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

Hi from a relative IFS novice, however wondered whether IFS has the ability to deal with projects that are full cost reimbursable Target Outturn Cost (TOC) model? As a company we are operating typically Lump Sum projects, however we are undertaking a program of projects with a defined cost margin that is not lost if there are cost-overruns. Does IFS have the ability to deal with this? Thank you, Martin

Has anyone ever had an issue where all resource group planned labor rates have begun showing the same planned hourly rate across all resource groups in Project Navigator_Resource_Resource Planning? We have almost 100 resource groups with various rates in the resource group ID_Standard Price that are set to expire on 12/31/2049 - but the rate that is starting to show across all of them is $28.365.

Currently, based on our testing we cannot find a way to create an overtime cost line using the Job Rate Management without it including also the base time. Ideally, for analysing the detail we’d like to see the overtime cost lines without a base cost element. It is not an option to create an overtime cost type as a fixed cost because any calculations (such as pension) which are based on base wage, would not get generated for overtime in that scenario. We are now getting two entries for overtime - one which is base and another which is the 50% addition to base, but ideally we’d want to be able to set this up to see only overtime entry at 150%. This would help with analysis and budget comparisons to keep base time lines separate from overtime. Has anyone come up with a solution?

I’m curious to know how, or if, anyone is using Activity Classes. I can see that Activity Classes are set up in the Project Management Basic Data however I’m unsure of what the Value element of the object refers to and how it is used within the system. We’re thinking that it could be a useful data tag for some specific project reporting that we have to produce but want to understand a little more it’s actual purpose and any potential system impact if used incorrectly. Any pointers gratefully received, thanks

Hi, I am building a report to compare, for a project, actual vs budget/forecast. This report uses:- GL Transaction Details (purpose: retrieve actual cost/revenue) - This is the main source- Project Forecast Item (purpose: retrieve overall budget/forecast)- Project Forecast Item Period (purpose: retrieve budget/forecast spread, when it exists) My repeater is cost/revenue element (a code part value for GL transaction, cost/revenue element for Forecast Item). I have setup an extended repeater connection (as per below screenshot): When I run the report, it retrieves all the values. However, the rows with the cost/revenue elements used in the other sources (Forecast Item, Forecast Item spread) appear empty (""). The same happen if I reverse the order of the information sources (Forecast Item as main source). I've looked at the documentation but could not find a solution there. Would anyone be able to advise on how to fix this? Regards, Alexis

Hello, We are running into an issue with planned/committed costs for material showing an incorrect value when a specific inventory part is added to a project-connected work order. The planned cost is calculated and showing correctly on the work order, but the project connection and activity cost is significantly higher. We have been unable to figure out how this value is being calculated differently compared to the work order. For reference, we are running IFS Apps 10 Update 13. The part in question is a manufactured part. Below is a screenshot of the inventory part and the cost tab. It shows the current unit cost of one of these parts as $37,745.88. When I add this part to a work order on the materials tab, it pulls in the correct Planned Cost for that part. It also shows the correct planned cost on the work order Budget tab. However when we look at the project activity that this work order is connected to, for some reason it is showing a planned/committed cost of $149,060,400.52. Thi

Hi, how can we easily move all shop orders which are connected to a project activity? We move the activity back 2 months, off course we want that all conected shop orders are also moved. How can this be done besides moving them one by one manually? We don’t have APB

We are setting up MCPR and while linking up employee project activity with customer project activity, we get an error saying “ The report code is not connected to the employee activity” . The report code looks OK. Has anyone come across this issue?

We are busy to install IFS V10 and have to use Ms Visual C++ 2010 and Ms Visual C++ 2012. However, Ms Visual C++, 2010 is already out of support and Ms Visual C++, 2012 is out of support as of January 10th, 2023. Our business case to update to IFS V10 was based on “SECURITY and Compliancy”” and now we need to install unsupported software??

