 | Going Lean, Step by Step, with IFS Applications
This whitepaper explains how IFS Applications supports lean principles in the many manufacturing environments that require both rate-based (takt-driven) and order-based shop-floor execution. Learn how to support lean practices from forecasting demand, customer scheduling, and leveling production to setting line rates, Kaizen costing and pulling parts using Kanban signals at the pace of actual demand. |
| Lean Enterprise Development in Engineer to Order Companies
Learn how IFS Business Modeler and IFS Applications bring the lean disciplines normally associated with repetitive manufacturing to engineer to order companies. When information crosses departmental lines fluidly, take time and kaizen apply to ETO office activities like specifying, estimating and engineering and then extend on to the shop floor. |
| Blast Past Bottlenecks with Constraint Based Scheduling
Lumpy demand due to seasonality or business cycle. Limited capacity in part of a plant. Skilled labor shortages. These and a number of other problems can be solved with constraint-based scheduling, also referred to as finite scheduling. Learn the basics of constraint-based scheduling including optimal, predictive and interactive scheduling. |
| Usability as an ERP Selection Criteria
ERP software is often criticized for being complex and difficult to use. Learn to evaluate ERP software for usability, and how consistent design, affordance, integrated search functionality and Web-like interfaces can make an ERP easier to use. Avoid investing in platforms that won't be evolved towards more usable and efficient interfaces. |
| 6 Steps To ERP Implementation Success
Implementing an enterprise application like an enterprise resources planning (ERP), contact relationship management (CRM), or enterprise asset management (EAM) is almost as complex as undertaking a civil engineering or major construction project. |
| 3 Things Business Decision-Makers need to know about SOA
Given the central role that SOA is playing in information technology, it is important for professionals involved with specifying and purchasing enterprise applications to get beyond a buzzword level understanding of what SOA is and what it is not.
Access now to learn the 3 things business decision-makers need to know about SOA!
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| Total Cost of Ownership Secrets for Enterprise Applications
Enterprise software should pay for itself in increased productivity (reducing cost of goods sold) and business efficiency (reduced cycle times, etc). As this white paper explains, any enterprise suite will pay for itself faster if you work diligently to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO). |