Supply Chain

We are in Apps 10 UPD 10 trying to use Handling Units in outbound shipments. We are entering weights for (pallet) handling units. A few of the handling units are used both our European site and our US site, both of which are in the same Company. The European site needs to use kg (metric measurements) and the US site uses Lbs. How do we accomplish 2 different UoMs for Handling Unit weights for the 2 sites if they are both in the same company?   Thank you .

We are in Apps 10 UPD 10 working to implement SSCC, Shipment and Handling Unit labels.  After clicking Create SSCC when clicked on the shipment, I do not see an SSCC number for the entire shipment. I have the appropriate checkboxes checked in the Handling Unit rows and do see an SSCC has been generated for each of the 4 pallets   When I am clicked on the Shipment line in the Handling Unit Structure,  and click  ‘Print Shipment Handling Unit Labels’, No of Handling Units = 0 when in fact there are 4 pallet Handling Units in the ShipmentThe report  only contains information for the last of the 4 pallets, not all 4, which I would expect for a Shipment Handling Unit. Am I misunderstanding and what am I missing to make this work? Thanks 

Hi,  Problem: When printing the Shipment Pro Forma Invoice, the Number/Date format sometimes changes to the correct Number/Date format of the receiving country and sometimes it does not.What factors makes this Number/Date format change for the Pro Forma Invoice and Is there a way to automatically change the Number/Date Format option? The language for this Shipment Invoice is by default en, but the number and date formats can change. There does not seem to be an option in the report rule to control the Number/Date Format.Test 1: Printing Shipments from FI10, Receiver still in Finland gets the fi-FI when printing.  Test 2: Printing Invoice Shipment from DK10, Receiver is also in Receiver ID in from Sweden, but the default Number/Date Format is in en-US.Thanks Manjari 

HiI have a request in a customer that has Customer Order Lines with Supply Code “Pur Order Direct”.The sales part is a purchase part with product structure and the components are supplied to supplier.When i create the customer order with purchase order connected should be possible as in Register Arrival:1 - Supply Material to Supplier, or2 - Backflush the Components when Register Direct DeliveryThese options are not avaiable. Can anyone confirm if this is a limitation because of supply code “Pur Order Dir” or is a bug ?VS

Hi everyone, I would like to add work_order_status to the ‘Work order cost/revenue analysis’ screen and I need confirmation regarding whether I need to add a logical unit and custom field to effect this? I have managed to add the item to the View, but IFS cannot ‘see it’, so I can’t select it form the Column Chooser. Cheers,Neil. 

Is it possible to receive a RMA without actually creating inventory?Like the Purchase Order Arrival function before move to stock.

Is it possible to register a RMA for components of delivered products?Often not the complete machine is returned, but only the component(s) that need investigation.

How does internal Charging for Project Rental  works? any guide?

The scrap system requires multiple steps through multiple operations and multiple departments. What is the easiest way to get replacement parts to the line to keep production running.

Dear community,Situation: in the main warehouse we are working with HUs - plastic bins that contain smaller parts. These bins remain in that warehouse. Parts are picked out of the bin into a shipment area. Mostly this works fine, except when a bin contains the exact amount of parts on a pick line: in this case IFS assumes that the entire HU is picked and moves the bin onto the shipment location:2 CO line reservations, 1 for a complete stock record and 1 where only a part of the stock record is needed: 2. the pick list, notice that IFS picked up an ‘outernmost HU’ for the stock record that is picked entirely:3.The picked lines in the shipment inventory:In reality the HU 166 stayed in the main warehouse just like the other bin (136) is there any way to avoid IFS core logic from doing this? And if not, is there any way to unattach the stock record from this HU 166 in this stage? So far the only way I found is to attach the line to a shipment and then unattach on the shipment (and then rem

Trying to understand some things about part characteristics as they relate to master parts and inventory parts. Considering characteristics for parts, but want to make sure of the most appropriate creation and flow, assuming the idea is to create a master part and inventory parts (may be many inventory parts, due to different locations) from the master part. Also the more relevant scenario where many master and inventory parts already exist.Part Master Data>Master Part>Part has a Characteristics tab that seems unrelated to Inventory Part Characteristics, seems to just happen to be named Characteristics Am able to populate the Technical Class and Attributes (App Base Setup/Characteristics/Basic Data) by creating them, then template and assigning template, but I don’t think this is necessarily relevant to what we’re after...this seems likely independent of inventory part characteristics, and doesn’t seem to flow to inventory part characteristics once created. We are able to create

Hi,It was observed in IFS that there is no specific methodology used in standard to define the different numbering sequence for any Purchase Transactions (like PR, RFQ, PO etc.).Is there any way of defining any specific numbering sequence for all the relevant purchase transactions, as per desired format.? As it was also observed that someway it can be handled via Coordinator Groups as well, to some extent, as long as Purchase and Distribution Orders are considered. For which the character string is also limited for 1, which is not desired though.By any chance we can address this issue in standard IFS (with Aurena Client).?Any valuable feedback or remarks on this would be really appreciated. Regards,Prabuddha

I was trying to register the Purchase Agreement with backdated entries under ‘Period’ tab. But, system is not allowing to enter any previous dates which lies before sys-date(Current date), in the ‘Valid From’ column. It immediately pops-up an error message, “The Start Date Cannot be earlier than today.”Any inputs on how to cater this Valid From issue in Supplier Agreement screen, would be highly appreciated.Regards,Prabuddha 

I'm looking into making use of the Repetitive Inter-Site Message Handling as described in https://docs.ifs.com/ifsclouddocs/Sales/AboutInterSiteMessageHandling.htm. Does someone have more information regarding this or the setup guide that the help refers to?

