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26 May 2008

Implementation Investments

Project-centric Doppelmayr/Garaventa Group moves faster with IFS Applications

Austrian-Swiss Doppelmayr/Garaventa Group, a leading supplier of ropeways and other rope-based passenger transport systems as well as systems for bulk material transport, has signed a contract to implement IFS Applications. The group typically runs about 150 – 200 tightly scheduled projects and aims to optimize project control and execution with IFS Applications. The initial contract is worth approximately 5 million Euros.

The new enterprise applications will replace a number of customized stand-alone systems that do not fulfill today’s needs for an integrated, agile system which supports Doppelmayr/Garaventa’s international operations. The Group has production facilities and sales and service locations in over 30 countries and to date has built almost 14,000 installations in 79 countries. As a project-centric engineer- to-order manufacturing company, forecasting, planning and timely delivery of work and material are essential and require an ERP system in which all activities can be monitored and tightly controlled.

“We are a global company, with projects growing in numbers, complexity and size. At the same time the project runtimes are getting shorter,” said Johannes Wittwer, Project Manager at Doppelmayr/Garaventa. “We chose IFS because of its strong functionality and understanding of our type of business as well as its track record in project-centric industries.”

Doppelmayr/Garaventa will implement IFS Applications components for engineering, manufacturing, project management, financials, human resources, distribution, business intelligence, document management and quality management. The project, which starts immediately, will be implemented step by step.

Industrial manufacturing is one of IFS’ targeted market segments. IFS has a broad customer base in the industry, focusing on large to medium-sized manufacturers that need support for complex order-driven and mixed-mode manufacturing across the extended enterprise. With strong support for project management, engineering, constraint-based scheduling, product configuration, and after sales, IFS’ component-based business solutions are designed to help companies improve quality, contain costs, and improve their competitive position in manufacturing industry segments such as machinery, defense, fabricated metal products, and plastics.

About Doppelmayr/Garaventa

The Doppelmayr/Garaventa Group is the world quality and technology leader in ropeway engineering. The Group develops efficient passenger transport systems for summer and winter tourism resorts as well as passenger transport systems for the urban environment, airports, shopping malls, sports complexes, adventure parks, trade fairs and other facilities. Furthermore, the Group also offers material transport systems for bulk material and unit load transport. The Group has production facilities, and sales and service locations in over 30 countries of the world and to date has built almost 14,000 installations in 79 countries. Turnover amounted to € 659 million and the company had more than 2,400 employees in fiscal year 2006/2007.

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