Supply Chain

We are currently trying to use the order cover time on a manufactured part by setting it to Planning Method G. We want the demand as seen on MS Level 1 to be assessed over the cover time and used to generate shop order requisitions for the demand within the order cover time. However, Planning Method G only appears to work for Purchased Parts. Has anyone managed to get this work for manufactured parts?

Currently launching our first Site in IFS Cloud, and have varying internal experience and opinions on serializing parts. Specifically, stocking our finished goods in IFS Inventory with serial data.  I’m hoping to get some pro/cons from the community while we continue with testing. What has your experience been? Do serials complicate transactions in any way, inventory based or accounting? Are they benefiting inventory control? What didn’t you know before implementing serial tracking?Some additional details: We plan to use handling units for stock, picking/shipping. Our business is automotive based, and we are reviewing customer requirements for traceability. Thanks in advance for any and all feedback! 

Is there a way to see the Supply & Demand information only for certain types of supply and demand? The Inventory Part Availability Planning page seems to have all of the data that I am looking for, but I cannot see any indication of the type of supply or demand in the details. In our company, we carry inventory of many parts. For many of these parts, in addition to selling from our inventory, we also have customer orders entered where the supply code is Purch Order Dir. I would like to find a page where I can view all of our inventory supply and demand for a part, excluding the Purch Order Dir data.For example, in the screenshot below I can see all of the Customer Orders, Purchase Orders and Purchase Reqs for this part. This information would be extremely helpful for inventory planning, but I have realized that it also includes any CO’s or PO’s that are Purch Order Dir. And I see no way to filter those rows out of the table. So in the end, this view is really not very use

Hi, I can’t seem to figure out what permissions or grants I need to provide to enable the end user to select the Warehouse ID, Bay ID, Row ID etc etc in the Create Count Report screen. These options are greyed out. They can select the Site they have access too but not other options, any advice would be appreciatedThanksRavi ​​​​​​ 

Good morning everybody, Does somebody has a function description of the field “Handling Unit at CO Delivery” in page “Customer-Sales-Sales” and which is the related parameter in page “Site”?Thank you for feedback. Best regards, Rolf  

Hello IFS community, I have a question regarding how the Lot Size Based Product Structure works. Here is a short summary of what I tested:Product Structure  - Lot Size Structure – Anything bigger than 23 pcs should have Alternate “1” and anything smaller should use alternate “*”.I then master scheduled 35 pcs of this part number in one day. My Planning details for lot sizing are set as follows: Max lot size set to 25 pcs (no min or Std).Result – Two Shop Order requisitions: 1 with 10 lot size and one with 25 lot size but BOTH with alternate 1 (only for lots bigger than 23). EXPECTED result: Two Shop Order Reqs: 1 with 10 and one with 25 but with different PRODUCT ALTERNATES. In this case, we are trying to tell IFS to use a different packaging for when we make 25 pcs Lot size. I read in the link below that only MRP checks through Lot Size Based Product Structure:

Hello Community,I’m currently performing returns on prepare work orders and have encountered a situation I hope someone can help clarify. When I return a part to inventory, I get the option to select a cost bucket ID. I typically choose cost bucket ID 110, but when I review the transaction history, I notice that the cost bucket displays as '*'.Is there a specific logic or reason behind this behavior? I’m particularly observing this with standard cost parts, so I’m curious if there’s something specific to those items that might be causing this discrepancy.Any insights or experiences you can share would be greatly appreciated!

Through some customer order integration, we would like to explore the possibility of using customer orders, not shipment orders to trigger shipment creation with a Remote warehouse receiver type.   Has anyone had any success here?

Has anyone else run into this: IFS Cloud 22R2; Stock is in a Remote Warehouse Picking Location.  When you try to Report Picking using Shipment Inventory on a Shipment for this item, you cannot select the Shipping Location Type to move the Inventory.  They are not shown in the LOV.

Hi Everyone,In supplier agreement what is used to control which supplier contract IFS Cloud uses for the quantity?We have 2 contracts, the old one still has some quantity (14) left and new one is fully (200) unutilized. Our PO is taking new contract since the quantity from old is not sufficient. Is the validity date or the contract number the decisive point here?What can be the case if we are able to use old contract first and then new one.Thank you.

