Hi Jimmy, I like that solution. Do you have all parts that need counting set up with an interval on the Inventory Part or do you also count parts that are not set up? We for example count everything so have selected the include parts with and without cycle counting. Do you think that is a bad idea?This line above:“then the system will select 30 lines at a time to be counted”I am really interested in what logic IFS uses to select these 30 parts. It doesn't seem to be random and appears to be selecting the parts with the most recent receipt date. What would be the logic there? Have you looked into that?Thank you.
Thanks very much, I like that. I will see how that affects the plan but it looks like it might be just what I was looking for.
I think I may have answered my own question. I wonder if it used when parts are re-transferred after the engineering part revision is up-revisioned. The engineering transfer picks up the fact that the inventory part is set as “expense” and therefore it needs to use an “expense part transfer template” to transfer the part again. I guess an expense (engineering) part could re up-revisioned but it would be rare, but that's the only use-case I can think of.
Hi Bjorn, that worked a treat, thanks very much!
Thanks Bjorn, i will give that a go, best regards.
As your lowest lot size is 200, I would set this as the max lot size on all inventory parts.MRP should then chunk up the supplies to meet the total demand of 1000.As the work can effectively be done in parallel, experiment with the order gap time (inventory part/manufacturing tab) to create overlapping shop order reqs for all parts.
Hi, can I ask how you are able to create zero cost invoices as I understood this wasn’t possible because there is no revenue to post. I would be interested how you have achieved that, is there a setting somewhere? Thanks.I’m interested because I have CRO lines that are customer owned/zero cost but I want them to appear on the invoice for traceability (for us and for the customer). Some businesses put CRO sales lines on at 0.01 but I don’t even want them in there at a penny!
Hello, I would be interested if there has been any progress on DCAA compliance as our US organisations have also hit a stumbling block with DCAA compliance. If you are able to share any experiences (good or bad) I would be very grateful. Especially if you are getting or have had any support on this from IFS. Thanks!
There are many tools around that will synchronise PLM data with IFS Engineering (EBOMs) or Manufacturing (Product Structures). One such is provided by ELMO. It’s very flexible and has connectors for most common PLM systems such as Windchill and TeamCentre. It shouldn't be a manual process to sync PLM data with IFS.
Hi Matt,Sort of... What IFS recommend is that you run “Cleanup of Inventory” job before you run the count but you may not want to do the Cleanup. The other way is to export the parts to count to Excel, remove the zero qty rows and use the Excel sheet to record the count results.Ed
If the demand is coming from a Customer Order, you can define a picking time and a transport time on the Customer Order / Delivery Information tab. These will drive the Planned Due Date (which is the date that MRP will plan for the part to be onhand) back a bit to give you the time needed to pick and delivery to meet the Wanted Delivery Date.And in relation to the calculation of Need Date above, as you spotted, the MLT is not used by MRP, it will calculate the shop order duration using (fixed time) + (variable time x Lot Size), then work backwards from the Need Date to place the Start Date. And make sure you have Machine Factor on ALL your routing operations (esp. any outside ops) else the duration will be incorrect.
Hi Johan, whilst I agree you wouldn't be able to adjust the qty if a part is reserved, reserved parts are being included in my count reports. Is there a way to prevent that? I also have zero qty lines included on my count reports. Is there a way to exclude those as well?Thanks,Ed
Hi Saman, very interesting thank you. But the links don't work for me, do you have the documents anywhere else you could share with me please?Many thanks,Ed
Hi, apologies for the late reply to this. I have discovered that when I select the option to also update the inventory part estimated material cost, it actually takes the value from the Part Cost / Part Cost Details tab, field “Cost Set Est Mtrl Cost” (see screenshot attached) and copies that value to the inventory part. But the value in this field is manually entered, and its default is 0. What I expected to happen is that it would take the Total Cost that IFS calculates for the part cost set and copy that to the inventory part. Do you know if there’s a way to update the “Cost Set Est Mtrl Cost” with the cost set total?
PMRP allows projects to plan and budget better because they see committed and actual costs earlier, allowing them to take action if necessary. Through connected objects, projects can see exactly what manufacturing and purchasing is happening on their project giving them a great view of the supply chain and manufacturing activities. The key to PMRP is to decide what is a project planned part and what is a standard planned part. That decision is made as soon as the new part is created. So engineering need crystal clear guidance on what the criteria is. And if you are already running MRP, that decision will have to retrospectively applied to existing parts and product structures (the direct transfer process uses project/standard planned to set the standard planned item checkbox on the product structures). Through the use of Project Planned Netting Groups and Project Site settings, PMRP can use standard inventory and projects can share surplus inventory eliminating the need for manual tran
Hi, thank you for this. Problem solved!
Hi, thank you, that is really helpful. I can see what that is doing. Sorry to ask another question. If I just wanted to use that query (>0 transactions) but only list Part No and the values for LastYearOut, LastYearIn, YearOut and YearIn, how would I modify the SQL query to display that? Thanks!
Hi, thanks but I’m not that familiar with the SQL query tool. Can you show some more screenshots for a SQL query on the info that’s on the IPAP/Planning Info tab? I really want to just dump this data for all parts (just for parts that have an In/Out >0).
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