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Allow PR line quantities to be split across multiple PO Lines

Purchasing buyers sometimes cannot obtain a full order from a preferred vendor, when this happens it would be nice to fill the remaining quantities from another PO.
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Add PR to PO Advanced Search

In the Purchase Order application - Advanced Search under PO Line there is a field for Material Request. There should also be a field for Purchase Requisition.
about 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future 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...
over 6 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 2 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

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 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Under review

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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Count Books using the Select Type of CNTFREQ should not select items where the Count Frequency is zero

In the Count Books application when the Select Type is set to CNTFREQ I think it safe to ignore items where the Count Frequency (INVENTORY.CCF) is zero which is the default for items. If it is zero, then the item will always be due a count, when t...
9 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future consideration

In Count Books there should be an option to exclude items where you have specified that they are not to be counted from a cycle counting perspective

Maximo has an ABC Type for Cycle Counting with options A, B, C and N - with N it means that the item is excluded from Cycle Counting. Items which are excluded are those where you would only perform a physical count once per year as part of the yea...
9 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future consideration