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Supply Chain

Invoices - Allocate Services - It should be possible to remove Prorated Costs

Currently when you use the Allocate Services action on an Invoice where there is already Prorated Costs, Maximo provides a warning - BMXAA2030W - Invoice lines have already been allocated. Click OK to erase previous allocations and reallocate them...
11 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain Under review

Give the user the opportunity to clear off holding balance

This is regarding case TS019399025. In general it is possible to close POs for rotating items (due to user error) before the receiving process is complete which lead to a holding balance, that nobody can ever get rid of. Reproduction steps: 1. Cre...
19 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain Future consideration

Downpayments

Maximo needs to be able to handle downpayments in the PR, PO and Invoice applications, at a minimum for all line types. Ideally, Contracts and RFQs would also include some functionality to handle downpayment terms. Some vendors require downpayment...
about 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain Planned for future release

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 ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain Planned for future release

Parametarization of Reorder formula for each item/inventory couple for supporting main business algorithm.

Hello, As far as I know, the Reorder action suggests to purchase the minimal quantity for satisfying the MINLEVEL ( Suggested Ordered Qty = MinLevel - Calculated available qty + 1 ). In some cases, it not enough, it would be better to purchase the...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain Under review

Add a Revise Material Request (MR) option on Draft MRs

Once a MR is saved as Draft, the whole section becomes read-only. We cannot edit the Required Date. Add a Revise Material Request (MR) option on Draft MRs
about 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain Under review

Give the user the opportunity to clear off holding balance

This is regarding case TS019399025. In general it is possible to close POs for rotating items (due to user error) before the receiving process is complete which lead to a holding balance, that nobody can ever get rid of. Reproduction steps: 1. Cre...
10 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain Not under consideration

Application for registering Inventory Bin Numbers and Storeroom setting to say whether bin numbers are being used or free text (as current).

The bin number often has significance that includes aisle, rack, level, and bin position. There could be multiple numbering systems existing in a single storeroom especially if one or more Vanas or Modula systems are in use in addition to the regu...
10 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain Planned for future release

Receiving - Add the ability during receiving to attach the packing slip document to the receipt (MATRECTRANS) record - It should also be added to the Maximo Mobile Inventory Receiving

When receiving a set of items, it should be possible to scan a document and associate it with the receipt records and to then to view those attachments from the appropriate MATRECTRANS records. This is best achieved by attaching the packing slip t...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain Planned for future release

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...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain Not under consideration