Hi Experts,I’m currently unable to close the accounting period due to the error message: “Transactions waiting to be transferred from Distribution and/or Manufacturing.” To investigate, I checked the Supply Chain and Manufacturing Posting Analysis and found 302 records with the status marked as Completed. I attempted to transfer these transactions by running the Purchase Transactions process, but no changes occurred, even though the background process shows as posted successfully. Upon reviewing the Purchase Transaction Details, I discovered that all 302 records are linked to a single calculated Purchase Order (PO) & Site. At this point, I’m unsure how to proceed, as the transactions are not transferring and are blocking the period closure. Any suggestions or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

How can I get intersite cost to update on receipt? We want to automatically update the purchase price on Site#1 with the cost from Site#2. The part on Site#1 is setup as an intersite purchased part from Site#2 where the part is setup as Manufactured part and using standard labor costs. The PO and CO and Shop ordes are processed properly.But the costs we captured in Manufacturing with raw materials and labor time are only on Site#2. Is there a process that will update the price on Site#1 when the PO is received with the cost value from Site#2?We currently have to manually update pricing on Site#1. Thank you

Hi,I want to create a Purchase Order Line directly in status Planned.But when I create a PO Line, it gets status Released by default.How can I configure or control the PO Line to be in Planned status when it's created?Is it possible?

We have connected a Packaging Material Part to our Handling Unit Types.When adding the handling units to our Shipment Handling Unit Structure the inventory part corresponding to the Packaging Material Part connected to the handling unit is consumed from the inventory - so far so good.However if I have the packaging material part stored in multiple inventory location I’m currently lacking a possibility to  choose which inventory location it should be consumed from.Do anybody know about such functionality?

Can you change the logo of the customer invoice report for a specific order type? This should overrule the standard company logo on the invoice.

Hello Community, Does IFS have a screen or field where supplier NAICS codes can be entered? NAICS = North American Industry Classification System

Hello community :-), we have intercompany process (Company and Site 10, Company and Site 20). I have a Customer Order on Site 10 (external customer, released). MRP will create Distribution Order (planned). If I release this Distribution Order, system will create Purchase Order (Site 10, released) and Customer Order (Site 20, released). We need to have this new Customer Order at Site 20 in status Planned. is there any way how to do it? Current settings:Sales Part Sites Internal Cu

Getting what we think is an erroneous toast message for date on Customer Order Line when using Plan Manufacturing Supply on Due Date and Delivery RoutesAttached set up reflects a manufactured Inventory Part with no leadtimes associated with it (no picking leadtimes on site) and a Delivery Route for 1159pmCustomer address has one day transport time and Supply Code on Customer Order line is Shop Order  In the example, entry was on 4/3/25 for a Wanted Delivery Date of 4/4/25 (system generated based on transit time) and Planned Due Date on Customer Order Line was 4/3/25 at 1159pmToast message indicated earliest possible delivery date was 4/5/25 - but the connected shop order reflected a Finish Date of 4/3/25 at 1159pm Why is the system indicating to the user the earliest possible delivery is 4/5/25 when the shop order will be complete on 4/3/25 at 1159pm?

Is the demand planning in IFS is taking lead time from SUPPLIER FOR PURCHASE PART or INVENTORY PART?

Received qty is 27.688, however available qty shows 27 onlyHow to overcome this please ? Thanks in AdvanceShibu

Has anyone had issues with material reservations on Parked Shop Orders preventing a Purchase Req from generating on Shop Order Outside Operations?  Normally, once a Shop Order is created in the Planned status (usually from a Customer Order), we will put the Shop Order on the Parked status while approvals and verifications are being done.  And, once everything is in order, it is unparked and then put to Released status, which triggers the Purchase Req for a Shop Order Outside Operation.   Unfortunately, there are times in which material for a Shop Order on Park status will get reserved on the Shop Order Materials Tab (normally because it is in high-demand and the team is trying to ensure it is not used elsewhere).  If this happens, though, the Shop Order when unparked will go straight to a Reserved status, and will not go back to Planned status.  It will also never go to a Released status, nor is there a way to manually “release” the Shop Order unless you

Hi,We have a setup where site A place purchase order to Site B and site B purchase from external supplier for direct delivery to site A, see below picture.We have tried different setups in supply chain matrix to define transport lead time from external supplier to demand site A but so far without success. Does anyone have an idea if this is possible and if so how? 

Hello everybody :We're facing an awkward situation. Previously, printing the delivery note included all lines from the customer order. For example  whether they were delivered or not But now, we are just getting the line of the delivery action : The print is being done from the Print Delivery Note for customer orders page :    Any idea why or how to analyse please?   

When a shipment is changing the status to complete, we need to collect commercial invoice and packing list operational reports in PDF format, to build the documentation package for the carrier. What would be the way to link an event/BPA  on the shipments table with a process of automatically generating these two operational reports and sending them to a SFTP location? Is there a way to maybe generate an XML file (same as an E-Invoice process) which can contain the PDF attachments base64 encoded and embedded in the XML?Any hints would be kindly appreciated. 

Hello All! Has anyone ever used IFS alongside any point of sales applications such as Shopify? We are a manufacturing business but the other half of our operations are Retail/Sales based. Would be useful to hear if anyone has had a similar experience, and how they managed to get set up :) Thanks!