Replies posted by AntOlivFr

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Susan SuSidekick (Customer)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

how to define sample size per order lot size in control plan

Hi AntOlivFr Thanks for your suggestion. Does that mean if we have 5 levels of sample size matrix, we should set up 5 alternate routing and 5 control plan to match them, then after shop order lot size fall to that slot, IFS will pick up that control plan to analysis shop order? Am I right? But this approach will increase workload of at least 3~10 times for business daily operation, right? Thanks Susan Hi Susan, yes you’ve understood me correctly. That is definitely the issue with doing it this way. If you have few parts, then it works. If you have many and a large sample size matrix I agree it is potentially unworkable.The routings can be managed via templates but it does mean up-revising product has a greater impact.

1 year ago

cmichielsDo Gooder (Customer)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Project MRP (PMRP) - Purchase Order not considered

Hi Coralie, If I quote you “However, we are encountering a blocking problem at the purchasing level. It seems that the PMRP does not take into account the ongoing purchase orders for inventory replenishment (therefore not related to the project). The PMRP does not consider them and asks us to buy the parts, while a purchase is in progress at the general stock level.” And yes, in PMRP, when it comes to netting against standard inventory, then “the stuff” must be in inventory, we don’t have the possibility to net open supply, for standard inventory, in the PMRP engine. If the the inventory sits in “standard inventory” then PMRP can create MTRs and transfer from standard inventory to the demanding project activity. Best Regards, Mats Mats is absolutely correct - I have however seen this resolved elsewhere using a project called STOCK so that you can buy in bulk and net it against projects using MTRs. Could you also create one PO line with multiple Project Requisitions collated on to it?

1 year ago

Susan SuSidekick (Customer)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

how to define sample size per order lot size in control plan

Hi AntOlivFr Thanks for your proposal. Yes, the control plans are attributed to the routing alternate, but normally it is not possible to active many version/alternate of routing in practice . The shop order quantity depends on customer’s demand and can not be fixed. and fluctuation. The Acceptance sample function is not suitable for our company business which can not be used as well. Can I suggest IFS to consider this requirement in the IFS further upgrade process to make it happen to meet customer need? Thanks Susan Hi, I can see the logic in what you are saying. However, if you choose to use the lot sized based routing alternate you can have as many live alternates as you like and IFS will select the appropriate one.

1 year ago

carlosfmendesSidekick (Customer)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Track a lot when issued

@carlosfmendes if you wanted to do this using standard functionality and no custom fields, could you use a subscription on the Inventory Part in Stock line? Hi @AntOlivFr, I don’t know the answer, as that is why I created this thread. 😊 However, aren’t subscriptions for oracle objects within IFS? Not sure, but from what I know this is the case, correct? 🤔 In this instance, what I want to do is track a certain value of a certain field in a certain table, not an object itself.Just a correction, if the subscription actually works in this case, it couldn’t be on Inventory Part In Stock, because I need to know the transaction code, as I only want to know when a lot is issued. Thanks for your feedback! That is a very valid and interesting point - and the reason why I asked - it sounds like you have considered all options. I just wanted to make sure you hadn’t missed anything obvious!

1 year ago

Isuru HindurangalaDo Gooder (Employee)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Scheduling the orders in APB using shop order pegged materials with multilevel product structures

Hi, Yes, you should consider using IFS DOP (Dynamic Order Processing) to handle the scheduling of multi-level ‘connected’ shop orders The APB Material Constraints functionality is primarily used for purchased component parts. Seconded, @Richard Owen advises DOP and I would recommend this as well. DOP pegs together the orders and manages this.

1 year ago

LP16985Do Gooder (Customer)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Closing Shop Orders on Mass

The only way to really do this is write a script and ensure to close shop orders with “simplified material check” and “close shop order” ticked in the script.You may wish to do this in batches and be ready to resolve any issues manually!

1 year ago

MATHDEDo Gooder (Employee)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Customer warranty

Hi Markus, we’re doing some work for a customer on this at the moment. There isn’t any particularly special functionality I’m aware of. This functionality is really just to flag that a warranty has been promised to the customer. It depends what you want to do with it, but often a better solution - particularly for high value products - might be a service contract type. Let me know if you want some more information, as it depends what you are trying to achieve!

1 year ago

carlosfmendesSidekick (Customer)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Track a lot when issued

@carlosfmendes if you wanted to do this using standard functionality and no custom fields, could you use a subscription on the Inventory Part in Stock line?

