IFS Cloud

IFS Cloud Batch Process Manufacturing Module

IFS Batch Process Manufacturing™ supports recipe/formula-based manufacturing typically found in the food & beverage, pharmaceuticals, and chemical industries. The solution includes full traceability from raw materials through intermediates to finished goods. Batch balancing makes dealing with batch size restrictions on multiple levels easy. Sequencing based on product characteristics minimizes changeover costs. IFS Cloud Batch Process Manufacturing comes with native support for quality management with control plans and analysis, catch weight, multiple units of measure, and shelf-life control.

IFS Component Repair Module

IFS Component Repair™ provides extensive support for repairing components in a service or manufacturing environment, with complete control of costs, risk, revenue, and scope. The IFS Cloud ERP solution comes with the possibility to define part exchange deals — loan, single- and double exchange — which make your supply chains more agile and efficient.

IFS Configure & Make-to-Order Module

IFS Configure & Make to Order™ helps you manage and simplify the production-to-order process, from advanced make-to-order (MTO) to simple assemble-to-order (ATO), including multilevel pegged (DOP) structures. The IFS ERP solution supports order-unique production design for standard products and characteristics-based configuration with built-in rules for production. Sales rule logic is obtained using IFS Cloud Sales Configurator.

• IFS Configure to Order™ gives you powerful functionality to handle the complex material flow of a vast number of parts that can be combined into perhaps millions of combinations by providing strong support for configured products. Instead of using a part number for each unique combination, you maintain a configurable base item number, which makes it much easier to maintain and control products and their possible variations. With IFS Configure to Order, each characteristic’s characteristics and possible values for each base item are defined and maintained. Multi-level structure functionality makes it possible to have configured products that consist of other configured products on many levels.

• IFS Cloud Dynamic Order Processing (DOP) enables Make/Assemble to Order™, which supports full-level pegging to any user-definable structure level together with a partial MRP calculation. The pegging is utilized for actual costing, progress monitoring, and up- or downstream propagation of changes in supply and demand dates or quantities. With IFS Constraint Based Scheduling, advanced planning and scheduling functionality with material and capacity constraints is supported. Order unique structures are created and maintained based on standard BOMs or custom engineering. The structures can be reused and graphically compared to standard or other order-unique structures.

IFS Cloud Constraint-Based Scheduling Module

IFS Constraint Based Scheduling™ optimizes the production schedule based on the critical resources that limit production capacities, such as equipment, tools, and personnel. It centers on an interactive Gantt chart with very sophisticated drag-and-drop planning. Scheduling can be done both manually and with the help of advanced algorithms, with or without finite capacity.

By identifying production bottlenecks, you can deliver on time and keep production costs under control. Multisite, multilevel capability check gives you an advanced tool for accurate delivery time estimation. IFS ERP Constraint-Based Scheduling can also be used in a work order context to optimize maintenance plans based on craft, tools, and material constraints. Advanced Planning Board (APB) is a part of this component and offers an increased focus on planners and planner needs for functional and graphical support during the​“hands-on” scheduling process. The IFS ERP solution can also be used for what-if scenarios that simulate based on selected shop orders, e.g., resource breaks and analyze the consequences.

IFS Cloud Discrete Manufacturing 

IFS Cloud Discrete Manufacturing (includes Shop Order)™ is a comprehensive enterprise resource planning solution to support the production process from shop order requisitions to receipt of finished products. The IFS ERP solution includes material availability checks, operations scheduling, tools and labor consideration, integrated quality management, and analysis. Reporting of operations or material transactions can be done differently using interfaces tailored for the specific situation, such as bar-code readers or operator terminals.

IFS Cloud Manufacturing Summary Module

IFS Cloud Applications has long offered manufacturers an agile enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. From the start, IFS recognized the need for manufacturers to operate seamlessly across multiple manufacturing modes. Manufacturing has become more complex, and today IFS Cloud helps more and more manufacturers operate in any combination of — Make-to-stock, Make-to-order, Configure-to-order, Batch process, and Engineer-Procure-Construct.

The IFS Cloud manufacturing components support all phases of the manufacturing process for all your employees, making it easier to plan, execute, control, and analyze many types of manufacturing. The powerful, multifaceted IFS Cloud ERP solution offers a simple, highly automated flow for handling repetitive tasks with advanced management-by-exception functionality to trap and action exceptions. It also supports lean principles and mixed-mode manufacturing, where different types of processing coexist in the same manufacturing environment.

IFS Project-Based Manufacturing Module

IFS Project Based Manufacturing™ allows you to plan and execute manufacturing as part of a project scope. Material, labor, and operations costs are automatically allocated to the project. Inventory functionality can be performed in a project context, and you can transfer material between project activities and between project inventory and standard inventory. The enterprise resource planning solution also includes the option to run material requirements planning across the scope of a project.

IFS Cloud Repetitive Manufacturing Module

IFS Repetitive Manufacturing™ improves efficiency by reducing and even eliminating transactions in the manufacturing process. IFS Repetitive Manufacturing supports Kanban, orderless receipts, backflush, super flush with lot/batch and serial tracking, and rate-based production schedules. Schedules can be generated manually or automatically from the MRP/Master Schedule and span multiple production lines to increase efficiency. Shop packages can be created and printed. Calculation, simulation, and execution of manual cards and full electronic Kanbans are supported. Combined with IFS Cloud Planning, you can create a hybrid pull/push system using material requirements planning (MRP) to generate production line schedules, plan supplier schedules, and dimension Kanban circuits. The Kanbans trigger the call-offs based on the actual requirements. The card management functionality greatly simplifies change management, counting, and tracking for manual card circuits.

IFS Cloud Shop Floor Reporting 

IFS Shop Floor Reporting™ is an efficient, easy-to-use way for your employees to quickly report production information. The IFS Cloud enterprise resource planning software gives you the status of your operations, the quantity of manufactured and discarded items, and the accumulated operator hours.

With IFS Shop Floor Reporting, shop floor data is collected automatically with the help of various equipment in the production system, e.g., laptops, mobile phones, bar-code readers, etc. The main client for the operator is the shop floor workbench, which contains all he/she needs for the daily shop floor work. The enterprise resource planning system provides the operator with all relevant information, such as tools, materials, guidelines, tracked structures, assigned resources, etc.

The enterprise resource planning system also provides support for concurrent operations per employee as well as concurrent employees per operation. In addition, functionality for registration and follow-up time on interruptions is supported. If IFS Time & Attendance is installed, the system has integrated options to reconcile shop floor reporting time with time and attendance data as well as approval functionalities.

IFS Cloud Visual Planning & Scheduling Module

IFS Visual Planning & Scheduling™ optimizes your production schedule using infinite or finite capacity. Through a graphical presentation of the plan, it becomes easy to identify potential capacity bottlenecks or material shortages. The interactive design allows you to act directly and immediately to resolve capacity or material shortages. The enterprise resource planning solution also includes support for sequencing, set-up optimization, and the possibility of group operations that share similar characteristics into blocks planned as one unit.

IFS Manufacturing Visualizer supports planners and management in their operational work. This out-of-the-box configurable enterprise resource planning solution provides up-to-date information about the current production status of a resource (machine and labor) and material situation. It’s more than just a highly graphical visualization tool; the IFS Manufacturing Visualizer also works as the foundation for initiating necessary actions to support your production processes. The Visualizer also comes with auto refresh functionality which enables online monitoring of your production.