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What is IFS Applications?

IFS Applications is presented by the vendor as an agile application suite that offers enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise asset management (EAM) and enterprise project management, handling 4 core processes:Service & Asset ManagementFull Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Maintenance Repair and…

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Terrible Customer Service - Unable to Fulfill Promises Made

Rating: 2 out of 10
October 6, 2022
Vetted ReviewVerified User
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 industr...
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C-Level Executive
IFS Applications2 years of experience

IFS - An intuitive & powerful ERP application

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 10, 2016
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 ...
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Project Manager
IFS Applications4 years of experience
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What is IFS Applications?

IFS Applications is presented by the vendor as an agile application suite that offers enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise asset management (EAM) and enterprise project management, handling 4 core processes: Service & Asset Management Full Enterprise Asset Management…

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Product Details

What is IFS Applications?

IFS Applications is presented by the vendor as an agile application suite that offers enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise asset management (EAM) and enterprise project management, handling 4 core processes:

Service & Asset Management

Full Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) and Field Service Management (FSM)

Manufacturing

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) with support for process manufacturing, discrete manufacturing and demanding manufacturing modes.

Projects

Project Management is a core component and can be leveraged as Project-driven ERP, and Project Portfolio Management (PPM).

Supply Chain Management

As a support function for ERP and EAM or as a logistics solution in demanding environments like aviation and defense.

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IFS Applications Videos

IFS Cloud is a single product that delivers class-leading solutions across Service Management, Enterprise Resource Planning and Enterprise Asset Management. This is the solution that pulls your core business activities together into something greater: moments of service that ...
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Terrible Customer Service - Unable to Fulfill Promises Made

Rating: 2 out of 10
October 06, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IFS Applications
2 years of experience
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 and Cons
  • Accounting
  • Finance
  • Complex Inventory
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.
IFS Applications Feature Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting (7)
57.142857142857146%
5.7
Accounts payable
80%
8.0
Accounts receivable
80%
8.0
Global Financial Support
60%
6.0
Primary and Secondary Ledgers
60%
6.0
Journals and Reconciliations
60%
6.0
Configurable Accounting
30%
3.0
Standardized Processes
30%
3.0
Subledger and Financial Process (5)
10%
1.0
Billing Management
10%
1.0
Cash and Asset Management
10%
1.0
Travel & Expense Management
10%
1.0
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting
10%
1.0
Period Close
10%
1.0
Inventory Management (3)
30%
3.0
Inventory tracking
10%
1.0
Automatic reordering
70%
7.0
Location management
10%
1.0
Order Management (5)
10%
1.0
Pricing
10%
1.0
Order entry
10%
1.0
Credit card processing
10%
1.0
Cost of goods sold
10%
1.0
Order Orchestration
10%
1.0
Payroll Management (3)
10%
1.0
Pay calculation
10%
1.0
Benefit plan administration
10%
1.0
Direct deposit files
10%
1.0
Reporting & Analytics (3)
13.333333333333332%
1.3
Dashboards
20%
2.0
Standard reports
10%
1.0
Custom reports
10%
1.0
Customization (2)
10%
1.0
API for custom integration
10%
1.0
Plug-ins
10%
1.0
Security (2)
55%
5.5
Role-based user permissions
60%
6.0
Single sign-on capability
50%
5.0
Grants Management
N/A
N/A
Project Financial Management (6)
33.333333333333336%
3.3
Budgeting and Forecasting
30%
3.0
Project Costing
60%
6.0
Cost Capture
50%
5.0
Capital Project Management
20%
2.0
Customer Contract Compliance
20%
2.0
Project Revenue Recognition
20%
2.0
Project Execution Management (4)
10%
1.0
Project Planning and Scheduling
10%
1.0
Task Insight for Project Managers
10%
1.0
Project Mobile Functionality
10%
1.0
Definable Resource Pools
10%
1.0
Procurement (5)
12%
1.2
Bids Analyzed and Compared
20%
2.0
Contract Authoring
10%
1.0
Contract Repository
10%
1.0
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated
10%
1.0
Supplier Management
10%
1.0
Risk Management (5)
10%
1.0
Risk Repository
10%
1.0
Control Management
10%
1.0
Control Efficiency Assessments
10%
1.0
Issue Detection
10%
1.0
Remediation and Certification
10%
1.0
Logistics (2)
50%
5.0
Fulfillment Management
50%
5.0
Warehouse Workforce Management
50%
5.0
Manufacturing (4)
10%
1.0
Production Management
10%
1.0
Configuration Management
10%
1.0
Work Execution
10%
1.0
Manufacturing Costs
10%
1.0
Supply Chain (2)
50%
5.0
Forecasting
50%
5.0
Inventory Planning
50%
5.0
Product Lifecycle Management
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • Complete loss. No return on investment. Had to start over with a different system.
Other Software Used
Salesforce Field Service (Click Field Service Edge), Sage Intacct
Usability
1
The system is very difficult to use, overly complex, and difficult to learn. It also has limitations that are hard to overcome.
Support Rating
1
We have been unable to get answers to our questions, solutions to our problems, and they don't seem interested in working in the construction industry.

