Project-based Delivery

Projects, by definition, are complex endeavors, culminating in the delivery of a product and often extending to after-sales support. The solution for Project-based Delivery helps you coordinate the design, delivery, and support through the entire life cycle of a product. What is more, the solution promotes design reuse—a useful feature for those enterprises whose products are a mix of uniquely engineered parts and off-the-shelf items. Why reinvent the wheel in project after project and lose valuable time to market?

Tear down the walls between your Engineering, Manufacturing and Service departments

As a part of IFS Applications, IFS/Project Delivery ties in with all relevant business processes, offering an effective way to promote communication and data exchange among all stakeholders. Integrated with IFS/Document Management, IFS/PDM Configuration and IFS/Project, the IFS/Project Delivery module helps you manage projects from design through engineering, procurement, and manufacturing to testing, maintenance, and after-sales support. As the product moves into production, IFS/Project Delivery lets you call up part information and purchasing history by virtue of its integration with IFS Distribution—data that is captured during engineering and prototyping and that is fully integrated with IFS Manufacturing and shop orders as well. And pertinent information regarding product structures, documents, or serial numbers can be transferred to IFS Maintenance. This lets you take full advantage of a product’s “as-built” structure to get a flying start in the after-sales process.

In other words: there’s no lost data, no wasted time, no wasted money.

Stay on top of your project

Another key feature is the full integration of plan- and project-specific product structures within the Project-based Delivery solution, which provides a bird’s-eye view of the entire project. This comprehensive view, combined with the availability of detailed technical data, makes this solution an excellent tool helping you meet customer and company requirements. How so? Each phase of a product’s life cycle—from design to manufacturing and project maintenance—is visible. Moreover, all project-specific material transactions can be tracked, and their costs can be rolled into the project costs along with other reported costs. Order status and progress data are also available for all activities and can be rolled up at any subproject or project level. A product’s planned material cost, for example, can be viewed in a project summary cost roll-up.