| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Agility, Business Technology, Manufacturing, Supply Chain
Reducing time-intensive tasks & costs is always a good thing — a Beijer Electronic’s success story

No matter the industry, company, or country, reducing time-intensive tasks and costs is always a good thing. Often times in…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Business Agility, Business Technology, Retail, Strategy, Supply Chain
2016 Retail industry predictions

IFS’s Global Industry Director for the retail sector, Ulf Tillander, predicts how three key trends will be impacting the industry…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Automotive, Events, Strategy, Supply Chain
A meeting of automotive minds at Odette 2015
Odette 2015

What I saw and heard at Odette 2015. During the first week of December, I joined over 250 decision-makers and…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Automotive, Business Agility, Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Manufacturing, Strategy, Supply Chain
2016 Automotive industry predictions

Asia will be the biggest car manufacturer worldwide within the next few years, but Europe will continue to lead in…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Oil & Gas, Strategy, Supply Chain
2016 oil and gas industry predictions

In 2016, the oil and gas industry will jump on the opportunity that big data presents. In 2016, the oil…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Automotive, Business Technology, Supply Chain
Seeing auto trends at Odette 2015

Automotive is a fast-moving industry and keeping up with the latest trends, opportunities and threats is a major challenge. This…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Automotive, Business Agility
Greasing the wheels of the automotive supply chain
Car manufacturing

When it comes to manufacturing’s next revolution – the much-discussed Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 – the automotive industry…

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| | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes | Automotive, Events
How to Make Your Automotive Supply Chain more Transparent and Efficient
Forum Automobillogistik in Leipzig

IFS participated in the Automotive Logistic Congress 2015 conference in Leipzig, Germany, last week. It’s an annual conference for logistics…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology, Events, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas
IFS & Our Partners Beat SAP — Over and Over Again

Business success stories from the IFS customer summits in Kyoto, Japan and Rotterdam in Holland.

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Automotive, Manufacturing, Supply Chain
Morgan Motors Rolls Out IFS To Get The Most From Their Supply Chain

The automotive supply chain is far more complex than it used to be, a fact Morgan clearly knows. In early…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Process Manufacturing
Supply Chain Segmentation and Differentiated Inventory Planning

IFS has released a new solution for inventory planning. Even though the solution is a brand new development it was heavily inspired by a product extension that had been offered to our Scandinavian customer base for over ten years. In order to be able to offer this product globally it was included as a part the core IFS Applications. As we included the extension into core we also made some major enhancements of the solution. The most significant being vastly improved performance.

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| | Estimated reading time: 6 minutes | Process Manufacturing
Mixed Mode Manufacturing – What’s in it for you?

Mixed mode manufacturing means that you combine make-to-stock (MTS) and make-to-order (MTO) in one common supply chain. The value proposition of this is that you can strike a balance between efficiency and flexibility across the product range by assigning different supply models to different products. In order to implement a strategy for a process manufacturing company it is important to have an enterprise software system such as IFS Applications that can support not only industry specific requirements for example formulations and multiple units of measure, but also mixed mode manufacturing.

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