Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

We have a availability control on parts in one warehouse. The availability control is set to Nettable, not auto reservation, not manual reservation, not order issue, scrapable, allow reducing (on Part Counting Control), all allowed for part movement control and non-order issue. For some reason we can’t create a cycle count report for this warehouse location. It looks like it is due to the availability controls on the part but I need to verify that is the case. Can anyone confirm my suspicion or help me figure out why these will not pull on a cycle count report. We used not counted in zero days to generate the report. We are in IFS Apps 10 UPD21.

As part of a redesign of one warehouse we are looking for a way to have a single Kanban pull result in a two-step material move that can be handled by WADACO. The situation is that production cells trigger the kanban, pulling material from the warehouse. However for the new warehouse design the material must be picked from the warehouse locations and put into a single staging location, and then a separate move needs to be done from the staging location to the production cell. Is there a way to handle this natively inside IFS, accurately reflecting the true material locations and without any of the warehouse team waiting on material that is not yet in staging? We use Transport Tasks today so that’s where we’ve been focusing to try to solve but maybe there is a different approach? If there’s no standard way to achieve this in IFS, the best thought I have at this time is as follows but it seems like overkill: Use an event to kill any Transport Task that gets created to pull from the new w

Hi all, We are looking to optimize the way we perform our Inventory count of the Finished goods product in our warehouses. Currently, we hold shipping for about 3 days to complete performing the inventory and then resume shipping on the 4th day. Just wondering what some of the different ways in which you are counting your Finished goods inventory. Do you utilize a 3rd party team? Do you count/freeze warehouse-by-warehouse? Any other ways to shorten the time for performing the inventory count? Thanks in advance! D

Community, I have a shop order in Closed status. in below window, i can see the discrepancy in the Cost Variance field in different tab. I expect cost variance $3000, but just don’t sure how 2600 is calculated? Where we could trace how system calculate this value, i.e.2600? Thank you.

I am trying to generate a GS1 QR Code in IFS Report Designer but cannot find a way to create a group separate to separate the columns that will create the QR Code. Wadaco Configuration has been created so that FNC1 code 10 = LOT_BATCH_NO and code 241 = PART_NO. I therefore created a READ ONLY custom field that using the following SELECT statement: SELECT '10'||lot_batch_no||chr(29)||'241'||part_no FROM INVENTORY_PART_BARCODE WHERE objid = :objid If I copy and paste the value from the custom field into Wadaco GS1 Barcode 1 on clicking SAVE the the value of the LOT_BATCH_NO is displayed in the Lot Batch field and the value of PART_NO is displayed in the Part No field. Unfortunately, adding the custom field to IFS Report Designer the ascii value appears to be ignored as copying the value displayed on the report and pasting it as above the full value appears in the Lot Batch field. Can someone please advise on how to get the group separator ascii value 29 - CHR(29) to work. Many thanks. Jo

Hi,If selecting 100 records of Shop Order Requestion and trying to create shop orders. You may get an error message if something is wrong, listing every requestion and message like: No Buildable Structure, No Operation, No allocation etc... If Pressing OK the shop order creation prcosses is stopped and you have to walkthorugh every shoporder requestions to exclude any faulty requestions. In APP9 you could easally continue the shop order creation process, and later take care of the requestions not generated into shop orders . Should it be like this?Can you propose any other sutaible approach to create shop orders from shop order requestions?

Using a Configuration Combination table to return the component part number and this works OK unless the part number that it returns is a Configured Part. The supply code on the Customer order line is DOP and when I add the configured part as a component it works fine, but when I have a ‘place holder’ part as the componet part (ie just a dummy purchased part part), and then I use a configuration combination to ‘SET’ the componet part to a differant part number, it fails when the part is the configured part. The error message I get is ‘Unable to process due to error action ‘SET’ Component part XX-XXX must not be a configured part.

The daily values of the theoretical capacity for the future can be seen in the Capacity tab in the Work Center. Where can I see the theoretical capacity of Work Centers or Manufacturing Labor Classes of the past days, weeks and months? We need the value for a productivity analysis. Thank you :-)

What is the difference in Sales Contract and Service Contract. I am sure services can be sold and managed in Sales contract management. When to use Sales Contract and when to use service contract.?

