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Hi, 
I am wondering whether anyone have come across any good solution to handle pack sizes in relation to IFS Part No?

 

This situation should be familiar to many IFS Customers:
We have a part, e.g. “Paint” that is setup in IFS with UoM (Litre/Liter → l). The paint can be bought in different Sizes:

  • 1L
  • 2L
  • 3L
  • 5L

We are aware that you can purchase in a different UoM, e.g. JAR/PKG and set the conversation rates e.g. 5 to 1 in 5L JAR, when received increases the Inventory Qty to 5L. All good so far, but the challenge is that you:

  • Only can have 1 Supplier for Purchase Part for a given Supplier
  • Only one Purchase Part per Supplier

In an ideal worlds it should have worked as the Sales Part, where you can have multiple Sales Part per Inventory Part, as this can be soled in different ways.

The alternative as I see (but would like to hear if anyone else done something cleaver):

  • Have a IFS Part No per Pack Size
    • Really don’t think this is ideal. 
  • Use different UoM on Supplier for Purchase Part (unique per Part and Supplier). 
    • However, only able to predefine one “Pack Size” and manually override on each Purchase. Also, this approach creates an issues as you only can have one “Pack Size” in Supplier Agreement for this very vendor.

Appreciate any thoughts and comments. 

Have you explored using Input UoM? This would be connected to the part master or inventory part, and wouldn’t necessarily require you to set a conversion factor on the sales or supplier parts.

 

It would allow a user to specify a qty in a different UoM, that is then converted to the inventory UoM. These Input UoM’s are user-defined and can be used in procurement, sales and inventory processes.

 

For example, a user could enter 1 PKG or 1 JAR as the Input Qty/UoM on a Customer or Purchase Order and the order quantities would be converted to the Inventory UoM, and then to the Sales/Buy UoM.

 

There doesn’t appear to be a public link to Apps 10 documentation, the link below is from the latest version of IFS. Much of it is the same. You should be able to find the Apps 10 version by searching “9.3.1.8” from your own instance’s documentation navigator.

 

https://docs.ifs.com/ifsclouddocs/24r2/ProcessModels/Process_Model/BDRforMultipleUoM.htm?StandAlone=true

Interesting, I will look into this. I will let you know my findings. 

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