Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

Status Under review
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 5, 2024

Work Order Tracking - new action Create PR for direct issue materials and services

In the Work Plan Materials and Services an item can be marked as Direct Issue with/without a vendor. When the Work Order has reached approved status and there are direct issue planned materials and services without a PR/Line reference, then the new action will create the PR(s) grouping by Vendor. If Vendor field is null for one record, then it still creates a PR with null vendor. This should use a new action that can be used by Workflow so that the process can be automated, or added to an Escalation if Workflow is not being used. But the manual action should also be provided.

The process where you need to go to Inventory and use Reorder Direct Issue Itm/Svcs, or wait for a Cron Task delays the creation of the PR and the process is disjointed. It also suffers because there is no flexibility in the reorder process, work orders for the same vendor are grouped on the PR (separate lines). There is no ability to have a PR created for each work order which is needed when the purchasing approval is performed on the PR by the department that owns the asset that is referenced on the work order, in this case you need one PR (or multiple) per work order without mixing multiple work orders on the same PR.

Idea priority High
Needed By Not sure -- Just thought it was cool