Lean Enterprise for ETO companies

Lean Enterprise means taking the concepts of lean from the manufacturing environment and applying them throughout the entire ETO enterprise, including office-based activities, manufacturing and service functions. It covers the complete spectrum of the value chain, and focuses on the reduction or elimination of waste, i.e. any activity that does not add value for the customer.

IFS Applications supports Lean Enterprise

IFS Applications is built to enable lean enterprise initiatives for complex ETO organisations. Initiatives that allow you to analyse, change and review your end-to-end processes from quotation, design & engineering, project planning, financial management, buy, make, install and service. IFS Applications provides support for business process modelling, corporate performance management, planning and execution as well as waste analysis and reduction.

Using IFS’ tool for modelling all business processes, you get value stream maps to allow office, factory, and site based processes to be defined, continually reviewed and modified. A number of pre-delivered balanced scorecards help you monitor progress along the journey to becoming a lean enterprise. The scorecard provides the starting point from which to generate awareness and understanding and to begin the removal of waste. 

When customer demand triggers activities in engineering design, project planning, estimating, project costing, procurement, manufacturing, and installation departments, it is key to co-ordinate these activities to achieve a timely and cost-effective delivery. IFS Applications provide, within the suite, integration from design to manufacturing and procurement, project planning, financial management and cost control. These also integrate with human resources and document management.

With this integrated solution the ability to start, review, and eliminate waste becomes so much easier. IFS provides closed loop tools to identify, change and manage processes to eliminate waste – waste in the design and commercial activities, project planning, procurement, manufacture, installation and service.

Develop a lean enterprise with IFS Applications

Lean enterprise is viewed as the corporate approach for the 21st century that will provide complex ETO organisations with the ability to remain competitive and to become market leaders through their agility and responsiveness to change. Becoming a lean enterprise is an exciting and profitable adventure and one in which IFS Applications can help you along every step of the way.