Alfa Laval Drives Excellent Service With IFS

 

Founded in 1883, Alfa Laval is a Swedish company working in the areas of Energy, Marine, and Food & Water. The company provides expertise, products, and service to a range of industries in some 100 countries. With 17,500 employees, the company is committed to optimizing processes, creating responsible growth, and driving progress.

Driven by a long-term, company-wide initiative, Alfa Laval’s search for a modern solution for remote guidance took on a new urgency as the impact of COVID-19 made itself felt.

To ensure service levels and business continuity in areas where travel is banned or social distancing is required, the company selected IFS Remote Assistance. The solution allows two users to collaborate and interact in real-time—whether that’s supporting technicians in the field or customers directly.

“We chose IFS based on its strong technology and the long-term vision of the company," said Jens Pulczynski, Manager Global Service Operations, Alfa Laval. "Our customers have been 100 percent satisfied with the introduction of IFS Remote Assistance and impressed by the way it enabled us to continue serving them. As we recover from the crisis and return to more normal operations, we are convinced that our use of the solution will evolve from business continuity to business transformation.” 

Elni Kullmer, Managing Director, IFS Nordics, added, “Across all industries, we are working with forward-thinking companies like Alfa Laval. Eliminating unnecessary travel, improving customer service efficiency, and providing tools for remote work are things that will continue to benefit all service-oriented businesses long after the immediate threat of the virus is gone.”

Find out more at the IFS Newsroom.

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Precision Manufacturer TLT-Turbo Fuels Expansion With IFS

TLT-Turbo GmbH, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of technology-driven industrial fans and ventilation systems, has chosen IFS Applications™ for its sites in Germany, USA, India and South Africa. TLT Turbo’s state-of-the-art fan solutions can be found in the London Underground, the Ferrari Formula 1 wind tunnel in Maranello, and in Europe’s largest Coppermine in Polkowice-Sieroszowice, Poland.

IFS Applications was selected for its ability to deliver comprehensive and flexible project management capabilities across its global organization. “One of the most important considerations for us was full project and process visibility across our entire value chain, giving us complete control of profitability, quality, and risk,” said Mr. Christian Horst (Global Functional Manager Digitalization and Engineering, TLT-Turbo).

The IFS solution, which will be implemented by IFS Certified Platinum Services Partner Eqeep, will support all business-critical processes, including manufacturing, project management, maintenance, sales & service Supply Chain, warehousing, mobile workorder management, document management, and financials.

IFS develops and delivers enterprise software for customers around the world who manufacture and distribute goods, build and maintain assets, and manage service-focused operations. The industry expertise of our people and solutions, together with a commitment to delivering value to every one of our customers, has made IFS a recognized leader and the most recommended supplier in our sector.

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Global Stroller Manufacturer To Implement IFS for International Growth

IFS, a global enterprise applications company, recently announced that Bugaboo International has selected IFS Applications™ 9 to support business processes including finance, purchasing, manufacturing, sales, quality control, product lifecycle management, and human resources.

Bugaboo International is a global mobility company that makes strollers for infants and toddlers and a luggage system, the Bugaboo Boxer, for travelers. Its products are available in more than 50 countries around the world. Bugaboo employs over 1,200 people working at its headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and at offices in the UK, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, USA, France, Australia, and in the assembly plant in China.

In looking to enable future growth, the company wanted the support of a high-quality business application. IFS Applications 9 will empower Bugaboo with one global system for production, sales, and finance. A unified environment will improve collaboration between sales, manufacturing, and Bugaboo’s head office—boosting the company’s time to market and customer service.

“We selected IFS Applications because it proved to be the best manufacturing solution. IFS has a global presence and we were impressed by their understanding of our requirements and the solution we are now implementing,” said Barry van der Groep, CIO at Bugaboo.

To learn more about IFS Applications™ 9 and read additional manufacturing case studies, visit the IFS Newsroom.

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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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Rancon Automobiles Selects IFS Applications For Mission Critical Processes

IFS, a global enterprise applications company, recently announced that Rancon Automobiles Limited and Rancon Autos Limited, subsidiaries of the Rangs Group, have chosen to deploy IFS Applications™ to support mission-critical processes such as finance, distribution, service and maintenance, and human resources.

