IFS announced today that Stolle Machinery Co., LLC, will implement IFS Applications™ business software at all four of its machinery manufacturing facilities, located in Colorado and Ohio. Stolle is the worldwide leader in the can machinery industry.
The company will use IFS’ applications for supply chain management, financials, engineering and project management, document management, quality management, and business modeling. It will also deploy IFS’ web portals to enable real-time communication throughout the enterprise and IFS eLearning™ training materials to ensure cost-effective training.
“Our company produces custom-designed machinery, so it was critical that our enterprise system be well suited for an engineer-to-order environment. After considering several leading software products, we concluded that IFS has the best ETO solution,” said Stolle Machinery CFO Keith Randall. “In addition, the IFS software easily handles multiple sites and will allow us to centralize some of our accounting functions while decentralizing others. And its project engineering functionality will improve our ability to capture costs and manage complex custom production.”
“IFS Applications offers an industry-specific solution that helps machinery manufacturers such as Stolle Machinery cut costs, improve quality, and reduce time-to-market,” said IFS North America president Michael Nordin. “IFS’ unique, integrated lifecycle management approach enables companies to share knowledge and gain real-time access to information and processes for customers, products, and assets throughout their lifecycles.”
Industrial manufacturing is one of IFS’ targeted vertical markets. IFS has a broad customer base in the industry, focusing on medium- to large-size manufacturers that need support for complex order-driven and mixed-mode manufacturing across the extended enterprise. With strong support for project management, engineering, constraint-based scheduling, product configuration, and after-sales support, IFS’ business solution helps companies improve quality, contain costs, and improve their competitive position in manufacturing industry segments such as machinery, defense, fabricated metal products, and plastic products. Industrial manufacturing companies also benefit from IFS’ lifecycle management solution, which goes beyond product lifecycle management (PLM) to provide better integration and management of three critical business areas—products, customers, and resources—throughout their lifecycles.
Existing IFS customers in the industrial manufacturing industry include Deere & Co., Dresser-Rand, Gehl, Star Cutter, Remmele Engineering, and Johnson Pump.
About IFS and IFS Applications
IFS develops and supplies component-based business applications for medium and large enterprises and organizations. IFS Applications, which can be implemented step by step, is based on web and portal technology. The solution offers 60+ enterprise application components used in manufacturing, supply chain management, customer relationship management, service provision, financials, product development, maintenance and human resource administration. IFS offers customers an easier, more open alternative.
IFS is a leading global business applications supplier with sales in 45 countries and more than 350,000 users worldwide. The company is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange (XSSE: IFS).