High level application architecture consists of the following solutions:
I will focus now standard functionalities used in our IFS 9 solution.
Customer orders are always created to Sales site. There is one sales site configured for every country (company) where we have sales offices.
Whole delivery to customers consists of traded products, manufactured products, subcontracted products, package parts and service parts. Traded products can be delivered from internal supplier (production site) or from external suppliers. Delivery to end customer can be direct delivery from supplier or transit delivery via our sites. Currently there is only one production site for manufactured products, thus sourcing has been very simple. Manufactured products are configurable products. Purchase parts can be standard products or configurable products. Service parts are non-inventory sales parts. Then some parts are lot/batch trackable, W/D/R is in use and some parts are also serial tracking enabled.
All transit deliveries are planned with shipment functionality. Customer order lines are connected to handling units.
Simple picture of this concept is below.
Quality management solution is based on control plans and analysis results. Our quality standards requires that quality must be measured every hour,
List of functionalities used:
Functionalities studied and will be taken into use later:
Finance process are not covered yet in this blog.
- Dynamics CRM Online is used for Customer relationship management activities
- Autodesk AutoCAD is used for detailed planning for whole construction project and it is integrated to legacy quotation/sales tool
- IFS 9 is used for Order management, Purchasing, Engineering, Manufacturing, Inventory, Quality management, Deliveries, Invoicing, Accounts receivables, Accounts payable, General ledger, Fixed asset.
- MES is used for communication to and from PLC
I will focus now standard functionalities used in our IFS 9 solution.
Customer orders are always created to Sales site. There is one sales site configured for every country (company) where we have sales offices.
Whole delivery to customers consists of traded products, manufactured products, subcontracted products, package parts and service parts. Traded products can be delivered from internal supplier (production site) or from external suppliers. Delivery to end customer can be direct delivery from supplier or transit delivery via our sites. Currently there is only one production site for manufactured products, thus sourcing has been very simple. Manufactured products are configurable products. Purchase parts can be standard products or configurable products. Service parts are non-inventory sales parts. Then some parts are lot/batch trackable, W/D/R is in use and some parts are also serial tracking enabled.
All transit deliveries are planned with shipment functionality. Customer order lines are connected to handling units.
Simple picture of this concept is below.
Quality management solution is based on control plans and analysis results. Our quality standards requires that quality must be measured every hour,
List of functionalities used:
- Incoming customer order
- Incoming change request for customer order
- Credit check
- Advance invoice
- Document texts
- Charges
- Payment terms with Payment term discounts
- Return Material Authorization (rental items)
- Reservations
- Manual pegging & unpegging
- Shipment deliveries
- Purchase requisitions
- Purchase orders
- Purchase components - Ship supplier material
- Purchase order arrivals (with unit conversions)
- Purchase order direct deliveries
- Supplier consignment stocks
- Ship supplier material
- MRP
- Counting
- Intrastat
- Configuration structure and routing rules
- Configuration formulas
- Assortments
- Document management
- Shop orders
- Shop floor reporting
- Quality control
Functionalities studied and will be taken into use later:
- Sales quotations, Sales configurator and Sales contract management were analyzed and will be implemented in the next project phase where legacy quotation/sales tool will be replaced. Also Project management will be implemented to support our sales projects.
- Service and Maintenance are implemented to old IFS 7.5. That solution will be transferred to IFS 9 in the next project phase.
- Purchase order authorizations.
Other functionalities reviewed, but were not implemented
- Wadaco was analyzed, but most of our transactions were much more complex than WaDaCo was meant.
- Costing was not taken into use. Normal weighted average and unit costs with cost buckets was enough.
- Master scheduling was not supporting fully our needs, so scheduling was built with very simple manual logic and functionalities.
Finance process are not covered yet in this blog.
