Process manufacturers face the challenges of complex supply chains and traceability requirements, which are key to quality assurance and brand protection – two essential ingredients for success in the industry. For more than 20 years, IFS has provided process industries with agile ERP software that meets – and even anticipates – these challenges to provide the competitive edge that assures continued success.
IFS Applications gives you the agility to strike the balance between the efficiency of make-to-stock and the responsiveness required by seasonality, campaigns and other fluctuating customer demands.
ERP software from IFS covers all process manufacturing needs regardless of production mode. Functionality for formulation and recipe management, batch balancing, multiple units of measure (MUoM) and catch weight is native to IFS Applications. As are full traceability and genealogy capabilities. IFS Applications is a single integrated ERP solution for process manufacturing whether your concern is ingredients or parts, formulas or BoMs, bulk or units.
IFS Applications enables you to plan production to meet the variations in demand that result from seasonality, campaigns and various types of partnerships. Integrated demand planning functionality interacts with the master schedule to ensure that goods are available as advertised or expected. IFS Applications enables you to combine high-volume manufacturing with small-scale production as required.
IFS Applications includes failures modes and effects analyses (FMEA), control plans, statistical process control (SPC) and capability studies that support your entire production process, letting you control parts and materials in manufacturing, distribution and inventory locations. Moreover, integrated document management gives you full control of approval routings and revision handling to make regulatory compliance easier and more accurate. And IFS Eco-footprint Management helps you measure and control your environmental impact.
IFS Applications affords you maximum flexibility. Whether your business is local, regional national or global, you are firmly in control because the ERP software from IFS handles a wide range of languages and currencies across multiple sites. Upstream or downstream in your supply chain – you are in complete command.
William Grant and Sons (WGS) is an independent, family owned spirits business. Established in 1888, the company counts several award-winning household brand names in its portfolio, including Glenfiddich single malt whisky, Grants blended scotch whisky, Hendricks Gin and Sailor Jerry spiced rum. With UK headquarters and two major distilleries in Scotland, the company also operates its First Drinks Brands division from offices in Southampton and Surrey.
I have no doubt that we chose the right partner in IFS. IFS Applications is working brilliantly for us, helping us to stick to our mandate of adopting and moulding our business around an out-of-the-box ERP solution. John Brown, Programme Director
Founded in 1987, Butcher’s Pet Care Ltd. is an independent pet food manufacturer, producing the leading dog food brand, Butcher’s, as well as Classic cat food and Olli dry cat food. Butcher’s Pet Care produces food of the highest quality, using only natural ingredients to ensure superior taste and perfectly balanced, complete meals for pets. All products are available in supermarkets, pet shops, and convenience stores across the UK.
Customer loyalty is still key to our success in the market. The new system will help us to ensure we remain a key brand for retailers and consumers.David Costello, Head of Marketing
One of the world’s major manufacturers of paints, coatings and powder coatings, the Jotun Group has 5,000 employees in 39 production facilities on all continents. In 2005 revenue amounted to US$ 1,042 million. Jotun develops, produces and sells cost-effective paint and coatings products, and provides customer service and technical support to residential, marine and industrial markets worldwide. The Jotun Group, divided into four business areas, is headquartered in Sandefjord, Norway.
We have already started to roll out parts of the solution internationally. Jotun sites worldwide have been given access to a master database which contains a considerable amount of data, including recipes – our most important assets.Øyvind Hauge, head of business development
With IFS Applications we have been able to reduce company operating costs. The IFS solution allows us to keep up with the business and its growing needs.Jacek Korczykowski, IS Manager Nestlé Waters Polska S.A
“Sniezka” Paints and Varnishes Plant S.A. was established as a local paint and thinner manufacturer under the name of Chemal in the mid-1980s. Over the span of more than a decade, the small private business transformed itself into a leader among Polish paint and varnish manufacturers. Currently, the company employs over 600 people and is the second paint and varnish manufacturer in Poland in terms of sales.
Today, we can't imagine working without IFS Applications. Access to information from many divisions that are integrated through a common database gives us unprecedented analytical capabilities. And with reports it is easier for us to estimate budget and plan the demand and sales.Witold Waśko, Vice-President and CFO
Heaven Hill Distilleries, Inc., of Bardstown, Kentucky, is the largest independent, family-owned marketer and producer of distilled spirits in the United States. The company is the second-largest holder of Kentucky bourbon in the world, with more than 650,000 barrels aging at any given time.
We have reduced the order lead time that we require from our customers by 30 percent as a result of the improved planning and operational capabilities that the new system provides us.Allan Latts, Director of Corporate Planning
Imerys, the world leader in mineral specialities for industry, transforms, enriches and combines a unique range of minerals, often extracted from its deposits, to offer features essential to its customers' products and production processes. Thanks to their properties these specialities have a great number of everyday applications in consumer durables, fast moving consumer goods, capital goods and construction, and are developing in many growing markets.
At our first meeting I set out a list of requirements that were set in stone. Our first objective was to reduce the number of our modifications by 50% and secondly under no circumstance could the upgrade impinge on the company’s day-to-day business operation.Michael Dixon, IT Business Project Manager at Imerys
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