Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

How is the “Required Date” calculated for parts used on an item that has unconsumed forecast quantities?  Why is is the date scaled to the quantity?In this example, compare:A forecast quantity on the top level product (MTA5519SER3) of 10 for 4/2/24, causing a required date on the part of 2/14 (2 months)A forecast quantity of 5 for 7/9/24, causing causing a required date on the part of 6/10 (1 month) Why does the date required depend on the quantity?  The logic we we are looking for would be a required date backed up by 1 day, regardless of the quantity.  Is there a setting somewhere we can change that controls this?We noticed this issue when we started using more phantoms.  For this part number, when used on another product (RS519GEN3) not using phantoms, the need date makes sense.   

Hello, I am looking for a way to automatically park a Shop Order in the event a failed QA analysis is confirmed. I am hoping to drive this from an event action, but I am not sure what the scripting would be to configure the event to park the shop order with a park reason. We are currently using IFS Apps 10 UPD 15. Any guidance would be appreciated! 

Standard costs on a shop order will be generated with the current information also for old shop orders, which allows no real comparison of planned cost & WIP.Is there a possibility in IFS Cloud to have these detailed standard costs (per operation and cost bucket) saved for each shop order, i.e. when created or released?If not, is it in the roadmap for a future release?

Hello Community, With regards to Costing Basic Data, a Cost Estimator is a person responsible for the cost calculation of a product. Of course, in order to define cost estimators, they should be first defined as persons.In other words, when it comes to a Cost Estimator, it basically means that a company can decide whether or not there should only be one person that can create & mantain the cost calculation of a product, or is there anything else to be mentioned regarding Cost Estimators? Happy to receive any feedback.Thank you,A.  

Hi all,I’ve been looking at making an Event Action that notifies a purchaser via email, when there’s a new revision of a part ready. I want a way to access PurchaseOrderLines to see if there is a purchase order line with the status open + the given Part No, as I only want to send the email with those conditions met.I’m using the InventoryPart LU in my custom event, and using the part status to trigger it. Is there maybe a way to make a custom attribute that gets a count of order lines or order no with a set of conditions?We’re using IFS App 10 update 15

Hi, has anyone got any advice on how often to perform cycle counting against ABC classifications. I understand the concept of ABC and how to calculate and classify parts (including frequency and lifecycle) but wondering if anyone has any guidance on the days between counts against ABC/Frequency. We often have problems on shop orders where parts cannot be issued because they are being counted and this frustrates the heck out of the planners. My feeling is that we are counting too frequently and I would like to increase the cycle interval but not too sure where the sweet spot would be.Grateful if you could share your experiences.Thank you!

Hi All, We are looking to see if a specific functionality exists in IFS.  We currently have the ability to have specific tagging instructions write from an outside program when order for multiple qty's of a single line item.   Example -   I have a qty of 10 as a line item on a customer order.  Each of those items have specific tagging instructions - item 1 of 10 on the order goes to Building A ,  item 2 of 10 does to Building B, and so on and so forth.   Other than the serial part notes field, is there a place where this type of information natively goes in IFS without modification.  The goal is to print a label and apply it to each item, per the customers tagging instructions.  This is separate from our serial number.  Does this exist currently in IFS?

Hello, how can I ensure that, as a result of a quality control for purchasing, suitable materials are automatically transferred to stock? Afterwards, I will carry out the scrap and return transactions of the unsuitable materials. However, I want the suitable materials to be automatically transferred to stock.

I am facing an issue at our factory that when an integration line has a stoppage, the information does not reach manufacturing and the parts manufactured keep clogging the lines. I have found no way to control this in IFS. I have not used Kanban circuits before but I was wondering if this could be a solution. could I set a maximum quantity for a specific part and a reorder point so when the quantity of parts exceeds the set limit, no more shop orders are released into manufacturing? thank you in advance.

Case:Clocking's are started on day 1 and stopped on another day.  Some of the durations are calculated on a 24 hours timeframe for example:start time : 19/10/2023  07:35:00stop time: 20/10/2023  07:47:00duration : 23.2  (standard break from 12-13 each working day)time share and crew size = 1Other duration are calculated on a 8 hour timeframe for examplestart time: 19/10/2023  10:14:00stop time: 20/10/2023  09:29:00duration : 7.25time share and crew size = 1We are using on standard calendar on all levels (labor class, employee, work center etc)settings on site : calendar consideration: calendar time and overtimeQuestionWhat is the reason for the different calculation of the duration in the clockings?   

