Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

When looking at Inventory Part Availability Planning screen for certain part numbers, the Forecast Demand from MS Level 1 is not pulling through. Other demand is, i.e customer and shop orders exist - but no Forecast is shown. Require some guidance on resolving the missing information

 Hi all,Attempting to create a shop order and getting the following error message. I have checked posting control and code parts but can’t see anything? I have also checked the API which is throwing up the error, but cannot see any similar error messages. Any ideas?Thanks,R​​​Error Message for Creating Shop Order 

Hello, We are running IFS Application 10 Update 8 and an upcoming change to our manufacturing environment is going to require two shop order operations to be started simultaneously.  For example lets say we have the following operations defined.10 - Charging15 - Pumping20 - Circulation When the operator starts operation 10 we’d like IFS to also start operation 15 as well.   We know we can have the operator manually start operation 10 and 15 manually but we are trying to eliminate a point of failure and automate this functionality. Regards,William Klotz

Hi All, Where do you add layered overhead cost buckets when you want to connect parts to part costs under IFS Aurena cloud solution? Best regards,Devni

Hi all,when we navigate to a shop order and search for a certain order >> RMB >> print pick list and pick the relevant print options (include unconnected material, list by shop order, list by location and include part summary and say ok and select the preview option, there is no data retrieved on the report. Only the first information page comes up an inbuilt report.In report designer, I can see that there is a repeat page with data. Could I know why data isn’t retrieved when it comes to printing the pick list in these instances?

Hi, one of our customers is having the above issue when the following test plan is followed. Is there any rectification from RnD for this?1. Go to Assembly and Disassembly product structure for an existing top position part (GE/00-00-00)2. Now the focus is to create a mismatch in the line item numbers in between Assembly Side and Disassembly side for the same part.3. Add a random inventory part with different line item numbers on each side. (E.g: Part LINEITEM5 with line item 100 in Disassembly side and 200 in Assembly side)4. Now add a new part (LINEITEM4) as a new structure position in serial structure template and enable auto transfer to manufacturing.5. Position parts will be added in the product structure with different line items in-between Assembly and Disassembly sides.6. Include these position parts in maintenance level structure of GE/00-00-00 (Maintenance level: LINEITEM)7. Now create an MRO flow, set the maintenance level in Disposition Work Scope, Release the MRO interim o

We have several parts in stock which have been entered under their manufacturer’s part number, however, are also built to a standard and are therefore form-fit-function alternates. I have set up the parts as Fully Interchangeable alternative parts in the Master Part (which has commuted across to the inventory part).The desired functionality is to be able to raise a Material Requisition for Part A, and then when going into Manually Reserve stock, stock is shown for both parts A and B (of which B is an alternate for A).Can this functionality be achieved?

Hello,Open Project Deliverables Design window from Aurena. Go to Components tab. Select a record and edit it. Save the changes.I receive below error when updating a record or saving a new record in the above mentioned window.(Server Error) savepoint 'ORACLE_SVPT_93' never established in this session or is invalid. Customer is in APP10 UPD10.Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best regards,Devni

Do we have any method to change the default scheduling direction of shop orders from backward scheduling to forward scheduling?

Hi i currently work for a build-to-order manufacturing company that releases manufacturing shop order early in order to keep under utilised work centres business and resources busy, but do not process the whole routing which results large numbers of shop order remaining open in WIP.This does not seem to me as the right course of action and it negatively effects our internal KPI for manufacturing shops order closed within plan routing time.Does having large numbers of shop orders unfinished in WIP have any negative effects on the system regarding MRP and scheduling?regardsJamie

Hello Community,We are using IFS APPS 9.As a month ending user need to reduce the shop order cost present against WIP shop orders. How we can do this.We have Issued the stock from Inventory art handling-Issue parts but it wont work. Need your help. Regards,Deepak

What is the functional reasoning behind ‘FIFO’ and ‘LIFO’ inventory valuation methods being applicable only with ‘Cost per Part’ inventory part cost level?

Community, for a project delivery, we copied the engineering structure in Project Product window, item status is Defined. Used in Structure checkbox is checked. MPL is updated. after some time, we realized that one item should be removed from the structure, but looks like system refuse to do so. kindly advise how to remove this item from the structure. screenshots attached. we are trying to use “Delete” from the menu, then we get this error message. Thank you.

Is CRP run in parallel or before MRP is run? After running the CRP functionality, which windows can be used to view the results?

We are at our fiscal year end and need to be able to run the Cleanup of Inventory task on items that have a transaction within 24 hours.  Is there a way around this issue?

