IFS Applications Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8 out of 10

Score

8 out of 10

Reviews

5 Reviews

IFS Applications as a leading ERP System

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 20, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my organization, I use IFS Applications as an IFS Partner company where we implement IFS Applications to the companies, develop and configure solutions inside IFS Applications to cater the customer specific requirements and support and resolve issues inside IFS Applications to allow the existing customers to smoothly run their IFS Applications system. IFS Applications addresses most of the ERP system requirement of any of the organizations to manage their business day to day work.

Pros

It supports the web version in most later versions.
It provides various mobile versions of the applications as mobile apps to cater various areas.
IFS Applications allows easy configurations of the application without going for costly customization.
It covers almost every areas of an industrial company so any other third party applications are minimum.
It allows safer and easier built-in options for integrations capabilities.

Cons

IFS Applications are ye not fully supported with AI, so they have room fr improvement in AI side.
IFS Applications is not fully supported for Fashion industry, so it cannot be implemented for companies in Fashion industry
It does not have a very detailed row level data security mechanism. Instead they have a high level data security where data are accessed based on company and sites per user and per database views, and it cannot be further broken down into smaller data sets in terms of security.

Likelihood to Recommend

Not every Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System does not cover all the industry verticals and all the functionalities and requirements for a specific industry as built-in features. Although IFS Applications does not completely cover all the requirements and all the industry verticals, it can be implemented for any industrial company with minimum configurations and customization, which is very good when implementing an ERP system. Since it supports web and mobile versions of the application as well, the users ind it easy to use.

Thushitha A. Chandrasiri

Lead ERP Consultant in Professional Services at Platned Ltd (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

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IFS Application : Digital Twin for Organizations

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 14, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IFS Applications is being used as an business automation tool in our organisation. Helping us to planned production schedule, perform SCM related task like Procurement authorization, Inventory tracking and in short, IFS Applications is our business processes digital twin. IFS Agile technology has really helped us to configure our business requirements internally even without going into customization processes.

Pros

Production Scheduling
Financial Budget Control
Business Lobbies
Automatic Payroll Processing

Cons

Project Budget control other than Procurement
Customer Advance settlement process should be Manual rather then Auto Adjustment
IFS GSO Support should be more proactive

Likelihood to Recommend

IFS Applications is best suited for MRP processes whether you are in Project-based manufacturing or not. In addition to the MRP process, IFS Applications offers AI-based MSO component which gives a clear insight into Production schedule. MSO component suggests where we need to focus on the planned production schedule, tardy order information, machine downtime, or other manufacturing constraints. IFS Applications needs to work on certain areas like Project Budget functionality enhancement since it only controls procurement-related transactions only.

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

Terrible Customer Service - Unable to Fulfill Promises Made

Rating: 2 out of 10

Incentivized

October 6, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The system may work well for some industries, but it has failed my company miserably. They sold us on the fact that they wanted to enter the home services/construction industry and that they would work with us to build something that would work. We are over 2 years in and more than $1M invested and have nothing to show for it. We haven't even seen a demo that works and now we can't get out of the remaining 3 years of our contract. The VP of Sales, Mike L., only been involved after two years of challenges and shows no interest in negotiating a fair settlement. We are okay with forfeiting all of our expenses up to this point if they will just let us walk away. If you look at this system, make sure you have a good lawyer review the contract and if you are in construction don't even consider it.

Pros

Accounting
Finance
Complex Inventory

Cons

Customer Service
User Experience
Implementation
Follow-through
Automation
Integrations

Likelihood to Recommend

Regardless of industry I wouldn't recommend IFS because of their lack of commitment to fulfilling promises. If I had to use them I would only use their accounting/finance platform and find something else for field service, customer engagement, etc. While the technology is not good, the professionalism and customer service are even worse.

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Corporate (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

IFS - An intuitive & powerful ERP application

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 10, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IFS application was selected in 2013 to replace our old ERP system based on MFGPro, and often Excel exported files external to the information systems itself, to complete the lack of functionality of our previous ERP. IFS is widely used within our company that is oriented towards the video compression market and content delivery. Our clients are video broadcasters with business models more and more based on pure software services (SaaS) hosted on dedicated infrastructure ecosystems external to their information systems, and that still continue to buy hardware + software systems as part of our initial business model. IFS is widely used to drive order to cash processes (sales, presales, order desk, production, shipment, finance), TVN orders, TVN expenses sheets, with a well designed set of built -n tools allowing control, notification and reporting integrated to the solution.

