IFS MANUFACTURING™

IFS/Multisite Planning™ helps you improve on-time delivery and customer satisfaction by better forecasting supply and demand for your products when working in a multisite environment. You can develop a comprehensive master production schedule, calculate time-phased material net requirements and optimal lot sizes, create distribution orders, and then calculate the production capacity needed.

IFS/Make-to-Project™ provides a unique concept for manufacturing in a project context by providing the flexibility to connect shop orders, multilevel pegged structures (DOP), purchase orders, and other items directly to project activities. Inventory functionality can be performed in a project context, and material can be transferred between project activities, and between project inventory and standard inventory.

IFS/Engineer-to-Order™ makes customer-specific design easier to handle by integrating projects and product structures. The ordered product structures can be a combination of standard products and project-specific structures. Procurement is initiated by the project plan, and every change can be registered, ensuring optimal flexibility, control, and cost-effectiveness in the delivery project.

IFS/Make | Configure | Assemble-to-Order™ manage and simplify production to order, from advanced make-to-order (MTO) to simple assemble-to-order (ATO), and for order-unique design as well as characteristics-based configuration and standard products.

IFS/Constraint-Based Scheduling™ optimizes your production schedule so you can quickly respond to changes in the marketplace or customer demands. By identifying production bottlenecks, you can deliver on time and keep production costs under control. Multisite, multilevel capability check gives you an advanced tool for accurate delivery time estimation.. The component also includes Advanced Planning Board, an off-line scheduling planning tool which you can operate simultaneously with the on-line client.

IFS/Costing™ provides insight into the costs associated with your company’s products so you can make better-informed decisions. It supports traditional costing, activity-based costing (ABC), or a combination.

IFS/Batch Process™ gives batch-oriented processing companies a competitive edge through more efficient production planning, on-time deliveries, and higher product quality.

IFS/Repetitive Production™ improves efficiency by reducing, and even eliminating, transactions in the manufacturing process. Combined with IFS/Planning, you can create a hybrid pull/push system using material requirements planning (MRP) to generate production line schedules, plan supplier schedules, and dimension Kanban circuits.

IFS/Shop Order™ is a comprehensive tool for monitoring and controlling shop orders throughout their lifecycles, ensuring that manufacturing performs all work as planned. It includes support for many production models and is closely integrated with IFS/Costing and IFS/Inventory.

IFS/Shop Floor Reporting™ provides an efficient, easy-to-use way for your employees to quickly report production information. It gives you the status of your operations, the quantity of manufactured and discarded items, and the accumulated operator hours.