In the roadmap PPT document for 22R2 there was a statement on the slide “Additional Features and Tweaks” called “Project connections to WorkTasks”. As understand this was not delivered in 22R2. Is there another plan for this delivery of functionality

Hi! There used to be a functionality in IFS9 where we could RMB on project transactions and send these transactions as links to other employees within the company. With the upgrade to IFS10, this functionality no longer exists. Is there a way to re-introduce this functionality back into our Project Transactions page? Thanks!!

Does anyone know if it’s possible to have multiple project activities that have the same activity short name (they have different activity sequences). I’m currently getting the validation error ‘The Activity already exists’ and wondering if there is a way around this.

Same report layout has different formats in different data bases. Anyone know form where to change date format of Project Invoice Specification Layout?

Hello, We are project-based organisation with many projects running concurrently and with a strict monthly reporting cycle. Each project is enforced to create monthly resource and financial forecasts. We’ve been having some issues recently with resource forecasts generating negative ETC costs which then disrupt financial forecasts, see this thread. We have been investigating further in test environments and noticed that our issues disappear when we use “EAC Recalculated” in the snapshot matching field when generating a resource forecast, rather than using “ETC recalculated”. When we went live, we were instructed to use “ETC recalculated”. Unfortunately, the help panel in IFS doesn’t include any information on the difference between these two calculation methods when selecting this field. With a PM hat on, EAC recalculated makes the most logical sense as we want Committed and Used hours to be driven by timesheet & shop order data, and ETC hours be driven my monthly manual intervention b

Community, kindly advise what is the best way to batch upload parts into IFS? I was told there is a bug in IFS API, and some mandatory fields are missing in engineering part after migration. Thank you.

We use the REST API projection ProjectNavigator to integrate project activities to our Project Management Tool. We use a simple GET to fetch all activites. If we send a request and get 900 records, we might get 800 records a minute later. The 100 missing records is then back again in the next call, but we might lack 50 others. There seems to be no logic in which records are missing, some of them not altered in years. We use the standard projection ProjectNavigator/Activities. Any thoughts?

Hi Community, we are using IFSAPP10 Project Navigator & Project Deliverable. We are used to connect customer order lines with project activities. We have by mistake connected some order lines with wrong projects activities (wrong sub-project), so that the revenue is not linked with the correct sub-project. Once the customer order is in released status, IFS does not accept to disconnect lines. Thanks in advance for your inputs!

Hi We have a huge amount of dependencies on our projects, instead of expanding all we would like to expand only to next level => sub projects, and if needed expand from there to activities. Or if possible we would like to choose the activity level connections that we want to see, like shop orders or purchase orders. We are using Cloud 22R1.4

Hi, For our projects, we need sometimes to transfer 50+ parts to project inventory. Is the only option to do this line by line with material transfer requisition? We would like to have a one click solution.

Hello, I have a customer order linked to an activity of a project. I would like to block the release of the customer order while the activity is not closed. Is somebody know how to do that? Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi, In EE lobby the date format looks as I want but in aurena lobby the date format is different. How can I change the date format in Aurena? Best regards Mervan

Hi, Does anyone know what are the steps to be taken in order to Transfer a delivery project as a Fix Asset. Thank You, Kasun

Hello, Do you have a documentation in order to put in place customer invoicing based prepayment and milestones e tied to start of the project or to a milestone? Thanks in advance, Fabien

Hello :) Does anyone know if there is a way to set a delivery address on a project so that it does not take the default customer address?

Hi , we are using IFS Cloud 22R1 currently, we have a request from custmer that , for an Internal Project they want to use Project to collecting the Labor Cost. and, they don’t want to use Employee (only use Resource/Resource Group) what they want is : Time Report : Resource A(Designers): cost rate: $100/h , report time : 50 hours 2. Resource B (Operators): cost rate: $50/h, report time: 100 hours 3. Resource C (Managers): cost rate : $200/h, report time: 10 hours and finally , the Project Cost is : 100 * 50 + 50*100 + 200*10 = $12,000 Does IFS support this kinds of Reporting?