Rangs Group is one of the largest Bangladeshi industrial conglomerates with interests in automobile, electronics, real estate and shipping sectors. Rancon Automobiles Limited is a leading importer of various types of commercial vehicles in Bangladesh and is currently the sole distributor of several Asian commercial automotive brands. Rancon Autos Limited is the sole distributor of MAHINDRA brand commercial vehicles in Bangladesh.

When fully implemented at Rancon Automobiles and Rancon Autos, IFS Applications will be used by more than 400 staff across the Rangs Group, empowering group management with enhanced transparency and business control. “Our ambition is to run a single platform across all our subsidiaries so that we have greater visibility of operations, profitability, and efficiencies across the group,” Rangs Group Bangladesh Chairman Romo Rauf Choudhury said. “We want to drive the group forward and take advantage of the economies of scale when dealing with suppliers and principals, and a central platform will help us achieve this. We have had a great relationship with IFS, which is why we have decided to expand our existing IFS platform to support additional companies in the group.”

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Jotron AS Selects IFS Applications 9 for Global Operations

Norwegian manufacturing firm Jotron AS has recently announced that it will implement IFS Applications™ 9 to standardize and streamline processes across five regions for over 200 users. IFS™ is a globally recognized leader in developing and delivering enterprise software for enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise asset management (EAM) and enterprise service management (ESM).

Jotron AS is Norway’s leading manufacturer of professional communication systems for land, sea and air safety, with offices in Norway, the US, the UK, Singapore and Lithuania, and manufacturing facilities located in Norway and Lithuania. Following a thorough evaluation, the company decided to implement IFS Applications 9 to unify key processes within the company, creating a more effective and transparent supply chain and building a closer connection to the customers. This will be achieved by using the powerful High-tech Manufacturing, Finance and Supply Chain modules within IFS Applications.

Jotron AS will be using several of the new IFS Applications 9 features, including a preconfigured IFS Lobby for manufacturing, IFS Streams for receiving automated updates from the system and Embedded CRM to connect the CRM capabilities seamlessly to the ERP system, improving sales process effectiveness.

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Australasia's TAE Implements IFS Applications 9 To Integrate ERP

IFS, a global enterprise applications company, recently announced that TAE, Australasia's leading provider of turbine engine maintenance, repair and overhaul services, is implementing IFS Applications™ 9 to integrate the TAE group of companies under a single enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution.

TAE had previously purchased IFS Applications as an engineering management solution to comply with International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). However, the company had different ERP systems at its Brisbane and Adelaide facilities. Replacing these two systems with IFS Applications will enhance business visibility with real-time reporting to support growth and reduce costs.

“The functionality was key—IFS is in our market and knew what we needed at a maintenance level,” said Andrew Sanderson, CEO of TAE. “We spoke with other users—some of them are our customers—and IFS had the reliability and the credibility we were looking for.”

Complete visibility across its operations will quickly benefit TAE with the IFS Lobby, a configurable and role-based dashboard environment facilitating real-time business reporting. IFS Applications will also lower TAE’s financial reporting costs and reduce the effort and delays involved in manually combining information sources using Excel spreadsheets. IFS Applications will also support TAE’s growth as it looks to develop its business in South East Asia and the U.S. with better customer communication and coordination of activities across different locations.

TAE will initially implement IFS Applications for financials, human resources, maintenance, manufacturing, supply chain, and sales and service. Later, it will deploy IFS project management capabilities within the integrated ERP solution. TAE also plans to use IFS Applications to underpin new mobile apps to streamline customer operations and interactions.

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Sogepoc Selects IFS To Support International Expansion

Sogepoc, one of Portugal’s largest agricultural producers, recently selected IFS Applications to unify management of the group's agriculture and livestock divisions. IFS Applications will provide the technological backbone for finances, human resources, manufacturing, planning, projects, maintenance, document management, and warehousing. The company is based in Portugal, Spain, and Chile and its revenue in 2014 was 330 million euros.

By implementing the IFS solution, Sogepoc will be able to integrate all of its business-critical processes, thereby enabling the group to lower IT expenditures, gain agility, and focus on its core business.

Among the ERP vendors considered, IFS Applications proved to be the optimal solution for Sogepoc, offering extensive and flexible functionality localized for rapid deployment in a large number of countries. During the initial phase of implementation, IFS Applications will be installed at three subsidiaries and then deployed in additional parts of the group.

