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IFS provides a market leading manufacturing ERP solution. Helping organizations achieve true manufacturing excellence. In the competitive landscape of manufacturing, achieving a balance between operational efficiency, high quality output and cost reduction is a constant struggle. Aerospace and defense manufacturers face many hurdles, such as variable customer demands, supply chain disruption, and long product development times, all amidst ensuring compliance and quality. These challenges are intensified by legacy systems and fragmented data obstructing fluid operations and informed decision making. Only through having integrated processes and real time data across all departments can we overcome these obstacles. IFS is trusted by some of the largest and most innovative manufacturing organizations, delivering solutions across commercial, aerospace and defense. No matter your role in the supply chain, from building aircraft carriers to crafting essential components, I FS scales to meet your needs. If your legacy solutions cannot keep pace with evolving market demands, this limits your ability to stay ahead in the competitive landscape. A modern ERP backbone is a prerequisite for leveraging the rapidly emerging technologies that are changing the face of manufacturing. Unifying production quality, supply chain, and financials establishes the core of the solution, and due to the unique breadth of IFRS, cloud organizations can easily take advantage of an entire suite of integrated capabilities. From plant maintenance to aftermarket services, and because IFS Cloud is composable, this allows you to implement the modules you need now and activate additional capabilities in the future. All of this is presented to your people on a modern and intuitive user experience, with an open architecture that allows you to easily integrate to other solutions while effortlessly harnessing AI and other embedded innovations. Let's take a closer look at how IFS can help. Manufacturing excellence begins in product development. For A&D manufacturers, this means managing the engineering life cycle by harmonizing master data management with PLM and CAD tools. Allowing design, manufacturing, supply chain and quality to work cohesively with digital tools for scalable, compliant innovations. Ensuring that every product is designed with risk in mind to meet market needs while fostering cross departmental collaboration. Customer requirements management is essential to build a successful product and contracts form the basis for delivering on those requirements. Our defense contract management solution provides tools necessary to ensure compliance with the terms, conditions and regulations set forth by government entities. Project management plays a pivotal role in converting those requirements into deliverables. It's about delivering the product to your customer on time, on budget and on spec, leveraging robust project. Controls to give real time insights into project financial, operational and quality performance. Precision in planning and scheduling sets the rhythm for the entire manufacturing process. It is essential to manage long, medium and short term planning horizons to ensure comprehensive operational readiness. By leveraging AI powered finite scheduling, we can anticipate, adapt and align production with market demands. It's where the strategy meets execution, ensuring that resources are optimally utilized. Manufacturing execution is where your plans come to life. Through digital shop floor reporting and seamless MES integration, we establish a truly connected factory. It's about ensuring that every link in the chain, from the worker on the shop floor to the equipment used, is perfectly synchronized and adaptable to real time changes. And through the connected worker solution, your workforce becomes empowered to solve problems and share knowledge in real time, enabling a culture of continuous improvement. To achieve peak operational performance, enterprise asset management is an integral part of this ecosystem. And with embedded AI, real-time equipment data is transformed into actionable insights, moving us from a reactive to a predictive maintenance model. For A&D manufacturers, quality management is the guardian of your brand's reputation. It's not just about maintaining standards, it's about setting new benchmarks. This phase is crucial for embedding quality into every layer of the manufacturing. Process ensuring compliance, monitoring performance and driving continuous improvement to close the loop on quality. IFS empowers companies to diversify beyond traditional manufacturing and achieve sustainable growth and competitive advantage. With sustainability embedded, IFS supports a circular economy by enabling an efficient remanufacturing process, giving products and components a second life. Our solution also unlocks the power of servitization with market leading service life cycle management including next generation capabilities such as AI powered workforce scheduling, IO T and asset performance management, helping to transform aftermarket services into a recurring revenue stream. By unifying these processes, manufacturing organizations can stride towards predictable production cycles, reduced operational costs, and enhance product quality and compliance while fostering innovation and agility in responding to market changes. This is the formula for achieving true manufacturing excellence.