IFS Manufacturing Information Sources

An information source is a combination of facts and dimensions (base data) which is structured to hold information designed to be used to compile reports and analytics using the IFS Business Reporter tool. Refer the IFS Online Documentation and eLearning for more information about this tool.

One or more of these information sources can be used when creating an IFS Business Reporter report.

Shop Order

General Description

The Shop Order information source is mainly based on IFS/Shop Order. The main purpose of this information source is to present shop order data to support high level summarizations and analyses to evaluate the shop floor performance, for instance, using the Count Perfect Shop Order metrics.

Reports/Analysis

Access Types

  1. Online
  2. Data Mart

Specific Attributes

 

Supported Dimensions

Main Features Supporting IFS Business Reporter

Shop Order Operation

General Description

The Shop Order Operation information source is mainly based on shop order operation statistics, operation history and shop order costing. It is possible for some measures to drill down to operation history in order to get all the transaction details. The main purpose of this information source is to present data based on the shop order operations to support summarizations and analysis to evaluate the manufacturing process.

Reports/Analysis

Access Types

  1. Online
  2. Data Mart

Specific Attributes

Supported Dimensions

Main Features Supporting IFS Business Reporter


Shop Order Operation History

General Description

The Shop Order Operation History information source is based on labor and operations history. The main purpose of this information source is to provide support for designing basic Business Reporter reports for shop order operations. Since Employee, Created By Employee and Transaction Date exist as dimensions for this information source it is possible to create reports in the transaction level.

Reports/Analysis

Access Types

  1. Online
  2. Data Mart

Specific Attributes

Supported Dimensions

Main Features Supporting IFS Business Reporter

Shop Order Material

General Description

The Shop Order Material information source is mainly based on shop order material and material history. The main purpose of this information source is to present data based on the shop order material line to support creation of Business Reporter reports that focus on statistics for consumables needed in the manufacturing process.

Reports/Analysis

Access Types

  1. Online
  2. Data Mart

Specific Attributes

Supported Dimensions

Main Features Supporting IFS Business Reporter

Part Cost

General Description

The Part Cost information source is mainly based on IFS/Costing. The main purpose of this information source is to provide the option to analyze and compile precalculated costs for different combinations of part number, cost set, template, cost group and so on. It is often of interest to identify deviations between the precalculated costs for different cost sets.

Reports/Analysis

Access Types

  1. Online
  2. Data Mart

Specific Attributes

Supported Dimensions

Main Features Supporting IFS Business Reporter

Part Cost History

General Description

The Part Cost History information source is mainly based on IFS/Costing. The main purpose of this information source is to provide the option to analyze and compile precalculated costs for different parts over time for cost set 1.

Reports/Analysis

Part cost variance analysis (historical and current cost)

Access Types

  1. Online
  2. Data Mart

Specific Attributes

Supported Dimensions

Main Features Supporting IFS Business Reporter

Estimate Deliverables

General Description

The Estimate Deliverables information source is mainly based on IFS/Estimate. This information source includes measure items from estimate deliverables. Since the deliverable are per customer, the reports should be generated for customer. Specifically, since the sales price/Curr are in the currency specified for the customer, the reports have to be generated per customer (either filter the report by the customer or use customer as a repeater)

Reports/Analysis

Access Types

  1. Online
  2. Data Mart

Specific Attributes

Supported Dimensions

Main Features Supporting IFS Business Reporter

Estimate Item Cost

General Description

The Estimate Item Cost information source is mainly based on IFS/Estimate. The main purpose of this information source is to provide the option to analyze capabilities related to item costs, insecurities and markups.

Reports/Analysis

Access Types

  1. Online
  2. Data Mart

Specific Attributes

Supported Dimensions

Main Features Supporting IFS Business Reporter

Sales and Operations Plan

General Description

The Sales and Operations Plan information source is mainly based on IFS/Sales and Operations Planning. The main purpose of this information source is to provide the option to further analyze the sales and operations data.

Reports/Analysis

Access Types

  1. Online
  2. Data Mart

Specific Attributes

Supported Dimensions

Main Features Supporting IFS Business Reporter

Emissions per Part and Period

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Part Emissions per Unit

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