Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Hi, Is there any page or report in IFS that shows full traceability for lot/batch-tracked parts? Our top-level part is serial tracked, and all components/subassemblies are lot/batch tracked, including raw materials. Lot/batch tracking is order-based. The main goal is to have something that shows the full path from finished goods (serial tracked) to the raw materials used (lot/batch tracked). Many thanks

Hi, is it possible to change the supply of a DOP order from manufactured to purchased? A part in in my structure is manufactured. However, due to capacity constraints,, I want to purchase it. What’s the easiest way to do this update in the DOP?

We can define for both Work Centers and Labor Classes whether they are going to use Finite or Infinite Capacity. Is it recommended as best practice that these 2 settings be aligned? If for whatever reason we need to have one value set to Finite Capacity and the other set to Infinite Capacity, which of the two will have precedence. What would the impact of this scenario be if we were to use Capacity Requirements Planning

We have a availability control on parts in one warehouse. The availability control is set to Nettable, not auto reservation, not manual reservation, not order issue, scrapable, allow reducing (on Part Counting Control), all allowed for part movement control and non-order issue. For some reason we can’t create a cycle count report for this warehouse location. It looks like it is due to the availability controls on the part but I need to verify that is the case. Can anyone confirm my suspicion or help me figure out why these will not pull on a cycle count report. We used not counted in zero days to generate the report. We are in IFS Apps 10 UPD21.

Hello Is it possible to duplicate inventory part to new inventory part with structure and routing? Br, Kimmo

I'm facing an issue when i want to delete some inventory parts from IFS V10 or Aurena. I get the following message and i don't understand why. "Cross Ref Fci Acq Origin". An idea about the exact meaning and reasons? Thanks a lot for your help

Dear Community, We are currently figuring out the best way to use the possibility of parking a shop order. Does someone know how to connect a change order to a parked shop order ? When clicking on the drop-down menu of change order no, there is no data whereas we have change orders in the table. Thanks for your help 😊

A quick functional question related to DOP which I encountered with one of the customers. Questions: In APP9 DOP orders have the non-consumed items with the quantities. More specifically, unlike in APP8, when we bring in DOP structures in APP9, the structures come in with quantity for all non-consumed components. Like your advice and view point on this regards.

It appears that the set up of a production line allows for the entry of more than 1 outbound locations on a production line but I cannot devise a reason why I would want more than 1 outbound location. Any ideas? Thanks!

Hello, I have begun using Serial tracking for parts in IFS Apps 10. However, I have noticed an issue with Shop Order analysis. It appears that if you define 100% checking on a Control Plan, it will require that each Serialized part is accounted for on EACH Shop Order Analysis. This becomes a significant issue if you report parts and generate another analysis. As an example, if you have a SO with a Lot Size of five and you reserve your serial numbers on the Shop Order. You then generate an analysis, and select all five serial numbers, you will have to perform checks for all of them. There is no way around this, you cannot cancel incomplete lines and finish the Analysis. I have tested reporting 3 pieces of the lot and creating another analysis. However, the results are the same, the system is looking for 5 serial numbers still, even though 3 have already been assigned to the reported pieces. I'm not understanding the intended functionality, it seems to create a lot of issues. My only sol

Hi all, After upgrading from IFS Cloud 23R2 to 24R2 we realized that the component usage factor in the configuration structure is now validated to be between 0% and 100%. This causes issues on the user experience because they will no longer be able to save modifications on structure lines with component usage factors > 100. We have several components which currently have a factor > 100%, e.g. for custom cable lengths which can be configured and the base length of 1 meter will be multiplied by the configured value. If the average desired length is for example 5 meters, the component usage factor would be 500% to calculate the correct demands for the components based on the planned quantities from master scheduling. Does anyone know what the idea behind the limitation between 0 and 100% is? We could just deactivate the validation on the clients and as a quick fix, but are afraid, that there are any consequential errors because of this change. Thanks

Hello, In Posting Control settings there is a possibility to use Control type C83 - Location Group for M1 Posting Type. This means when I move Part from Location Group 1 to Location Group 2 Warehouse accounts (M1) could be different. Currently FIFO method doesn’t support FIFO pile usage for movements transactions. Instead it uses average cost. As a result we get incorrect balances on Account (M1). Example: Receive 2 pcs | Cost 50 | Location 1 | Account 1620 Receive 2 pcs | Cost 58 | Location 1 | Account 1620 Move - 1 pcs | Cost 54 | Location 1 | Account 1620 Move +1 pcs | Cost 54 | Location 2 | Account 1625 Issue -1 pcs | Cost 50 | Location 2 | Account 1625 Account 1625 has balance 4, but real quantity on the Location 2 is 0. Attached you can find screenshots for settings and transactions. Resume: we can’t use FIFO method in connection with C83 - Location group posting control at the moment. BUT: our customer works exactly in described way and it needs FIFO in moves transactions very m

Hi colleagues, It’s interesting that I can see that Lot usage doesn’t guarantee link with appropriate cost. What am I doing wrong? Example: Inventory receive 1 | qty 2 | unit cost 50 | lot 3107-01 Inventory receive 1 | qty 2 | unit cost 56 | lot 3107-02 Inventory receive 1 | qty 2 | unit cost 59 | lot 3107-03 Inventory issue 1 | qty 1| unit cost 50 | lot 3107-03 Frankly, I expected unit cost 59 because of the lot 3107-03. Attached are settings and transactions fragments.

