Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

It appears that the set up of a production line allows for the entry of more than 1 outbound locations on a production line but I cannot devise a reason why I would want more than 1 outbound location.  Any ideas?  Thanks!

Hello, I have begun using Serial tracking for parts in IFS Apps 10. However, I have noticed an issue with Shop Order analysis. It appears that if you define 100% checking on a Control Plan, it will require that each Serialized part is accounted for on EACH Shop Order Analysis. This becomes a significant issue if you report parts and generate another analysis. As an example, if you have a SO with a Lot Size of five and you reserve your serial numbers on the Shop Order. You then generate an analysis, and select all five serial numbers, you will have to perform checks for all of them. There is no way around this, you cannot cancel incomplete lines and finish the Analysis. I have tested reporting 3 pieces of the lot and creating another analysis. However, the results are the same, the system is looking for 5 serial numbers still, even though 3 have already been assigned to the reported pieces. I'm not understanding the intended functionality, it seems to create a lot of issues. My only sol

Hi all,After upgrading from IFS Cloud 23R2 to 24R2 we realized that the component usage factor in the configuration structure is now validated to be between 0% and 100%. This causes issues on the user experience because they will no longer be able to save modifications on structure lines with component usage factors > 100. We have several components which currently have a factor > 100%, e.g. for custom cable lengths which can be configured and the base length of 1 meter will be multiplied by the configured value. If the average desired length is for example 5 meters, the component usage factor would be 500% to calculate the correct demands for the components based on the planned quantities from master scheduling.Does anyone know what the idea behind the limitation between 0 and 100% is? We could just deactivate the validation on the clients and as a quick fix, but are afraid, that there are any consequential errors because of this change.Thanks

Hello,In Posting Control settings there is a possibility to use Control type C83 - Location Group for M1 Posting Type. This means when I move Part from Location Group 1 to Location Group 2 Warehouse accounts (M1) could be different.Currently FIFO method doesn’t support FIFO pile usage for movements transactions. Instead it uses average cost.As a result we get incorrect balances on Account (M1).Example:Receive 2 pcs | Cost 50 | Location 1 | Account 1620Receive 2 pcs | Cost 58 | Location 1 | Account 1620Move - 1 pcs | Cost 54 | Location 1 | Account 1620Move +1 pcs | Cost 54 | Location 2 | Account 1625Issue -1 pcs | Cost 50 | Location 2 | Account 1625Account 1625 has balance 4, but real quantity on the Location 2 is 0.Attached you can find screenshots for settings and transactions.Resume: we can’t use FIFO method in connection with C83 - Location group posting control at the moment. BUT: our customer works exactly in described way and it needs FIFO in moves transactions very much.Request:

Hi colleagues,It’s interesting that I can see that Lot usage doesn’t guarantee link with appropriate cost.What am I doing wrong?Example:Inventory receive 1 | qty 2 | unit cost 50 | lot 3107-01Inventory receive 1 | qty 2 | unit cost 56 | lot 3107-02Inventory receive 1 | qty 2 | unit cost 59 | lot 3107-03Inventory issue 1 | qty 1| unit cost 50 | lot 3107-03Frankly, I expected unit cost 59 because of the lot 3107-03.Attached are settings and transactions fragments. 

Hi, When you have a Customer Order Line and Sourcing DOP, you get Purchase Req for componets related to this demand if you have “Allow MRP Explosion for DOP Parts” set to true (and that Customer order Line is set to “Released for Mtrl Planning”).Purchase of LLIT can be done, so far so good.But when the Customer Order is released and the DOP Header is created, the demand for purchase parts is gone. This cause issues in purchasing and MRP Action Proposal/ Inventory Part Availability Exeptions shows that you have no demend. Then you create the DOP Structure, and the demand is back again.Is there some parameter I miss, as DOP Header is not seen as a demend or is it a way to automaticully create DOP Structure when the DOP Header is created?From an user perspective it’s easy to miss the step to create DOP Structure as soon as Customer Order is released and usualy this is done in two different departments in the organisation which complicate this even more and big risk for error in supply.I d

Hi everyone,I have a question regarding the material constraint in MSO.Our customer asked if there is a way to ensure that MSO checks whether enough input material for a shop order is available. The expectation is: If the required material is available → the shop order should be successfully scheduled (respecting other scheduling rules as well). If the material is not available → the shop order should not be scheduled. To test this, I performed the following steps: I selected an already successfully scheduled shop order in MSO with just one operation step. I went to the Inventory Part Planning Data and set the input material to Always Finite. I issued (consumed) the entire input material for this shop order, so there was no remaining supply. I ran MSO again, expecting that the shop order would no longer be scheduled due to missing material. However, the shop order was still scheduled. The only difference I noticed is that the flag indicating that the material constraint is acti

In a MRO Shop order, we define the quantity of a material demand in the  “Qty Per Assembly’ field. when we try to reserve the material , the system allows to reserve more than the qty mentioned in the Qty per Assembly field. at this moment system only throws an information message.  after the first issuance of material, system allows to directly issue any quantity of material ( based on the availability in inventory ) to the shop order. at this point of time, system doesn't throw any error. Is there any way to configure the system to stop this behaviour such as site level setting to control it for MRO flow.As my understanding this is a standard functionality required for Batch Process Manufacturing. Any insight would be appreciated.

Hello IFS community,I dont see the difference between tardy orders and passed due orders in MSO. (illustation attached)I looked at the start, finish and need dates but i dont see a logical conclusion.Can someone help me pleaseThanks in advance 

Hello, On the DOP structure, all DOP are close, All Shop Order are also closed, exept one. Still at Started status. I guess it has been restarted. How can I proced to close this shop order. Thank you for your help.  

