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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...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Not under consideration

Add the ability to duplicate Inventory Usage

When Maximo is used in used for Supply Chain management to support repeating and similar exercises and activities, that utilize repeating shipments with only minor variations, there is a need to be able to duplicate Inventory Usage in the same man...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 2 Future consideration

Auto-reorder generate SR/WO for in-house fabricated items

Our maintenance technicians often make fabricated parts for certain assets in-house or have an outside service make them for us. These parts are stocked as inventory items and managed with reorder. We'd like for IBM to provide an option in Maximo ...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 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.
over 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future consideration

Inventory Re-ordering enhancement

Recently our business users approached us that they'd like to exclude certain inventory condition codes from total inventory balance calculations so re-ordering can be triggered earlier. It will be nice if Maximo Re-ordering Cron task can provide ...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future 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 9 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 2 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...
almost 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 2 Not under consideration

Populate MRLINE with INVVENDOR information for Service Items

In application Create Requisition when adding a requisition line of type STDSERVICE and specifying an item number and a vendor, the fields Order unit, Unit Cost, Manufacturer, Model and Catalog# are not populated from the most recent invvendor rec...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future 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...
over 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...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Not under consideration

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