IFS Applications for Industrial Manufacturing is used worldwide by companies involved in complex order-driven and mixed-mode manufacturing. IFS offers flexible, component-based, project-driven business solutions that manage the entire lifecycle of products, projects, assets and services. Users chose from a mix of functionally rich modules—fully integrated with financials and human resources.
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.
Customer Stories | Testimonial
Stolle Machinery
Founded in 1961, Stolle Machinery designs, engineers, and assembles complex production machinery. The company is the worldwide market leader in the can machinery industry, offering a complete line of equipment for manufacturing can ends and can bodies. In addition, with its Didde web press product line, Stolle Machinery is a leader in the web offset printing industry, having the largest installed base in North America.
In IFS Applications 7 there is complete integration to finance out of the project module. This lends itself very well to companies that do equipment building.
Michael Kalkman, Project Manager
BENEFITS
- Integrated solution to unite multiple divisions
- Economical step-by-step implementation
- Ease of use
- Real-time communication with customers through web portals
Customer Stories | Testimonial
Völkl Sports
With manufacturing and R&D facilities in Straubing, Germany, Völkl Sports produces about 500,000 pairs of skis, 30,000 snowboards and 120,000 tennis rackets per year. Its products are available in more than 50 countries. Founded in 1923, Völkl is now part of the Marker Völkl Group headquartered in Baar/Zug, Switzerland, and has about 1,000 employees.
Without IFS Applications, our team couldn't satisfy the growing, mainly short-term, demands on the IT department. The old system took about 3 weeks to develop certain functionality. Now similar tasks take 1–3 days.
Gerold Fath, IT Manager Völkl Sports GmbH, Straubing
BENEFITS
- More efficient financials, HR and distribution processes
- Easy access to information and greater transparency
- Optimized information exchange between manufacturing and sales
- Able to make more precise delivery promises
- Higher productivity and lower costs with automated production control
Customer Stories | Testimonial
PartnerTech
PartnerTech develops and manufactures products on behalf of leading businesses in the market areas of Defense and Maritime Industry, Information Technology, MedTech & Instrumentation, CleanTech and Point of Sale Applications. PartnerTech has approximately 1,300 employees at plants in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Poland,the UK, the United States and China.PartnerTech AB, the parent company, is headquartered in Vellinge, Sweden and listed on the Nasdaq OMX Stockholm Exchange.
Without IFS Applications, we wouldn’t be able to optimize our operations—and those of our customers—as we do today.
Richard Skogh, VP, Supply Chain Planning & IT at PartnerTech
BENEFITS
- Faster response to customer requests
- Common solution throughout the company
- Easier to implement new software—by site or company-wide
- Consolidated procurement processes
- Enhanced planning and forecasting capabilities
- Project management capabilities that enhance efficiency
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