IFS - An intuitive & powerful ERP application

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
October 10, 2016
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IFS Applications
4 years of experience
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 and Cons
  • 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.
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.
IFS Applications Feature Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting (2)
80%
8.0
Accounts payable
80%
8.0
Accounts receivable
80%
8.0
Subledger and Financial Process
N/A
N/A
Inventory Management (3)
80%
8.0
Inventory tracking
80%
8.0
Automatic reordering
80%
8.0
Location management
80%
8.0
Order Management (4)
80%
8.0
Pricing
80%
8.0
Order entry
80%
8.0
Credit card processing
80%
8.0
Cost of goods sold
80%
8.0
Payroll Management
N/A
N/A
Reporting & Analytics (3)
80%
8.0
Dashboards
80%
8.0
Standard reports
90%
9.0
Custom reports
70%
7.0
Customization (2)
85%
8.5
API for custom integration
90%
9.0
Plug-ins
80%
8.0
Security (2)
85%
8.5
Role-based user permissions
80%
8.0
Single sign-on capability
90%
9.0
Grants Management
N/A
N/A
Project Financial Management
N/A
N/A
Project Execution Management
N/A
N/A
Procurement
N/A
N/A
Risk Management
N/A
N/A
Logistics
N/A
N/A
Manufacturing
N/A
N/A
Supply Chain
N/A
N/A
Product Lifecycle Management
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • Reporting is now centralized and managed. Previously, reports were outside the information systems and there was a risk of incoherence.
  • Accounting controls are now in place on the overall processes, including production, which helped the company to reduce closing periods or to produce more easily official mandatory accounting files yearly.
  • Interfaces between the CRM forecast tool and IFS helped to keep the tools in sync, and to decrease the processing times prior to production launch.
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft AX, QAD (in continuation of our previous ERP), Sage X3 was an out of the box ERP that was part of initial RFP.

We have chosen IFS based on the compromise between costs & budget, functionality, technical features, and feedback from similar customers that gave their feedback.

The project manager team and qualification level of technical or consultant teams were differentiating factors too.

Finally IFS application was named in the Gartner’s mid-market ERP Magic Quadrant, along with SAP, and helped us to finalize our choice.
Other Software Used
Salesforce App Cloud, Bonita BPM, Sciforma, SolarWinds Web Help Desk, Fortinet FortiGate, ADP eTime, Microsoft Exchange, Netwrix Auditor, MS SharePoint, Box, HP ProLiant DL, Compellent, Brocade ICX Switches, EMC VNX, Symantec Backup Exec, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Symantec NetBackup, Malwarebytes, Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch, Alcatel-Lucent Ethernet Switches, Skype for Business, Microsoft Project, Windows Server, Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery
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