MANUFACTURERS SEEKING A RICHER MIX
At IFS, we have more industrial-manufacturing customers than any other kind. Like you, they know that integration of major business functions delivers significant benefits. Moreover, our users have a vision for achieving contextual integration with supply chain partners, and for integration with product lifecycle management (PLM), customer relationship management (CRM), and enterprise asset management (EAM).
MIXED-MODE MEANS MANY OPTIONS
You’re tackling a mix of standard, custom and project jobs. IFS Applications handles engineering requirements found in to-order industries and the planning and detail scheduling requirements of make-to-stock. Multiple production environments can run simultaneously or alternate.
SUSTAINED SERVICES PROVISION
Profits associated with servicing field equipment are more generous than for most product sales. Yet OEMs and suppliers must compete against nimble third-party providers of parts and services. To command a price premium, you need a system of record that persists through design, engineering, manufacture, installation and service.
IT’S ALL ABOUT PROJECTS
To manage it all, you’ve become more project-driven. With IFS Applications, projects can be the principle around which work is organized and profit or loss assigned. Project management coordinates the engineering functions, and engineering with operations and the business. It’s at the core of the asset-lifecycle and services-provider processes by means of which IFS extends the enterprise.
INCREASINGLY GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS
Real-time management of procurements, inventory and vendors ensures availability of goods and services associated with forecasts of planned and unplanned work. IFS Applications supports the supply chain—from global sourcing to lean manufacturing. Goods makers with far-flung operations benefit from multi-site agreements and common purchasing. Less capital is tied up in inventory. Global spare-parts availability supports customers’ efforts in a meaningful way.
ASSET LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
A system of record for product design, planning, data management and engineering change furnishes stakeholders with consistent, accurate information regarding products and projects. Engineering components make it easier to specify and configure design elements, assemblies and products. By streamlining document administration, everyone within the ever-widening circle of collaboration sees the latest information.