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MRO Inventory Optimization

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BULK Attachment option to add in BULK Edit

At Present, while creating a bulk workflow -- we need to go into each item to add an attachment (e.g. if create a Bulk workflow of 100 materials, then we need to go into each material 100 times to add an attachment to have a future reference) It ...
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Delivered

User Role Page should have the ability to see the users assigned to particular role

This feature will be very useful for Client Admins to see the names of the users to whom a particular role is assigned. Also, for IBM team it will be good to know from UI who the client admins are for every client and we can keep a check on number...
7 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Delivered

Attachment sorting in form view from latest to earliest

In form view of items, newly added attachments are listed to the bottom of the existing list. Hence if we need to refer the related attachment to the latest workflow, needs to scroll down to the bottom. It is suggested to place the latest attachme...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Delivered

Hiding of unnecessary ROP/ROQ Methods

MRO provides a number of ROP/ROQ Methods that may not be applicable for a given client's environment. These methods are usually included by default in their drop-down list for selection by users. I'd like a method to either hide or remove methods ...
11 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Delivered

Track Changes to be available without user changes

The track changes widget is a great tool to see user changes and resulting system changes. This is very helpful for workflow after a data refresh to see what fields have changed that may impact the workflow submission. However, the track changes w...
7 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Delivered

Workflow approval requests to be retained after a periodic update

If an action that has generated a workflow approval request is not actioned before a scheduled PU, the request expires after the PU and the processor will have to re-log the details to generate a new workflow approval request. If the workflow app...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Delivered

Change Request Status Filter does not align to what is displayed

In the Change Request module listing - Filters have been enabled to segment the list for reporting. One of those fields is "Status". The various "statuses" of Change request are selectable. However, when users "filter" for the "Processing" status ...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Delivered

Auto-hide of record header

As you move up and down the "Form View" of an item record, the record header will drop down and back up. This is irritating to users as they are often needing to validate the item/material they are looking at mid-scroll, and then they have to scro...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Delivered

User Access Management Enhancement - Filtering and Sorting

User Access Management Enhancement - Filtering and Sorting
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 3 Delivered

Denied Workflow Corrections directly from within Workflow list view

Frequently when a workflow change is denied, the approver has asked for something to be changed or corrected on the record being submitted (set size is incorrect, business Impact is incorrect, reorder levels adjusted to a lower number, etc). The s...
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Delivered