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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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Visibility of item order quantities at site level similar to Issue History to aid NS to STK decision making

In Inventory we have Issue History with Last Issue Date, Year to Date and the quantities issued for the last 3 years. There is nothing similar for non-stocked items leading some sites to have the item in Inventory although it won't be stocked, cur...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Under review

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...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future consideration

Create and manage a Free Issue Storeroom

There are low cost parts where tracking the balances, and recording issues does not provide any value to an organisation. The parts, bolts, screws, washers etc are held in bins which will be replenished from another storeroom through a transfer, o...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Under review

Inventory Usage should have an Advanced Search field for the Material Request Number

The More Search Fields dialog should include Requisition below Location so that it is easier to search for inventory usage records created from the Technician mobile application (or directly in Desktop Requisitions) which creates MRs. The search f...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future consideration

Timing of Planned Material Direct Issue PR generation

For the Reorder Direct Issue Items and Services functionality, Maximo looks at the required date on the planned materials of the WOs associated with a site, as well as the additional lead time. So a PR will be generated if WPMATERIAL.REQUIREDATE &...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future consideration

When I cancel a staged inventory usage (issuance) the stock should be returned to the original BIN (staged qty => current balance)

As a storeroom clerkI do advanced picking/kitting of the materials and set the status to STAGEDIf the materials are not collected, I want to CANCEL the staging/picking (and physically return the items to their original bin). Current behavior: If a...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 2 Is a defect

Allow queries to be used within the Reorder Cron parameters, similar to existing functionality for the OOB Condition on Escalations.

Reorder Cron parameters are too stringent, this would allow the end user to easily configure their desired outcome for Reorder Cron tasks. This would allow us to look at the default vendor or commodity group/code in addition to storeroom, etc. and...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future consideration

Add functionality to modify a staged bin name

Provide functionality to allow a user to change a staged bin name. In some cases the staging area is found to be too small so it needs to move to another staging bin. Currently there is not functionality in Maximo to provide a useful and quick way...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Planned for future release

Missing Rotating Asset Number on View Inventory Transactions

In Inventory and Stocked Tools you can issue, return and transfer a rotating item, when you do you need to select the Rotating Asset Number. The attribute ROTASSETNUM exists in MATUSETRANS and MATRECTRANS as a persistent field, but it isn't displa...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Planned for future release