Hi,I have a part with four routing alternates, each of them using a Min Lot Size Based Qty and each of these alternates have an operation connected to a different Work Centre. The Phase In Date  for the routing and Validity Period are set to 25th July.I ran the MRP and CRP and here’s the error message I get when trying to convert a Shop Order Requisitions into a Shop Order. The Work Centre has capacity for that date-the total time for this shop order proposal would be less than an hour-.What did I do wrong ?  

Hi,We have a factory where we blend chemicals, we have four blenders of various sizes.I’ve created a Work Center and added the four blenders as Resources. I’d like to limit the lot size-in a shop order- each resource can handle. E.g. Resource B can’t handle a shop order of 5000 litres as it can only contain 1.000litres. Thanks for your help.   

HelloI need to scrap a component with a serial number on a production order. How can I indicate which serial number should be scrapped? Thank you for your help.

I have a shop order where there is no standard material cost showing up. I have looked at other parts with the same operation and those do have the costs as expected, but even historically, this one part without the standard material cost doesn’t appear to ever have had it on the shop orders for previous runs. I’m assuming this is a setting on the part somewhere, but I am unable to find anything. Has anyone else run into this before, or know of a setting that controls the standard cost on shop orders? The other cost buckets have standard cost present, it is just the materials costs missing. I have highlighted where the material costs normally show up below: 

Is there a way in IFS Cloud to set an item as default as non-consumed at part level instead of doing this at the product structure level?If not, where in IFS cloud can done a mass update for all the product structures the articles is used in. 

I have a question regarding an electronic Kanban circuit. Is it possible to directly deduct the inventory to a cost center once the transport task has been executed, instead of transferring it to a location? This is to prevent incorrect stock levels on the shop floor, particularly for small packaging materials and fasteners. I would like to add the cost of these materials to the product cost by applying a surcharge.

Greetings! Does anyone know how to create a “folder” in sales rules to put multiple one lined rules into? I have a picture below of a “blue folder” that I was wondering how to create just to make the sales rules a little more organized in Apps 10  

When you have a shop order with materials is there any way that we can aggregate the materials to one handling unit and store as Pallet, Container etc.

Greetings!I ran a “evaluate rules” on a Interim Demand I created. I received the following error but do not know what it means or how to fix it. The error is stated as” Formula Execution” It lists out a long “Decode” sequence with the tail end of it stating “INTO:result from Dual ORA-01476 divisor is equal to zero” I have no idea what that means  

In the product structure, it is possible to set a default value for whether a component item is a standard planned item, but in the configuration structure, there is no default setting for whether a component item is a standard planned item. 

We have an issue where Parts are being reserved to a Customer Order (via scheduled Create Customer Order Reservations job) 24 hours before the parts were produced on the Shop Order for the same Parts. I have a copy Pick List referencing the lot batch from the Shop Order, and the final step of the Shop Order wasn’t reported and the Parts received into stock until more than 24 hours after the reservation took place. As far as I can tell there was no partial Shop Order Reporting and the full quantity on the Shop Order was received into stock at the same time, but 24 hours after the goods were reserved. There did not seem to be any pegging of Customer Order to Shop Order and the CO Supply Code was Invent Order.  Is there any way that a batch can be reserved and appear on a pick list, prior to being reported on a Shop Order?

Please advise if there are any limitations on the Tree View in Part Navigator?We have found a difference between the child data shown in the tree view vs the child data shown in Consists of:6 Child Rows are not shown in the tree view but are present in the consists of structure. When using sort code order (which was the initial assumption that it had reached a limitation), it shows that most are at the bottom of the Sort Code but NOT ALL. Why would these views be different?Is there a limitation on number of rows shown on the tree view? Thank you in advance

Production schedule question.  I have a production schedule part that can run on 3 different lines. On the three production lines upon which I can run the part, I use a percentage of .33.33 and .34.  If the total amount of the part to be produced obtained from the part's master schedule is not easily divisible by 3 and I run MS Calc, I am getting a mystery 1 unit production schedule.  Can anyone explain this?  I think it is due to the fact that the total doesn't yield a whole number when multiplied by the percentage and yields a 1 piece production schedule to ensure that the system is planning for ALL of the requirement.  For example, MS says we need 903,168 pounds.  That means production line A (33% and Line B (33%) get 298,045 each (remainder of .44 ponds each) and line C gets a production schedule of 307,077 pounds (remainder of .12 pounds.  The remainders of all 3 lines add up to 1 pound.  Both the production schedule item and the component item have quantity calc rounding set to z

In IFS Cloud documentation under NATO Stock Number (NSN) it states the following:It is possible to connect the parts in IFS/Part Catalog to a NSN. The following rules are applied in connecting parts to a NSN:Can someone point me in the right direction to do this, I can’t find it and nothing comes up when I do a search Thank you

In IFS Cloud, mass reservation of Shop Orders fails completely if any Shop Order in the batch encounters a material shortage.This issue occurs when the part has “Allow Many Lots per Component” = FALSE.Even if other Shop Orders have valid inventory, they are not processed.The system stops the entire reservation process and shows an error only for the failing Shop Order.As a result, planners must manually reserve each Shop Order, which is not feasible for large volumes. The error: Does anyone else follow the same mass reservation process and encounter this issue—where the entire process stops due to one Shop Order failing (e.g., because “Allow Many Lots per Component” is set to FALSE and there's a material shortage)?If so, how do you overcome this and successfully reserve a large number of Shop Orders at once? Prabashwari