Hi community,We are studying the eco-footprint functionalities in IFS Cloud and would like to have an answer if the eco-footprint calculates the total emission based on actual part usage in the organization?As an example if we have defined substances and connected the substances for a part, are we able to calculate how much our actual usage has created emissions? Does it calculate how many parts we have produced / sold / disposed / purchased during the selected period? If yes, what is the logic and how we can do the actual emission calculation?Now we have been able to create calculation for one single part /part structure but how we get our actual total emissions calculated?I would appreciate your help since there is not so much material related to this topic.I have seen the demo video below and read the IFS help but cannot find the answer.https://www.gotostage.com/channel/4c8b006abd3344ea9a62605ba7c00c31/recording/f753f5fdfd964d72837d80c995fc2229/watch?source=CHANNEL

I have a question about the different calculations of the Shop Order Requisition start date depending on whether it is generated manually or through MS/MRP. From testing (Cloud) I have found the following: Manual SOR:Uses Fixed & Variable lead time set on the Inventory Part manufacturing tabIf this is 0, it uses Manufacturing Lead Time entered on Lead Time & Supply Dates section on Inventory Part main tab insteadIt doesn’t directly use the lead time data in the routing alternate revision MS/MRP:Uses lead time data in the routing alternate revision (if this has been calculated)If not calculated, uses Manufacturing Lead Time entered on Lead Time & Supply Dates section on Inventory Part main tabIgnores anything manually entered on Inventory Part manufacturing tab If I change the Due Date on an MS/MRP generate SOR, the start date changes based on the logic for the manual SOR. So even if I change it back to the original due date, I now get a different start date. Question:Is the

Hello,I need to change parent position (in IFS 22R2) for a position in order to change the supervisor.I couldn’t do it with the drag and drop.I have this error message:  Could you please help me with that?Thank you!

Hi I’m trying to do a migration in IFS 10.7, where I need the migration to start lead time calculation with Routing_Head_Leadtime_API.Modify_Manuf_Leadtime This method only has one attribute called ATTR_ With help of debug console I can see that IFS runs this code: DECLARE    -- p0 -> i_hWndFrame.dlgManufLeadTimeCalc.lsTempAttr    p0_ VARCHAR2(32000) := 'CONTRACT'||chr(31)||'ÅSEDA'||chr(30)||'PART_NO'||chr(31)||'377081-10002'||chr(30)||'LEADTIME_BASIS'||chr(31)||'3'||chr(30)||'BATCH_FLAG'||chr(31)||'N'||chr(30)||'DAILY_CAPACITY'||chr(31)||'AVERAGE'||chr(30)||'NO_ROUTING_OPTION'||chr(31)||'UNMODIFIED'||chr(30)||'ROUTING_REVISION'||chr(31)||'1'||chr(30)||'BOM_TYPE'||chr(31)||'Manufacturing'||chr(30)||'ALTERNATIVE_NO'||chr(31)||'*'||chr(30)||'ORDER_SIZE'||chr(31)||'4580'||chr(30)||'UPDATE_LEAD_TIME'||chr(31)||'Update also expected'||chr(30); BEGIN     IFSAPP.Log_SYS.Init_Debug_Session_('en');     IFSAPP.Routing_Head_Leadtime_API.Modify_Manuf_Leadtime (p0_ );    --------------------

Hello! we have launched MRP and have appeared this error. Which is the problem? thank you!  Error snapshot MRP Part. Site/Part US1D1 / GPN700M362, ABC Class C. Original error text ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into ("IFSAPP"."MRP_PART_TAB"."SETUP_COST")

Hello everyone, Has anyone encountered this error when wanting to recreate a master part ?  The Eco-footprint Part Information is automatically created when the master part is created. However, if the master part is later deleted, this information is kept and it does not allow the recreation of the same master part number. Also, the record from “Eco-footprint Part Information” screen cannot be deleted. Do you know if there is a special setting that should be configured ?  Thank you.   

