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Projects Based (Contract/Resource Management, Project Management, Engineering Design & Deliverables)

This will include questions about Sales/Sub Contract/Resource Management, Project Management and Follow-up, Engineering Design & Deliverables Management, Risk

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Do Gooder (Partner)
OumaimaDo Gooder (Partner)
asked in Projects Based (Contract/Resource Management, Project Management, Engineering Design & Deliverables)
Project : Planned Cost in Margin Not Linked to Cost Elements in Monitoring

Hello everyone,I’ve noticed that the Planned Cost field in the Margin section is editable but does not seem to be directly linked to the cost elements added in the Monitoring section. Is this the expected system behavior? Is there a way to configure or automate synchronization so that changes made in Monitoring are reflected in Margin?Looking forward to your insights and suggestions!Best regards,

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Tharindu Illangasinghe
Superhero (Partner)
1 day ago
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Do Gooder (Partner)
AddJonasSDo Gooder (Partner)
asked in Projects Based (Contract/Resource Management, Project Management, Engineering Design & Deliverables)
Project Deliverables - Shipment Address

We have run into an issue that I would like to bring up in the community. It could be that we have missed a piece of existing functionality or we might face a gap that we have to navigate around somehow.We are using Project Deliverables to design a number of products to be shipped to the customer project site (new address for every project). There are multiple shipments created for a project, up to 40 deliveries (shipments) is not uncommon. I was expecting that a Project Address could be used to define the shipment address. When looking closer at the project address it is our understanding that it only defines the delivery address for purchase orders.If our finding above is correct the first thought is to create a customer address of type Delivery. This is of course possible. However we can’t find anywhere we can set-up what delivery address to use for the Project/Project Deliverables. The only place we have found so far is to create a shipment plan and change the delivery address. But

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Do Gooder (Partner)
2 days ago
Sunnie90
Sidekick (Customer)
Sunnie90Sidekick (Customer)
asked in Projects Based (Contract/Resource Management, Project Management, Engineering Design & Deliverables)
Defense Contract order can quantity that was originally ordered and partially delivered be reduced?

Is it possible to reduce the quantity that was originally ordered and partially delivered, when a Defense Contract is involved? If so, how? Or is a New Order required to be created and connected to the Defense Contract?Product Version: 23.2.8Business Impact: Getting ready to move from APP9 to CLOUD and new process needed.

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ENTVALERM
Do Gooder (Partner)
2 days ago
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Sidekick (Customer)
rsczerowskiSidekick (Customer)
asked in Projects Based (Contract/Resource Management, Project Management, Engineering Design & Deliverables)
Project and Cascading Cost

We are currently using IFS 10/UPD 18. We currently have all parts setup as average cost/cost per part.  We also use the project system for shop order processing. Our issue is that due to IFS cascading cost revaluation entries, projects we have closed completely, from the project itself to the financial project, are being created. These are due to average costing changes. We understand the cause. The problem is that outside of the fact we do not want a project to be touched after it is closed, these same transactions become posting errors because the project is closed. The only way to get them to post is to open up the financial project, open up the project and open up the activity.  Outside of turning on lot/batch control/changing the project after it is completed, to non-capitalization, does anyone have a superior solution? Thanks,Rich 

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Sidekick (Customer)
2 days ago
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Sidekick (Partner)
AbdessamadSidekick (Partner)
asked in Projects Based (Contract/Resource Management, Project Management, Engineering Design & Deliverables)
Cost Estimates - Project Monitoring

Hello, When using the Project module, we enter cost estimates in the “Tasks” tab.The origin of planned costs is set to “Activity resources”.Despite the fact that costs exist in the tasks tab and are attached to a cost item, they do not go up to the activity monitoring level. Could you tell me why?

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Tharindu Illangasinghe
Superhero (Partner)
2 days ago
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Do Gooder (Partner)
mmoulieDo Gooder (Partner)
asked in Projects Based (Contract/Resource Management, Project Management, Engineering Design & Deliverables)
Mass issue inventory par from project materiels and services

Hi Community, I have a question regarding the project module. On the materials and services screen, I have some misc parts that I will supply using MRP. Once the reservation of the parts done, is there any option to do issue in mass all the parts ? It seems that the option is only available for each line individually. There is a possibility to create a project pick list but it seems to be a report and not linked to any logistic process. Any idea or suggestion regarding this process ? Thanks,  

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PRODQ
Superhero (Customer)
2 days ago
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Sidekick (Partner)
RakeshSidekick (Partner)
asked in Projects Based (Contract/Resource Management, Project Management, Engineering Design & Deliverables)
Budget Control on specific Activity Level

