IFS, the global cloud enterprise applications company, is announcing that ABUS, a leading manufacturer of innovative security technology, will consolidate and move its ERP landscape into the cloud with IFS. This will optimize ABUS’ business processes across the entire value chain. ABUS has selected IFS Cloud for its embedded innovation and enterprise resource planning (ERP) functions.
Quality driven German manufacturer, ABUS offers a wide range of advanced security solutions in the areas of home security, mobile security and commercial security. The company’s IT landscape was fragmented across multiple systems and vendors. As the company grew and was challenged to meet the growing demands of its residential and commercial customers, the company made the decision to harmonize its systems’ footprint across geographies.
IFS Cloud will consolidate all systems into one platform and deliver a fully integrated set manufacturing capabilities that include production, maintenance, purchasing, logistics, sales, HR and financial accounting. Bringing the business under one software vendor and solution will also provide the increased cross functional and performance visibility required by executives to drive ABUS’ growth plans. IFS Cloud will also provide industry specific lobbies, enabling ABUS to standardize its business processes across the entire organization with a manufacturing specific interface.
In choosing IFS as its partner, the company opted for comprehensive and complete visibility into their value chain and the ability to have their business work off of a single data model. The IFS roll out will cover the German facility as well subsidiaries in 12 countries breaking down system and functional silos. The system will future-proof ABUS, with a six-monthly release cadence that can be planned at their own pace.
"We chose IFS Cloud to harmonize our global business operations, a key step in delivering the future growth we have in mind," said Dr. Thomas Becker, Member of the Executive Board, ABUS. "The solution brings all capabilities together in a with the functionality needed to create increased efficiencies. Having a single view of our data not only enables us to optimize our own processes, but also creates new opportunities to deliver outstanding experiences for our customers."
Marcus Pannier, Managing Director DACH at IFS, added, "With ABUS, we welcome a leading German manufacturer with global presence to the IFS community. Manufacturing has been a key industry at IFS for decades and we pride ourselves on offering unrivalled industry depth in our products, particularly IFS Cloud. The solution will impact efficiency across all aspects of the value chain and innovation, we look forward to being part of ABUS’s continued digital transformation."
