Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

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.

Running Apps10 UPD14We have a variety of repair scenarios and we are trying to determine which is the better shop order type to use for our different scenarios.  I’m looking for more information on the Rework checkbox in Manufactured Shop orders.  Based on the description and some initial testing, checking the rework option appears to give us the same functionality as a repair shop order, with the benefit of it being generated out of the customer order and automatically linked.Does anyone have any insights about the differences (or similarities) between these 2 options.

Hi,In the Shop Floor Workbench, is it possible to indicate (highlight the operation line or a message on the window) an operation whose manufacturing time exceeds the standard time (adding a tolerance margin), once the operation is approved?  

Hello, I need to find out all the PCBs with an MSL class. Where is this information?Thanks. 

We have parts sitting in a QA location that we want to scrap.  What is the best process for doing this?  

We use iterated characteristics in our Configurator (IFS 10, UPD 11).Is there a better way to use these iterated characteristics in a Sales Rule condition, rather than write out each iteration for each Option Value being specified?This is what I’m doing right now. Where I have the same Option Values, but it’s iterated based on 1-SHELFITEMTYPE%. We have up to 7 shelf items, meaning I have to do this 7 times to account for every iteration. I’ve tried using 1-SHELFITEMTYPE[1-SHELFCUR] which is our iteration counter to insert current iteration into 1-SHELFITEMTYPE, but this does not work. Thanks!

Hello, We have recently begun utilizing the Aurena interface within select departments and one of the feedback is they do not like having the part no and description concatenated on the shop orders screen because when they export to Excel the data is exported as it is on the screen.  Our users want the shop orders screen layout to be like IEE where the part number and description are in separate columns.   Has anyone made this change using the Page Designer?We are very new to Aurena and its taking us a while to relearn these types of changes. In the red area is what we’d like to change so part number and description are separate columns. Regards,William Klotz

In Routing Template window, the labor class listed in the LOV, is not taken from the site which is on the routing template header. please see the screenshot attached.Log into IEE Go to “ Routing Template” Window Add new record > Select site 623 > Save Add new Operation > Select labor Class by using LOV LOV window not fetching correct labor classes according to the site. Issue can be observed in APP10 UPD 9.    

I am trying to add a new characteristic to a part in inventory part but I need to create a new code. Where do I do that so that I can add it to the list?

Community,wondering how to calculate the subcontract operation lead time. I tried Supplier for purchase part, but calculation lead time is 0. kindly advise.Thank you.

Community, need to borrow your mind, where to set the default values for below items, when I am trying to transfer the engineering part to site.part template planner manuf engineerThank you.

Hi, How can we most efficently define the time a part needs to dry, but when it is drying it should not be counted as capacity on that work center? We paint a part, and after painting it needs to dry for 1 hour before we can continue with the next operation. However, the drying phase does not take capacity on the painting workcenter. So it should be added to the total lead time, but not take any capacity. We thought of queue time, but that’s for the workcenter itself. Drying time depends on the part.Making another workcenter to dry seems a bit overkill, so I wonder if anyone has another idea? Thanks!Merten

Hi everyone,I’m looking for some help with lot numbering relating to the production process. Our client makes products using an injection mold.The lot number for molded parts is the date they were pressedThe molded parts are further processed (at a later date) into a finished good for sale. However, the customer requires the pressed date from the mold remain as the lot number for the finished good. Is there a way for the shop order that creates the finished good to ‘inherit’ the lot number from the component? The FG product structure is quite simple with the molded part as the only component.  Thank you

If you use ABC class for daily cycle counting how do you know if all A class parts will get counted throughout  the year? Also if you want all A class parts to be counted for example 4 times a year how do you know if every A class part will get counted 4 times a year?

Hi all,after  Reserve and issuing components we get following error receiving assembly.If we unissue and unreserve we get no message receiving the shop order.What the reason for this behaviour?Thanks in advance Alberto