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IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal


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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new feature for Cost Type FIFO - to Return a Receipt to vendor( after it has been issued and returned from a WO)

Issue: it is not possible to return the line to vendor because when clicking on select items to return Item with quantity receipt (30 units) is not being showed. Item appears with partial QTY to be returned Steps to reproduce the issue: Create ite...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Not under consideration

Not able to receive remaining items againt the PO line having GL account expired and not able to approve the PO

We are not able to receive remaining item quantity against PO after the GL account on that particular line was expired/deactivated .Some of the items were received when the GL was active.Maximo does not allow to approve PO if it has some other lin...
about 6 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 2 Not under consideration

Create Communication option should be available in Request for Quotations application

Create Communication option is a standard option that is available in various Maximo applications (for example Service Requests, Work Order, Purchase Order etc). However, this option is not available in Requests for Quotations application. This is...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Not under consideration

Possible to have Maximo name the PDF of PO report with the PO number

we have received requests if it is possible that the PDF of POs are automatically named with the PO-number? Currently our users create PDFs through the preview function of a report and then either Print report or Export report button to create PDF...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Not under consideration

Ability to close RFQs that have no been fully awarded

Currently the only way to close RFQs is to award all of the lines to POs. This prevents the closure of RFQs that are not fully awarded and means they don't get put to history. Our client would like the ability to close RFQs that are not fully awar...
over 8 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 2 Not under consideration

Item should be searchable by classifications in inventory adv search just like Item master

Right now we cannot filter items through classification in the inventory adv search
almost 9 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 2 Not under consideration

Centralized setting to ensure Maximo reuse existing PO's to the fullest

Centralized setting to ensure Maximo reuse existing PO's to the fullest. I.e. when new costs appear on a WO, Maximo search for an existing PO, does a revision and add the new costs to that PO. Being an (almost) administrative organization having c...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Not under consideration