“IFS Applications is a much more powerful and agile tool than our previous ERP solutions. It provides international coverage and has the flexibility we need to support our future growth,” said Luis Ortigão Costa, Board Director of Sogepoc.

About IFS: Founded in 1983, IFS supports more than 2,400 customers worldwide from local offices and through partners in more than 60 countries. IFS develops and delivers business software for enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise asset management (EAM) and enterprise service management (ESM).

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Port of Dover Integrates Business Applications With IFS

The Port of Dover, owned and operated by Dover Harbour Board which was established in 1606, handles over 13 million passengers, 2.6 million tourist vehicles, and 2.2 million freight vehicles each year. It is also an award-winning cruise port, the second busiest in the UK and hosting some of the world’s most prestigious cruise lines. Together with a range of other successful businesses including a cargo terminal, a top award-winning marina and several niche activities, the business mix is diverse. To improve efficiency and performance visibility, the Port decided to implement a business system that could integrate various business functions. IFS Applications was selected as the solution of choice.

IFS provides business software to companies that aspire to become more agile. IFS uses its deep industry-focused expertise to help companies in targeted sectors increase agility in three core areas: enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise asset management (EAM), and enterprise service management (ESM). Founded in 1983, IFS is a public company with over 2,600 employees.

When fully implemented, IFS Applications will be used by over 300 employees throughout the organization to help improve efficiency and control in key areas such as asset management. The solution includes functionality for asset and estate management, program and project management, finance, and HR. The ability for mobile workers to effectively access work order asset management and service management systems when on the move is also a key deliverable.

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Radpol Group Selects IFS For Manufacturing Operations

Radpol Group, a Polish manufacturer and supplier to the heating and energy sector, has chosen IFS Applications 8 to support its business-critical processes. The IFS system will be implemented in four manufacturing facilities owned by Radpol. Listed on the Warsaw stock exchange, Radpol manufactures heat transfer systems, products for the energy market, plastic water supply and sewage pipes, and gas pipe systems and employs 2,600 people. The group operates five manufacturing sites in Poland and its products are also exported to a number of European countries including Italy, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland, Sweden, Lithuania, Estonia, Czech Republic, and Russia.

Following an extensive evaluation involving several ERP system products, the company chose IFS Applications as the solution best design to enhance Radpol's operational efficiency. IFS's experience in working with companies in the energy and manufacturing sectors was a key factor in its selection.

The IFS implementation will cover all key areas, including manufacturing, distribution, HR and payroll, maintenance, financials and accounting, as well as business analytics. Through better production workflow planning and stock accuracy optimization, Radpol expects to reduce their working capital with manufacturing and supply chain areas bringing in significant savings.

It is expected that total savings resulting from the implementation will allow Radpol to raise their EBITDA margin by at least 145,000 euros per year and reduce working capital by approximately 240,000 euros.

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Wrights Group Selects IFS Applications for Global Operations

IFS, an global enterprise applications company, recently announced that Wrights Group, one of Europe’s leading suppliers of public transport vehicles, selected IFS Applications to assist in optimizing its global operations. Currently, more than 2,100 companies in over 60 countries rely on IFS Applications, a component-based suite for product and asset lifecycle management that can be configured for ERP, EAM, project-based ERP, field service management, or a combination of all four.

Headquartered in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, Wrights Group has established itself as Europe’s leading independent bus designer and manufacturer. Founded in 1946, Wrights Group pioneered low floor buses in the UK, and has earned a reputation for producing vehicles which are stylish, durable, high in quality and utilizing innovative features. Most recently, it secured the contract to manufacture the New Routemaster bus for the city of London.

To enable its plans for expansion in Europe, Asia and the Americas, the Wrights needed to deploy a business system that was easy to configure, maintain, and scale. IFS Applications was selected because it offered the company the best blend of multi-site, global capabilities coupled with robust features for product configuration, project management, and supply chain. Another critical selection factor was the ease with which Wrights can configure the IFS system to meet business needs while maintaining a standard upgrade path for future releases.

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Zef Scientific Selects IFS Enterprise Service Management

IFS, a global enterprise applications company, recently announced that Zef Scientific, Inc., a multi-vendor service provider for high-performance chromatography and mass spectrometry systems used in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical and environmental industries, has chosen IFS Enterprise Service Management software to manage productivity for its growing business. Zef Scientific is headquarters in San Diego, California, with offices in Medford, Massachusetts, Quebec, Canada and Morocco.

