Supply Chain Management customer booklet - IFS
Supply Chain Management customer booklet - IFS
Supply Chain Management customer booklet - IFS
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<strong>IFS</strong> APPLICATIONS <br />
supply chain<br />
management<br />
agile solutions in action
profi m 5<br />
jotun 7<br />
sits 9<br />
roxtec 11<br />
gables 13<br />
cozzini 15<br />
amphenol alden products<br />
debut services 19<br />
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3<br />
A CHANGE OF HEART<br />
A supply chain has been described as the artery of a business.<br />
The pathway that enables goods, raw materials—even services—to<br />
flow freely throughout an organization. And, like any artery, for the<br />
supply chain to operate at maximum efficiency it needs a strong and<br />
reliable heart.<br />
The following short stories have been collected to provide you with<br />
a brief overview as to what happens when a <strong>customer</strong> has a ‘change of<br />
heart’ and lets <strong>IFS</strong> provide the beat for its business.
5<br />
Sitting pretty<br />
There is a point when legacy solutions become more trouble than they are<br />
worth. And it is at that precise moment that a company has to face a very<br />
harsh reality. It is time to invest in a completely new solution. So it was with<br />
PROFI m , a leading Polish furniture manufacturer. As the company produces<br />
an average of 70,000 chairs and armchairs per month, mostly in make-toorder<br />
mode with very short series, accurate calculation of material quantities<br />
and lead times for delivery is a business-critical issue. And being able to<br />
produce accurate cost analyses and production forecasting is imperative to<br />
the business if the company is to continue to reduce costs and maintain<br />
reliable <strong>customer</strong> delivery dates. After careful consideration, PROFI m selected<br />
<strong>IFS</strong> Applications because, in addition to providing a rich range of relevant<br />
business functionality, it provides PROFI m with excellent total cost of<br />
ownership.<br />
PROFI m<br />
manufacturer of to-order office chairs
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THE ART OF PAINT<br />
Faced with a very demanding ‘must have’ list, the ERP vendors invited to<br />
pitch for Jotun’s business knew immediately that the winner would have to be<br />
very special indeed. Of course, as one of the world’s major paints, coatings<br />
and powder coating manufacturers, Jotun is no stranger to meeting stringent<br />
demands itself, and its high level of expectation seemed perfectly natural.<br />
To <strong>IFS</strong> it was the kind of challenge it thrives on. And it was this dynamic<br />
and energetic culture which convinced Jotun’s management team that <strong>IFS</strong><br />
would make the most suitable partner. Of course the fact that <strong>IFS</strong> has the<br />
capacity to provide a global solution with proven technology that offers the<br />
easiest and most intuitive solution both to learn and use played its part in<br />
the decision-making process, too.<br />
jotun<br />
Manufacturer of paint and coatings
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ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY?<br />
Success brings its own rewards and occasionally its own problems, too.<br />
Such was the case when SITS, a highly reputable Swedish–Polish furniture<br />
manufacturer, experienced a strong sustained burst of growth. Suddenly the<br />
company had outgrown its existing supply chain solution and was in need of<br />
a new solution with capability to handle 4,500 individual products weekly.<br />
Enter <strong>IFS</strong>. During the tender process <strong>IFS</strong> put forward a solution with a depth<br />
of functionality that ensured total order accuracy and that can be perfectly<br />
configured to handle the strict demands of SITS’ business. The clincher was<br />
the amount of industry experience and competence that <strong>IFS</strong> consultants<br />
brought to the project. After meeting, the SITS team chose <strong>IFS</strong>, and plans<br />
were made for implementation of the new solution. Today SITS’ business<br />
continues to flourish—as does the relationship between SITS and <strong>IFS</strong>.<br />
sits<br />
Designer and manufacturer of home furniture
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MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL<br />
In business it can pay to look inward. To see where your business processes<br />
can be improved and where you can streamline your offering to match<br />
changes in the marketplace. As a successful manufacturer of sealing solutions,<br />
Roxtec’s <strong>customer</strong> base stretches across many different industries, ranging<br />
from telecom to energy distribution, and many different locations. To help<br />
maintain its strong growth curve, Roxtec decided it was time to upgrade its<br />
IT solution and launch a new global distribution process. Working closely<br />
with <strong>IFS</strong> consultants Roxtec’s development team was able to draw on <strong>IFS</strong>’<br />
huge industry experience to formulate an upgrade program that would enable<br />
the company to revise its existing business processes and launch a new<br />
world-class global distribution service.<br />
Roxtec<br />
manufacturer of sealing solutions
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TAKING THE GUESS WORK OUT OF<br />
FORECASTING<br />
In 1946 Gables Engineering Inc. began making control panels in a small<br />
storefront in Florida. Since those early days, Gables has grown into the<br />
industry leader in custom avionics controls and other related products, and<br />
