MRP includes scenario-simulated Master Scheduling for taking IFS Demand Planning forecasts and planning products, including timephased safety stocks. It can also be calculated from the main program using IFS Resource Requirements Planning . The product requirements in the main program are broken down into requirements for components and semi-finished products using IFS Material Requirements Planning . Finally, a more detailed capacity calculation can be done by resource group using IFS Capacity Requirements Planning.

IFS Sales & Operations Planning (S&Op) enables companies to create and maintain a monthly aggregate plan from multiple company perspectives, including sales, finance, capacity, sourcing and inventory. The solution integrates with operational capabilities to collect and accumulate historical data as well as forecasts and open claims. Capacity requirements are calculated and scenario-based planning is supported.

Visual Planning and Scheduling (Product Visualization) optimizes your production schedule using limited or unlimited capacity. The graphical presentation of the plan makes it easy to identify potential capacity bottlenecks or material shortages. The interactive design allows you to directly intervene and quickly resolve capacity or material shortages. The solution also provides sorting support, setup optimization, and the ability to group transactions that share similar features into blocks. 
IFS Production Visualization supports planners and management in operational work. This out-of-the-box configurable solution provides up-to-date information on the current state of production from a resource (machinery and labor) and finances. It is more than just a graphical visualization tool. IFS Production Visualization also works as a basis to initiate necessary work in supporting your production processes. The viewer also comes with auto-refresh functionality that provides real-time tracking of your production.

Configuration Management provides strong support for configured products. It offers powerful functionality to handle complex material flows of multiple parts that can be combined in millions of combinations. Instead of using a part number for each unique combination, you use a configurable base item number that makes it much easier to maintain and control products and their possible variations. With IFS Custom Configuration, the attribute and possible values ​​of each attribute are defined and maintained for each base element. It allows you to manage and simplify the make-to-order process from advanced make-to-order (MTO) to simple assemble-to-order (ATO) including multi-level fixed (DOP) construction possibilities.

IFS Discrete Manufacturing provides a comprehensive solution that supports the production process from work order requests to receipt of finished products. The solution includes material compliance checks, operations planning, evaluation of tools and workmanship, integrated quality management and analysis. Reporting of operations or material processes can be done in different ways using interfaces tailored for specific situations, such as barcode readers or operator terminals.

IFS Process Manufacturing (Batch Production) supports recipe/formula based production commonly encountered in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. The solution includes full traceability from raw materials to intermediates and finished products. Batch balancing helps to more easily handle batch size constraints on many levels. Arrangement based on product features reduces the cost of relocation. IFS Batch Manufacturing supports quality management including control plans and analyses, catch weight and multiple units of measure.

It increases your productivity by reducing or even eliminating processes in the production process. IFS Mass Production supports Kanban, no-order pickup, batch production with lot/lot and batch tracking, as well as rate-based production schedules, automatic consumption and mass consumption operations. Schedules can be created manually or automatically from MRP / Master Scheduling and can cover multiple production lines. Order packages can be created and printed. Calculation, simulation, execution of manual cards and fully electronic Kanbans are supported. Combined with IFS Planning, you can create a hybrid push/pull system using material requirements planning (MRP) to create production line schedules, plan supplier schedules, and size Kanban circuits. kanbans, triggers calls based on actual requirements. Card management functionality greatly simplifies change management, counting and tracking for manual card circuits.

IFS Workbench Data Reporting is an efficient and easy-to-use way for your staff to quickly report on production information. It gives the status of your operations, the amount of products produced and scrapped, and operator hours accumulated.
With IFS Workbench Data Reporting, laptops, mobile phones, barcode readers etc. in the production system. With the help of various equipment such as workshop data is collected automatically. The main customer for the operator is the workshop bench, which contains everything he needs for his daily workshop. The system provides the operator with tools, material, manuals, structures followed, resources assigned, etc. Provides all relevant information such as The system also provides support for simultaneous operations per staff and concurrent staff per operation. In addition, recording and follow-up functionality are supported in case of outage. If IFS Time & Attendance Notification Management is installed, the system integrates the workshop reporting time and time & attendance data confirmation functionality. 