Please share documentation on how to setup product warranty in IFS App-9.Thank you,Dorretta 

Customer created a Engineering Part (PDM) with Provide code “Make” and created the PDM Structure and Released. Later, use the same part in a delivery project hence the same part has been added in to Project Product/ Items Tab.  Then Copy structure and got the child components also from the PDM structure. Before do the engineering transfer or create inventory parts in respective sites, customer realized part provide code to be set as “Buy”.Instead of changing it on Project Product/ Items Tab, Customer changed it on the Engineering Part itself. As a result, Part catalog, Engineering part revision etc. has been changed but not on the Project Product/ Items Tab and Project Item navigator. But if Customer change the Override Default Site, change reflect automatically but once it save again back to “Make”. I think there is a bug but not sure What is the functionality here.    

I’m having troubles understanding automatic reservations regarding Shop Orders. I’m using IFS10. In this example i have 1 parent part with 3 child parts. The parent part will be supplied with a Shop Order and the 3 child parts with a Purchase Order.I’m making a Purchase Order from Project Delivery for 3 child parts. When i receive 2 child parts _before_ making the Shop Order, the items are reserved  on Project Delivery. After that I create the Shop Order and the reservation is taken over by the Shop Order, as can be checked in the Material tab. The 3rd child part is received _after_ the creation of the Shop Order but is reserved on Project Delivery and not on the Shop Order.I have to manually unreserve in Project Delivery and reserve it on the Shop Order.As a check i did the following: If i unreserve it in Project Delivery and want to reserve it again in Project Delivery IFS shows a message that it is not possible since a Shop Order exists for the Parent Part (see screenshot). I would

Hi,First of all, I’m using IFS version 7.5.I have 8 operations for a part number and the actual manufacturing lead time is 1 day.However, IFS calculated lead time is 2.22 days.The reason is IFS assumed that these operations are running in sequence one by one.That’s mean after Ops 10 completed 1500pcs, then only start Ops 20;  after Ops 20 completed 1500pcs, then only start Ops 30 and so on....But in actual situation, Ops 20 will be started once Ops 10 completed 20pcs for example.Since Ops 10 - 80 are not running in parallel, I tried to configure CBS Overlap. However, CBS Overlap does not impact manufacturing lead time.Can anyone let me know how can I overcome this to shorten the manufacturing lead time?Is there any setting to allow IFS 7.5 consider the CBS Overlap into the manufacturing lead time? Thank you.Best Regards,KS Eng

Community, can anyone share the benefit of using multi-site instead of one site? we are trying to convincing the stakeholders on this topic. we are manufacturing company. Thank you.

Parking an order prevents any shop floor reporting on the entire order. We need to process an order up to a point before parking it. Example, order is currently at op 10. Ops 10, 20 and 30 need to be processed, but we want to prevent op 40 from being processed. Is there any functionality to prevent a shop order from processing at a specific operation?  Thanks    

Order report > Shop order work in progress report,what are the data fetching criteria for this report?

Hello,In Shop order screen , tab Opérations, I created a customized menu which gives me all the operations of a certain type number and I would like to have direct access to this list with a last line which sums up the remaining machine times in the operations screen.So I carried out a saved search in the operations screen with the last line giving me the sum.Is it possible to directly link the customized menu with the saved search ?see below screenshots containing  the example of the custom menu  Thanks in advance. Regards. 

Hi, we use raw materials in the form of bars, whose inventory measurement units are kilograms. MRP does not work properly when we add the remaining parts to our stock after the cutting process. For example, let's say that after cutting 2 pieces of 6 meters in length, it increases by 2 pieces of 3 meters. How can we access the information that it is not in the warehouse when there is a need for 1 piece of 4 meter raw material afterward? We don't want to open separate codes for each length. MRP works independently of the characteristics. If we define the length and number data to the characteristics; Can we run MRP according to characteristics? In addition, for example, if we have 1 piece of 4 meter and 5 meter raw materials and we need 1 piece of 3 meter raw material, how can we get MRP to choose the 4 meter raw material?

Hello there,For example, FULL ROUND(BILLET) Ø18 C1040K, which is kept in the inventory in mm but invoiced in kg. We have raw materials. This raw material is taken in 6000mm length and is consumed by cutting. Again, the cutting amount is given in mm in our work orders. When we keep it in a single inventory card, we have difficulty in finding the workable size because we see the total mm length. Our example scenario is as follows.There are 3 pieces of Ø18 C1040K bought in 6000mm length. It was used over time and 3 iron bars in the form of 80mm, 50mm and 20mm remained. When there is a 90mm cut in my work order, the available amount is seen as sufficient, but there is no actual amount available. Since mrp sees the total amount when it is run, it does not create a purchase request. We cannot overcome this problem with W/D/R because mrp does not see it. We do not want to open separate inventory cards for each size. These opened duplicate cards make the system unmanageable.What we are wonderi