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Disruption and the Future of Software

Is software set to disappear? Will it become pervasive? Will business software become better than the consumer stuff? Industry experts discuss…

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IFS & Radley: The barcode solutions

Four customers share their stories of using IFS coupled with Radley’s barcode solutions to streamline their operations.

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IFS World 2013: IFS Applications 8 Update

Last year, we announced IFS Applications 8. Today we’ll hear from customers who have been using it.

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IFS13 Opening Session – Alastair Sorbie

This is one of a series of live blog posts directly from the site of the 2013 IFS World Conference…

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Does your MRO operation have a strategy leakage?

The top-performing maintenance, repair and overhaul companies have defined an enterprise platform to overcome the barrier to organizational change by…

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IFS versus Oracle: 3-0

At this get-together in Tokyo, Mr. Saga, the project manager at NEC and representing the customer, held the most fantastic speech. With lots of passion, he shared all the details with us, from the customer’s decision to replace their existing solution with IFS Applications up to the present.

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IFS Mobility Webinar October 3

We’re running a series of IFS webinars looking at how mobile solutions can help business transformation across a range of…

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How Pulp and Paper Mills are Leaving Millions on the Table

When the industrial revolution came to the paper manufacturing industry in the early 1900’s no one could have envisioned how…

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IFS and NEC: Serving Up Success—The new Food & Beverage Extension

Interview with Stefan Gustafsson, Managing Director at IFS Japan about the fruitful partnership between the global Japanese Partner NEC and IFS. In this mini interview, Stefan shares the latest news about the new joint solution for process manufacturing and a gives us a short recap of the NEC and IFS partnership.

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Supply Chain Segmentation and Differentiated Inventory Planning

IFS has released a new solution for inventory planning. Even though the solution is a brand new development it was heavily inspired by a product extension that had been offered to our Scandinavian customer base for over ten years. In order to be able to offer this product globally it was included as a part the core IFS Applications. As we included the extension into core we also made some major enhancements of the solution. The most significant being vastly improved performance.

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Process Manufacturing
How Enterprise Software Vendors Can Support Supply Chain Segmentation

I recently had the pleasure of visiting Gartner’s Supply Chain Executive Conference in London. One of the many interesting topics discussed was Supply Chain Segmentation. Segmentation lets companies boost profitability by tailoring multiple supply chains within one physical flow. This made me think about how ERP vendors such as IFS can support companies to implement segmented supply chains.

The supply chain segmentation example Gartner shared resonated with me.

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| | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes | Engineering, Construction & Infrastructure
Work in a Project-centric Business? Why traditional ERP is the wrong solution

Your business is a Project Centric Business that constructs large assets, so you buy a business solution that was designed for making cars – Is there a better way? If you construct ships, buildings, oil platforms, bridges, infrastructure, complex equipment etc. then your business processes are very different from a company that builds high volume products like cars or computers.

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