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Discover five reasons to consider IFS Cloud as your manufacturing solution for the food and beverage sector. From a single, integrated source of truth across the product lifecycle to industry-specific capabilities, IFS Cloud helps producers balance supply and demand, streamline the supply chain, meet changing regulations and build customer loyalty.

IFS Cloud is a global, flexible and sector-specific solution that supports every stage of the product lifecycle, including new product development, purchasing, manufacturing, quality compliance and delivery to the customer. It supports a wide range of manufacturing modes—make-to-stock, make-to-order, make-to-demand, or combinations thereof—reflecting how producers may vary by customer or market demand.

Daily Planning functionality enables fresh, high-turnover food producers to review and adjust plans when a distributor order arrives in the morning and must ship the same day, increasing agility and responsiveness while minimising disruptions to production schedules. Machine learning models incorporate external factors such as weather to generate more accurate forecasts, improving stock replenishment and maintaining service levels for short lead-time products.

An end-to-end quality management strategy covers compliance, audits, in-process controls, validations and traceability, enabling proactive control and analysis of processes and easier tracking of quality issues for specific batches to comply with food laws and regulations and avoid product recalls.

Process industry specifics include recipes/formulas, lot traceability, production yield, tracking of each product, shelf life and expiry dates. IFS Cloud continuously expands the capabilities required to meet critical business needs in food and beverage, ensuring the success of the wider ecosystem.

Operational intelligence is delivered via sector-specific standard dashboards (Lobbies) that span end-to-end processes, helping customers implement best practices and highlighting actions requiring immediate response. These Lobbies guide users to the most relevant indicators by role and process flows, reducing training needs and inefficiencies and accelerating decision-making. Real-time, industry-specific KPIs are available out of the box for each process, saving several weeks of configuration and

IFS develops and provides cloud enterprise software for companies worldwide that make and distribute goods, build and maintain assets and manage service-focused operations. The experience of our people and growing ecosystem of partners, together with our commitment to deliver value at every step, have driven recognition of IFS leadership and made us the most recommended supplier in our sector. Learn more at ifs.com. Production: IFS, 2022.