When using multiple operations, the part is not dropping into inventory after op 10. It only drops into inventory after the final op.   This is an issue as we create the first portion or part in op 10, move it to the next work center where it may sit for a few days, then run it through op 20. Close shop order and the final part is in inventory.    Is this an IFS issue whereas there is not a way to run multiple operations while tracking inventory?  Or-am i using the functionality wrong? If so, what does standard manufacturing operations use to track multiple ops throughout their plant?  -part set up wrong preventing it from being in inventory after op 10?-wrong ifs application? If multiple ops is not used for this, what do IFS users use to track a single part that takes many operations to complete in its final form? Think of aluminum rolling mill…. One part number but takes many weeks and many passes to transform the ingot into its final sheet or plate form. 

Hi all,There is an inventory part which part type is manufactured and it has serial tracking. There is not any qty in stock for the inventory part however there are parts and serials no that received from shop orders before in part serials page. For the part is not wantted to use serial tracking any more. So, is it possible to change the serial tracking to lot/batch tracking? Is there any way to change it?Thanks

Good Afternoon,  We are currently on Apps 10 Update 20 and working on some custom fields.  Is it possible to have a custom field highlight when data is entered? These fields would be on headers in orders, quotes, customers and not necessarily in a line item level.  We can do conditional formatting in line level detail but would like it to be applied there as well. Thanks  

Hello everyone.  I am hoping someone can give me some suggestions for how to resolve this conflict.  Our manufacturing process is a conveyor belt line.  The first machine does task 1 and the product goes down a conveyor to a second machine that performs task 2, then on to the conveyor belt again until it reaches another machine for a 3rd task.  Then further down the conveyor belt the product is packaged at the final work station. We have these set up as operations within our route, and each operation has a unique work center.The production team reports scrap at the operation level to allocate the correct cost at time of scrap.  They also report labor at the operation level and use for productivity measures.  This has worked great for the production team, but our planning team is downloading files and planning outside of IFS.Our planning team would like to be able to schedule within IFS, but they would like to do so using a single bar in either APB or VP, without the spaghetti effect or

When creating a new engineering revision,  any text in the field Note is copied. We would like to find an empty Note field when a new revision is created, and keep text on previous revisions. Can this functionality be implemented in coming IFS Cloud updates?

Is there a way to change the status of a Business Opportunity Line to “Won” without having to create a customer order from the Line?   We have lines that are part of a bigger project that are technically “Won” but we can only cancel the line or create a customer order and then cancel the customer order.Seems that you should be able to Wim the Line like you can do at the Business Opportunity header.We are using Enterprise Explorer, version 10, update 13

I just want to change Character 18, but this goes and changes everything it finds related to Character 18. Org. text  USMCAE*20L080M4D-0000In the example below, the line of code returns the data as follows : USMCAE*2ELE8EM4D-EEEEmust be : USMCAE*20L080M4D-E000 select replace(mx.component_part, substr(mx.component_part, 18, 1), 'E') from prod_structure mx where mx.part_no like '___080___-__-__-___' and mx.component_part like 'US____*___080___-____'

Hello We have many instances where we ship material to our internal companies - the business are trying to avoid having to correct or adjust the IFS transactions with a manual entry to reverse the Material Overhead added to the cost of the purchased part. I have looked using the part specific functionality, but the business does not wish to use alternative parts for this process - All help is very very much appreciated.  Kind RegardsPaula 

Hi all, I work in a Danish machine company called GM and we have been using IFS for a little over a year now. We are currently working and testing the IFS Configurator, to be able to configurate our machines to make it easier for us and our customers. There have been done several tests and our issue right now, is when we make a DOP-order for a machine, the phantom BOM of the machines sub assemblies with the MRP-code “K” isn't visible in the production order. Meaning our production won´t be able to see where all the different parts belong to. We have tried some different things incl. adding a BOM that have a MRP-Code “K”  to the order, which came out as It should. - Also if the BOM is with a MRP-code “P” it will also come out correct, BUT we have run in to problem with the “P” MRP-code, so we don´t want to use that on. My questions is therefore, what can we do to fix the above issue? - we want to use the MRP-Code “K” and we want them to shown in the order when adding a DOP-order in our