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Track users' changes for each item

This feature can be implemented as a new widget in item form or a new tab under Recent activity widget along with Note and workflow and only should display changes that users have made to an item. It's kind of an audit log and can be used in troub...
about 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Workflow Completion Notificaton

One of my workflow clients is putting the inventory controller at the end of the approval workflow so the controller is aware that approvals have completed. This is highly inefficient as it causes an additional lag in processing time (particularly...
about 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Equipment Linked to Item - Bulk Download Capability

It's great that the Equipment module allows you to search the equipment and then list the items attached to them. However, we need the ability to show, and download, the referenced Equipment for the Item.
about 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 3 Functionality already exists

Add options to expand equipment module items search

Many Clients have hub-spoke materials distribution, a central distribution center where replenishment occurs and stock is held in an "on-shore" plant, which supplies an one or several "off-shore" plants via transfer order. The way Equipment module...
about 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Planned for future release

Enable tasks in MRO IO that use to be performed by BEN-BOT

Enabling the tasks to be performed within the product would assist in training as knowledge of other tools would not be required. Also the expressions required to query/run tasks can be managed by the tool.Such tasks include: list of users current...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Historic import data retrieval

Users should be able to download 12 months of imported data in zip format.
10 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Planned for future release

PU failure rollback and alert

Upon PU failure the system should revert back to a useable state and notifications sent to users who are subscribed to that alert type (see https://ibm-ai-apps.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/MRO-I-112). Ideally this would also automatically create a support ...
10 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Planned for future release

Set ROQ to One as a new ROQ Method

Many of our clients manage their 'Repairable' stocked materials by setting a Re-Order Qty (ROQ) = 1. In the case of our SAP clients, this means setting the Maximum to be the same as the Re-Order Point (ROP). This request is to create a new ROQ Met...
10 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Planned for future release

User Access management Enhancement - Archiving users

Some clients have hundreds of user accounts that are "inactive" accounts due to user turnover for instances that are a decade old. The accounts need to be retained so the user action/notes retain integrity, however it would be useful to have an "a...
10 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Hide Recommended (Export) ROP, Recommended (Export) ROQ fields for MTC/OPS User Role

• As part of Item request feature roll out, end users (maintenance planners) will now need to submit item requests (stock level change requests) in MRO IO. More than 500 end users will now have read only access to MRO IO. • As we all know material...
11 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration