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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM MAS - Manage (Base)
Categories Supply Chain
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 28, 2023

RELATED IDEAS

Add ability to update ABC Type, Reorder Point and Economic Order Quantity from the results of running Inventory Reports

There used to be 6 reports which updated the database, and these were removed for 7.6.1.3 and MAS Manage 8.3 when updating to BIRT 4.8 - a security risk with Database Access is given as the reason. A pair of reports each updated ABC Type, ROP and EOQ. Two reports because the older one was legacy and didn't handle FIFO/LIFO Issue Cost Items.

Clients upgrading to MAS will find that these features no longer exist. With 1000's of items setting these three fields individually is a lot of periodic maintenance. There ought to be a way of running the business logic for each of these reports in a way that produces a tabular list with a Preview and Execute function - the existing BIRT reports can then be retired. This would be something similar to the Reorder process which has a Preview button.

Maximo MRO Inventory Optimisation probably does a part of this (ROP I would think), but that is currently not available to IBM Business Partners to try and then hopefully sell the product to their clients, and this is a barrier to its use outside of US. Besides, something useful has been removed from the base product and has not been replaced, this weakens the competitive advantage of Maximo.

Idea priority High
Needed By Quarter
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  • Guest
    Jul 2, 2025

    Hi all, regarding this functionality - ROP & EOQ calculation is available today in Maximo Inventory Optimization (MIO - formerly MRO IO). MIO also performs ABC analysis for usage value, happy to look at if this aligns with previous Maximo functionality and look at options should there be any gaps. 

    MIO is a comprehensive inventory management and optimization application is now available in both Standard and Essential versions. MIO has recently become an application in the MAS SaaS Application Suite, available via MAS SaaS App Points and is available with integration direct to MAS SaaS (as well as other data sources) to automatically update reorder values plus any other data points. 

    MIO evolved from the Oniqua Analytics Solution (OAS - aquired by IBM in 2018) which has been developed over thirty years and has helped some of the worlds largest asset intensive organisations in industries such as Oil and Gas, Mining and Mineral Processing, Manufacturing, Utilities (power generation, transmission and distribution; water; and gas) and transportation successfully right size and better manage their inventory. 

    MIO is available to customers globally through the growing business partner network. For more information see this page or reach out to your IBM or Business Partner representative, myself - djones@au1.ibm.com or Mateo Canarte-Toro mateocanartetoro@ibm.com. 

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    Kim Woodbury
    Jun 27, 2025

    This was incorrectly indicated as DELIVERED but is a priority on the roadmap in the near future.

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  • Guest
    Jun 25, 2025

    It sure would be nice if there was a comment after delivery, to say where the delivery was made. Is this added in a patch, ifix or version update to core MAS? Add-on? Other? Mas 9.1?

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  • Guest
    May 2, 2025

    Any news on when the update to Reorder Point, Economic Order Quantity and ABC will be provided in MAS, 9.1 hopefully?

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  • Guest
    Sep 19, 2024

    When reworking Inventory ABC when the item is condition enabled there could be multiple Inventory Costs records one for each Condition Code, the report sums the Last Receipt Cost over-inflating the value of the item. It should instead use the one record where the Condition Rate is 100.

    In the MAXDEMO Database Item LN7023 in the CENTRAL-BEDFORD storeroom has three Inventory Costs records with a sum of Last Receipt Cost of 665. This is the value that is used in the Last Cost column. The NEW condition code with condition rate of 100 has a value of 350. I think it is safer to use this for this ABC Analysis report.

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  • Guest
    Jul 25, 2024

    Thumbs up from us here on MAS at Rolls-Royce!

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