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White Paper: 10 Ways
to Use ERP to Lean the Manufacturing Supply Chain
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 Learn
four tips for lean supply chain improvements in your
manufacturing operation, including no-nonsense tips for
treating the supply chain holistically enough to drive
enterprise improvements that reduce inventory levels
while increasing responsiveness. Also learn six
technology tools within an ERP application that help
manufacturing executives
implement and automate best practices.
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SEAKR Engineering Selects IFS
Applications
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SEAKR Engineering, which
develops solid state memory systems and other products
for embedded computing in the aerospace and defense
industry, is implementing IFS Applications to help it
better serve its OEM customers.
SEAKR's products include
memory systems similar to the flash memory used in iPods,
but are made rugged enough to capture mission-critical
data in the dema nding
environment of outer space. The company's products have
been used in satellites and space shuttles. Since SEAKR
works on government programs in partnership with major
aerospace and defense OEMs, government-mandated
reporting methods like earned value management (EVM) are
important. SEAKR develops its technologies for each
specific application, but still has some standard parts,
so it needs an enterprise environment optimized for
mixed manufacturing modes, including engineer-to-order,
make-to-order, make-to-stock and kitting of complex
electronic assemblies.
"With IFS Applications,
the activities of our various departments will be driven
directly and seamlessly within the Work Breakdown
Structure (WBS) of the project," SEAKR Vice President
Eric Anderson said. "This will make us more efficient,
allow us to serve our customers better and help us to
continue our trajectory of growth."
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IFS Steps Up Efforts to Grow
Market Share in North America's Oil and Gas Industry
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 IFS
is building on their leading market position in
Europe by increasing activities aimed at the oil and gas
industry in North America. IFS already boasts a large
collection of global customers in oil and gas, including Seawell, Seadrill, Neste Oil, Shawcor and KBR Energy and
Chemicals. IFS Applications has been successful because
it can support the entire value chain, including
operators, EPCI contractors, service providers and
equipment manufacturers. These segments share a common
need to have complete visibility and control throughout
the life of their projects, products and/or assets from
design and engineering, through delivery and support.
Historically, these
companies relied on a combination of point applications
and home grown solutions that were expensive to
integrate and support and rarely provided access to
real-time, accurate information. IFS Applications
provides these companies with a fully integrated
solution based on advanced technology that seamlessly
connects design and engineering to procurement, through
manufacturing and construction and even installation,
maintenance and support. The component nature of IFS
Applications enables companies to select the modules
that fit their business, whether they are a design and
engineering firm, or a fully integrated operation.
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Podcast: Lean in Low Volume, High
Mix Environments – How Can IFS Applications Help?
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 In this
month's
IFS Radio Network podcast, hear how Wayne
Jones, production manager at IFS customer Data I/O,
implemented lean supply chain improvements in a very
challenging situation - an environment characterized
by a large number of diverse products and volumes
that can be as low as a single unit.
In this interview, Jones tells the story of his lean
journey to date. And IFS Business Software
Consultant Greg Romanello offers insights on how IFS
Applications can be used to eliminate
non-value-added work in a low-volume, high mix
environment.
Subscribe through iTunes to automatically receive these
monthly podcasts.
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"In the
application, with or without kanban or
production line management, you can also
take advantage of something called
alternates in the bill of material and in
the standard routing. So essentially you can
have lot-based production so you can handle
a lot size of one versus a lot size of a
thousand, and go to different machines and
process it differently and have all that
pre-defined. If you will, having that
pre-defined makes it a lot easier at
production or order fulfillment time to put
that into play. Now we are executing against
a predetermined routing and bill for
whatever lot size we want."
– Greg Romanello
IFS Business Software Consultant |
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Meet IFS at These Events
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Upcoming Events |
Edison Electric Institute (EEI)
Annual Convention/Expo
June 23-25, 2009
San Francisco, CA
Next week, in San Francisco, energy executives will
explore key elements of the economic stimulus program.
Attend to learn about the latest proposals to advance the
Nation's energy and climate objectives.
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Are you a manufacturer
looking to strengthen your business, improve product margin and efficiency, and
emerge from 2009 more competitive and profitable than ever? If so, see the latest
systems, products, and solutions covering the entire manufacturing process from
design through distribution, and meet the suppliers that can help you increase
productivity, improve quality, reduce costs, and solve your most complex
challenges at this year's event.
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Free Web-Based Tool Simplifies CMMS/EAM Evaluation
Process
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Are you looking for a
CMMS or EAM solution but don't know where to begin? Try
the Plant Services CMMS/EAM Software Review
tool,
an industry-unique, web-based tool that simplifies the
software evaluation process. David Berger, principal
of Western Management Consultants and a well-known
authority on CMMS and EAM, has teamed up with Paul
Studebaker, Editor-in-Chief of
Plant Services
magazine,
to create this sophisticated comparison tool.
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Compare with 3 levels of
complexity & up to 360 distinct data points
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Weight software attributes that are
most critical to you business
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View objective side-by-side comparison of multiple solutions
at once
No other web-based program
offers superior analytical capabilities than this CMMS
evaluation program. Try it now and save valuable time!
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TEC Blog:
How Project Management Can Help Manufacturers?
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Technology Evaluation
Centers blog writer agrees that a project-driven
management approach can help companies improve their
businesses in any kind of economic situation. This blog
explores aspects of how project management can help
manufacturing.
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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
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you're considering new ERP/
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companies to achieve rapid bottom-line results.
We'd like the opportunity to tell you the IFS story and
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