Supply Chain

In the past, clicking option Release for Planning and defining wanted delivery date allowed to consider also sales quotations in MRP, that does not seem to be the case anymore.What else needs to be done to have SQ integrated in MRP planning?

Hi all, Does anyone have experience with an interface between IFS(Cloud) and a TMS system?  We are curious about experiences so that we can make recommendations to our customers.  Thanks for sharing your experience with us. /Willy

We are using IFS 10 Update 19. We needed to cancel a line on a customer order, the person said no to propagate changed down to pegged orders. Since they said no the DOP Header and Shop order were left hanging open. The master scheduler unpegged the shop order from the DOP Header and then went to try and cancel the shop order. We get an error message staying the purchase order is associated to one or more purchase order change orders. We do not peg purchase orders to our material. We have tried to determine why this error is happening and we are unsure why we are getting this error message. The message almost reads like it thinks this shop order is a purchase order, so I double check we do not have any purchase order in our system with the same order number. I checked to make sure there were no purchase order that have purchase order change orders that are waiting to be approved.   

Hi everybody,I am trying to create new “Exended Site Info” but get an error message: This Shipment Type does not exist. In this tab we have calendar, delivery address and time zone.Can anyone support?Thank you.

Dear Hive Mind…Just looking for some information on the pros/cons/correct choice to make re Supply Chain Matrix, please. SC Matrix is not something we’ve used before so I’m doing some testing.  Our Distribution Calendar is a 5 day working week one.  We have no Supplier Calendar or External Transport Time set or any days against Route/Ship via etc.  Supp for PP record has leadtime entered (28 - as I undrestand ‘calendar days’) and Inspection Leadtime (4 - as I understand ‘working days’).  Calc Purchase Leadtime is run.   When I run MRP, there is no difference in the Latest Order Date result on the purchase req if I set up an Internal Transport Time on the Supply Chain Matrix for Site/from External Supplier or on the Supplier Chain Matrix for Supplier/to Demand Site.Is there a view as to which is the ‘correct’ way?  Any thoughts gratefully received!ThanksLinda   

Why is the status in the analysis norms window not the same as the status in the general purchasing analyses?

Does anyone have detailed information of what is measured in each of the Lobby elements in the Procurement Central Lobby?Lobby KPI’s 

Is it possible to use hours instead of days for pick lead times?  I tried putting .5 for a lead time picking on a site but it would not accept that.  Usually we can pick and ship in 2-4 hours so wondering if anyone has used picking times in hours instead of days?  Thanks in advance. 

I have interesting case for you. Item was reserved, picked and delivered. Orders status changed to Invoiced/Closed yet, system shows that item is still in the inventory. When looked at the order it showing Delivered 1, Reserved 1 which doesn’t make sense. We can’t unpick it using Not Reported Line or In shipment as it looks as part wasn’t picked. We can’t unreserve it from the order (print screen) because order is closed and changes can’t be made. Sound like cqtch-22 situation. How can I scrap that item for the stock? It is still reserved and system won't allow me. Would be grateful for any good advice. Krystian, 

Hi, We use transport tasks to move reserved stock from the warehouse to the pre-production floor.In our process, we reserve everything, for example all 10 needed units. But due to logistic issues, we cannot move all units at once. So we need to execute the tranport task in pieces.We use WaDaCo. We currently cannot do it in pieces in IFS. If we enter a lower quantity than assigned on the TT in WaDaCo, we get the error message “When moving reserved stock, the quantity on the the transport task line must equal the reserved quantity on the reservation, which is XX”Problem here is that we need to manually follow up what’s the status of the transport task, as we or need to confirm it all in the beginning, or at the end. During the real life executing, IFS is not alligned with the real life situation.Is there a solution for this, somewhere a setting perhaps? On site level, I only find “Move reserved stock” which is allowed.

Hi Planning Method G, the value determines the number of days in the future. Does and do these number of days includes weekends  If business days, Example, if the number is 5, does it recommend to place the supply order in combined buckets of 5 days/full week?Is there a field that adds lead time to part so the items show up in Purchase Requisitions sooner? (lead time to purchase) I looked in supplier for purchased part and supply chain matrix and cannot find anything ThanksRachael 

We have had an issue with reservations not selecting the correct goods which, with an IFS Consultant’s help, we believe is related to the “Reserve At Receipt” field which currently defaults to “Reserve to Parent Order Component”. Manual tests indicate the behaviour works correctly if that setting is changed to “Reserve To Shipment”.Our question is: can we change the “Reserve At Receipt” field to default to “Reserve To Shipment” rather than “Reserve to Parent Order Component” at Company or Site level?This is the current, undesired default:This is the current, undesired defaultThis is the desired default behaviour:This is the desired default behaviour 

