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Operations leaders walking the floor with the plan
Consulting

Plan every stage around how the company will run.

Consulting for the whole life of an IFS Cloud™ system: choosing it, implementing it, keeping it current, bringing acquisitions onto it and improving how the business runs on it.

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The whole lifecycle

Five points in a system’s life.

Three lead in: choosing, implementing, or folding an acquisition into a live system. Two repeat for as long as the system is owned: each release, and improving from the data.

GO-LIVE 01 Choose02 Implement03 Upgrade04 Integrate05 Improve From the first decision through every release after go-live
At every stage

The same four principles, wherever you start.

01

Decisions start from how the company actually runs.

The system’s own data and the strategy, before opinion.

02

Only real gaps get built, built to take every release.

Required by law, contract or the market, or unique to the business.

03

Change lands in the order the operation can absorb.

Go-lives and cutovers planned around the business, not the project plan.

04

Go-live starts the return. The work continues after it.

Improvement and every release, managed for the life of the system.

Leadership weighing platforms against the business plan
01Choose a platformNo new system yet

Choose on fit across the whole operation.

Fit runs across six areas: function, data, usability, roles, controls and culture. Where the platform and the operation part ways, the gap travels into every stage after. We weigh the system, the vendor and the implementation partner together, against where the business is going.

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FunctionalityDataUsabilityRolesControlsCulture What the operation needs What the platform does as delivered Fit spans six areas, not just functionsWhere the shapes part, the gap travelsinto every stage after it Weigh the whole choiceSystem, vendor and partner, judgedtogether against where thebusiness is going
The operation the design is built for
02ImplementPlatform chosen, nothing built

Implement for the company you are becoming.

A design built only around today’s processes falls behind the strategy. We design the business onto IFS Cloud™ for where it is going, surface the major gaps early, and plan the go-live around what the operation can absorb.

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DESIGNED FOR TODAY ONLY SellPlanMakeDeliverService lineNew site IFS Cloud™, designed around today’s processesAdded later: redesign and rework DESIGNED FOR THE COMPANY YOU ARE BECOMING SellPlanMakeDeliverService lineNew site IFS Cloud™, designed at go-live for where the strategy takes the business Service line and new site are examples of what a strategy adds.
A long-lived system, kept current release by release
03Upgrade IFS Cloud™On IFS Applications or IFS Cloud™

Every release adds capability. Staying current puts it to work.

IFS Cloud™ ships two releases a year. Coming from an earlier release, much of what was once custom is now standard, and what still matters is rebuilt to take each release. From there, regular updates keep every next step small.

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Kept current Left behind At go-live At go-liveAdded by releases, in useReleased, out of reach until a reimplementation
Leaders from both companies working at one table
04Integrate an acquisitionWhen a deal closes, or before

Lead it as one company. Integrate where the value depends on it.

One executive view of both companies on one data fabric, and shared services from the first day. Transactions move onto IFS Cloud™ where the deal depends on the two working as one. Everywhere else, the acquired company keeps running the way that made it worth buying.

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Executive management systemboth companies, one view OperationsPipelineFinancialsConsolidationBI and analytics One data fabric · common definitions across both companies data updecisions into execution AcquirerSalesOperationsServicePurchasingExecutes on IFS Cloud™Acquired companySalesOperationsServicePurchasingKeeps its own system where that holds the value Shared services across both companies, from day one Integrated on IFS Cloud™ where the deal’s value depends on the two working as one (service shown as an example)
The work as it actually runs
05Process intelligenceLive, with room to improve

Reengineering, made continuous by data and AI.

The system’s own data shows how the work actually runs. Each finding becomes a change built into IFS Cloud™: a redesign, a lean improvement, an automation or something new. From go-live on, each wave starts from the data the last one produced.

Go-liveWave 1Wave 2Wave 3NextREDESIGNCredit holds re-keyed by handLEANWaiting between pick and shipAUTOMATEInvoices matched by hand Each wave is measured; the next starts from the new data.
Consulting and engineering

When a real gap needs building, our engineers build it.

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Real gaps

Required by law, contract or the market, or unique to the business. Perceived gaps are shown the standard.

Interfaces

IFS Cloud™ connected to the systems around it, so data is entered once.

Extensions and custom apps

Efficiency, automation and error-proofing, built to take every IFS Cloud™ release.

Where is your system?

Start with your situation.

Pick the one closest to yours. We’ll show where to start and what to bring to a first conversation.

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Where to start will show here.

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