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IFS Applications provides the tools you need to maintain your competitive edge. Even if your business relies more and more on subcontractors scattered throughout the world. Even if you are handing system integration, procurement, and coordination. Even if your customers are demanding more highly customized products under increasingly tight deadlines. And even if after-sale service and warranty management are making up an increasing portion of your revenues.
IFS is a complete industry solution that is equipped to handle all your business processes, including supply chain management, design and engineering, project management, service management, corporate performance management, and workforce management. Yet its component architecture lets you implement the functionality you need step by step, only as you need it, ensuring rapid payback on your investment. Support for outsourcing and global operations
Even if your company uses a variety of subcontractors, with headquarters, engineering, and design staffs in different parts of the world, IFS Applications lets you view and manage your business as a single, integrated enterprise. All your data is in
one place. With IFS’ corporate performance application and web portals, everyone in your enterprise can view this information in real time, whenever they need it, no matter where they are located. And IFS Applications easily supports multiple sites,
multiple languages, multiple currencies, and multiple sets of accounting and tax rules. It shouldn’t be a surprise that IFS has what it takes to manage a complex worldwide operation. After all, IFS got its start some 20 years ago in the Scandinavian and European markets, where thinking globally is not a new concept.
Better document management
Managing documentation isn’t an end itself. It’s an essential part of your everyday operations. Getting the right information to the right people at the right time avoids confusing, unnecessary delays, and costly errors. With IFS’ simple, powerful, and
integrated approach to document management, you have full control over your company’s documentation so you can focus on the things that really matter: selling your products and services, and ultimately, meeting or exceeding your business goals.
Life-cycle support for products, customers, and resources
Only IFS offers a life-cycle management solution that goes beyond product life-cycle management (PLM) to provide better integration and management of three critical business areas—products, customers, and resources—throughout their life cycles. With
IFS, you can more quickly and easily make business decisions across the entire product value chain, considering such factors as profitability and complete life-cycle support. IFS’ life-cycle management approach benefits both the supplier and the end customer. You can more easily provide customer-specific product design and collaborate with the end customer to enhance product development. This results in added value for your
customers—and increased profitability for you.
Improved quality
If your company is like many equipment suppliers in the offshore industry, you’re relying more and more on subcontractors for engineering. Outsourcing is an excellent way to reduce costs, increase profit margins, and respond more quickly to changing
market conditions, but quality assurance is critical. IFS’ integrated quality management application gives you the information you need for optimal decision making and failure prevention. It lets you organize and analyze the data in a systematic and comprehensive manner, from failure modes and effects
analyses (FMEAs) and control plans to statistical process control (SPC) charts and capability studies. And you can access changes or documentation from suppliers in a timely manner so that other suppliers with supporting systems can complete their
work.
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