Good morning. The company I work for is evaluating the IFS Procurement B2B solution. One of the questions that has come up is related to the cost of use. Can anyone tell me if there is a cost add for each supplier that we connect with through B2B such as a user fee? Thank you!Robin
Is there a way to create a repair shop order without needing a repair product structure and routing? Repair is a non-standard process. Routings are standard data.In our organization, routings are maintained and controlled by a different group than those that create shop orders. If a special repair PS and Routing are required to create the repair order, this creates inefficiencies in the process of creating the shop order.Please let me know if there are ways to create the repair shop order without creating a repair PS and routing.Thank you for your help!Robin
Hello. I am testing DOP with visual planning. I have a customer order released with 1 manufactured finished good part, 1 manufactured component, and 2 purchased components, all set as DOP. I released my customer order, which automatically created shop orders for the 2 manufactured parts (in planned status, we can ignore purchased parts for now). I go into Visual Shop Order Operations Planning and move my finished good order up 2 days as I have a conflict with other demand. I would anticipate that my manufactured component order would move as well since they are connected, but it did not. I now have my component order being made after my finished good order (which makes no sense). I do have an alarm, but I am wondering if there is a way to automate the move of component orders with the finished good order. Does this exist? If so, how would I set this up to keep them together when I am doing machine planning for the finished good?Robin
Hello everyone. I am hoping someone can give me some suggestions for how to resolve this conflict. Our manufacturing process is a conveyor belt line. The first machine does task 1 and the product goes down a conveyor to a second machine that performs task 2, then on to the conveyor belt again until it reaches another machine for a 3rd task. Then further down the conveyor belt the product is packaged at the final work station. We have these set up as operations within our route, and each operation has a unique work center.The production team reports scrap at the operation level to allocate the correct cost at time of scrap. They also report labor at the operation level and use for productivity measures. This has worked great for the production team, but our planning team is downloading files and planning outside of IFS.Our planning team would like to be able to schedule within IFS, but they would like to do so using a single bar in either APB or VP, without the spaghetti effect or
Hello. As a relatively new user to IFS, I am still learning how the system works. One of the issues in our organization is the amount of time it takes to create a repair order. In Oracle, when I created a rework/repair order, I was able to copy a routing from a dummy part that was used for all repair/rework orders. Is there a capability in IFS to create a dummy part to reference in the job for the routing that should be used? Having to create them for every part that may need to be repaired is cumbersome, so I am looking for a better way. Any ideas?Thank you!Robin
Hello. Our planning team would like the ability to firm a shop order once the machine is scheduled and materials are on site. This action would prevent any further MRP messages on the order as the order is scheduled and ready for production. Does this exist in IFS?Thank you!
Hello. I am new to IFS (several weeks) and am looking to implement Visual Planning. One of the key aspects of successfully maximizing machine load is to start the set up of one job while the previous job is finishing. To do this, I need visibility into the setup times of each job. We do not want more than one operation to plan by, so the goal is to get the visual on setup within the bar representing the total time on the job. Is there a way to do this?
I am new to IFS (4 weeks) and have been tasked with coming up with a way for our schedulers to be able to plan using drag and drop (I am looking at visual planning) as well as plan with a single line of the route (we currently have up to 4 operations). Is there a way in IFS to group the operations together for planning while leaving the 4 separate operations intact for the rest of the organization? Right now we are on the path of creating a ‘dummy’ work center that would represent the full time on the machine. This is failing because when I set the operation to the bottom of the route (operation 50), it doesn’t start until operation 30 is complete. I need it to start at the same time as operation 10 and complete at the same time as operation 40.Is there a way in IFS to make this happen, or what am I missing on the operation set up to make them align?
Our current routings use 4 operations, one for each zone of the machine. Management likes that we can report labor by machine zone using these 4 operations, but the planning team wants a single operation to plan by so they do not have to deal with the noise that 4 operations creates. How can I meet this objective within IFS?Thank you!Robin
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