IFS Demand Forecasting solution enables you to plan visually with the help of graphical presentations. Highly collaborative, graphical and interactive, it is one of the most sophisticated and easy-to-use forecasting tools in today’s markets. It helps you create short and long term forecasts / demand plans for sales planning, budgeting, master planning and stock control. Provides strong support for new and spare parts. It has advanced integration with Master Scheduling and Sales & Operations Planning.

IFS Multi-Site Planning provides integration in a multi-site and legal entity supply network. Forecasts and actual demands are collected at the end point of the supply chain, converted into time-phased supply plans and transferred to external suppliers or internal production sites. Thus, integration between sites is increased, stocks are reduced and customer service is improved. It provides efficient and simultaneous planning of all sites within a planning network. Multi-site scheduled parts are scheduled simultaneously at all sites in the planning network. Distribution orders provide immediate transmission of inter-regional demand and supply during the planning process and are used throughout the multi-site product structure for multi-site planned parts.

IFS Inventory Replenishment provides standard replenishment capability. It groups parts by frequency, ABC class, and life cycle. It supports different inventory planning by setting parameters such as service level rather than individual parts. It also makes replenishment more agile by providing multiple planning strategies such as economical order quantity, service level based safety stocks and special models for handling heavy parts. IFS Inventory Refresh plans and refreshes inventory levels more accurately. A number of inventory control methods have been added to the Inventory section. Some of these methods require IFS Demand Forecasting to work. This component provides powerful, efficient and accurate management of parts.

It helps you manage the entire storage process, from product purchase to product receipt. The solution supports traceability, shelf life management, consignment stocks, shipping units, suggesting locations, and various reservation options. Warehouse activities are largely business-oriented, barcoded and reported with handheld devices for efficient and real-time operations. The component also provides a basic solution for reorder-based scheduling and automated work order requests. Material demands are used for the internal consumption of the material in stock. The solution provides support for standardized integration between trading partners using GS1, including support for GTIN (Global Trade Item Number) and SSCC (Serial Shipping Container Code). Also, its stocks are in remote places,
It handles all aspects of material handling and traceability, from standard stock storage units to lot-controlled and serialized products. Attributes such as part ownership, condition, shipping units, and/or specific part attributes are important considerations for properly managing your inventory. The storage solution also includes solutions for shipments and inbound pickups.

IFS Product Estimate Management supports manufacturing companies in making complex price estimates to determine the best possible bid price for a product when submitting quotes. We use the embedded IFS CRM solution to improve the collaboration between technical sales support and sales representative in the back office. Enhanced cost and backlog functionality allows users to determine whether a product can be produced or marketed at a profit. 

IFS b2b Portals allow you to communicate with evaluated and approved subcontractors to handle the service and maintenance outsourcing tender process through a collaboration portal. You can compare offers more easily, get better prices and cut administrative costs. Even just entering the information once improves data quality. Winning contractors gain access to detailed instructions and report information on the implementation of the work through the portal. In this way, all data related to the completed job can be accessed from a single location.

IFS Quality Management lets you define control plans, test and inspection instructions, standards for parts, suppliers or manufacturing processes. It is based on four functions:

– Failure Mode Effect Analysis analyzes the potential effects of failure and determine what control mechanisms are worthwhile

– Control Plans provide control mechanisms that reduce the causes of potential failures, increasing the probability that causes will be detected if they do occur

– Statistics Process Control ensures that your processes are reliable, by distinguishing common causes of process variation from special causes

– Material Review Board is a specific functionality for handling the disposition of defective material

With IFS Document Management, the emphasis lies where it should be: on the user and the business. In practice, our solution becomes a natural extension of the software with which most users are familiar. They can access the right documents swiftly and smoothly using whichever interface they prefer, be it Microsoft Windows or a web browser. Indeed, 90 percent of IFS Document Management users need no more than 10 minutes of training to get going, while specialists get a powerful tool that handles complex tasks. Who said you couldn’t have the best of both worlds? IFS Document Management is an integral part of IFS Applications, which is comprised of components that work independently of each other in an open, agile program architecture. As a result, they can quickly and easily be combined, modified, and upgraded to meet the needs of your company as your business develops and markets change. IFS Document Management can also operate as a stand-alone application, independently of other components in IFS Applications, and can be smoothly implemented without disrupting everyday operations.