Multisite Planning
IFS/Multisite Planning™ manages materials and capacity planning over single or multiple sites, using planning networks, master schedules and supply/demand data. It generates action lists and messages with direct links to supply/demand details. Material and capacity data can be displayed graphically at various levels of aggregation. Master schedules can be produced in tabular or graphical formats, with multi-level scheduling allowing finished products with similar requirements to be arranged in product families. Standard Sales & Operations Planning format is also supported.
Make to Project
IFS/Make to Project provides a unique concept for manufacturing in a project context through the flexibility to connect shop orders, DOP structures, purchase orders, etc. directly to project activities. This allows you to efficiently plan both demand and supply of material and track project costs in details. Project inventory enables efficient material handling within projects. When the material is received to inventory, it belongs to specific project activities and the material planning can be performed within project activities, within the entire project or by using planned netting groups by defining specific activities, subprojects etc. to be planned together. Most inventory functionality can be performed in the project context, and material can be transferred between project activities, and between project inventory and standard inventory.
Engineer to Order
IFS/Engineer to Order™makes customer-specific design easier to handle by integrating projects and product structures. The ordered product structures can be a combination of standard products and project-specific structures. Procurement is initiated by the project plan, and every change can be registered, ensuring optimal flexibility, control and cost-effectiveness in the delivery project.
Make | Configure | Assemble to Order
IFS/Make | Configure | Assemble to Order™ manages and simplifies production to order, from advanced MTO to simple ATO, and for order-unique design as well as characteristics-based configuration and standard products. Based on the Seiban philosophy, it 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, in dates or in quantities. Combined with IFS/Constraint-Based Scheduling, full APS functionality with both material and capacity constraints is supported. For configured products, a hierarchical structure allows you to define configured products that consist of other configured products on many levels. The structure and routings for each specific case are then calculated based on defined configuration rules and given characteristics for the actual order. Unique order structures, with unique routings, can also be created and maintained based on standard BOMs/routings or custom engineering. The structures can be reused and graphically compared to standard or other unique order structures. Order promising functionality helps determine when the finished product will be ready, based on prevailing conditions.
Constraint-Based Scheduling
IFS/Constraint-Based Scheduling™ optimizes the production schedule based on the critical resources that limit production capacity, such as material, equipment, tools and personnel. It centers on an interactive Gantt chart with sophisticated drag-and-drop planning. Scheduling can be done both manually and with the help of advanced algorithms, with or without finite capacity.Multi-site multi-level capability check, i.e. enhanced capable-to-promise (CTP) functionality, provides the user with an advanced tool for accurate delivery time estimation.
Costing
IFS/Costing™ supports various cost schemes, from traditional to activity-based costing. The powerful graphical tools provide advanced analysis such as break-even and optimal price based on elasticity. For product costing, users can work with an unlimited number of historical, current and future cost sets, with user-defined buckets for materials, labor, machines and overhead. Order-based estimates, standard and actual, are created for each manufacturing order, and variances are analyzed. There is also strong functionality for Kaizen costing and value engineering.
Batch Process
IFS/Batch Process™ introduces batch balancing and recipes to IFS Applications. The recipe functionality opens up new opportunities for companies for whom weight-percentage and density are important parts of the business. Recipes include functionality for yield, revision control and alternates, making it a powerful tool. Batch balancing is a perfect planning tool for organizing and optimizing the production of restricting batches. The component can be combined with other planning tools such as IFS/Demand Planning and IFS’ master scheduling functionality. Typically, the functionality is used in the paint & adhesives, food & beverages, and pharmaceutical industries.
Repetitive Production
IFS/Repetitive Production™ allows you to create production schedules manually or automatically using data from the IFS/Planning component. With IFS/Planning a hybrid pull/push system is created, using MRP to generate a supplier schedule plan and dimension the Kanban circuit. Schedules can span multiple production lines. Takt time calculation and production line management and analysis are included. The component also provides full support for manual or electronic Kanban systems.
Shop Order
IFS/Shop Order™ manages the execution of manufacturing and assembly with support for many production models. In addition to the extensive support for all stages in the shop order flow and handling of material, machine and labor operations, there is advanced functionality for handling tools and bar codes as well as balancing divergent order flows. Multi-level serial and lot/batch tracking is fully supported. Both BOMs and recipes can be used with date or serial effectivity. Shop Order is closely integrated with IFS/Costing and IFS/Inventory ensuring proper cost control and efficient use of different inventory valuation methods for manufactured parts.
Shop Floor Reporting
With IFS/Shop Floor Reporting™ automatically collects shop floor data by using various clients. Reported time is reconciled with time and attendance data, and approval screens allow tight control.
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