Zef Scientific offers various service plans to its customer base, including preventive maintenance, onetime repairs, and equipment qualification services. Due to the company's rapid growth, implementing IFS Enterprise Service Management and IFS Mobile Workforce Management were seen as ways to improve efficiencies in its scheduling and dispatching process for both prearranged and emergency calls to its technicians without increasing administrative staff. Incorporating IFS Field Service Management with an interactive customer web portal component now allows customers to manage labor, customer information, parts usage, returns disposition, product installed base information, service delivery, and contract entitlements.

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Swedish Retailer Rusta Selects IFS for Expansion Plans

IFS, a global enterprise applications company, recently announced that Rusta AB, a leading Swedish retailer of home and leisure products, has selected the IFS Applications™ Retail suite to support its future growth and international expansion. Rusta is its own importer and wholesaler, as well as distributor and retailer. Rusta has over 1,300 employees working in its 71 stores, warehouses or offices in Sweden and Asia.

Operating a network of 71 stores with more than 55,000 daily customers, Rusta is widely regarded as a best-in-class retailer in terms of key benchmarks such as growth, market share expansion, profitability, and customer loyalty. The company is currently entering a new phase of its business plan, driving the need for improved system support to enable accelerated growth and international expansion. The implementation of the IFS Applications Retail suite will replace 50 percent of existing systems.

The IFS solution, which covers all retail processes including business intelligence (BI) and enterprise mobility, will be implemented across Rusta’s international operations, comprising headquarters, stores, warehousing facilities and its extensive network of Asian sourcing offices. 

IFS™is a public company founded in 1983 that develops, supplies, and implements IFS Applications™, a component-based extended ERP suite. IFS focuses on industries where management of any of the following four core processes is strategic: service and asset, manufacturing, supply chain, and projects.

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South Asian Manufacturer Selects IFS Applications 8

IFS, a global enterprise applications company, recently announced that APEX Adelchi Footwear Ltd., the largest shoe manufacturer, exporter and leading leather product retailer in Bangladesh, has selected and deployed IFS Applications 8™.

Founded in 1983, IFS develops, supplies, and implements IFS Applications, a component-based extended ERP suite. IFS focuses on industries where management of any of the following four core processes is strategic: service & asset, manufacturing, supply chain, and projects.

The APEX Adelchi IFS solution supports 174 retail stores and the entire value chain, from manufacturing to retail. Covering retail, manufacturing, financials, distribution, and human resources, the entire implemented across the company's organization was completed in only 12 months. The company hopes to see immediate benefits in reducing present stock level and improving the replenishment performance for over 15,000 SKUs.

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Is Manufacturing Behind In Embracing Enterprise Mobility?

In a recent article on the IFS blog, Antony Bourne, Global Manufacturing Industry Director discusses the myth that mobility is not suited to manufacturers, and offers two reasons why manufacturers are not tracking the mobility trend.

In his assessment the two main reason as a lack of proven case studies and how technology trends are outpacing the infrastructure of the average shop floor. Bourne asserts that the key thing about mobility is that, when used correctly, it increases productivity, which in turn supports the business to be able to react more quickly to any unforeseen changes.

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What Businesses Want From Cloud ERP

Most enterprise software runs on servers at a business’ premises. However, a growing percentage of solutions like customer relationship management (CRM) or even enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications are delivered from the cloud. Sometimes they are even sold not through a perpetual license, but as a cloud subscription service.

Earlier this year, IFS asked 200 North American business executives involved with ERP and other enterprise software what they thought of the various methods of software provisioning, including on-premise, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and private cloud.

The answers to their survey reveal interesting opinions on SaaS versus on-premise and other cloud-based delivery models for ERP, which offer insights into what businesses see as the advantages and disadvantages of each.

In the case of SaaS, three clear views emerged from the survey:
1.Cost is seen as both a plus and a minus. Survey respondents think initial costs would be lower, but as the software is being rented, they believe costs would likely be higher in the longer term.

2.Automated upgrades are both an advantage and a drawback. As with hosting services, the service provider takes care of software maintenance and upgrades: you concentrate on running your business. Of course this means you yield some control to the vendor, who may change versions at a time you are ill-equipped to make the adjustment.

3.Security and control were jointly the most frequently-cited disadvantages. Lack of ownership of the software contributes directly to cost, so these issues may be seen as interdependent.

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