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Manufacturer Meggitt Inc. Selects IFS Applications ERP
Meggitt (Maryland) Inc., a Germantown, MD-based division of Meggitt
Sensing Systems, has selected IFS Applications as its enterprise
resource planning (ERP) system of record. 
Meggitt (Maryland) Inc. produces the industry-leading Wilcoxon
Research line of accelerometers, vibration sensors, and accessories for
industrial predictive maintenance applications. These sensors are
essential to vibration monitoring programs that save money, reduce
downtime, and enable maintenance to be planned before equipment failure.
The company is based in Germantown, Maryland and operates as a division
of Meggitt Sensing Systems, which has nine manufacturing sites across
the United States and Europe.
According to Meggitt (Maryland) president Derek Carbin, IFS
Applications was selected from large field of ERP products for its
ability to meet the diverse needs of the company, which manufactures
both industrial/commercial products and highly engineered products for
leading edge applications.
Meggitt (Maryland) will implement a broad spectrum of IFS
Applications with functionality including IFS Business Performance, IFS
Financials, IFS Distribution, IFS Manufacturing, IFS Engineering/Product
Design, IFS Maintenance, IFS Sales and Support, and IFS Human Resources.
“IFS Applications was the best fit to handle our diverse needs
without sacrificing flexibility, ease of navigation or agility,” Dr.
Carbin said. “Our organization will be in a much better position for
growth with this move to IFS Applications and our customers will benefit
as we will be able to provide much more timely and detailed reporting
and automated order placement with immediate email acknowledgement. It
will provide us with greater visibility of inventory and enable us to
manage it much better than today.”
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IFS
Applications Found “Dominant” in Mixed-Mode
Manufacturing by
TEC
IFS Applications 7.5 
IFS Applications has been ranked in
the dominant zone for mixed-mode manufacturing enterprise resource planning (ERP)
software by third-party analyst group Technology
Evaluation Centers.
According to the report:
“IFS Applications has four modules located in the
Dominant Zone: Manufacturing Management, Inventory
Management, Purchasing Management, and Quality
Management. IFS Applications’ strength in these modules
is due to its smartly designed and well balanced
software and high support level in all four mentioned
modules - an essential need for businesses of medium or
larger size. Note that IFS Applications achieved a
maximal functional focus score for the Quality
Management module.”
This report provides high-level graphs identifying IFS’
functional focus and competitive strengths within ERP
Mixed-Mode Manufacturing.
Download the entire report to see how other IFS
Applications modules stack up against the average of
other solutions on the market!
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Free White Paper: ERP Can Be A Barrier To
Agility in Electric Power Sector
Many companies in the electric power industry are facing major
changes including
consolidation, extensive construction of new assets, asset lifecycle
extensions or
deployment of new business models or technologies. Never before has the
ability to
effect rapid business change - enterprise agility - been so important in
this sector.
But in many cases, the enterprise software they use to run their
business is not
equipped to help them successfully negotiate these changes. According to
the
results of a study conducted by IFS North America and POWER magazine,
the
enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise asset management (EAM)
and other
enterprise software can be a significant barrier to enterprise agility.
In the study,
100 energy executives shared their thoughts about whether their
enterprise software
was helping or hindering their enterprise agility.
In this whitepaper, we’ll examine the different enterprise agility
barriers reported
by study respondents and discuss how energy industry executives can
select software
for enhanced enterprise agility and change readiness.
Continue reading this white paper to learn more
today!
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Podcast: Three Service Management Software Strategies
Explained
 This
month on the IFS Radio Network podcast series, service management tech
expert Ian Map of IFS 360 Scheduling discusses the three strategies for
using technology to manage field service technicians.
Various software tools used to manage
that field work force use, according to Mapp, either a manual, a
traditional scheduling or a real-time scheduling approach. These three
strategies represent increasing degrees of sophistication and
automation. But not every company requires that most sophisticated,
real-time, scheduling approach.
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"In a low volatility
slow moving environment, it makes sense to maybe do things
manually. Also when you are a start-up company without a
whole lot of techs or a whole lot of customers or a lot of
visits to be made… it is entirely appropriate to do things
manually…
Where this falls down is if we
are in a volatile environment and things change so it is
hard to reconfigure a whole day as you have to make a large
number of decisions or if you have a lot of techs.
Everything we have seen suggests the maximum number one
dispatcher can support is 15 - at the outside 20 -
technicians. So if you have a growing labor force, this
becomes very labor-intensive as you have a lot of
dispatchers in the back office managing the techs out in the
field… Also just sheer complexity. Making the right decision
is seriously hard if you've got to consider where the techs
are, what they are doing, what their skills are, which
shifts they are on, which spare parts they need for this
job, what the (service level agreement) is for this job, do
they need certifications to be on site, do they need
security clearance. Once you start considering how complex
the decision is, it becomes seriously hard to do it manually."
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Mixed-Mode Manufacturer Replaces Legacy System with IFS
Applications
Communications Systems, Inc. (CSI), provider of
physical connectivity infrastructure and services for
global deployments of broadband networks, has selected
IFS Applications Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
solution to replace its 20-year-old legacy enterprise
systems.
IFS Applications will be rolled out first at CSI’s
Minnetonka location. Additional locations include
Hector, MN, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, China, Costa Rica and
the United Kingdom.
