Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

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.I’m not familiar enough with Aurena to understand why it would do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

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. 

Environment: App8 IEE Steps followed:1. Navigate to 'Receive Shop Order' Window.2. Search for an Order.3. In the 'HU Handling' section set 'Qty To Report' as ‘1’.4. Save the Order.5. After saving the order, it takes around 120 seconds to save the record.6. Normally it takes around 4 - 5 seconds for this execution. Outcome: In the 'HU Handling' section set 'Qty To Report' as ‘1’ and Save the Order. It takes around 120 seconds for the execution in Customer’s Production Environment. It takes around 5 seconds for the execution in Customer’s other environments. Please help to resolve this issue.

Hello everyone, Is it possible to upload massively in IFS configuration rules (Condition/action) in a configuration structure?Best regards, 

Community, Have you seen this message ? This error message prompted when we are doing engineering part transferring to manufacturing site. Prior to this revision, we already have 2 engineering revisions transferred.Question, why this error message? we found we could avoid this error by switch on checkbox Allow as Not Consumed in Part window, but, is this the right way to handle this error?kindly advise.Thank you.

Hi @majose and others!We have been trying to figure out a way to "freeze" a std cost for sub-assembly when calculating a new parent part, but haven’t been successful. I have also searched the community for similar questions without result.It would be very valuable for us to find out if there is a way to achieve this, or if not, if it is in the IFS future roadmap to look into the possibility. Since IFS Idea Wall vanished I haven’t seen a new place to register ideas for future enhancements, but perhaps one exists?Scenario is as follows:Part A: Sub-Assembly with material & operation cost, Std cost is calculated and defined for the period (year) 31 Dec. In February, the routing is changed but std cost is not updated as that shall be valid for the whole year.In Mars, a new Part B is released and contains part APart B has material & operation cost.Part B shall be calculated and a std cost shall be set for Part B BUT the std cost for Part A shall not be changed when the calculation is

When receiving a by product of repair type shop order we don't need to issue any material and can be received the by product after releasing the shop order. Is this the standard behavior or any reason for this?

Is it possible to create supplier wise Product Structure Alternates? As i sent different component to different supplier for outsourcing job work, for the same parent part.