Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Hello, Our business works on a project basis. We want to be able to reserve parts and track them, from procurement to production, on a project basis. So we are evaluating the possibility of working with PMRP.Where it gets complicated is that we need to purchase  for some article larger volume to take advantage of economies of scale.  With the possibility of taking into account the surplus stock in the calculation of the PMRP, our need is met. However, we are encountering a blocking problem at the purchasing level. It seems that the PMRP does not take into account the ongoing purchase orders for inventory replenishment (therefore not related to the project). The PMRP does not consider them and asks us to buy the parts, while a purchase is in progress at the general stock level. Have you encountered the problem and is there a solution? Thanks in advance for your expertise!Regards, Coralie

Hi everyone, Our quality department needs to track certain lots.For this, they need to be sent an email (for now the best option), for when the lot is issued in a shop order.The way I’m thinking of doing this is to create a custom field on Inventory Part in Stock or Lot Batch Master, and based on that, create a custom event on issues from a shop order, when this custom field is not empty. My question is if this is the best option, or if anybody sees a more efficient solution for this?Thanks,Carlos Mendes

Hi All, Our customer would like to use a Rental process for certain machines. But his machines are ‘Configurable Sales Parts’. I tried to set-up a Confirable Sales part with Sales type ‘Sales and Rental’ but this seems to be blocked by IFS. This seems rather strange that we can’t have a rental for configurable machines. What is the solution to this issue? Best RegardsRoel 

using shop order pegged materials with multilevel product structures. The top-level shop order may have 1 or more component rows that have a shop order pegged to them as supply. Those next-level shop orders may also have 1 or more component rows that have shop orders pegged, and so on.  When scheduling the orders in APB we get an incorrect plan. The problem is that neither of the 3 planning settings (Infinite, Finite, Always Finite) give us a plan in the way we would expect for these material lines, and also does not give us a reflective view of the work center capacity plan, as the demanding shop order may not schedule when set to Always Finite, schedules before the supply orders when set to Infinite or schedules far out into the future when set to Finite.

Hiwe are using IFS 7.5. The system here has been used since 2009 and never really cleaned up. We are implementing an upgrade but in the mean time we would like to tidy  these things up.We have shop orders dating back to 2009. Is there a way to mass close / delete shop orders without doing any further issuing of materials / Operations? We have done stock takes etc so don't want to impact any materials. We just want these orders to show as closed.

Hello together,is anybody familiar with customer warranty and supplier warranty?Are there special functions behind it? Thank you and regards Markus

IFS10 How do you make a native field required?

Hi, We have various shop orders with an outside operation for the same supplier. We let IFS generate the PR, and combine them manually into one PO. However, how we can quickly see the Operation Material Allocations (=components that also need to go the supplier) without looking at the Delivery note? We would like to add them to the PO if possible, or at least have an overview of every outside operation with its Operation Material Allocations. Thanks!

Hi to everyone,Environment: IFS Cloud 22R2 Looking for a solution for a machine manufacturer Topic:In case a request for a demo/rental-machine comes in, the machine has certain requirements. In many cases, an available machine needs to be adjusted to fulfill the needs of the client.For example, the customer wants to rent a configuration 1 machine, but there is only a configuration 5 in stock. Required solution:We need to define the flow how we will communicate the changes that need to be done on a machine before it can be rented out.And is it possible to issue a part with a certain configuration on a work order and return another configuration of the same part? We appreciate any help - thanks in advance!Best regards,Nadim

Hello,We are a new IFS customer and are in the process of implementing IFS Cloud 22R2.Our company does a lot of customization so we have a lot of parts that can be in all colors. In our current system, we have 1 item code and this single item has in its characteristics the color. Therefore, we can use this part in hundreds of colors, we still have only one article in our ERP.We do not find this possibility in IFS. Although it makes sense to have 1 item code for 1 color, it will generate a lot of administrative work in our company for the creation and management of all these items.Do you know a way to manage the colors of an item without having to create separate codes? Of course we need to be able to order and manage them in stock by color. Thanks in advance for your support!Regards, Coralie

We have a need to have one invoice per shipment. The problem we are having is that when we have multiple shipments for the same order or different, it combines all the shipments into one BOL and one invoice. We need one invoice per shipment per order.Our shipment type on the customer order is set to AP (add to exiting shipment) instead of NP (create new). I was wondering if that might fix the issue.

Community,  have you seen this error. when we are trying to select an Alternate Part, system prompt this error. Thank you for advice. 

How to restrict user to issue RM by following FIFO in the shop order or Material request? User must issue goods from the first lot that means according to Minimum receipt date of the lot.  Is there any option in IFS10 to do this type of operations? Currently user are free to select any lot to issue from stock. 

Hi,How does a user can retrieve the previous results keys for reports run as Quick reports ?Are the report keys are getting archived ?

Apps10 Upd11.Weighted Average, Cost per Part.I have (1) of part A in stock, inventory value = $1000.I receive (1) of part A into stock, actual cost = $2000.I now have (2) of part A in stock, inventory value = $1500/unit, total of $3000.When the inventory unit value changed from $1000 to $1500, is this revaluation ‘event’ visible anywhere, is there any history of this for someone to see? Or is this just behind the scenes and no record of it is stored?

Hi, which is the easiest way to compare a certain routing with actual clockings? We would like to see how much the real clockings differ from the routings, and update the routings afterwards (if needed)Important is that we see different different part revisions/ routing alternates if applicable.It’s for planning purposes that we have correct routings, costing is less important for this thanks!

We have the following CRM process flow: creating a business opportunity reviewing technical and commercial feasibility creating quotationOur question - where would you recommend to document the technical and commercial feasibility in IFS?Our idea was to do that in a new project, where we also have the possiblity the book time spent on the feasibility study. Unfortunately it is not possible to link a business opportunity with a project.

In App 10 testing one of the customer who I am working with, received following error message when trying to copy a project - the dates for the project are within the dates: calendar * has not got enough working days in the period you want to copy the project to! Make sure the calendar is generated for the entire project period

Hi there,  We are about to start using the SOD Analyzer in IFS10 and preferable do not start from scratch. I therefore like to ask if anyone has a good list of (standard) functional areas, conflicts between those functional areas and the underlying methods? Any input is more than welcome so we do not have to reinvent the wheel. Thanks in advance for your support!

Hi Everyone, I’m very curious if there are any customer integrated IFS with Objective MES/WMS solution from Aptean?   Our new customer uses both Aptean's Objective MES and WMS and we want to keep the interface with IFSCLoud as simple as possible. Looking forward to hear from you all.Thank youWilly Mandiau

Community, We come across this error message for certain parts. for example part 1069908, current engineering Rev 2, Inventory Revision is 2. when I am trying to create a new Eng Revision, Rev 3, I got below error. How to fix this without skipping Eng Rev. 3? 

Hello all, I have noticed some behavior with my IFS Aurena saved search. I am attempting to create a saved search in the Shop Floor Reports screen where the Created By User excludes our shop floor terminal accounts. I created the does not end with and used the shop floor naming convention with the wildcard. This does return the correct values, but when I save the search, it drops that parameter. I have no idea why it’s doing that. I have the same search saved in IEE (Apps 10 UPD 12) and it works fine. During save:When I run the search, the field is returned blank.

Does IFS V7 do picking on a FIFO basis?  Are there any configurable controls on this version?  (I know that the latest version of IFS covers this but need to know specifically for IFS V7).

I am trying to understand UNISS. I know it un-issues material issued for a Shop order, but how come it doesnt have any posting controls?? It has direction- “-”.

Can anyone share a document on what are the cost elements and how the cost is calculated for Manufacturing part.