One of our IFS Cloud 25R1 customers has a somewhat unusual requirement. They would like to use the Shop Floor Workbench (or any other suitable functionality) solely to track the progress of Shop Order Operations — for example:
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Whether an operation has started
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If it has been interrupted
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Actual production start and end times
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Whether the operation is currently ongoing
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Similar status-related information typically tracked via the workbench
However, they do not want to report quantities or scrap through the Shop Floor Workbench.
In addition, they do not want the machine and labor times recorded through Shop Floor Clocking to be transferred to the actual cost of the Shop Order (they are using the weighted average valuation method). Instead, they prefer to report operation quantities and times directly through the Shop Order and want only those manually reported transactions to be considered for Labor and Operation postings.
Is it possible to achieve this using the Shop Floor Workbench?
Alternatively, is there another way in IFS Cloud to record operational progress information (such as actual production start/end times and operation status) without impacting costing or generating labor and machine transactions