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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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Allow One or More Designated Putaway Bins

We would like to have one or more designated putaway bins with the following associated logic: Optionally, automatically create an inventory usage record for transfer to the default bin upon receipt to the putaway bin Streamline transfer to the de...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future consideration

Provide ability to search for and see count history for specific rotating items in Count Books.

With Count Books being the application designed to provide proof that rotating items are counted the warehouse needs the ability to see the history of when specific rotating items were counted. This will provide one more step needed to help the wa...
11 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Receiving - Add the ability during receiving to attach the packing slip document to the receipt (MATRECTRANS) record - It should also be added to the Maximo Mobile Inventory Receiving

When receiving a set of items, it should be possible to scan a document and associate it with the receipt records and to then to view those attachments from the appropriate MATRECTRANS records. This is best achieved by attaching the packing slip t...
about 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future 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...
9 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Inventory reservations should be removed when the originating record (MR/DR, WO) is cancelled

As a warehouse manager I want maximo to clean-up my reservations for old/outdated records (Cancelled Invuse, Cancelled MR, Cancelled WO, Closed WO without withdrawal) Such that my automac reorder cronjob gives a clean recommendation for replenishm...
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 4 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

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

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...
11 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...
11 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