Hello IFS Community, im trying to create a permission set with read only access to a few screens, one of the is the part cost, i have the projection set “PartCostHandling” as Read Only and my user goes into the screen called “Part Cost", the user gets the message “Your System Administrator has not granted permission to complete that action” what permissions is this talking about? what am i missing in order to let the user just VIEW this page? I appreciate any help out there.

Community, a question about how to disable auto close shop order operation when completed quantity meet the planned quantity/tolerance. We are on APP10.

Where in IFS would I go to modify how shop orders get released so that I can force a “Customer Owned” Ownership on certain parts? Is this even possible? We have an issue where when the shop order gets released the parts from below get wrongly marked as Company Owned and they need to be manually changed to Customer Owned.

Error: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host while fetching General Ledger report. I am getting this error after 15 mins of transaction. Checked the JTA configuration. <Timeout Seconds> = 36000s, <Abandon Timeout Seconds> = 900s. I changed <Abandon Timeout Seconds> value to 1200s as well still it gave error after 900s.

When using Shop Floor Workbench, Filter by: Manual filter. Entering Work Center.Dispatch List populatingEntering a shop order to view details.Going Back to the Shop Floor Workbench, the recent filtration of the work center is gone.This was not the case in Shop Floor Workbench in Apps 9. Can we overcome this in anyway?I didn´t succeed in using page designer: Default to Previous. ​

Helllo, I am trying to sum all the raw(purchased) material (MATERIAL1, MATERIAL2) for my product. (According to qty_per_assembly) I just generated simple structure of L1 product. It looks like this: What i need to do is to sum the MATERIAL1 and MATERIAL2: MATERIAL1 (8,25kg) goes to part_no L4.1 (1 pcs) and component L4.1 (1 pcs) goes to part_no L3 (16 pcs) that means: 8,25 * 1 * 16 * 1 = 132 kg (level4 * level3 * level2 * level1) MATERIAL2 (0,75kg) goes to part_no L4.2 (2 pcs) and component L4.1 (1 pcs) goes to part_no L3 (16 pcs) that means: 0,75 * 2 * 16 * 1 = 24 kg (level4 * level3 * level2 * level1) How to do it in oracle? Thank in advance. MANUF_STRUCTURE view - basic with data as ( select 'L1' as part_no, 0 as eng_chg_level, '' as alternative_no, 'L2' as component_part, 1 as qty_per_assembly, 'PCS' as print_unit from dual union all select 'L2' as part_no, 0 as eng_chg_level, '' as alternative_no, 'L3' as component_part, 16 as qty_per_assembly, 'PCS' as print_unit from dual union

I am looking for a way to automatically manage multi-source manufacturing. For the various cases below, I haven't found any functionalities that meet our customer needs. Can you tell us if any solutions exist? Or if some functionalities could be available in the future IFS roadmap. Case 1: distribution between different alternatives routings. Expected functionality: to be able to distribute (in %) between 2 (or more) alternatives the quantities to be produced in a period without having to split the batch size of the shop order requests generated by the MRP. Existing functionality we've found: distribution between different alternatives according to the quantity to be produced => doesn't meet customer needs. Case 2: distribution between purchased and manufactured. Expected functionality: to be able to distribute (in %) between manufacturing on routing and purchasing from supplier the quantities to be produced in a period, without having to split the batch size taken into account by MRP.

Community, Anyone has experience below error? We are investigating how to use S&OP planning, when we start creating a new S&OP, this error prompts. we have fixed the inventory static period issue in Statistic Periods window. Thank you.

Hello, We are producing a part in UoM = PC. To manufacture that part, we are outsourcing operations on the shop order for: transport manufacturing process Both are assigned with an outside operation items for which the purchase requisitions are generated upon shop order release. Those are then converted into purchase orders and upon arrival of the physical items, we receive all of them and close the shop order. Items on the shop order are in UoM = PC, Outside operations items are a non-inventory parts (paying for the service) however one of the suppliers for the manufacturing process is charging us and sending an invoice per kg for one of those outside operation items (manufacturing process) Question/Problem to Solve: Is it possible to have purchase order for this non-inventory part in UoM = kg, but receiving it in UoM=PC on the shop order? How to solve this differentiation? Goal: We need to be able to issue orders for outsourced manufacturing process in the supplier's billing unit, th

We are planning to upgrade our Apps10 PROD environment to the Remote Deployed 23R2 Cloud Setup soon and I want to clarify if IFS has any restrictions or suggestions NOT TO USE Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Express with the Cloud DB.