is noted for its forward-looking approach. This approach—and an existing<br />
unreliable MRP solution—led Gables to rethink its IT set-up. Gables<br />
approached a number of vendors with a well-defined list of functionality<br />
requirements which included an MRP module, the capability to cover a<br />
minimum of 23-character fields for parts numbers, inventory control, and<br />
forecasting functions. Gables selected the <strong>IFS</strong> Applications ebusiness<br />
solution, which included a true MRP component that gave Gables a better<br />
grasp of actual demand. Before <strong>IFS</strong>, demand was determined by <strong>customer</strong><br />
orders as well as by a factor for historical demand. This caused Gables to buy<br />
and build unnecessary parts, which would load the shops with unnecessary<br />
work and inflate purchased inventories. Now Gables employees can calculate<br />
demand using actual <strong>customer</strong> orders, and order and build parts by looking at<br />
forecasts, reducing work in progress by 50% and overall inventories by 30%.<br />
gables<br />
Avionics engineering
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CUTTING PROBLEMS DOWN TO SIZE<br />
Over the years, Cozzini Inc., a highly regarded manufacturer of industrial<br />
food preparation equipment and knife sharpening equipment, had slowly<br />
been transformed from being only a manufacturing company to also being<br />
a service company. Cozzini was living with information silos, with<br />
information on various spreadsheets. This made it difficult to finds things<br />
such as bills of materials (BOMs), orders, and <strong>customer</strong> spare parts. It was<br />
also difficult to access the information needed for accounting and engineering<br />
processes. This frustration led to the decision to invest in a new ERP solution.<br />
Out of the contending vendors it was <strong>IFS</strong>’ offering that caught Cozzini’s eye.<br />
The application was scalable and agile, and was the perfect fit to support the<br />
company’s planned global growth strategy. In short, it completely matched<br />
Cozzini’s business requirements and provided the support that Cozzini<br />
expected. <strong>IFS</strong> Applications has made the company’s entire business processes<br />
far more visible, which in turn has increased efficiency levels and streamlined<br />
operations.<br />
cozzini<br />
Manufacturer of food preparation equipment
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REFRESHING THE PARTS OTHER SYSTEMS<br />
CANNOT REACH<br />
Having an efficient and true materials planning requirement (MRP) system is<br />
absolutely vital when you are running a business that involves keeping track<br />
of hundreds of parts. So when Amphenol Alden Products Co., designers<br />
and manufacturers of connectors and cable assemblies used in medical and<br />
industrial applications, discovered that its existing MRP system was failing,<br />
it decided it was time for change. Amphenol studied the vendor market to<br />
see which company could provide a solution that would offer the benefits of<br />
a true MRP system and help it comply with the complex FDA regulations.<br />
Amphenol made its decision on which vendor gave the greatest bang for<br />
their buck and replaced its existing ERP solution with <strong>IFS</strong> Applications.<br />
Amphenol installed <strong>IFS</strong> components for manufacturing, human resources,<br />
quality management, configure-to-order, financials, project management,<br />
product design management and sales force automation. Since then, Amphenol<br />
has increased throughput, reduced order backlog, and cut inventory by 30%.<br />
AMPHENOL ALDEN PRODUCTS<br />
Designer and manufacturer of cables and connectors
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VISIBILITY IS A REAL EYE-OPENER<br />
To run any sort of business successfully you have to have a clear view of<br />
what is going on. And that doesn’t mean just in certain areas. U.K.-based<br />
Debut Services Limited, a joint venture between Babcock International<br />
Group and Bovis Lend Lease, is Defence Estates’ Regional Prime Contractor<br />
in the South West. Debut provides a range of estate management services,<br />
incorporating facilities management and a framework arrangement for the<br />
design and construction of new projects across the estate, and needed a<br />
solution that would keep it on the ball. Debut required an IT system that<br />
would provide the support that enables the coordination and active management<br />
of the supply chain to ensure that <strong>customer</strong> time scales are always met.<br />
The answer came in the shape of <strong>IFS</strong> Applications, which has been purposely<br />
designed to help service-based organizations with processes such as call<br />
management, resource planning, logistics and service analysis. Debut<br />
continues to attract new <strong>customer</strong>s by using its new <strong>IFS</strong> solution to broaden<br />
and improve the services it provides.<br />
DEBUT SERVICES<br />
Estate management
ABOUT <strong>IFS</strong><br />
<strong>IFS</strong> is a public company (OMX STO: <strong>IFS</strong>) founded in 1983 that develops, supplies,<br />
and implements <strong>IFS</strong> Applications , a component-based extended ERP suite built on<br />
SOA technology. <strong>IFS</strong> focuses on agile businesses where any of four core processes<br />
are strategic: service & asset management, manufacturing, supply chain and<br />
projects.The company has more than 2,000 <strong>customer</strong>s and is representedin<br />
some 60 countries with 2,800 employees in total.<br />
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