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MRO Inventory Optimization

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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 ...
10 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 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

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...
6 months 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
almost 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

Embed refresh report in PU process

Clients complain that the PU completion email has arrived but yet their analytics reports have not got the latest data. The refresh_report is a separate process. There should be some automation to avoid confusion on clients so once the PU is finis...
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 5 Delivered

Update/Fix functionality of the email notification screen

This was "lift and shift" from OAS but is not suitable for current purpose, does not even currenlty work. Email notifications for PU start/finish are currenlty managed external to the product (MRObot and Talend). This functionality should be compl...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Delivered