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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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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...
10 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...
10 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Revise REORDER Calc for tighter control and take Lead Times into consideration.

There are companies ordering and maintaining stock with extra long lead times, and has considerably increased with the advent of COVID.
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 3 Future consideration

Inventory Usage to allow save of inventory usage line with an incomplete GL Account

There shouldn't be a reason why GL Account validation is enforced when creating the inventory usage line, it is not a financial transaction, those records are not created until you complete, stage or ship. Therefore, the validation should move to ...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

PO Revision History should include Deleted Lines

PO Revision History includes lines added and modified with each revision of the PO. However, it does not include PO lines that are deleted with a PO Revision. For a Revision History to be complete it should include Added, Modified and Deleted line...
almost 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Tiered Price Purchase Contract

Add the ability in Purchase Contracts to have tiered pricing for the same item on contract lines. Move this functionality from Maximo for Aviation to core Maximo. This isn't industry specific functionality.
almost 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future consideration

Signature Security option to change status on storeroom item from OBSOLETE to ACTIVE if ACTIVE at Item/Org level.

If the Item/Organization status for an item is ACTIVE and a storeroom status is OBSOLETE, then it should be possible to change status on the storeroom item back to ACTIVE if the inventory team decide to restock the item. Currently you cannot chang...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

View Item Availability - Location Tab should have Reorder, Status and Site fields

The View Item Availability dialog is used widely. If the item has a quantity available and a current balance of zero, this does not stop a reservation from being created. When you are trying to stop items from being reordered you first unset the r...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Lease/Rental Contracts - Associated Assets - Addition of a multi-select lookup designed for the contract, replacing Select More Assets

When you select assets, you may have defined contract lines which reference rotating items, you must have authorized sites, therefore the Select More Assets dialog which does not even restrict to the assets of the organization of the contract is i...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future consideration

Prevent the Cancel of a PO if an un approved invoice exists

Update the IDEA name to align with the Case file how IBM would solve this problem. We have a PO that has been canceled that has an invoice that is approved. We need to reverse the invoice as it was invoiced in error. When we try and approve the RE...
10 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 3 Planned for future release