The company will implement a full enterprise suite including components for financials, manufacturing, supply chain, maintenance, pricing & promotions, document management and business intelligence. The goal is to improve business processes by having a single integrated solution across multiple countries and to have complete visibility of the global position in terms of supply chain and financial analysis.

The process industry is one of IFS’ targeted markets. IFS provides industry-specific functionality for enterprises in food and beverage, chemicals, pulp and paper and metals. IFS Applications for the food & beverage industry provides support for all critical business processes, including catch weight, multiple units of measure, recipe management, quality management, promotions & rebates and demand planning. The application suite also includes solutions for enterprise asset management, product lifecycle management, customer relationship management, finance and human resource management.

IFS customers in the food & beverage industry include Pepsi, PFX Pet Foods, Heaven Hill Distilleries Inc, Natures Path, Chingford Fruit, Bridor, Cloetta-Fazer and Kettle Foods. Other IFS process industry customers include DuPont, Jotun, Flint Group, Imerys, Willamette Valley Company, Akzo Nobel, Becker Industrial Coatings, Dyrup, SSAB, Hutmen, Nucor Corp, Holmen Paper and SCA Graphics.