Using IFS Ver 10 Update 14 - I need some tips on how to get better at managing and seeing shortages.
Quantity Short populates only when a part is reserved with the insufficient quantity available to support the reservation populating the shortage field. This shortage quantity will remain there until the part is re-reserved at a later date with the appropriate Quantity Available - shouldn’t shortages automatic as parts arrive, or become pegged?
I find many instances where will add parts to a BOM, but do not proactively reserve it because we’ll see 0 available, and expect MRP to take over to work the demand/ populate the shortage. We may consider it a shortage, though IFS doesn’t - and if MRP drives the demand, it won’t carry back any dates to get that visibility in the task materials via PR/ PO fields - shouldn’t this be a core behaviour to establish relationships between task and MRP demand - if not is there a best way to connect MRP driven PR/PO information back to a task so end users know when they can expect parts for a specific task or even hundreds of tasks without coding in a lot of guess work between a quantity of parts demanded via MRP to an array of tasks with those parts on the BOM?
“Quantity Short
The shortage quantity, displayed in the inventory unit of measure. A shortage quantity will arise when you reserve parts, not using manual reservation, for an order and there is not enough available quantity. It is the difference between the quantity of demanded parts and the reserved parts. A prerequisite is that the shortage notification functionality is activated in the system and on the specific inventory part.”
Thanks for anyone’s input here! I’m fairly new to IFS, but have used ERP systems in the past that behave quite differently from this application.
IFS 10 Update 14
-Chris