Hi, For a specific client need in IFS (not FSM solution) we have the following requirements : 1) RMA advance replacement : the company does not await for items under RMA to be returned before to exchange the part and send the new one to the customer2) RMA item quality inspection at arrival : the items need to be inspected (parts are company owned now, not client property anymore)3 options after inspection : A)  ScrappingB)  To be reconditionnedC)  Supplier return if the part is still under warranty (The part can not be directly send to the supplier by the customer, previous analysis by the company is a mandatory step)3) If the part can be reconditionned, a repair action must be launched.4) Once the repair operations has been performed, the item must be identified as a repaired one and available to be resaled to another client or used for a maintenance operation (not necessalery for the same client as the one who requested for initial RMA)We are facing different topics : 1) RMA flow in

Hi, I start a new topic as a received a relevant answer on one of the two potential issues i raised about transport tasks on remote WH and flagged it as a “best answer” for others : Bug in IFS Cloud ? Remote warehouse & transport task | IFS CommunityHere’s the issue i’m facing for the 2nd point :I dont know if it’s the right way to mention a potential case but i noticed a quite strange thing in IFS cloud on 2 different environments.- Refill source method chamges (invent order or purchase) on remote warehouse assortment are not taken into account : if I change the refill method from invent to purchase, i still have a transport task generated if launch “Refill putaway zones” batch.Thanks for your help and expertise on this topic, it may be an error from my side in the setup.

Hi,I have a persistent Custom field, now i have added Reference to the CF, while publishing i am getting below error.  Please help me out on this how to resolve. Thanks,Shravan

Hi, I dont know if it’s the right way to mention a potential case but i noticed 2 quite strange things in IFS cloud on 2 different environments : - Transport task to remote warehouses deletion after “Refill putaway zones” batch launch→ Transport tasks previousely deleted seems to be created again after a few seconds, without any user action.- Refill source method chamges (invent order or purchase) on remote warehouse assortment are not taken into account : if I change the refill method from invent to purchase, i still have a transport task generated if launch “Refill putaway zones” batch.Thanks for your help and expertise on this topic, it may be an error from my side in the setup. 

What are my options in APPS10 to handle a customer order with multiple order lines if we need to ship the items in multiple boxes? Is there a way to track in IFS how many boxes shipped? Currently our Parts department determines how many boxes are needed when they are picking/packing the items. They want a packing list for each box but right now we just put a copy of the delivery note in each box. Any suggestions? Are there any demos?Thank you

I’m following an inter-site flow where once the external customer order is released, a purchase requisition will be created at Release of customer order. Now I have a customer order at Released with a Released CO line for which a PR is created. I need to add a new line to the existing CO which is Released. When I did this, the line status is set to Released automatically however the PR was not created as there was no trigger. How can this be solved?   

Hi, I have a part which was not tracked by serial at the time of issue, later it got tracked by serial in the system. Now i m trying to return the part which i issued without serial. system is raising error that system requires unique serial for each line.when i put serial system raise error saying this serial is not registered in part catalog. how can i receive this serial tracked part without registering the serial at the time of RMA receipt, and then to identify its serial from inventory part in stock. Thanks 

There is a subsidiary company in USA and another subsidiary company in Australia under the one group of companies. USA company manufactured a raw material at the cost of 75USD and sells at 100USD to Australian company. Currently in IFS, selling company in USA inventory is valued at 75USD where as buying company’s inventory in Australia is valued at 100USD.But Australian company wants to value the received inventory at 75 USD and not to value at 100USD because the received inventory should be valued at cost for the group and they do not want to include 25USD markup in inventory which increases cost of sales when Australian company selling  finished goods to their customers. Is there anyway to handle this scenario with this current setup as shown below?  

Hi, Is it possible to send samples to ‘Prospects’? Our samples would be Serialized and tracked in order for us to know where they are so they can return at the appropriate moments. For customers this is all easy, but what about prospects that are not yet converted to customers? Is it possible to create some kind of shipment so we can track the samples being sent to them? Or is it mandatory to convert the prospect to a customer despite the fact that they have not (and maybe will not) do a purchase? Best RegardsRoel

When creating a PO in IFS to an external vendor with PO Inventory Lines all set to customer owned, upon receipt IFS does not create a liability to the external vendor.  I understand that the customer owned inventory will hit the balance sheet a zero dollars, BUT I do have a liability to pay my external vendor for the parts.  Shouldn’t IFS handle this like it does of external service orders for inventory parts?  Upon receipt of those inventory PO’s IFS posts the M91/M92.  But these customer owned inventory PO lines that I am purchasing from an external vendor not creating a liability seems to me fundamentally wrong.

Is there any functionality that can implement for Apps 7 which will allow to scan a part, then scan the shelf location, which would them update the inventory part record if IFS?I suspect this may be functionality that is supplied from a 3rd party vendor. If so, can you supply any contact information so that we can contact them?Would this require any type of modification from IFS???