GALIA Certification for IFS Automotive Extension Automotive Supply Chain

IFS Applications recently received the GALIA Certification for the automotive industry.

Who is GALIA?

GALIA was founded in 1984 to answer an urgent need to improve exchanges between business partners within the automotive industry. At that time, there was neither Internet nor e-Business EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) and EDTi (Technical Data Exchange) was at its very beginning.
Initially, GALIA covered the logistics, defining label standards, packaging and pallets, plastic boxes, small metallic containers and EDI messages. Nowadays GALIA also deals with exchanges in the engineering and B2B/invoicing domains and processes to improve the supply chain performance.
GALIA is controlled by a steering committee of 18 members (2 PSA Peugeot Citroën, 2 Renault, 1 Renault Trucks, 8 Equipment suppliers, 2 carriers and logistics providers, 3 observers). The steering committee is chaired alternately by a representative of PSA Peugeot Citroën or Renault.
GALIA represents the automotive supply chain for France at ODETTE as does VDA for Germany.

Develop recommendations (some of them are standards recognized and used by the entire automotive industry) for the exchange of goods and information between partners within the automotive industry.
Encourage service provider companies, “Club members”, to develop tools compliant with the specifications contained in the recommendations.
Inform automotive company managers and make them aware of the existence and importance of these tools.
Promote the implementation of solutions derived from the recommendations of automotive industry companies.
Inform and train users.

Certified as an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution for Tier 1.
IFS Applications is a strong solution for supply chain, especially in markets like the automotive industry.
IFS Applications covers advanced requirements with its standard solution without the need for add-ons from partners or additional development.