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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against the products and services belonging to IBM Sustainability Software. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Supply Chain

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Allow Count Cycles for Rotating Items to be managed using combination of Count Books and Inventory physical count dates.

Take the most recent (last count date) in the Count Date (COUNTBOOKLINE.PHYSCNTDATE) field from Count Books record for a rotating item and populate this date in the Physical Count Date (INVBALANCES.PHYSCNTDATE) field on the Inventory record for th...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Under review

Provide ability to search for and see count history for specific rotating items in Count Books.

With Count Books being the application designed to provide proof that rotating items are counted the warehouse needs the ability to see the history of when specific rotating items were counted. This will provide one more step needed to help the wa...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Under review

Add Setting to have the Reorder process for Direct Material / Services to create separate Purchase Requisitions for different Work Orders

To automate administrative tasks we are leveraging the Reorder process (and the Reorder Cron Task) to generate our Purchase Requisitions. There is a very common use case though where Multiple WOs are being planned, or approved within the same time...
about 1 month ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Under review

Add ability to update ABC Type, Reorder Point and Economic Order Quantity from the results of running Inventory Reports

There used to be 6 reports which updated the database, and these were removed for 7.6.1.3 and MAS Manage 8.3 when updating to BIRT 4.8 - a security risk with Database Access is given as the reason. A pair of reports each updated ABC Type, ROP and ...
9 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Planned for future release

Count Books - Selection Items when Selection Type is ITEM should have a Go To Menu to navigate to Inventory and Stocked Tools

Finding the correct item sometimes requires you to navigate to the core application (Inventory or Stocked Tools), find the item using the Advanced Search and returning with the value back to the originating application. The Selection Items field o...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Under review

Count Books - Select Value on Selection Items when Selection Type is ITEM should show Inventory Description

Select Value shows Item and Storeroom. The Item, Description, Commodity Group and Commodity Code should be shown, similar to trying to find an item elsewhere in Maximo, for example Work Order Tracking - Plans - Materials. The Storeroom column is n...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Count Books - You should be able to navigate from Count Book Lines back to the Inventory application so that you can review the inventory item.

The Item field in the Count Book Lines tab and the table window and table window details should have a Go To menu with navigation back to the Inventory application so that you can review the item or make changes that would affect future Count Book...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Prevent the Cancel of a PO if an un approved invoice exists

Update the IDEA name to align with the Case file how IBM would solve this problem. We have a PO that has been canceled that has an invoice that is approved. We need to reverse the invoice as it was invoiced in error. When we try and approve the RE...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 2 Under review

Allow existing contracts to be associated to a new Master Contract

Business Requirements Within an organization, as some purchasing and contracts shift from a site or branch to global procurement, it becomes necessary to bring various existing contracts under one master contract that can be managed globally. Use ...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Flag to Identify that a Purchase Requisition (PR) was Generated by Reorder

System: 7.6.1 Description: Currently Maximo is configured to be able to run the reorder automatically via cron task or to run the reorder manually. When those are generated, the only thing that identifies that the PR was generated by reorder is vi...
over 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 2 Planned for future release