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Supply Chain

Handling the fraction calculation properly so will not face the quantity mismatch issue while approving the revised PO.

Enhance PO quantity calculation by rounding conversion-factor results to a configurable precision, ensuring consistent received quantities and avoiding approval errors caused by fractional conversion values.
8 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain Under review

Open Master Contract number to be added to Purchase Contracts

Users continue to add Purchase Contracts from the Purchase Contracts (Tr) app and then realize that they needed to associate a Master Contract. This causes them to delete the Purchase Contract they created and create a new one from Master Contract...
about 1 month ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain Future consideration

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...
4 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...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain Future consideration

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
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain Under review

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...
5 months 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...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain Under review

Have the ability to accept Partial payments on Large POs

We have supply chain folks that are having issues with partial payments since updating to MAS 9, which in turn makes managing POs a hassle. Below are the pain points that we need addressed: - Inability to track which material has been received on ...
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain Planned for future release

Allocate Services against multiple POs after the invoices for received items have been processed and paid. Example, a Freight Invoice.

Maximo Invoices application has an Allocate Services action which achieves a lot of what is needed. However, it is designed to allocate the services at the same time as the processing of the invoice lines for the receipt of materials and services....
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain Not under consideration

Add Allocate Services to Receiving application

The Allocate Services action in the Invoices application is used to allocate standard services across other invoice lines. A typical use would be to distribute freight costs among the items received. However, the Invoices application is often not ...
9 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain Not under consideration