Miller-St Nazianz Achieves Maximum Profit With IFS

Founded in 1899 in St. Nazianz, Wisconsin, Miller has been providing a wide range of agricultural machinery to farmers for 5 generations. Its product line includes the Nitro high clearance front mount boom sprayers, the Condor mechanical drive sprayers, the Atlas floater chassis, and Ag-Bag hay and forage baggers.

Miller-St. Nazianz operates in a highly complex, multi-mode manufacturing environment, and IFS Applications is the enterprise software environment they have consistently chosen to meet their needs. Miller-St. Nazianz has more than 132,000 inventory parts, a single manufacturing facility and multiple sites set up in IFS to manage repair parts, including a warehouse in Canada. Warranties are handled in a best-of-breed system from TDS Software, integrated with application programming interfaces (APIs) in IFS Applications. Managing, manufacturing and supporting a broad portfolio of agricultural equipment products for maximum profit can be a challenge, but Miller-St. Nazianz is running its product development, manufacturing, parts and aftermarket service in a single instance of IFS Applications, delivering total product lifecycle management (PLM) benefits.

An IFS customer since 2001, Miller-St. Nazianz upgraded its instance of IFS Applications several times. Using IFS Applications, Miller-St. Nazianz is managing more than the product lifecycle. Through the IFS CRM module, it is taking advantage of the deep integration with back-office ERP functionality to master customer interactions.

Benefits experienced to-date include:

• Complete product lifecycle management
• Fully integrated CRM functionality Ease of integration with CAD software
• Closed-loop system that reduces non-value-added work
• All critical business data in one location
• Easier warranty management

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