I received this question in a private message: Can you think of a solution, on how to prevent the system from issuing new WDR beyond maximum shelf life? Example Scenario: A bag of chocolate chips is received with a 1-year expiry when sealed.After opening, it must be used within 2 months.A WDR Change - Receipt updates its expiry from 12 months to 2 months.Now, WADACO and IFS prioritize using this stock first.example: A bag of chocolate chips is received with a 1-year expiry when sealed. It stayed in the warehouse for 11 months, it has one 1 month left. When moved, the system might change the date to 2 months because is opened. How to make sure it will give only the maximum shelf life inherited from the original date? When stock is moved or repackaged, we want IFS to apply a new shelf life based on its status change (e.g., from sealed to opened). However, if the item is already close to expiration (e.g., 11 months into a 12-month shelf life), the system should not assign a new expiry dat

In the 24R2 documentation: The Update Processed Transactions section in the ‘About MCA’ page reads: “All inventory parts, no matter of inventory valuation method, will have their labor and operation transactions costs adjusted from this command.” The Update Processed Transactions activity in 5.5.9.1 Manufacturing Cost Allocation reads: “The transactions of only inventory parts that are having Weighted Average setting in the inventory valuation method of the Inventory Part page will be updated from this update processed transactions command.” EDIT: I figured out what the documentation was stating.

Hi All, I wonder if anyone of you Heroes and Doers have good and effective solution to the problem, same time not causing overloading the system. In some cases, WDR is used to change the expiration date. A raw material, has a maximum shelf life when sealed—let’s say 1 year. However, once opened, it remains fresh for only 2 months. How to prevent the system from issuing new WDR beyond maximum shelf life? Example Scenario: A bag of chocolate chips is received with a 1-year expiry originally sealed. When a product is received in the warehouse, it has assigned an expiration date based on its full shelf life. This date is stored in IFS under the batch/lot information. When is being moved from Stores location to floor location, system will treat it as opened, and to be be used within 2 months. A WDR Change - Receipt updates its expiry from 12 months to 2 months. A bag of chocolate chips is received with a 1-year expiry when sealed. It stayed in the warehouse for 11 months, it has one 1 month

I sold a finished product with a serial number to a customer. A component part of the sold finished product was sent back to me for repair. The component part that was sent back to me also has a serial number. I will send a replacement for this part. The customer did not send me the entire finished product , only a part of it, which is our main issue. I cannot reopen the shop order I used to produce the finished product and unissue the component part underneath it, because it is a very old shop order, and the cost calculations for that period have already been made. However, the component part also needed to be entered into my inventory. I received this component part into my inventory with a Return Material Authorization. I manufactured a new spare part and shipped it to the customer. Now, I cannot use this returned serial-numbered component part in another weapon, because it gives me an error saying that “Serialized component <my component part and serial no> exists in catalog struct

Hello. In the multi level structure tab, we sometimes have a negative value on the qty per assembly field. What’s the meaning of this and is that possible to update the value to set a positive value?

When running MRP with the Plan Alternate Component option enabled, component part is not reflected in the MRP Part Information page tree structure and, the component part does not see the demand from its parent part. This happens only when Mutual Alternates are set up for the parent part. Environment:24.1.4 Steps: Create Parts and Product Structure as shown below. Part B and Part B-Alt are mutual alternates Create a demand for for Part A Perform Site MRP or Selective MRP for Part A Check the MRP Part Information page. Expand the tree structure you can see the demand coming from Part B in the MRP Part information record of the Part C. It works as expected. Perform Site MRP or Selective MRP for Part A with the Plan Alternate Component option enabled. Check the MRP Part Information page. Part C does not appear in the tree structure. Search for Part C on the MRP Part Information page. No demand exists. Now, remove the Part B line on the Alternate Component Page of Part B-Alt. Check the Alt