Pros

Interfaces of IFS are very powerful and varied, making it easier to integrate the tool in your Information System. Based on standard connectors like IFS connect, you can potentially exploit formatted mail flows to avoid or reduce manual work and automate your processes (e.g. auto creation of sales contracts based on a quote), with security mechanisms inside the tool to check consistency and formatting of data before storing it in your database. Other interfaces use standard PL/SQL packages and allow you, based on web services for example, to interact with an external CRM such as Salesforce, with standard PL/SQL API packages to call web services.
Reporting is easy with IFS and can be done in many ways : it can be either use the embedded Excel export feature. Secondly you can make use of Business Analytics feature to build complex states and feed dedicated views nightly in order not to impact your production environment while compiling and executing complex SQL statements. Thirdly, your users can make use of quick reports with a set of built-in tools, which are easy to use and learn, with no IT specialist needed, in order to be operational in an effective manner.
IFS is based on your organization matrix to efficiently ensure the correct access to the tool, which can be done via menus etc. You can easily adapt or fine tune permissions to work at high level or on very detailed level, and control rights access management depending on your organization matrix role.

Cons

The speed of bug fixes should be improved by the IFS after sales teams. We saw the difference of responsiveness prior to Go Live and after Go Live, with a change of teams. IFS France is working on that point, and strategically wants to innovate by acting now with two other third-party companies in early 2017, to improve the after sales experience for customers.
There is no license model between the full licenses, which gives access to all IFS features, and the light licenses, to get access to a specific module like expense sheet. As a consequence, you must acquire a full access license for one team working only with a dedicated module (e.g. general ledger). Maybe an intermediate type license would be welcome to balance the budget. IFS tries to make prices competitive but you have to consider full upgrades of the product too, where requiring full licenses can be hard on the budget.
When you have an Active Directory ecosystem with a trust relationship, users from domain B can't natively access IFS, even if AD sync is in place with domain A. It's important to improve that functionality because many companies have a merge and acquisition context, with SOX constraints sometimes, and avoiding maintaining contacts or local accounts simplifies SOX compliance, or to management of accounts within the company.

Likelihood to Recommend

Order to cash processes and scenario are implemented natively in IFS. An HR module exists for career management also (objectives, comportments, training, mobility) but may be improved in terms of workflow validation (e.g. training to validate by a manager) or reporting.

Verified User

Project Manager in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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IFS - An intuitive & powerful ERP application

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 10, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Interfaces of IFS are very powerful and varied, making it easier to integrate the tool in your Information System. Based on standard connectors like IFS connect, you can potentially exploit formatted mail flows to avoid or reduce manual work and automate your processes (e.g. auto creation of sales contracts based on a quote), with security mechanisms inside the tool to check consistency and formatting of data before storing it in your database. Other interfaces use standard PL/SQL packages and allow you, based on web services for example, to interact with an external CRM such as Salesforce, with standard PL/SQL API packages to call web services.
Reporting is easy with IFS and can be done in many ways : it can be either use the embedded Excel export feature. Secondly you can make use of Business Analytics feature to build complex states and feed dedicated views nightly in order not to impact your production environment while compiling and executing complex SQL statements. Thirdly, your users can make use of quick reports with a set of built-in tools, which are easy to use and learn, with no IT specialist needed, in order to be operational in an effective manner.
IFS is based on your organization matrix to efficiently ensure the correct access to the tool, which can be done via menus etc. You can easily adapt or fine tune permissions to work at high level or on very detailed level, and control rights access management depending on your organization matrix role.

Cons

The speed of bug fixes should be improved by the IFS after sales teams. We saw the difference of responsiveness prior to Go Live and after Go Live, with a change of teams. IFS France is working on that point, and strategically wants to innovate by acting now with two other third-party companies in early 2017, to improve the after sales experience for customers.
There is no license model between the full licenses, which gives access to all IFS features, and the light licenses, to get access to a specific module like expense sheet. As a consequence, you must acquire a full access license for one team working only with a dedicated module (e.g. general ledger). Maybe an intermediate type license would be welcome to balance the budget. IFS tries to make prices competitive but you have to consider full upgrades of the product too, where requiring full licenses can be hard on the budget.
When you have an Active Directory ecosystem with a trust relationship, users from domain B can't natively access IFS, even if AD sync is in place with domain A. It's important to improve that functionality because many companies have a merge and acquisition context, with SOX constraints sometimes, and avoiding maintaining contacts or local accounts simplifies SOX compliance, or to management of accounts within the company.

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Project Manager in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience