The Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing sector has its own unique needs due to customer-specific production and design requirements and the extension of the product life cycle of these products to after-sales service support. At the same time, global competition conditions require fast and flexible responses to customer offers and demands. Therefore, the configuration management of machinery and equipment productions made for customer requests and projects, production tracking and cost analysis information, and the management of after-sales support processes in a safe environment and ensuring quality standards are becoming increasingly important today.
IFS ERP Machine Solution, in the machinery and equipment sector, starting from the “Product Design” process, customer-specific product configuration and management of bidding processes, advanced production planning methods, creation of detailed production plans, monitoring of manufacturing processes and transfer of serially tracked machine parts to the IFS ERP After Sales Service module, enables the management of main issues such as. In addition, it enables mobile (Handheld Terminal – Barcode) applications in Inventory Management and After Sales Service applications, and meets the needs of the machinery and equipment manufacturing sector end-to-end with detailed functional CRM, Quality Management, Maintenance Management, Document Management and B2B applications.
Having over 200 customers in the machinery manufacturing sector all over the world, IFS ERP offers solutions to the needs of businesses with its consultancy team that has gained sectoral expertise with its project implementation experience and project experience in the machinery sector for over 10 years.
Prominent requirements in the machinery sector
•Creation and management of customer-specific machine configurations
•Customer-specific offer preparation and pricing
•Order scheduling
•PLM – Product Life Cycle- (Design-Prototype and Mass Production, After-Sales Service)
•Customer Order Tracking -Dynamic Order Tracking
•Mixed Mode Production Requirement (Workshop Style Production-Mass Production-Process Style Production)
•Advanced Planning Requirements- Constraint-Based (Finite) Capacity Planning
•Interactive Scheduling- Drag-Drop
•Support of inventory movements with barcode applications
•Advanced Workshop-Production- Data Collection System
•Detailed actual cost and cost analyses
•Service database – after-sales service applications
•Mobile service applications
•Supply portals
•Import file tracking and import cost distribution
•Supplier evaluation system
•Quality control applications
•Maintenance management system
While IFS ERP Applications meet the above main requirements of businesses in the Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing sector with Main Solution Components developed specifically for the sector, it supports this structure with modules within the scope of classical ERP applications and offers end-to-end integrated solutions to businesses in the Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing sector.
Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing Industry IFS ERP Main Solution Components
Product Life Cycle (PLM)
IFS ERP PLM Applications allow the tracking of machine configuration changes and engineering information in the Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing sector, starting from the design process until it loses its economic life at the customer. It enables the tracking of engineering studies, the management of technical drawings and revisions related to the newly designed product, the recording of configuration changes and revisions made during the manufacturing stages, the automatic transfer of the machine configuration to the After Sales Service module and the tracking of serially tracked parts. IFS ERP PLM Applications, which automate routine and operational processes to the maximum extent, help to spend corporate energy and engineering studies on areas related to product development studies (R&D).
IFS ERP Product Configuration
Many companies in the machinery sector produce customer-specific machines shaped within the framework of customer requests, in addition to standard catalog products. With its advanced Product Configuration module, IFS ERP enables interactive, fast and accurate order taking thanks to questions that direct offers and orders to the seller; it creates pricing according to the selected features and functions, and also ensures the automatic creation of the product tree and production routes required in the manufacturing processes.
Thanks to its expertise in manufacturing, IFS ERP meets the configuration requirements of companies that manufacture products for specific customers, whether it is customer-specific design, order-specific production or order-specific assembly, thanks to its multi-level product configuration.
IFS ERP Custom Production
In companies that produce on order, such as machinery, the classic MRP system can only be used in raw material planning, but it is insufficient in order-specific planning and monitoring of manufacturing processes. In the Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing sector; it is necessary to be able to track all order-specific processes from receiving the order to planning, from production to shipment, from tracking order-specific purchases to reservations with only the “order number”. IFS ERP has a DOP (Dynamic Order Tracking) module, which was developed for the purpose of completely order-specific production. With the help of this module, all business processes from receiving an order to planning, shipment, production and sales can be tracked with a single number.
IFS ERP After Sales Service Applications
In the machinery and equipment manufacturing sector, After Sales Service Applications are one of the critical applications. In addition to tracking the configuration information of all machinery and equipment in the field, IFS ERP Service Database ensures that warranty follow-ups and service requests from customers are evaluated and planned, directed to service teams and the field applications are followed up. In addition to tracking the work under warranty, it also allows automatic invoicing of work that is out of warranty. Special maintenance agreements can be made for machinery and equipment whose warranty period has ended. Thanks to “IFS ERP Mobile Service Applications”, service teams can transfer the work they perform in the field to the system via mobile, thus making it possible to issue service invoices from the center without leaving the customer.
IFS ERP Project Management
In the Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing sector, IFS ERP Project Management is used to manage many simultaneous design projects carried out by R&D and design departments and to track product development costs. Thus, it allows the tracking and planning of design engineers’ workload plans as well as the detailed tracking of a product’s design costs.
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