Hi Team,We have below requirement:We have implemented budget control in IFS only on certain ‘controlled’ WBS (activities), there are other activities which have a budget and are not controlled or have no budget at all.As well as having this control on an individual activity level the system is also applying it at a project level, so if the spend against all activities is greater than the total budget against all activities it stops purchasing.  We do not want this.  We only want it applied at the specific activity level.There is an option for ‘Control on total budget’ but this relates to what ‘cost elements’ are included in the calculation.  We only have two cost elements (COST and REVENUE) so this doesn’t really do anything.Can we look into whether it’s possible to turn this control on the total budget off somehow?So essentially we use the below toggle to turn budget control on for projects and apply it for any activity that has an entry in the ‘Project Budget Control Rules List’What

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Buddhika Kurera
Superhero (Employee)
3 days ago
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Do Gooder (Partner)
mmoulieDo Gooder (Partner)
asked in Projects Based (Contract/Resource Management, Project Management, Engineering Design & Deliverables)
Ressource capacity and absence

Hi Community, I am currently exploring some features related to "Resource Management."I have created a resource as a "person group," and the group's capacity is based  individuals within it.I planned the resource on a project and made an allocation for one employee in the group.Based on HR calendar, the employee has some days OFF.I don't understand why the scheduled capacity does not consider this absence in its calculation.When using the "Resource Analysis" screen, project managers can view resource scheduling, but it appears that the capacity is not adjusted for absences.Has anyone else encountered this issue? Is this expected behavior?  

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Do Gooder (Partner)
5 days ago
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Do Gooder (Partner)
RASFEDo Gooder (Partner)
asked in Projects Based (Contract/Resource Management, Project Management, Engineering Design & Deliverables)
Resource Group Selection in Time Registration

When a person is connected to an resource group and when that resource group is their primary resource group the resource group is fetched correctly in time registration. But I am able to see the other resource groups and able to select other resource groups and saved the record too.An employee should be only seeing the resource groups only connected to them and not all the resource groups which in the company. Any solution for above. Our employees work in multiple resource groups and they are tagged in for specific resource groups?

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R
Do Gooder (Partner)
5 days ago
RECOFR
Do Gooder (Partner)
RECOFRDo Gooder (Partner)
asked in Projects Based (Contract/Resource Management, Project Management, Engineering Design & Deliverables)
Why is it needed to perform a refresh of project connections

Dear all,Does anyone know in which scenarios it is necessary to perform a refresh of project connections? I have a customer who occasionally experiences issues that are resolved with such a refresh, but this occurs very rarely. What I’d like to know is what can cause disturbances in project connections that require this kind of refresh to prevent issues.Thanks for your help.

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RECOFR
Do Gooder (Partner)
6 days ago
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Do Gooder (Partner)
MeaPriyaDo Gooder (Partner)
asked in Projects Based (Contract/Resource Management, Project Management, Engineering Design & Deliverables)
Advance Payments for Sub & Sales Contracts

Handling of Advance Payments for Sales and Subcontracts are not handled by IFS in the respective modules themselves. Always I had used a workaround solution such as Mix Payments to handle advance payments. Clients expect that to be an embedded feature like Retention in Sales & Subcontracts. Could anyone propose a solution here plz? 

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Do Gooder (Partner)
10 days ago
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Do Gooder (Customer)
DMNVHEIDo Gooder (Customer)
asked in Projects Based (Contract/Resource Management, Project Management, Engineering Design & Deliverables)
Update project deliverable after updating PDM structure (Growing BOM)

I’ve got the following scenario:I created a first version of a BOM in EPDM and imported this via Cadlink in IFS. Result Engineering parts (and structure) are created.I selected the parent part of the BOM to a project deliverable and selected the option copy PDM structure all levels. Result the components of the structure are created as Project Deliverable components.  So far so good.Than the BOM in EPDM is updated (new revisions of components or new components added), via Calink the changes are added to IFS and added to the engineering “structure”.Now i want to update my project deliverable to with the changes made to the parent part and underlaying parts, but with the option Copy PDM structure all levels , the full list of components is added again so of lot of components are double in the project structure.Any ideas?Kind regards,Vincent Heijmer

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Do Gooder (Partner)
10 days ago
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Sidekick (Partner)
Ashni NayantharaSidekick (Partner)
asked in Projects Based (Contract/Resource Management, Project Management, Engineering Design & Deliverables)
Difference of Project Demand part and PMRP part

Hi Team,I have created a customer order with a line for inventory part. Then I created a Project from customer order and created a activity in the project and released it too.Then connected the activity to customer order line and ran PMRP. This creates a Project supply request and when I receive the PO, I do have a part to reserve to customer order line. Here there is no option to issue the part to Project. What is the reason for this ? Is this beacuse it was directly created without Project demand ? Now, If I create a Project demand for same part, create PR and then PO from that demand and receive the stock to business, It get reserve to Project demand line and I could issue it. Yet this part will not be available to resevrve to customer order line. what is the reason for this ? is there a reason to make this avilable for Customer order line reservation ?

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Buddhika Kurera
Superhero (Employee)
11 days ago