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Our business is on v10 IEE, and we have lot and serial tracked parts. We are trying to configure weekly cycle count reports that include a specified number of parts to count and ALL lots / serials of those parts on each report. We are combining the Include Full Qty Of Part In Location parameter option with the Number of records to be Printed option. The hope was that, upon specifying a Number of Records, for example 15, the resulting count report includes 15 different part numbers, and all of the different lots/serials for those – which could be well over 15 lines to count on the report depending on the number of lots/serials in stock for those 15 parts. In actuality, we have found the Number of Records parameter restricts the number of lines on the report, not number of parts – for example, the resulting report may contain 10 different lots of Part A, and 5 different lots of Part B; we end up performing a full count of two part numbers only, when the intent is to include many more par

Currently our Destination Address in IFS2004 is point to an ESP server using HTTP, but there is a project starting to upgrade the ESP server to use HTTPS.  I was wondering if anyone knows if that is possible with IFS 2004 ?Has anyone done it successfully?Thanks Lyndesay

Hello All,I’ve been trying to get my head round all the road maps and releases and struggling to find if the ASC (specifically for automotive) is part of core IFS cloud. Did anyone use the ASC module in a previous version of IFS and are now using IFS Cloud ? If yes are you still using an additional module? Sarah

Can anyone share a document that explains the requited set-up, parameters and  functionality of Putaway Zone in Cloud?

Hello,  Does anyone have the use case where they are creating a Transport Order on the Hub and want to receive on in the satelite?  We have a error when trying to receive the transport order in the satelite which says ‘the value of the inventory transaction may not be 0 for part 2047348 on site UNY. ‘ On investigation this is due to 2 tables not replicating.The same transport order can be received within the hub. 

Hello, Currently IFS allows manually update the ship to DUNS/Delivery DUNS numbers in the Customer window>Address tab> Customer’s own address ID. So the address details also associated with this ID in the same window. But all these stuffs are manual works. For example if we have a thousands of delivery duns numbers for a one particular customer, is there any alternative ways to do this task rather doing one by one manually? Is there any way that we can upload this through external templates or any other places in Apps 10? BR,Vimukthi

Hi, Guys,I’m wondering whether there is an out-of-box solution for NCNR (Non-cancelable, no-returnable) order in IFS order module.  Basically I just want to add some extra control over an order lifecycle, blocking normal customer orders to be changed or cancelled, rejecting RMA automatically... Searching IFS documentation, it seems no such terminology yet…  I know we could have a customized solution by twisting the order flow logic, but really prefer to utilize an standardized solution from IFS if possible.  Thanks a lot in advance!Best,David Cheng  

Hi all,In the IPAP screen, in the usage “Last Year (Out)”, is it possible to designate what transactions are included in that qty calculation?Thanks!

I’m trying to create a custom field on Customer Order Line which returns the sum of total Available qty across multiple sites.  We have parts in stock on multiple sites so the sales team would like to see, when raising an order on the ‘main’ sales site, if there is available stock on any of the other sites in the same company.  This works when running a query in PL/SQL ...(selectsum(IFSapp.Inventory_Part_In_Stock_API.Get_Inventory_Quantity  (contract,part_no,configuration_id,'AVAILTRANSIT','NOT EXPIRED','NETTABLE','CONSIGNMENT','COMPANY OWNED', NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,'PICKING','F','MANUFACTURING','PALLET','DEEP','BUFFER','DELIVERY','SHIPMENT',NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,'TRUE','FALSE',NULL,'*'))from inventory_part_in_stock IPISwhere ipis.CONTRACT IN ('ABC','ABD') AND       ipis.PROJECT_ID is null ANDIPIS.part_no = colc.part_no) … but when adding as a custom field (even when only joining on part number - IPIS.part_no = :part_no) the field only returns the available qty in the site the Cu

We’re able to see Multi Level Structure per part on the Product Structure screen and can simulate demand on the Multilevel Availability Check screen, but I’m wondering if there’s a way to see all Multi Level Structures for all parts or Simulate Total Demand for several quantities of parent structures at once.

Hi Community. We work in the Aviation industry, and often we use External Service Orders, (ESO) to send parts from stock to a repair station to get them repaired and then returned for us to fit back onto aitcraft. Often we send parts out that may come back with a modification carried out that changes their part number slightly, and therefore changes the fit/form/function of the part. For example, a part 101-11 may be sent out, then returned as a 101-15. It will often keep it serial number if serial tracked. Currently we use the Alternate Parts functionality to register 101-15 as an alternate for a 101-11, then we use the “Change Receipt Conditions” to change this to receipt in the correct part from the supplier,  however due to the modification, this is not truly accurate, as the modified part (101-15) may not have the same characteristics, or uses as the original part (101-11). The only alternative we have considered is receipting in the original part, 101-11, then performing a part n

Hi, We have a customer requirement to incorporate supplier sequence number into the sequence of the serial numbers of Serial tracked Purchase parts.They don’t like to manually enter the prefix/suffix for the sequence at receipt as there is a risk of making errors Does anyone knows whether there is a possibility to set up/configure it anywhere in the system ? Kind RegardsYashodha