Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

We are looking for ways to plan and control the production of high volume parts somewhere in the middle of a more complicated product. One way would be to use Production Line Management. But since the parts are serial tracked and we need as built structures, we cannot use production schedules. So generating shop order requisitions from the proposed schedule would be an option. However, MRP does not seem to see these as supply for its demand. I get a shop order requisition from MRP too. That does not happen with a production schedule. This seems inconsistent to me. What’s the idea?

I am trying to add a custom field to the page Handling Units in Stock, however the entity for the page, HandlingUnitInStock, does not show up in Entity Configuration.  Does anyone know how to resolve this issue.  TIA

Hello, Is it possible to show/get the shop order number on to the customer order lines screen ?I know I can get that by going into IMAP, but is there an API call or something by which I can show the shop order number on the customer order lines ?

Hi I have read this, but have a slightly different problemUndo Delivery of Customer Order Line with Supply Code of Service OrderI have a WO with a Connected Customer Order on the CO information tab and the order type Normal OrderIf I create a Invoice PreviewAnd approve it the lines are added to the existing Customer order The lines are added in status Released but my problem occurs when the lines have been delivered/ invoiced.So If I then want to revoke approval (which I need to do to create credit lines) on the Invoice PreviewI get this error in the background.If the customer order lines where invoiced the same error would occur but would be “The operation "SetCancelled" is not allowed for Customer Order Line objects in state "Invoiced".      And if I try to undo the delivery I get this error Does anyone know of a way to get around this?

Hello,I have a problem: I have two outside operations in my shop order. I split each operation into two. Then, I received the first three lines ( I processed the first three purchase orders) and the lines closed.By mistake, I reopened the three lines from the "Report Shop Order Operation" screen. The three rows changed to "Partially reported" status and since then I can't close them. I tried to reopen the orders and close them again and it did not work. I have searched everywhere but with no result. The problem is that I can't receive the fourth line , I have an error message that says the first two lines are not closed. Thank you  

Looking to adjust the manufacturing lead times manually in IFS. Inventory part planning parameters doesn’t have the field and the manufacturing tap will not allow manual entry. Has anyone updated the manufacturing lead-times manually for planning purpose? 

Hi All,Looking for some advise/ your thoughts:Historically we have locked our Structure/Routing levels to Restricted.  We see this as impractical as it leaves us potentially un-flexible in conjunction to change requests, awaiting approval for minor changes. For the time being we are looking to move to enhanced. Allowing us to to make basic numeric changes on the structure and routing without being able to add or delete. This seems sensible, but simplistic seems fine as long as there is a level of trust. Have any of you set view only permissions to groups of people for Routing/ Structures? Is this easy to set up?  Structure Routing security levels  Appreciate your thoughts! Alex

Hello All, I am unsure if the functionality exists in IFS, but I am curious if it is possible to drive Shop Order creation based on demand for a certain part number. As an example we make Part A and Part B that reside in the product structure of Part C. We would like to have the system drive demand to both parts regardless of what the on hand inventory is for the part that MRP did not plan for. So, if MRP drives demand for part A, we would like for it to also drive demand for Part B at a specific ration (2 to 1 as an example). The reverse then being that if MRP drives demand for part B, there is also a Shop Order created for Part A (at a ratio). 

Hello All, How lead time calculation will work in routing screen if we enter overlap quantity or percentage. I trying to enter many scenarios but every time i get a different calculation.’ Kindly help me to this calculation. Thank you in Advance.

Hello together, can somebody tell  me the difference betwees the process blocks in Scope Tool of “Calculate Manufacturing Lead Time” and  “Calculate Lead Time for Routing”? Thanks, Markus

HiI have an example where APB seams to be ignoring supply .Having Part 1425517 pm actuator as a component below changes the planned finished date from October to the following February this is despite pegging to supply due in October (so 3582).There is also ample resource capacity in oct/nov to manufacture both. All parts supply are inventory, Parts are Finite scheduled.No other demand for part 1425517 exists. No condition code.No location restrictions. Result with pm actuator as component Result Without pm actuator as component I understand that the Feb. date is using the inventory part lead time but i would of thought that actual supply would be taken into account. All help very welcome as this has got me scratching my head.Thanks Ian

Hi everyone,This might be a bit long but please bear with me.Our facility (Company A) manufactures a product which is sent to a sister company (Company B) for a specific operation to be performed. The product is then returned to the original company for further processing. We operate using recipes and produce in batches with lot control so our first attempt to set up this scenario is as follows: A Shop order is created to mix the original product  A Shop order with an outside operation is created for the work being done by the sister company. The material for this shop order is the original product. Step 1 was simple. We created the original productWe are having some trouble with the details of Step 2Company A - The shop order for step 2 creates a purchase requisition for the sub-contract work Company A - The req is converted to a PO and sent to the supplier (we use the intercompany messaging) Company B - Receives the incoming customer order and converts it into a customer order. Which

Can we have several structure for one product? If yes, how do we know which structure will be applied when raising a PO for sub-contracting?

