Using Shop Floor Workbench without Impacting Shop Order Costs

Hi ​@PasinduB ,

In IFS Cloud 25R1, the Shop Floor Workbench cannot be used purely as a status‑tracking tool without creating time transactions that impact shop order cost.
While quantity and scrap reporting can be avoided, operation start/stop inherently creates clockings, and those clockings are always considered for labor and operation cost postings.
To fully meet your requirement, either standard shop floor reporting must be avoided, or a lightweight custom solution should be introduced for operation status tracking only.

Let me know your feedback.

Cheers,

SN

Based on my experience with IFS, achieving exactly what your customer wants with the standard Shop Floor Workbench would be challenging, since the workbench is inherently designed to create operation history transactions that flow into costing.

Here are a few approaches to consider - although without the full picture, it’s difficult to know if these would be helpful:

Option 1: Custom Field Approach - You could potentially use Custom Fields on the Shop Order Operation entity to track the status information you need:

• Create custom fields for actual start/end times, status flags, interruption tracking, etc.
• Build custom logic or use Events to populate these fields
• This might give you the tracking without impacting the standard costing flow - it would require some testing to see. (I’ve not actually done this, so I don’t know the impact)

You could create custom pages or modify existing ones to display this information. This is probably not the best approach but might be worth exploring.
 

Option 2: Shop Floor Workbench with Careful Configuration - While not ideal, you might be able to use the workbench but:

• Ensure labor and machine costs are set to $0
• Configure the system so only manually reported Shop Order transactions impact costs
• This would require careful setup of your Operation History parameters and possibly some customization

Option 3: Alternative Tracking Solution - Have you considered using Work Order functionality or a custom tracking solution that mirrors shop order operations but doesn't integrate with the costing engine.  This might be costly and require a mod to get exactly what they want. 

Are you looking to track this information purely for operational visibility, or do you need it to integrate with other IFS modules like scheduling or reporting?  Is your customer using shop orders for “actual” shop orders in addition to this requirement? (Does the actual shop floor workbench need to function as intended for a different use case?) 

Not sure if this is helpful, but that I’d throw in a couple of things for you to consider.

-jason