Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

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 (s

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

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.

My element shows that there are 0 comm group 1. Ihave added a navigation in my element, which takes me to inventory parts. So, when clicking on the “Comm group 1” in my element, it takes me to inventory parts, where there are some parts filling out the criteria for my data source condition. However, as shown my element says 0? I have tried to delete the data source and enter it again. Remove it from the element and add it.    

Hello, When a sticky note is added on Project Invoice window, it disappears once the window is refreshed. NotesLogged in user is IFSAPP. The issue exists for all windows of component PRJREP. The correct view names of the logical units have been given in Object Connections window. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best regards,Devni

Hi All,Navigate to “Engineering Part Revision” window.Query for a part number -> Go to Approval process tab.The system doesn’t allow the user to modify the note field.Is this a bug or do I have to configure any settings to enable that?

Hello All, I am curious if it is possible to script a cost value update from one site to another? Currently we have a production site and an estimating site. The estimating site has a copy of our component parts, which we use to create customer quotations. The issue we face is that part 12345 in the production site may change from $5 to $7, but the PN 12345 in the estimating site is not updated, unless the user manually updates the cost. Is it possible to create a scheduled task to routinely perform an update from the production to estimating to keep the costs identical? Thank you!

Can some one please advise on the difference between the 2 screens Regards,Urvakshh

Copy sub project function will fetch data but it will not copy the report code details.Is there any specific reason for that?  

Hi, in our customer’s TEST environment;1. Create a CRO line with minimum 2 quantities and release it for disposition shop order. Part should be condition code enabled. CO should be created with CRO at the beginning.2. Create two DSO lines where one is for internal repair order and other one is for external service order.3. Complete the internal repair order.4. Internal repair order is received with condition code ‘USED’ as illustrated below. Serial No = E1.5. Serial E1 is now reserved in CRO’s customer order.6. Now process the 2nd DSO line for external repair order.7. As illustrated below, Serial E2 is received in inventory with condition code OVH.8. But, customer order failed to reserve the 2nd serial, since it has different condition code.Check the reserved qty field of the CO. Only a qty of 1 is reserved. Is there a fix available for the issue?

Hello all, I have noticed a clocking issue with regard to Labor and Machine clocking. We have often times where a user is clocked on to a Shop Order. They will forget to clock out of the SO and simply clock out of Time Clock. This will result in their labor being stopped for the SO, but not the machine time. This is leading to very large Shop Order variances, as the machine will remain clocked in for potentially days at a time.  I have been looking through Site and Work Center settings hoping to find a way to for machine time to stop when labor time is stopped, but I have not found anything. Is there a way to set this? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Dear all,does anyone have an idea of what 'alternate work center' in routings stands for?It looks like something the system could consider if the ‘primary’ is overloaded but I couldn’t find anything in the online help… Thanks for your support :)

Question on project safety stock in APP8.  We had the project safety stock requirement checked for a project activity and safety stock quantities entered for some purchased project parts on the inventory part. The buyers noticed that they were getting PMRP action proposals for the project in production that said “late order” even though the POs for the parts were coming in well ahead of their shop order demands