In 2012 worldwide defence spending fell for the first time in a decade. The largest falls were in NATO nations – and there’s not much chance of that changing. Forces need to maintain their capability in that context. New equipment isn’t coming on stream, and thus older equipment is being use for longer – by necessity and design. What can technology do to help in this situation?
Read MoreLowering the Cost of Defense: Performance-based logistics
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…
Read MoreIFS & Radley: The barcode solutions
Four customers share their stories of using IFS coupled with Radley’s barcode solutions to streamline their operations.
Read MoreIFS World 2013: IFS Applications 8 Update
Last year, we announced IFS Applications 8. Today we’ll hear from customers who have been using it.
Read MoreIFS13 Opening Session – Alastair Sorbie
This is one of a series of live blog posts directly from the site of the 2013 IFS World Conference…
Read MoreDoes 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…
Read MoreIFS 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.
Read MoreIFS 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…
Read MoreHow 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…
Read MoreIFS 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.
Read MoreSupply 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.
Read MoreHow 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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