Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Hi,Wanted to know if intersite process will work for outside operation in shop order if demand and supply sites belongs to different companies?. Thanks. 

Hi All,Is it correct to say that the Total Material Scrap Quantity determined in a Shop Order for a specific component during planning level is equal to: Component Scrap Quantity + Scrap Factor * Lot Size of Shop Order ?   

Community,We are on APP10, UPD9. We are setting shortage handling functionality.We are expecting alert message “ There are shortage on Inventory Part XXXX” prompted when the part is really in short. But system just remain silent though we do see the part in Inventory Parts with Shortages window.I remember when in APP9, system does have this prompt. why APP10 behaves differently? Thank you.

Good morning We are currently using IFS Apps 10 and have a question of best practise when it comes to arrears handling. Our business provides engineering and manufacturing service a multitude of sectors with all orders being MTO. We process a mix of new and repeat components in large and small batch sizes.We have a current situation of having multiple custom order line due date past due (total past due hours on average 1800) which results in all lower-level supply/ demand being past due. This creates the problem of not being able to provide a realistic manufacturing plan to the shop floor departments and purchasing plans to procurement due to the fact we are unable to travel back in time to manufacture/ place an order.The planning base data has been validated, routing times, structures and lots sizes all correct.My question is how have other people handled this situation before? Do we plan in arrears and hope we catch up which seems unlikely as we are always loading new work?Do we not

Is there a way to handle the EU Timber Regulations and Recyclability requirements for EU Member states that require companies to track material tonnage (plastic, paper, metal) shipped into those EU Member States?  This is a US customer which ships into the EU.

Hi, Using APB, we can (must) assign people to operations.But how are they reflected in the the client? If I use APB to assign a person, I don’t see it on the workbench or in ‘shop floor operation assignments’?In APB:I did save it to the database :-)  

Hi, Can someone give me some insights on the difference between unit cost and part cost? If I manufacture a standard part, with labour and material, for the first time, it looks like IFS puts the standard cost into the unit cost after receiving (I did not do any calculation up front). This value is ok, do I need to do the part cost calculation? What’s the consequence If I don’t? Configurable parts, with standard cost and cost per config setting, seem to have that cost on the unit cost. If i make a config for the first time, IFS adds the cost in the unit cost. Do I need to do the calculate cost up front in the DOP of interim header?

In IFS I am being asked to make the availability check at customer order entry check the entire structure for availability, not just the top part being ordered. Is there a reason why this would be needed. I found documentation saying it specifically uses the top level only. I was under the assumption that demand considers the components already, so there's no need for the availability check to also do it. The Availability Check at Customer Order Entry and Customer Order SourcingThe availability check at customer order entry is a planned delivery date estimation based upon an organization's material constraints. It is an order-promising calculation that verifies and/or suggests a delivery date by analyzing material. It considers the available material for single-level product structures.

We are using APB to schedule shop orders. Parts are manufactured in four processes on different work centres with the different sub-assemblies (manufactured components) identified as separate parts. The processes need to be scheduled so that they are completed in time for the next part to be started. We are backward scheduling and the top part’s need date should drive the scheduling of the previous (lower) parts in the structure. APB is not scheduling the shop orders of the parts as we had expected. How can this be achieved in APB?

In my previous company I was using Apps 9 & had change order templates in the basic data, In my new company we are using Apps 10 & the change order templates are not in the basic data. Has this feature been removed or replaced?

