Connecting Requirement Activities—Exercises

IMPORTANT
It is extremely important that you set up and work within your own site to maintain your data integrity. If you work within any other site, you will compromise your own exercise data as well as the data of other students. Predictable exercise results require that your data be isolated in your own site.

Required Data

Creating a Project Product Structure

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to familiarize you with the data that must be in place before you can do the the exercises below. 

  1. Create a project product structure.
  2. Save your changes.

General exercise for Creating Project Product Structures 

Building a Project Plan 

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to familiarize you with the data that must be in place before you can do the the exercises below. 

  1. Create the following subprojects and activities in each subproject:
Sub Project ID Description Activity Activity Description Early Start Date Total Work Days
10 Purchasing 1010 Purchase special engine block Today's date 2
20 Manufacturing 2010 Manufacture special engine 3 days from today's date, excluding weekend 3
30 Delivery 3010 Deliver special engine to customer 6 days from today's date, excluding weekend 1
  1. Save your changes.

General exercise for Building Project Plan

Main Exercises

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to determine which are standard planned and project-specific items in the project product structure, and to connect the requirement activities to the project-specific items. These activities will set the required date for these items.

Windows:
Project Product
Project Product/Items

Determining Project-Specific and Standard Planned Project Items

Note: There are two fields in the Items tab that are important for the material acquisition. The first is the MPL Part field, which can be set to Demand or No Demand. If set to No Demand, the item will not be calculated as a project requirement nor shown in a shop order for its assembly. The second is the Std Planned Item check box, which affects how the requirement will be created. If a part is standard planned, its requirements will be created through MRP (Material Requirement Planning) or Order Point Calculation. MRP is the standard planning feature used in IFS/Manufacturing, while Order Point Calculation is a feature in IFS/Inventory. If an item is project-specific, its requirement will be created from IFS/Project Delivery through the activity that is connected to it. 

  1. Open the Project Product window and query for your project XXPD–01.
  2. On the Items tab, verify that the MPL Part field is set to Demand for all project items.
  3. Verify that 20–11XX (Engine Block 1600) is the project-specific purchase item and 20–10XX (Engine 1600) is the project-specific manufactured item, and that the rest of the structure contains standard planned items. 
  4. Try to select the Std Planned Item check box for the standard planned item 20–130 (Electric System 1600). 
  5. At the error message about standard planned items, click OK. This message occurs because your site does not contain the standard parts. You will copy these parts in your site in the Defining Inventory Parts exercises.

Connecting Requirement Activities

  1. Open the Project Product window and query for your project XXPD–01.
  2. On the Items tab, connect each activity to its project-specific item by clicking the Activity Sequence field and selecting the right activity from the List of Values, as seen in the following table:  
Part Number Part Description Std Planned Item Activity Sequence Sub Project / Activity
20–10XX Engine 1600 System generated 20 – Manufacturing /
2010 – Manufacture special engine
20–11XX Engine Block 1600 System generated 10 – Purchasing /
1010 – Purchase special engine block
  1. Save your changes.