1 year ago

Susan SuSidekick (Customer)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

how to define sample size per order lot size in control plan

Hi @Susan Su , Peter is making a good point. However - whilst this solution will create more master data, it can be done. Control plans are attributed to the routing alternate. You could have a control plan per routing, and utilise the lot size based routing functionality in the application. You could then use the fixed size, but against each of the alternates in the lot sized routing functionality. Even with this in existence, however, a configuration might be a more pragmatic solution. I imagine a routing alternate for each of the lines in your example, for every part, might be unmanageable.

1 year ago

bverderaDo Gooder (Customer)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

IFS10 How do you make a native field required?

IFS10 How do you make a native field required? The answer above is correct but do ensure to consider that native fields - when made mandatory on a screen, are not necessarily mandatory in assistants. For example, you can make product code mandatory in the screen, but that will not force this on the new part assistant. It will, however, make it mandatory for any changes made in the screen after.(Image below shows product code mandatory on screen, but not assistant)So you may need to consider if the use of any assistants you have is the right thing for your business.

1 year ago

cmichielsDo Gooder (Customer)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Project MRP (PMRP) - Purchase Order not considered

Hi CoralieIFS can do this through the use of Material transfer requests (MTR) within Project Netting Groups (PNG). Are you familiar with this functionality?It would be useful to know which version you are working with to know what the best type of screenshot or functionality I can suggest is - can you confirm?MTRs will create a request to project-connect some or all of the quantity on a purchase order line but it should be used carefully!BROliver

1 year ago

Timmermans RoelHero (Partner)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Configurable Part - Rental

Hi RoelWhilst it seems like a function that would be useful I can see the logic behind it not being an option to rent configured items. The question I have is around the configuration type. If there are a few changes made to the machine specific to the customer in this configuration, you might want to look at mobilisation work orders, which I have found work well with rental.The other option is you convert the configuration to a part number and run a simple shop order to convert if it you are changing the object to a rental asset. This could be configured if it is determined to be too many clicks for the customer?Let me know / Oliver

1 year ago

ronhuHero (Customer)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

How to make shop order status Started even there is no material issued

@AntOlivFr Thank you for your input. if there is an API that will really start setup, and then set the shop order status to “Started”, that will be great too. we are using RESTAPI to make the interface communicate each other. Thank you. No reason why there wouldn’t be - I’ve seen it done as a test case in apps9 using the SOAP gateway, but apps10 onwards is probably even more direct. Have you got skills inhouse to guide on this? If not you can DM me and I’ll try to help

1 year ago

ronhuHero (Customer)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

How to make shop order status Started even there is no material issued

@Björn Hultgren Thank you for your input. I have some feedback, have to bother you again here. we are building an interface with an external manufacturing tool. That tool is to start the order first before reporting any operation time/quantity or issuing any materials to the shop order. We are wondering how to map this to IFS, as IFS has to either report operation or issue material to shop order to make the status changed to Started. I think we could make the shop order from Planned to Released status. Since there is no way to could make IFS to started status if there is no material or operation reported. Thank you. Hi Ron - if you aren’t using the setup functionality, you could utilise the API to start setup, rather production? I think that will still set the SO status to started, but not start production clockings. Planned to released would also work but don’t forget that is a parameter in APB too and what you suggest may not have the exact result you want!

1 year ago

mfrejikSidekick (Customer)

asked in Distribution (CRM, Commerce)

Customer Agreement By Volume

Hi Mike - we’ve solved this for other customers before, using a simple configuration to sum existing order lines using that customer agreement - as the line has the price source and ID on.Send me a message if you want some more details!

4 months ago

william.klotzSuperhero (Customer)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Starting Multiple Shop Order Operations

Hi @Jane Perry , We’ve tried that and IFS will not let us select multiple operations and start them. We have been looking at creating a custom event to start the operation automatically but starting a shop order operation is pretty involved and its going to take us awhile to figure out the code. In the meantime we’ve documented the process so our production line employees know they must start operation 10 and 15 back to back and we’ve setup operation 15 to be parallet. Regards, William Klotz I have just checked - it looks like it isn’t possible to start multiple operations that are on different work centres (but you certainly can if they are the same resource). I think @Björn Hultgren asked a good question but I would also ask if they are on seperate work centres, should they be started by the same person? It sounds interesting!