Hi,On the Corrective and Preventative Action screen, in the Actions tab, is there a way to remove (delete) a Line No? It is aware that it can be cancelled  but this is about removing the canceled lines completely. Regards,Nimesha

We have recently purchased some new Equipment that comes with a 2 Year Warranty from the OEM. We want to set up in IFS the Warranty Terms so we can ensure that any repair work conducted within the Warranty Period can be identified and submitted to the OEM as a Warranty Claim. Can any one provide some direction / documentation on how to set up Warranty on Serial Objects so we can trace repair work?Thanks in advance

Hi, there is a question I need to discuss about Standard Operations and where and how they are used to create Operations. I’m sure I can referenced or copy a Standard Operation in Routing.However my question is: When I add a Standard Operation in the Operations tab of the Shop Order do I have the option to "copy" or "referenced" the operation or is this functionality ONLY available in Routing? I hope someone can clarify my doubt. Thank you

Hi.I have a customer that have differences between the estimated and actual cost. In fact, the shop order actual cost is retrieving work center cost and labour class cost when these data in IFS are zero (I checked all the work centers and labour class). The inventory parts are valued at “Cost Standard” but never the cost set 1 was copied on any of them.Has anyone ever had this problem?Actual cost:Inventory part: Routing: Some Work centers Labor and Operation History 

We have high forecasted demand for many parts on several work centres in January 2024, with these requisitions resulting in an overload on these work centres. We are not able to increase capacity on these work centres. We have available capacity in October, November and December where we could produce them in advance. We have planning time fences of maximum 20 days for the manufactured parts. Ideally we would want the available capacity to be filled pulling forward any requisitions that overload the work centres in January. Some of the purchased components in the product structures have long lead times and will need to be ordered in July for production in October. What possibilities do we have to do this without manually pulling forward and creating shop orders for October, November and December and without using order gap time? 

What permission is needed to print custom fields in an Operation Crystal Report? We have multiple operational reports printing using Crystal reports but we cannot print custom data fields. If the report view has joins to _TAB sources, all fields will print through Crystal. IF we change a join source to _CFV because we have custom data to print, nothing prints or is visible. The data is visible in the report view but not in Crystal. It is visible using the Crystal report editor but when run from Order reports the data is not visible, blank.Is there a permission that needs granted? 

When you create a shop order pick list it adds all reserved parts onto it. Is there a way to be more selective about which lines are include?  (We don’t want to pick the entire shop order immediately) TIA, Chris.

Hello Community, How can phantom part be easily recognized in the system?Do we have to check the Inventory Part Planning Data - Planning Method or is there another way?Thank you,A.

Hi,Is Visual Shop Orders Planning page exist in IFS Cloud 22R2? Because when I search for it, I couldn’t find it.Thank you

Does anyone have any info/documentation/knowledge, please, on Transaction Revaluation Events?  We’re in Apps9, running weighted average costing. This is an OOREC/Receipt of Shop Order transaction for a Shop Order connected to a Project.  It’s the first time we have manufactured the part.  I don’t think that’s partiularly relevant as there are other OORECs with Reval Events on parts we have manufactured multiple times.   The total cost of the shop order is the 3506.86 (3336.46+170.4) and the part’s current inventory value is 3506.86.  The part was subsequently issued at 3506.86.  Material Cost on the SO was 2086.59, Op Cost was 1420.27.  Why did it not just OOREC at 3506.86?  Where does this 3336.46 come from?   I’m sure the answer will be blindingly obvious …  Thanks in advance!

We currently reserve shop orders to be picked  and issued,  we have multiple stores people carrying out this task and we would like to see the User Id of the stores person who has reserved stock , this then will allow user to search for their User Id in Inventory Part in Stock Reservation window and export out an equivalent picking list of what is reserved, as this screen shows Stores Location.  I hope this would be as simple as a custom field and someone may guide me on how to do this. 

Hello, I am finding that we are not using MS Level 0 parts in our system. We are using MS Level 1 parts as top level parts instead of components. Is there anyone else out there that does this in IFS? It’s my understanding that Level 0 is supposed to be Top Level while Level 1 is components. What are the problems that could arise from using IFS this way? Thanks!

I’m wondering if there is a way to compare two Engineering Part Revision “consists of” structures, prior to transferring to site.  

Hello all, Hello,Just a simple question. Can someone explain to me why it is not possible to have an MRP k type item in an estimate. RegardsLaurent

I cannot seem to find the qty of by-products received into the inventory in shop orders screen.Is there a way we can have a breakdown of by-products received for each shop order.