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IFS Cloud

Score10 out of 10

4 Reviews and Ratings

What is IFS Cloud?

IFS is a low-code / no-code approach to IFS solution suite, supporting various industries including aerospace & defense, construction, energy & utilities, and manufacturing with ERP, EAM and field service management functionality. IFS Cloud can be run as a service from IFS, or in a location of choice including on-premise as a containerized application.

Top Performing Features

  • Custom reports

    Users can create custom reports.

    Category average: 7.6

  • Automatic reordering

    The software can be set up to automatically reorder a good when it falls below a certain threshold.

    Category average: 7.6

  • Location management

    The software can track multiple goods across multiple locations.

    Category average: 7.7

Areas for Improvement

  • Transportation Execution Management

    Execute and track shipping orders

    Category average: 6.9

  • Benefit plan administration

    Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.

    Category average: 7.2

  • Direct deposit files

    Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.

    Category average: 7.4

IFS Cloud - Comprehensive end to end enterprise solution

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IFS Cloud provides a single unified platform for enterprise solutions across different workstreams like finance, supply chain, manufacturing, project management and maintenance.

Cloud Ever green approach provides regular improvements every 6 months that help to keep the solution up to date and to meet the local TLS requirements with efficiency.

Pros

  • Unified platform for business users across different functions
  • User friendly ergonomy
  • Inbuilt reporting

Cons

  • Easy options to upload data from excel to IFS Cloud
  • AI capabilities
  • Better help functionality

Return on Investment

  • Improved data availability
  • Reporting and compliance improvement
  • Faster approval cycle and audit compliance

Usability

Alternatives Considered

IFS Applications

Other Software Used

CoPilot, Microsoft Teams, Atlassian Jira

The software will upgrade your work pattern and will help in achieving your business goals more fast.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It helps us to organize our work in a very systematic way and create a smooth workflow of work efficiency which helps to boost our productivity. It helps us to keep track of each and every section of the organization keeps a record of everything involved from beginning to last. It decrease our work flow and increase our productivity.

Pros

  • Keeping track of everything
  • Engage customers
  • It optimize the assets

Cons

  • It can create more templates
  • It should increase designing in the software

Return on Investment

  • It has increased our ROI up to 50%
  • It has decreased our time and cost in managing things
  • It has accurate stock inventory management data

Usability

IFS Cloud to Improve your Business processes

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am using IFS Cloud in my organization to consult and support the industrial companies and their who use IFS Cloud as their Asset Management solution. To implement their project-based manufacturing business process, certain modules in IFS Cloud were implemented, and mapped with the processes. The use case mainly was the manufacturing, procurement, selling and maintaining of asset-type products.

Pros

  • Integration with other third-party application is easy and reliable
  • Product documentation is easy to follow for the new users
  • Web-based product

Cons

  • Rich look of user experience of the web-based interface
  • Some areas like HR and Payroll are not fully-suited within the solution
  • Error and issue handling/debugging is difficult

Return on Investment

  • Reduced the time taken for the users to prepare and generate reports since most are automatic with IFS Cloud
  • Increased the reliability and visibility of the inventory of the products from procurement of raw materials through the manufacturing of final product to delivering to customer's place
  • Took a considerable time configuring the roles and access of the users while implementation

Alternatives Considered

IFS Applications and Infor M3

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365, IFS Customer Engagement

Usability