App 10 and later but haven’t found anything related to this issue. To set Unit Cost based on estimated shop order cost when first received is not accepted by all controlers.

A customer is planning on using production schedules to produce their parts. BUT they also want to capture the actual number of pieces produced during that shift by part. The customer does NOT want to use shop orders. They are looking for a way to evaluate the employee’s performance per shift. I am a bit stumped. Anyone have any good ideas?

Is there an easy way to add all components from a manufacturing product structure to the produced parts of a disassembly one (same FG)? We are trying to disassemble a finish good completely into its components. The problem is that its has 80 components. Manually creating each disassembly component is pretty tedious. I tried to copy the rows over to the produced parts table from components; the items filled in but not the quantities and it wouldn’t let me save.

Hello Community, I have a question regarding the functionality of the Part Eco-footprint module in IFS Cloud (24R2). Does this module include a tool that can generate data on the total consumption of a specific substance over a given period? For example: - Within a manufactured part, various substances are defined, and based on calculations, we obtain the total quantity per substance according to the product structure (I assume, this quantity is per 1 unit of manufactured part)- This manufactured part is then sold via customer orders (OESHIP transaction), meaning different quantities of the manufactured part are delivered over time.- Our requirement is some summary value for a specific period (e.g., one month, two months, etc.), showing the total quantities of individual substances delivered within the dispatched quantities of the manufactured item. Does the Part Eco-footprint module provide this functionality, or is it necessary to create a report (Quick Report, BR, etc.)? The same lo

Hi all, From where I can download the “IFS Cloud Emissions Tracker” app. I downloaded “IFS sustainability planner” from MS store. But, it is different from “IFS Cloud Emissions Tracker”. Further, I have seen another app called “IFS Cloud Sustainability Hub”. Is that also a different app? Is there anyone who knows how to use all these aps?

24.2.0 What determines the Batch Size by Weight for the default Recipe Alternate ‘*’? I am seeing behavior I cannot troubleshoot. My Company is setup to use lb as its Weight Unit of Measure (this should not be a factor, though). I have a user-defined unit of measure as below. 1 short ton = 907.18474 kg. My Part uses this unit of measure as below. My Site is set to default enter recipe by Weight Share. My inventory part is a Recipe part that uses this unit of measure. In the Recipe Structure, the alternate ‘*’ that is created when the Inventory Part is saved as a Recipe part shows the Batch Size by Weight = 0.001 ton short. What does this 0.001 value indicate? Why is this not a 1, i.e. the batch size to start is 1 ton short. When I try to add components it fails with the cryptic message ‘numeric or value error: character string buffer too small’, so it is not possible to even create a components list to allow adjusting the recipe.

I’m wondering, when I do an All Parts Cost Calculation, how does it decide whether to use the parts’ Unit Cost instead of the part’s structure? I see the documentation for cloud cost calculations, but how is the question of Calculate Cost per Structure/Routing answered? If it matters, we use FIFO for inventory valuation. We’re looking to calculate Cost Set 3 for pricing purposes, and wanting to ensure we have entered the inventory part data appropriate for the rollup calculations we expect. Thanks for any guidance!

Does anyone know why in IFS Cloud (23R2) it is no longer possible to use the Type Code “Purchased (raw)” for configured parts? The error message is attached. In Apps10 it was possible. Also existing configured parts with Purchased (raw) are being processed without issues in IFS Cloud. We have several distribution companies which order the CTO parts from out manufacturing main company using the inter company purchase order. No issue there. Any insight into this would be highly appreciated. Thank you in advance! Catherine

We are getting the below error when trying to match the PO in Manual Supplier Invoice it desont specifically say which Codeparts are missing

Community, I have this IFS Academy training screenshot here, do you think below highlighted statement true? if yes, where is it? kindly advise. Thank you.

Hello everyone, as I read in the community there will be enhancements on conditional formatting options (new operators, additional colors). Those are good news! ;) What about some more style options? We are missing the option to define text style and text color like avaialable in IFS 10. Can you give me an update, if those text options will come in future? Thx. BRMatthias

I am seeking a solution to manage shop orders in a production workflow where parts are built, tuned, and tested. The process should allow for a dynamic flow such that: Operation 10: Approved → Progress to Operation 20 Operation 20: Approved → Progress to Operation 30 Operation 30: Approved → Progress to Operation 40 Operation 40: If a failure is detected during testing, the part should be reset and moved back to Operation 20 for reprocessing.

Hi, We are struggling with our setting of a DOP within a project. For some parts, which are set to “pegged”, want that IFS looks at the standard stock first. If we have it, we don’t need to make or buy it. But we notice that our DOP only looks at the project stock, which is off course empty. So he makes PR’s/SO’s for everything, without looking at the standard stock. How can we solve this?

