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Last Day to Register & Receive Free
IBM/IFS Gift |
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See how enterprise
technology is changing to help 21st Century
manufacturers adapt to this changing business
environment.
Join IFS and IBM during National Manufacturing Week (NMW)
for this
complimentary manufacturing technology breakfast event.
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Breakfast Seminar:
'The Project Manufacturing Megatrend' |
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Speakers: |
Anders Lif - IFS and
Tom Luckew - IBM |
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September 23rd,
8-9:30 a.m. (Before NMW show floor opens) |
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Donald E.
Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont, IL
In conjunction with National Manufacturing Week
2008
Meeting Room 13 |
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FREE - You don't need a pass for NMW to attend.
Registration is required, please register below. |
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For questions call toll
free:1-888-437-4968 or
E-mail |
Receive
a free IFS/IBM gift set for attending! |
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Optimizing
Step By Step Implementation
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This month on the IFS
Radio Networ k
podcast series, Howard Allred of IFS customer Kettle
Foods and IFS North America Chief Technology Officer
Rick Veague discuss the benefits and challenges of
step-by-step implementation.
The modular, agile design of IFS
Applications does allow implementation in phases,
allowing a company to address its most immediate
needs first and realize immediate payback.
Additional functionality can be rolled out later,
reducing disruption to the business and allowing
business needs to be addressed in priority order.
But Allred and Veague stress that while IFS
Applications does not require that "big bang"
implementation, a company still ought to have a
detailed plan for what functionality they want to
roll out and where they want their implantation to
go.
Allred shares his insights as he
plans to upgrade Kettle Foods' instance of IFS
Applications and drive ERP functionality throughout
the company. Rick Veague explains the strength of
the modular, step-by-step design, and stresses the
need for well-defined business processes as an
underpinning for the implementation. Listen now!
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"The
planning has to be from
a macro level of the total
enterprise. I think the fact
that we can then come
back and do the
implementation a step
at a time allows us to
prioritize. Our priorities
are, first maintaining the
functionality we have
now, second extending
functionality to gaps in our information and a third
priority would be profitability enhancements we can
achieve with things we have
not developed right now."
~ Howard Allred,
Customer Kettle Foods
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monthly podcasts.
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Visit IFS at Upcoming Events
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Upcoming Events |
National Manufacturing Week
September 23-25 in Chicago, Illinois
Reasons to Attend:
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Few investments
deliver the return you'll receive by attending
National Manufacturing Week.
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Knowledgeable vendors are
eager to help you succeed in an increasingly
competitive marketplace.
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The complete
resource for every specialty and every
application.
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Network with
industry colleagues and build new business
relationships.
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Learn from the
experts at the industry's leading technical
conference.
Visit IFS in
booth #4518.
Register before Friday, August 29th to save!
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Consulting Summit
October 30 in New York City
Join your peers and colleagues for
the profession's largest networking event where
together you'll explore the theme - "Rethinking
Consulting Firm Management."
This year's Summit will feature
the 2nd annual Consulting Magazine's Achievement
Awards for 2008: Women Leaders in Consulting. It
brings together consulting leaders from some of the
world's top firms for a gala recognition dinner at
the Waldorf-Astoria.
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Utilize Express RFI for Smart
Software Decisions
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IFS Expr ess
RFI, certified by Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC),
is the industry's easiest and quickest way to create an
RFI for enterprise applications. It provides a template
of more than 3,000 functional specifications, organized
by department. IFS Applications 7.5 functionality has
already been identified within the RFI, and each
response has been reviewed and certified by a TEC
industry analyst.
IFS Applications 7.5, a component-based enterprise software,
enables enterprise agility so that organizations can
take advantage of rapidly changing international market
conditions. It gives enterprises a service-oriented
architecture (SOA) with reusable business components
designed for improved user productivity, faster
implementation, lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and
easier upgrades. For more
information send an e-mail from the link below or call 1-888-437-4968.
Download a free copy now!
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Astra Consulting Firm Teams Up With
IFS
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 Astra has joined the IFS North
American Business Partner Program. Astra is a consulting
firm that specializes in enabling companies to leverage
the power of their enterprise application investments.
As an IFS Business Partner, Astra provides a full range
of services that cover all aspects of implementation and
support of IFS Applications.
Astra offers a full range of IFS
Applications services related to business case analysis,
implementation, enabling of specific functionality, and
enabling best-of-breed integrations through interfaces,
reporting, and business intelligence.
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"We've had exceptional
experience with implementing
IFS Applications at various organizations including
large
aerospace and defense
companies
such as
General Dynamics
and
Space Systems/Loral.
Astra has developed
proprietary
custom
tools and processes to
ease
various implementation
tasks
including administration,
reporting, and training,"
~ Naren Velu, Astra
President and CEO
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White Paper: Intelligent Metrics
Ensures Success
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Learn how
complex manufacturer GED Integrated Solutions went
through the process of establishing metrics to drive
process improvements, using IFS Ap plications
to reduce inventory and replacement part turn-around
at the same time, move to a hard reservation system
and master the Return Materials Authorization (RMA)
process.
Download this white paper today!
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IFS Applications to Support the UK
Defense JAMES Land Project
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Lockheed Martin has selected IFS Applications to provide
the core software for the JAMES Land (Joint Asset
Management Engineering Solution) project for the UK
Ministry of Defense. This agreement is the largest
license contract that IFS has ever won.
The JAMES Land project follows a
previously implemented JAMES 1 solution which is
currently in use by 9,000 users in the regular UK army,
providing a Management Information System to enable
optimized asset usage with minimal fleet sizes. IFS
Applications supports the UK Army with asset information
for identification, configuration and maintenance
requirements as well as current usage and owner.
"This new contract award reflects the
long standing relationship we have with Lockheed Martin
in providing effective turnkey solutions (JAMES1 & JSF)
to the defense market. IFS' strength in enterprise asset
management (EAM) and maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO),
which IFS packages as best-p ractice
solutions for fleet management in the Aerospace & Defense
(A&D) market, makes it easier to deliver
performance-based logistics and maintenance support of
complex assets throughout the product lifecycle," IFS
Defense Ltd. CEO Iain Green said.
Photo - Courtesy of Lockheed Martin
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Designed for Agility
IFS, the global enterprise
applications company, provides solutions that
 enable
organizations to respond quickly to market changes,
allowing resources to be used in a more agile way to
achieve better business performance and competitive
advantage. Founded in 1983, IFS pioneered
component-based enterprise resources planning (ERP)
software with IFS Applications, now in its seventh
generation. IFS' component architecture provides
solutions that are easier to implement, run, and
upgrade. For more information, visit
www.ifsworld.com. |
About IFS
If
you're considering new ERP/EAM options, take a closer
look at IFS -the choice of successful companies such as
General Electric, BMW, Ericsson, and Lockheed Martin.
IFS' component-based software makes it easier for
companies to achieve rapid bottom-line results.
We'd like the opportunity to tell you the IFS story and
provide you with the latest IFS product releases.
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