No matter the industry, company, or country, reducing time-intensive tasks and costs is always a good thing. Often times in…
Read MoreReducing time-intensive tasks & costs is always a good thing — a Beijer Electronic’s success story
2016 Retail industry predictions
IFS’s Global Industry Director for the retail sector, Ulf Tillander, predicts how three key trends will be impacting the industry…
Read MoreA meeting of automotive minds at Odette 2015
What I saw and heard at Odette 2015. During the first week of December, I joined over 250 decision-makers and…
Read More2016 Automotive industry predictions
Asia will be the biggest car manufacturer worldwide within the next few years, but Europe will continue to lead in…
Read More2016 oil and gas industry predictions
In 2016, the oil and gas industry will jump on the opportunity that big data presents. In 2016, the oil…
Read MoreSeeing auto trends at Odette 2015
Automotive is a fast-moving industry and keeping up with the latest trends, opportunities and threats is a major challenge. This…
Read MoreGreasing the wheels of the automotive supply chain
When it comes to manufacturing’s next revolution – the much-discussed Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 – the automotive industry…
Read MoreHow to Make Your Automotive Supply Chain more Transparent and Efficient
IFS participated in the Automotive Logistic Congress 2015 conference in Leipzig, Germany, last week. It’s an annual conference for logistics…
Read MoreIFS & Our Partners Beat SAP — Over and Over Again
Business success stories from the IFS customer summits in Kyoto, Japan and Rotterdam in Holland.
Read MoreMorgan Motors Rolls Out IFS To Get The Most From Their Supply Chain
The automotive supply chain is far more complex than it used to be, a fact Morgan clearly knows. In early…
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 MoreMixed Mode Manufacturing – What’s in it for you?
Mixed mode manufacturing means that you combine make-to-stock (MTS) and make-to-order (MTO) in one common supply chain. The value proposition of this is that you can strike a balance between efficiency and flexibility across the product range by assigning different supply models to different products. In order to implement a strategy for a process manufacturing company it is important to have an enterprise software system such as IFS Applications that can support not only industry specific requirements for example formulations and multiple units of measure, but also mixed mode manufacturing.
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