Of the many contemporary challenges facing an industry like paint and coatings, supply chain management is a critical one at…
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Defining the ERP Foundation for the Paint and Coatings Industry
Why Adopt ISO Standards for Asset Management? Here’s Why, and How.
ISO standards are a lot of things. Specifications for products and services. A third party stamp of approval for quality,…
Read MoreTrying to Make Sense of the Conflict Minerals Rule? Good luck with that!
Regardless of your position on government mandates for corporate social responsibility, one thing is certain. The U.S. Securities and Exchange…
Read MoreMagnaflow Case Study: Catalytic business conversion with IFS
Magnaflow is a high volume, high speed company, producing catalytic convertors in an expensive labour market. They need serious automation to survive where they are – and IFS provides it.
Read MorePODCAST: Quality Control in Process Manufacturing ERP
In this episode of the IFS Radio Network, IFS Process Manufacturing ERP expert Jakob Björklund discusses the challenges posed by REACh,…
Read MoreProcess Manufacturing Council Adds Value to IFS Users
As an industry director for process manufacturing at IFS, I enjoy being in the middle of everything that is happening…
Read More7 Steps to Optimizing Operational Capability
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is viewed as one of the key methods allowing maintenance engineers to do more with less at the same time as minimizing risk. RCM provides a greater understanding of the level of risk that an organization is currently managing, as well as supporting the establishment of capital maintenance regimes, thereby increasing cost effectiveness and equipment uptime. Implementing an RCM solution is not necessarily a complex or procedure – particularly if an organization follows seven easy steps…
Read More2 Reasons why the manufacturing industry is behind the curve on embracing enterprise mobility
Mobility continues to be a hot topic in the ERP/enterprise software market, but the conversations are changing from theory to optimization and practical use. In fact, mobility is one of Gartner’s nexus of forces, the convergence of social, mobility, cloud and information patterns that drive new business scenarios. This started me thinking about why manufacturers appear to be behind the curve in embracing this technology and in seeing the benefits on the shop floor.
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 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.
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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