Is there functionality in IFS Cloud that can allocate work center time for planned customer orders and/or engineer to order products? When we quote our ETO products, which typically ship with standard products, we include lead time for engineering time, but we cannot schedule the order until the routings and structures are buildable in IFS. This can be a 1–4-week window of time after an order is placed where the load of the order is not visible for the scheduling team to work around. Are there any new tools that help with time allocations for orders without complete information to aid scheduling? I think in IFS 10 there were methods to estimate the ETO products utilizing routing and structure estimates, can that be used to help create placeholders until the structures and routings are made buildable? If there is information on this topic elsewhere, I’d like to attain more information on the capabilities.
Thank you,
John