CSI will implement a broad suite of IFS Applications
modules including IFS Business Performance, IFS
Financials, IFS Distribution, IFS Manufacturing, IFS
Engineering/Product Design, IFS Maintenance, IFS Call
Center, IFS Service Management, IFS Human Resources, IFS
Sales & Marketing, and IFS Business Intelligence.
CSI decided to select a new ERP solution to automate
and standardize processes throughout the organization,
increase visibility for decision making and become a
platform for growth going forward.
IFS Applications was chosen because it was the best
functional software fit and there was a good cultural
fit between CSI and IFS. CSI is confident that IFS
Applications will help improve business knowledge
availability, automate processes and improve
manufacturing flexibility.
“Following extensive requirements development and
vendor comparisons, our selection team determined that
IFS was the best choice for CSI. We are looking forward
to the improved capabilities and tools that IFS
Applications offers,” CSI Vice President of Information
Services Mike Skucius said. “Benefits for us will
include a better informed field sales staff, improved
data analysis and reporting tools, a higher level of
integration across multiple international business
units, improved data sharing with our customers,
improved communication and workflow, traceability on
software revisions, and complete product lifecycle
management.”
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Watch New IFS Customer Video
- Global ERP for Industrial Manufacturing
Watch this new video with IFS customer Miller St.
Nazianz. Founded in 1899, Miller-St. Nazianz, Inc.,
manufactures and supports more than 20 product lines of
agricultural equipment for forage harvesting, livestock
feeding, manure handling, and crop spraying. Companies
and brand names include Badger Farm Systems, Miller
Application Technologies, Miller Pro, Victor (a product
line sold and serviced exclusively by John Deere®
dealers), and Miller Finance Corp.
This video explores how a global ERP - a single
instance of ERP on a single database - can be
challenging for industrial manufacturers like
agricultural equipment company Miller St. Nazianz.
Some benefits that Miller St. Nazianz
have realized from implementing
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More accurate cost tracking |
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Less administrative overhead |
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Better-informed decision making with easily
generated management reports |
Find out how Miller St. Nazianz standardized on a
single instance of IFS Applications to support its
entire product lifecycle.
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Events: Where You Can Meet IFS
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Upcoming Events |
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APICS Innovation Conference
February 3, 2012 in
Ontario, Canada
Come Meet Jason Hindle at Booth #7
IFS is excited to be a part of the APICS
Innovation Conference. Technology, globalization and environmental
issues constantly reshape the business environment. APICS is your guide
to best practices. Ontario Grand Valley, award-winning regional chapter
of the APICS family, invites you to be a part of our second annual
regional conference!
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Sixteenth Annual ARC World
Industry Forum - Transforming Industry Through New
Processes and Technologies
February 6-9, 2012 in Orlando, Florida
Come Listen to IFS and Nucor Steel Speak
 Listen
to IFS at ARC's World Industry Forum. This forum
provides the ideal environment for industry executives
to collaborate, share ideas, and find new ways to attack
their most pressing problems. The event includes
sessions on the major issues facing our industry, with
multiple tracks that enable executives to explore these
topics from different perspectives. Owner/operators,
solution providers, and technical experts will all
benefit from this experience while simultaneously
contributing to the community’s body of knowledge.
Some IFS Executive
Speakers Include: Anders Lif, Global Director Product &
Industry Marketing, IFS, David Eager, Director of Strategic
Relations, IFS and Tom Massey, Maintenance Manager, Nucor Steel
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Mari-Tech
April 10-11, 2012 in Ottawa Canada
Visit IFS at Booth #37
This will be IFS's first year exhibiting at Mari-Tech.
Soon after its formation in 1976, CIMarE began the annual practice of
holding technical conferences in conjunction
an Annual General Meeting. The first Mari-Tech was hosted by the
Atlantic Branch in 1979. Since that time, the Institute has, each year,
provided a positive learning and networking opportunity for the marine
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Offshore Technology Conference
April 30 - May 3, 2012 in
Houston, Texas
Stop by and visit IFS at
booth #6519
IFS will be exhibiting at
the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) again this year. Founded in
1969, OTC is the world’s foremost event for the development of offshore
resources in the fields of drilling, exploration, production, and
environmental protection.
OTC ranks among the largest
200 trade shows held annually in the United States and is among the 10
largest meetings in terms of attendance. Attendance consistently exceeds
50,000, and more than 2,000 companies participate in the exhibition. OTC
includes attendees from around the globe, with more than 110 countries
represented at recent conferences. Join IFS at OTC this April! |
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Meet the IFS Team
Each month the IFS customer newsletter
will feature an IFS employee.
This month's spotlight is on:
Michelle
Powers
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Contract Sales
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"I have been
working for IFS for over 13 years, and I work with sales
contracts from my home office in Cleveland, Ohio.
The thing I like most about working for IFS is really the
people. I am fortunate to work with a great group of colleagues
who are always willing to help out and support each other. It is
a true testament to the culture within the IFS organization.
On a
personal note, my husband's name is Jeff and we have an 8-year
old Portuguese water dog named Maggie.
In my free time
I like hanging out with family and friends; watching movies;
reading; and taking our dog for a walk in the Metro Parks. |
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