ifs Manufacturing module

IFS Cloud allows organizations to align their manufacturing supply with their demand and create a realistic production plan. Control different aspects of their business, such as sales, finance, capacity, sourcing, and inventory. Plan monthly at an aggregate level and adjust their plan according to changing conditions.

History for comparison, progress and trends allows organizations to store and analyze historical data on the performance of their sales and operations planning process. It helps to evaluate the results, monitor the progress, and identify the trends of their manufacturing activities. It also enables them to compare different scenarios and plans and learn from their past experiences. 

Optimize manufacturing production plans by using visual and interactive tools. It shows the demand and supply of resources, materials, and operations in a graphical way, and enables users to quickly identify and resolve any capacity or material issues, sequencing, set up optimization, and operation block planning.

These features of manufacturing ERP software improve the visibility, accuracy, feasibility, realism, utilization, efficiency, quality, throughput, performance, and communication of the production plan. They also help users to meet the delivery deadlines, satisfy the customer expectations, reduce the setup time and cost, avoid waste or rework, handle unexpected events or changes in demand, and plan for future scenarios or what-if analysis. 

With IFS Cloud configure & make to order, manufacturers can easily handle and control the production to order industry process, from complex make-to-order (MTO) to simple assemble-to-order (ATO), including multilevel pegged (DOP) structures.

It also helps them use IFS sales configurator to steer the user and customer toward a configured product that can be sold and produced based on the chosen characteristics and option values. Create and manage rules and templates for sales and back-office configuration, and generate consistent and accurate quotations, orders, bills of materials, routings, and cost estimates for their products. 

IFS Cloud batch process manufacturing is a solution that supports recipe/formula-based manufacturing for industries such as food & beverage, pharmaceutical and chemical.

Track the materials and products from raw to finished stages, balance the batch sizes according to the restrictions on different levels. It also helps users to sequence the products based on their characteristics to reduce the changeover cost.

Create and manage recipes and formulas, rework faulty batches, control shelf-life, track materials and products, use multiple units of measure, and check material availability for their company batch products. The solution also has features for quality management such as control plans and analysis. 

Quality management in IFS Cloud is a solution that helps to improve the quality and productivity of products and processes across the entire value chain.

It covers both quality control and quality assurance and enables the analysis and correction of non-conformance issues.

It also supports various quality management tools and methods, such as control plans, sampling, SPC charts, FMEA, audits, NCR, MRB, and CAPA.  

IFS MES is a software solution that integrates with IFS Cloud to help manufacturers optimize their production processes and improve their equipment performance.

It collects and analyzes data from shop floor machines and devices and enforces the planned manufacturing procedures. It also provides features for scheduling, dispatching, quality management, resource management, reporting and KPIs.

IFS MES aims to increase the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) of the manufacturing operations and enable faster decision making and problem solving.