Hello, Is there a way to copy base profile changes to personal profile without doing any changes in Personal Profile?For eg:Let’s take ‘Active Work Order’ screen.In Base Profile the layout is like:Col1    Col2     Clo3    Col4    NewCol1     NewCol2 Personal Profile layout like:Col2    Col1     Col3    Col4 So now I want to add these 2 new columns(NewCol1,NewCol2) in personal profile without changing it’s current layout like:Col2    Col1     Clo3    Col4    NewCol1     NewCol2 Hope the question is clear enough. Thanks

Hi All We have an interesting issue which we are looking to overcome, so any suggestions are welcome. Background:In our current system (not IFS), we have routes set up like:10 - Setup Machine A machine setter sets up the machine - this will involve running a few parts to make sure the setup is correct. 20 - Approve Setup When the setup has been complete, an inspector comes to make sure he is happy with the product produced in the setup. 30 - Run Machine for Batch An operator will run the machine for the remaining batch. 40 - Inspect An inspector will inspect samples of the batch.All of our operations and setups are timed as we pay a bonus on the operators’ efficiency. Going Forward:In IFS (and any ERP) the above setup causes issues. As it stands, when you schedule eg 10 jobs through the machine for various different shop orders (some might be the same part), it schedules all of the ‘Setup Machine’ operations one after another, all of the ‘Approve Setup’ one after another.In reality, op

I’ve run into a situation a couple of times where a customer requests an RMA (return material authorization) for one part number of a full build-up (shop order/DOP). Right now, we are creating an RMA that’s not connected to a customer order and creating the RMA for the returned item to issue a credit to the customer. We would like a way to connect the RMA to the original customer order so that there’s a trail of where the request came from and so that the customer doesn’t try to return the same item twice. We would also like to be able to connect the return to the salesman that sold it to the customer.Is there any way to do this?

Using Apps10. We have quite a few raw materials these days that are on allocation from the supplier. I would like to prompt customer service when entering an order line for a sales part that contains one of these materials so we can verify availability with the supplier before confirming the order to the customer. Any suggestions?

Hi,Related to question https://community.ifs.com/finance-financials-42/currency-rate-part-cost-6083.We have the same conditions as in above question.Though we have > 100 000 purchased parts and several people calculates new parts during the year, we cannot calculate the parts in Excel, as suggested in the answer for the related question. We use standard cost as inventory valuation method.The purchase parts must be valued by a budget currency rate that is set once a year.To handle this we have a currency rate type called Budget, set as Normal but not the default currency type for that. The default normal currency rate is updated once a month from our financial system. This currency type is used by purchase orders and customer orders. Therefore it is no option to use the same currency type for both part calculation and every day work in Supply chain. Is there any new functionality in IFS Cloud for cost calculation with different currency rate types?We need the functionality for all op

 Dear All,would you help ? I’ve an issued when tried to create shop order the message was shown “Supply for shop order part not allowed”, would you kindly suggest ? Thank you.

Hi all, need your ideas on this.Following is an actual scenario faced by a customer.· There is a manufactured product (FG) where a forecast is entered in MS Level 1. There is a monthly forecast for this product.customer order for this product is connected with a project (each CO has it’s own project) Project PNG is used to plan materials for each project.· Question is how to consume the forecast by Customer Orders ?· Because once the CO is connected with a project It’s no longer considered for actual demand in MS Level 1 where Project PNG is ‘*’. (Where the forecast is entered). It’s only considered if MS Level 1 record is created with the specific Project PNG.  

Hi, I have a site that make heavily configurable parts. They have separate part codes for each configuration. Slight variations. On the odd occasion they want to swap the part at the end to another part code on the shop order.This works when adding parts. Receive it in, issue it to the next one and add the additional parts to the material list.So they dont lose reported labour they want to receive the part into stock and issue it to another shop order effectively swapping the part number. However receiving the original part on the original shop order into inventory has risk as they have unissued some component parts and what they are receiving into stock isnt really what it says it is a parts removed.Would you receive it in using W/D/R or condition codes to highlight the fact that it does not conform to the the part received? or cancel all the shop order and start again, would be shame to lose all the labour reporting in cancelling. 

I have created a persistent filed of data type number and would like to limit it to 2 digits.  Does anyone know how to limit the field to 2 digits?

Hello all,I would like to ask for your help to navigate me where to set the background color for gant chart in APB. Unfortunately, it is set to the orange and I would like to reset it back to white/transparent. Can you navigate me to the appropriate register key?With kind regards,Zdenek Baumelt  

Hi, We buy tubes of 5m of our supplier. In our production, we need these tubes but in a length of 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5m.Because of form fit function, it seems to me that this should be 5 different inventory parts.How should we manage this in IFS, knowing that in our shop order, it’s mentioned that we need tube of 3m for example. However, if needed, the operator can also use one of 4 or 5m. Then he just cuts it, an puts the remaining length on stock. The decission of taking a different length, is taken when he picks the material. How can we easiliy achieve this?

 Hi,A Part is having 5 characteristics A,B,C,D,EConfiguration combinations tables are using all characteristics and returning values.But from sales rules, it has been defined to detach a characteristic B when selecting an Option value from A,But There is a Value defined in Configuration combination using characteristic B.Due to detach of characteristic B, There is an error in Interim order header, component defined in Configuration combination table is not returning to the structure….Any known fix for the issue?more example…….As from above example shown in picture 20-AO_QTY is the characteristic that detach when selecting DP from 20-COMP-CONT Characteristic. 1 is the default value for 20-AO QTY.if there is a value in 20-AO QTY, it is not passed the connected component Default value is return, not the connected value.when we empty the value in 20-AO_QTY, then correct value will be returned.