Personal Portal

To stay ahead of competition, your enterprise continuously needs to become more efficient, not only by reducing costs, but also by maximizing customer value. To get there you, your customers, and suppliers need on-line, precise and timely information to be able to synchronize activities and out-perform competitors.

IFS/Personal Portal™, our enterprise portal solution, opens new convenient routes to key business information as well as to your favorite applications. It ensures that the right person gets the right information at the right time, increasing dynamics in your enterprise and your network of external partners.

If a customer connects to see if your company can supply 15 pieces on Tuesday and your answer is no, then how many can they get? Will more be available on Friday? This type of information is typically stored in your business applications and is a good example of how the Internet places new demands on user interaction. Sometimes business application information needs to be available in other solutions. Other times you have to be able to present external information in your business applications. The user, the role and the specific task determine what, when and how relevant information should be presented. All in all, this requires applications and systems that are extremely flexible and open.

Collaboration made easy

IFS Personal Portal enables you to streamline the information flow between you and your suppliers, customers, and partners. It is an effective tool for realizing the extended enterprise, and it allows others to benefit from the capacity in your information system. You can provide your partners with tailored information, specially adapted to their specific function, and directed solely to them. IFS Personal Portal is easy to use and gives a clear overview. Opportunities to share information increase, while business processes and transactions work faster and more securely.

An easier working day for employees

The portal provides employees with smooth access to the broad functionality of IFS Applications and to information from other sources. Employees get a better overview, their working day becomes easier, and they become more secure in their role in the company. Thanks to the portal, they have complete control over events—round the clock if necessary. They are given a private interface, which they can customize and change as their role and requirements change. Moreover, no special training is required to get started since the portals are easy to use and customize. Finally, IFS Personal Portal frees your employees from heavy and boring administration. Instead of spending time searching for information in different places, they can use the portal to focus on exceptions and assignments that add value and are more stimulating.

In brief, IFS Personal Portal

• increases quality and shortens lead times due to an easy-to-grasp information trigger and quick drill-down via links;
• reduces time to market by integrating external and internal parties in the product development process via portals;
• reduces time and money spent on procurement by making the steps in the requisition to payment process easier;
• reduces transaction costs because information is automatically visible and available to be acted on by the supplier;
• improves customer offering by supplying online information (e.g., order status, availability, pricing and performance measures);
• saves time for internal users due to the simple, intuitive interface.