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White Paper: Total Cost of Ownership Secrets for
Enterprise Software
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).
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IFS Podcast: Green Supply Chain – Ensuring Sustainability with ERP
In this installment of the IFS Radio
Network podcast series, IFS Senior Advisor Bill Leedale, an APICS
certified operations expert, explains how enterprise software like ERP
can be used to answer the green
 supply
chain mandates of customers, comply with government regulation and
ensure that your own chain is sustainable. Leedale stresses that when it
comes to satisfying customers’ green supply chain mandates, the agility
of an underlying enterprise software application will be of the utmost
importance.
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New IFS Customer: Spacesaver Corp. - Leading Storage Solution Provider
Welcome Spacesaver Corp. of Fort
Atkinson, Wis., a division of KI, Green Bay, Wis.! Spacesaver will
implement IFS Applications to simplify its complex shop floor scheduling
and streamline its business processes. Spacesaver will be implementing
IFS Financials, Distribution, Manufacturing, Engineering, Maintenance,
and Sales & Support.
Spacesaver manufactures in a variety of
environments, including mixed-mode, engineer-to-order (ETO) and
configure-to-order (CTO) to produce highly-customized storage solutions.
Products range from compacting shelving systems and storage cabinets to
evidence lockers and weapons racks. Spacesaver products are manufactured
to the specific storage needs of each customer to store almost anything
– from preserving the rarest artifacts at the Canadian War Museum in
Ottawa to providing quick access to essential patient-care supplies at
Thedacare’s Appleton Medical Center in Wisconsin.
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Social Media in ERP, Demand for Environmental Management Tools Focus of
IFS Sanctioned Manufacturing ERP Survey
IFS North America
today released results of a study of ERP trends that suggest strong
demand for both social media and environmental management functionality
in business software used in manufacturing and other industrial
settings. The study is now available for download directly at
www.ifsworld.com/us.
The study, based on
a survey of more than 260 U.S. manufacturing executives conducted for
IFS by a third-party research organization, also asked manufacturers
about how their ERP software could help them adjust as large numbers of
experienced managers and engineers retired. Key findings include the
fact that most manufacturers seem ill-equipped to track their impact on
the environment in the areas of carbon footprint, solid waste, air and
water pollution, product lifecycle and product end-of-life impacts. ..”
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Events: Visit IFS
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Upcoming Events |
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4th Annual
Strategic Asset
Management for Power Plants
January 26-28, 2010 in Atlanta, GA
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Pacific
Design & Manufacturing Show
February 9-11, 2010 in Anaheim, CA
Booth 3423
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DistribuTECH
March 23-25, 2010 in Tampa, FL
Booth 1734
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FIATECH 2010
March 29-31, 2010 in Austin, TX
Booth 3
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Enterprise Asset Management
(EAM) Summit
April 20-22, 2010 in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Booth 106
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Offshore Technology Conference
(OTC)
May 3-6, 2010 in Houston, TX
Booth 9018
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IFS and Conscious Asset Management to Present on PAS55
at Conference
IFS and Conscious Asset Management, a leading asset
management consulting firm, is scheduled to present on
PAS55 at the 4th Annual Strategic Asset Management for
Power Plants Conference next week. The conference is
January 26-28 in Atlanta Georgia.
The British Standards Institute Publicly
Available Specification PAS55 covers the
lifecycle management of assets essential to the mission of organizations
like the power generation sector. PAS55 specifically focuses on
implementation of management systems, processes, and governance based on
the corporation strategic plan; and on implementing the necessary asset
management policies, strategies, objectives and plans to optimize
lifecycle activities across a corporate asset portfolio.
“The generation sector is a strategic
focus for IFS with over half of our global energy and utilities client
base in generation,” IFS Global Industry Director for Energy and
Utilities Mike Blalock said. “We believe the growing global support for
PAS55 is in harmony with our views and approach to the asset lifecycle.
Generators are...”
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Accurate & Free Software Comparison Tool
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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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