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North America Edition |
October 2009 |
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In this issue:
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Welcome New
IFS Customer:
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White Paper: Selecting
an ERP System For EPC Contracting Business
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 Engineer,
Procure, Construct, Install (EPCI or EPC) contractors
have unique technology needs that go beyond traditional
enterprise resources planning (ERP) tools designed for
process-centric manufacturing. Here is a guide to
identifying software that unites the design, fabrication
and construction processes in real time, managing time,
cost, risk, cash and resources. Download your free
copy today!
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IFS Applications is Selected by
Brookfield Renewable Power
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Brookfield Renewable Power, a Canadian
generator of clean, low cost and renewable energy, will
implement IFS Applications to streamline its business
processes among its multiple legal entities in Canada,
the United States and Brazil.
Brookfield Renewable Power will be
implementing IFS Financials, Distribution, Maintenance,
HR Project Management & Document Management.
Photo courtesy of Brookfield
Renewable Power
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"Our current
enterprise solution was too restrictive to
support our current needs and plans for
future growth. We needed to look for a new
solution, one that was more focused on
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and had a
strong financial suite. IFS offered the best
integrated enterprise solution we could
find, with best of breed maintenance
solutions."
- Kevin Hall,
Brookfield Renewable Power CIO |
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IFS Podcast: Choosing ERP for Your
Shrinking Workforce
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In this month's
IFS Radio Network podcast, Anders Lif, IFS AB
Global Director of Industry and Product
Marketing, talks about how Web 2.0 can rescue
industrial companies faced with the aging and
impending retirement of its workforce.
Shrinking workforce issues are a
pressing concern for industrial companies
throughout the developed world as existing
employees get older and retire. ERP has a role
to play and Anders Lif explains how enterprise
software is evolving to allow the smaller
generations to come to do more with less and
benefit from the knowledge of their
predecessors.
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"It
turns out that 78 million workers in the US
work force are starting to retire. And they
are being replaced by a generation that is
only 50 million people. That of course
creates
a gap in and of itself that demands
increased efficiency in the way we are doing
things. Another consideration as well is
that this younger generation has completely
different expectations of what work will
offer them as opposed to what they will
offer work, and
this creates some challenges. Another
interesting aspect of the aging workforce is
that it
is basically only a problem in the western
or well-developed countries. Because in the
less-developed countries, we have a lot of
generations of young people to support a
fairly small number of elderly people …"
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Anders Lif, IFS AB Global Director of
Industry and Product Marketing |
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monthly podcasts.
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Global Aerospace & Defense Company
Selects IFS Applications
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IFS has signed an agreement with a global
defense, security and aerospace company. The contract,
valued at over $2 million, is for IFS Applications
licenses, consulting services, and maintenance and
support.
IFS Applications' Financials,
Distribution, Manufacturing, Maintenance, Engineering,
and HR components will be used for a new program which
will support various defense projects within the United
States.
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Events: Visit IFS This Fall
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Customer Case Study:
Harry's Fresh Foods Gets Results From Using
Constraint-Based Scheduling
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 In
2002, IFS customer Harry's Fresh Foods built a
state-of-the-art processing plant designed for the
smooth flow of materials from fresh, dry, and wet
ingredients, through preparation, staging, cooking,
packaging, and out the door to their customers. Soon
after this plant was put into operation, they began the
search for a new ERP system to help manage their
significant growth.
During the selection
process, Harry's elevated the importance of the
constraint management and scheduling portion of their
ERP selection criteria and implemented constraint-based
scheduling (CBS) in phase 1. Harry's went live with the
entire system in just 120 days.
Read more about Harry's
Fresh Foods use of IFS' financial and supply chain
solutions, including constraint-based scheduling.
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"By using
constraint-based scheduling, we are able to
establish load limits for each fill line that
creates the most effective use of our chill
lines. Now, the system will not allow our
schedule to become unbalanced, which will
ultimately result in an increase in throughput
of over 20%."
- Brad Paris, Vice President of
Supply Chain and Project Manager, Harry's Fresh
Foods |
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Free & Accurate Software
Comparison Tool
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Looking
 to
compare software functionality from one vendor to
another?
Take the mystery out of the process and utilize the
Comparison Tool from Managing Automation at
www.managingautomation.com.
The IFS Validation Report includes:
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A solution overview
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A functional overview, including a summary of key
capabilities by application and industry
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A technology overview
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A description of the new enhancements in IFS
Applications
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A description of
Managing Automation's validation methodology
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Survey Results: Energy Companies
and Their Service Providers Can Still Improve In
Information Systems Management 'Best Practices'
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By Bill Brocatoto at Oil and Gas Investor
"Business sustainability and growth in today's global
markets increasingly rely on advanced information and
communication technologies. There are few top executives
who would argue that point. In fact, integrated
information management systems, including of course
enterprise resource planning (ERP) and enterprise
resource management (ERM) applications, are a bit of a
double-edged sword since successful implementation can
be elusive if not properly planned.
In an attempt to better understand the importance of
information-system applications use in the energy
industry, global enterprise-applications company IFS
commissioned a survey on unified management of project
asset-life-cycles to evaluate energy companies' current
integrated information systems capabilities in the
upstream, midstream and downstream sectors, as well as
that of service providers.
From the IFS-commissioned survey results, nearly 55
percent of the companies responding report reliance on
integrated information systems. However, in stark
contrast, about 36 percent of the responding companies
earning revenues from upstream construction and asset
management projects, did not have an integrated ERP/ERM
system in place."
Want to see more survey results? Follow the linked
button below to continue reading this article with
survey results provided by Bill Brocatoto from Oil
and Gas Investor.
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IFS Names New VP of Sales
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 Tim
Fortier has joined IFS as the Vice President of Sales.
He will be working from the IFS North American
headquarters in Itasca, Ill.
Fortier brings to IFS almost 20 years of progressive
sales and management experience within the software
industry. Fortier's experience has included other
enterprise resource planning (ERP) companies such as
J.D. Edwards, PeopleSoft, AFS Technologies and most
recently Borland Software.
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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.
Compare
IFS to Competition
Download Free IFS Materials
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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.
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IFS Solutions For:
Seven IFS Key Vertical
Industries
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