Hi, When you have a Customer Order Line and Sourcing DOP, you get Purchase Req for componets related to this demand if you have “Allow MRP Explosion for DOP Parts” set to true (and that Customer order Line is set to “Released for Mtrl Planning”). Purchase of LLIT can be done, so far so good. But when the Customer Order is released and the DOP Header is created, the demand for purchase parts is gone. This cause issues in purchasing and MRP Action Proposal/ Inventory Part Availability Exeptions shows that you have no demend. Then you create the DOP Structure, and the demand is back again. Is there some parameter I miss, as DOP Header is not seen as a demend or is it a way to automaticully create DOP Structure when the DOP Header is created? From an user perspective it’s easy to miss the step to create DOP Structure as soon as Customer Order is released and usualy this is done in two different departments in the organisation which complicate this even more and big risk for error in supply

Hi everyone, I have a question regarding the material constraint in MSO. Our customer asked if there is a way to ensure that MSO checks whether enough input material for a shop order is available. The expectation is: If the required material is available → the shop order should be successfully scheduled (respecting other scheduling rules as well). If the material is not available → the shop order should not be scheduled. To test this, I performed the following steps: I selected an already successfully scheduled shop order in MSO with just one operation step. I went to the Inventory Part Planning Data and set the input material to Always Finite. I issued (consumed) the entire input material for this shop order, so there was no remaining supply. I ran MSO again, expecting that the shop order would no longer be scheduled due to missing material. However, the shop order was still scheduled. The only difference I noticed is that the flag indicating that the material constraint is active was

In a MRO Shop order, we define the quantity of a material demand in the “Qty Per Assembly’ field. when we try to reserve the material , the system allows to reserve more than the qty mentioned in the Qty per Assembly field. at this moment system only throws an information message. after the first issuance of material, system allows to directly issue any quantity of material ( based on the availability in inventory ) to the shop order. at this point of time, system doesn't throw any error. Is there any way to configure the system to stop this behaviour such as site level setting to control it for MRO flow. As my understanding this is a standard functionality required for Batch Process Manufacturing. Any insight would be appreciated.

Hello IFS community, I dont see the difference between tardy orders and passed due orders in MSO. (illustation attached)I looked at the start, finish and need dates but i dont see a logical conclusion. Can someone help me pleaseThanks in advance

Hello, On the DOP structure, all DOP are close, All Shop Order are also closed, exept one. Still at Started status. I guess it has been restarted. How can I proced to close this shop order. Thank you for your help.

Hi, I have a part with four routing alternates, each of them using a Min Lot Size Based Qty and each of these alternates have an operation connected to a different Work Centre. The Phase In Date for the routing and Validity Period are set to 25th July. I ran the MRP and CRP and here’s the error message I get when trying to convert a Shop Order Requisitions into a Shop Order. The Work Centre has capacity for that date-the total time for this shop order proposal would be less than an hour-.What did I do wrong ?

Hi, We have a factory where we blend chemicals, we have four blenders of various sizes.I’ve created a Work Center and added the four blenders as Resources. I’d like to limit the lot size-in a shop order- each resource can handle. E.g. Resource B can’t handle a shop order of 5000 litres as it can only contain 1.000litres. Thanks for your help.

Hello I need to scrap a component with a serial number on a production order. How can I indicate which serial number should be scrapped? Thank you for your help.

I have a shop order where there is no standard material cost showing up. I have looked at other parts with the same operation and those do have the costs as expected, but even historically, this one part without the standard material cost doesn’t appear to ever have had it on the shop orders for previous runs. I’m assuming this is a setting on the part somewhere, but I am unable to find anything. Has anyone else run into this before, or know of a setting that controls the standard cost on shop orders? The other cost buckets have standard cost present, it is just the materials costs missing. I have highlighted where the material costs normally show up below:

Is there a way in IFS Cloud to set an item as default as non-consumed at part level instead of doing this at the product structure level? If not, where in IFS cloud can done a mass update for all the product structures the articles is used in.

I have a question regarding an electronic Kanban circuit. Is it possible to directly deduct the inventory to a cost center once the transport task has been executed, instead of transferring it to a location? This is to prevent incorrect stock levels on the shop floor, particularly for small packaging materials and fasteners. I would like to add the cost of these materials to the product cost by applying a surcharge.

Hi I was wondering if there was some documentation or suggestions for dealing with First Article Inspection for manufacturing on IFS. I was hoping for something that would help for implementating. Thanks