We are currently using a process where we use Warehouse Data Collection to issue a serialized part to a shop order. The part in question can be used up to 4 times with 4 different serial numbers. In our application, once we issue the 4 serial numbers, the part is built and those serial numbers are permanently covered and will not be able to be seen again without completely destroying the part. The question I have is if anyone has an idea of how we can sequence the issue of these parts to know which order they were scanned in? The reason is that I want to know the orientation of the serialized parts in the final assembly (Ex: Left to right is serial 2, 4, 7, 5). I would ideally want some sort of way for my operator to identify that this scan is the left most position, this scan is the second from left, and so on. Let me know if you need any clarification or is you have any ideas. Anything would help!

This post is relevant for manufacturing customers using operational reports. It is a heads-up that we are planning to deprecate below listed operational reports. Background Although the transition to paperless manufacturing is still in progress, the demand for printed documentation or reports shared as PDFs has noticeably decreased. We have several reports that we believe are either not used or have numerous alternative options available in IFS Cloud for sharing such information. Maintaining these reports still consumes time that could be better spent developing new functionality. Therefore, we plan to deprecate these reports Reports planned to be deprecated Kanban Audit Report Kanban Supplier Receipt History Report Capability Graph Data Qman Sample Value SPC Graph Sample Data for Variables Analysis Result History Recipe Print Out Routing Report Structure Information Report Structure/Routing Report What happens now? This deprecation will be communicated officially via the release notes

Hi, In the customer order screen - the full delivery address is only visible by selecting the Order Addresses tab. Is there a way to have this address visible in the Header so its visible at all times? Thanks Charlotte

In IEE Apps10 - having profile issues. 1st issue - trying to add a Custom Field to base profile and it looks like it is going into the right spot until you hit Apply or OK and it disappears - cannot get it to stick 2nd issue - Estimate screen is overlapping (product screen overlaps where components and operations are added) - once I try to fix - adjust margins - hit OK - the margins fix however the fields below all get scrambled and unusable

Hello, I know that It is possible to create consolidated pick list for shop orders in two ways: use the Create Pick List(s) for Shop Order(s). Select the relevant shop orders from page Shop Orders and click to create Pick List Report. Is there a way to create a pick list per WO ? I can’t find any. Thank you !

We have a scenario where we sometimes need to rework a purchased component. For this purpose we use repair shop order with repair structure and routing. This works fine except that no cost for machine/labor time is captured by shop order cost. Only purchase cost related to cost template used for part (P-140 in my example) are captured. As a test I created a manufactured structure/routing for same part number. Then created and reported shop order. This works fine, system captures labor and machine cost despite same cost template (P-140) is used! I tried different settings to get this to work also for repair shop order. The only way I managed to capture cost is by adding cost bucket (e.g. 300) used for manufacturing to template P-140. This is not a good solution and causes a risk for wrong cost in cost calculation. Any ideas if/how this can be solved?

What are the proper workflow to delete or set to Obsolete existing Purchase Structure, which was created for unknow reason or by mistake for Inventory Part with setting Part Type = Manufactured? Now there are two identical structures: Manufacturing and Purchase and both are active and Buildable.

Hello, We use the comprehensive split function to split large shop orders into smaller batches. As an example, we mix ingredients in 1000 lb. batches as that is the max capacity of the mixing machine, however, the full shop order is for 10,000 lbs. so we split the larger shop order into 10 x 1,000 lb. shop orders. When we do that, though, setup time is planned for on each split shop order when in reality we only set up once and then all subsequent shop orders that were split into do not need set up. The result is large cost variances. I understand the reason why this would happen, but is there a way to remove this setup time from 9 of the 10 shop orders in the example above? Does anyone else have a similar situation where they were able to solve for this issue?

In our business we experience yield loss on shop orders. For example, we mix ingredients together and for a 1000 lb. shop order, we know we will experience x lbs. of yield loss and the shop order will yield, for example, 960 lbs. instead of the 1000 lbs. lot size. I have been researching yield loss and am struggling to find an answer to answer my questions. We want to use scrap factor to increase the requirements for ingredients. For example, if we know we are going to experience 4% yield loss on a shop order, we want the required ingredients to be inflated by 4%. I have seen scrap factor in multiple places within IFS, but am not sure how to do what we are after, without adding, in this example, 4% scrap factor to each ingredient in the product structure. The second part of this question is that we don’t actually scrap anything out in IFS. We just receive less than the required amount on the shop order. Does that affect the scrap factor use? When looking at product costs, it seems that