2 years ago

robert_gSidekick (Customer)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Unable to Create Shop Order

Robert - this looks like a missing piece of setup on either the posting control or the account. It could be a dates issue on the posting type IFS is trying to use. You’ll need to check with your finance team what the value should be and validate if the dates on the accounts and setup are the issue, or if the posting control isn’t set up for what you are trying to do?

2 years ago

CselchowDo Gooder (Customer)

asked in Buying (Procurement, Demand Planner, ASC, SRM)

COMMERCIAL Invoicing - For Export

Hello - we usually use the pro-forma option with a number of different formats to the report, whether via the IFS report designer tool or Crystal reports. Shipment lines in IFS do allow you to capture information such as value of goods and the shipment holds a number of fields around exporting but if you have specific requirements there may be a need for configuration?

2 years ago

AntOlivFrSidekick (Partner)

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

Project Deliverables - Supply Option not working?

Answered my own question,. the engineering part was set incorrectly!

2 years ago

Sunnie90Sidekick (Customer)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Counting into stock a serial object that issued to Closed Shop Order

I ahve just done some digging on the system - it is not possible to re-create a serial number so I think you will not be able to resolve this easily. The other option is to re-open the shop order, but this will change the dates on postings so discuss with finance before you do that.If you re-open the shop order that is OK but you will need information on which serial number actually went into the shop order.IFS is quite locked down with serial numbers (as you would normally want)

3 years ago

First EmployeeSidekick (Partner)

asked in Buying (Procurement, Demand Planner, ASC, SRM)

Purchase Order approvers based on postings (parts)

Hmm - I have come across this before elsewhere and there isn’t really a satisfying answer to your question. The crux of the matter is that the purchase requisition authorisation is the authorisation for what is being ordered, whereas my understanding was always that the purchase order was about simple signoff of spend. However - the solution I went for elsewhere was to update the buyer field on the purchase order via custom event, and apply PO authorisation based on that. We worked this based on purchase groups of the parts on the PO, but you have to understand that this solution made it very restrictive in terms of what could be put onto the same PO. It is not something we took lightly! Would authorisation based on supplier stat group be a possible solution or do you have suppliers that work across different types of product?

3 years ago

BLLBrucemoSidekick (Customer)

asked in Distribution (CRM, Commerce)

Apps 9 - 3rd party hauler/shipment intergration help needed

Hi Bruce - I think more information might be needed. What kind of information is being sent - I assume the information being sent must be the reason why you are not using dispatch advice?It is possible to have delivery confirmation on, so you can send dispatch advice (pallets, products etc) before IFS considers the order properly delivered which is quite robust.In short it depends what you are using the message for as to whether there is a more reliable solution!

3 years ago

ShouSidekick (Employee)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Regarding CAD Intergration

We’ve been asked the same thing quite frequently - our advice is generally to work with a CAD adapter specialist. We’ve previously spoken to Elmo Solution and QBuild, both of whom appear to have a neat tool to do exactly that.

2 years ago

Sunnie90Sidekick (Customer)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Counting into stock a serial object that issued to Closed Shop Order

Is there an work around step that we can do to count back in to inventory of a SN object and not have to create a new SN* object? I believe the reason for our stockroom doing this is due to the time lapse where shop floor held part that was needing rework for month then closed out the shop order. Which in turn make it difficult for us to move that SN part. Any thoughts? If the reason why you cannot re-count it back in is because the serial number already exists in IFS you could consider relaxing the rule on the Master Part record?I hope i have understood you correctly, if I have I think this will work..

3 years ago

jhooperyanSidekick (Customer)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Using Repair Shop Orders with Customer Orders - Making it Easier

Hey Jeannine - this is an interesting question of balancing pros and cons!Introducing a ‘calibrated’ or ‘tested’ part number could resolve this - since for the above process you clearly have to pick and report operations as you would with a MTO part anyway. The sales part can stay exactly the same and just be linked to the new inventory part. Where that complicates matters I suppose is if you use the master scheduling functionality (so a bit of a change for planning) or if you use availability checking etc. We had a similar issue at another customer once - they repacked and bagged a dry ingredient based on a customer order but didn’t see it as manufacture - we decided to run an event to create the orer as you are describing now. I think you may be best served to run a custom event, if having another mfg level is not an option. On the plus side it is quite a straightforward event compared to some!

3 years ago

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