Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

We have MS Level 1 parts that are manufactured and many that are purchased (finished goods).All have a demand time of 2 days.MS Level 1 parts that are manufactured have a planning time fence of 20 days, and the planning time fence of those that are purchased reflect the purchase lead times of the parts, typically 50+ days, many above 100 days.For manufactured parts we tend to set a production plan for the next 3 weeks, and will not change the forecast in the planning time fence.For purchased parts with such a long lead time (planning time fence) we believe that we should make changes to the forecast if we expect that demand will change. By making such changes and being able to see the forecast in the planning time fence we would be able to communicate risks, such as when we see we will go into negative on-hand, and we may be able to act to expedite purchase orders, for example choosing a faster mode of transport.What is the best practice for managi

Hi All,I have been testing the Detailed Transfer functionality, but am not able to add any new parts.I can delete parts and change quantity, but not add parts.Are there any other prerequisites to enable this functionality, what am I overlooking?!Any help appreciated :)Thanks,Wade

Has anyone managed to insert a fixed schedule delay between the completion of a component part shop order and the start of the parent part shop order where it is consumed?My scenario is that I want to ensure that the component part shop orders are completed ahead of when they are being demanded. I don’t want them planned to complete one day before the parent part shop order starts. In effect, I want to build slack into the manufacturing schedule created by MRP.I thought of making the component routing have a longer machine time than I need to build it, which might work but it wouldn’t be obvious looking at the dates. But I’d be interested if anyone else has tried to do this and been successful.Thanks!

Hi,I need to understand how the Estimated Accumulated cost calculated in Shop order costs for the Inventory parts for ‘Weighted Average cost’ valuation method and Inventory part cost level as ‘Cost per lot batch’ and the possibilities of having a difference with the value in Standard Accumulated Cost.Regards,Nadeeka

I am trying to execute a site to site transport task. I am getting an error message “PART REVISON 1 ON THE SUPPLY SITE CORRESPONDS TO ENGINEERING REVISION B. THERE IS NO PART REVISION ON THE DEMAND SITE THAT CORRESPONDS TO ENGINEERING REVISIONS B AND THEREFORE THE TRANSFER IS NOT ALLOWED”.I checked and the part on both sites have the same information. What am I missing?

Hi all,does anybody have the practical expirience with UoM different than hours on the level of Work Center? How does it work together with UoM of the manufactured part? What is the impact on the lead time? Is there any documentation on this topic (not just describing that you can fill here different UoM than Hours which is the default)? Is there any typical industry where this setup can be applied?Currently on IFS Cloud 22R2, but accepting any information independently on IFS version:), wondering what was the idea behind in RnD, looking for an acceleration and a decision (applicable vs useless) on this topic and not having so much time to study PLSQL source codes.Thanks in advance.With kind regards,Zdenek

Hi we are upgrading to IFS cloud 22R2 from apps 9 and getting this error on incoming customer orders, does anyone know where the priority reservations are controlled?Thanks

Hello,There is a connected control plan for any product in the shop order. This shop order has been canceled as a result of the analysis. We want to re-analyze. How can we do this? The relevant picture is attached. 

What is maximum engineering part revisions?

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

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

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?