IFS Applications Project Management

Covers marking a project's deliverables as complete and carrying the deliverables structure over to the equipment records it produced.

Covers how external contractors view and accept work assignments, carry out the work, and report progress back into the system.

Covers generating and managing the material supply needed to fulfill project deliverables, including MRP calculations at both company and project level, supply requests for purchasing or manufacturing, and issuing material to the deliverable.

Contract Change Management governs how variations to a contract or project's scope, timeline, or commercial terms are reviewed, approved, and tracked once the original agreement is in place.

Manages sub contracts with suppliers across their lifecycle, from tender invitations and awards through cost control, revisions, and applications for payment.

Values work performed under sub contracts and processes the resulting certifications, applications for payment, invoices, and payments.

Tracks execution of compatible unit work in the field, covering activation, work task execution and conclusion, redesign, and decommissioning of a revision.

Structures a project's deliverable items, from systems and sub-systems down to individual materials, each with its own item number, description, and eventual part number as the design is finalized.

Manages the process of applying for payment from customers for completed work, covering preparation, certification, invoicing, and matching of payments received.

Covers preparing, previewing, and finalizing sales invoices before they close out and post.

Manages sales contracts through their full lifecycle, from responding to tenders and estimating costs through negotiation, revision, and completion, with financial control throughout.

Covers installing and commissioning the deliverables produced by a project, including turning work packages into work orders and copying the deliverables structure into asset design records.

Manages the estimating and bidding process using separate revision and version handling, so the scope of work and its pricing can each change independently across multiple offers to a customer.

Tracks financial activity on projects originating from project or customer order modules, supporting revenue recognition forecasting, periodic capitalization, and project completion.

Covers keeping operational data accurate and manageable over time, including archiving historical logs, correcting erroneous entries, and updating vehicle condition history.

Plan Project Deliverables covers estimating and planning the deliverables of a project, including material, shipment, and work task plans, operational guidelines, and reserving the material and serialized items needed to fulfil them.

Covers the final phase of a project, where deliverables are handed over to the customer, the project plan is completed, and the project is formally closed once all objectives are confirmed met.

Covers day-to-day execution of project work, including recording time against activities, developing and approving forecasts and accruals, and analyzing overall project performance.

Manages project-based rentals initiated from project demand, covering rental transfers and finalizing project rental charging.

Covers financial reporting and transaction handling for projects, including invoicing, cost accounting, work-in-progress tracking, and posting logic for project-related transactions.

Lets project managers request and track work performed by temporary contractors hired through employment agencies, from connecting them to a purchase order to approving the time they report.

Project Emissions Calculation tracks a project's CO2 or CO2-equivalent footprint by combining emissions data from project parts with manually entered figures at the demand, activity, sub-project, or project level. Totals are visible at every level, from a single activity up to the whole project.

Project Planning covers the full life cycle of setting up a project, from initiation, budgeting, and approval through defining deliverables and schedules of work, tendering, forecasting and assigning resources, and keeping demand, estimates, contracts, and forecasts current as the project progresses.

Covers shipping a project's deliverables to their destination, including creating and managing the shipment.

Resource Planning and Monitoring covers allocating miscellaneous resources, managing resource relocation, building resource schedules and shifts, entering forecast scenarios, and monitoring resource requirements against availability.

Service Project Resource Capacity Planning and Scheduling coordinates resource capacity across grouped service work, such as installations, refurbishments, or recurring service packages, without invoking full project management overhead. It covers planning and scheduling capacity across the service project's quotations and requests, distinguishing requested dates from internally planned delivery dates, including Gantt-based scheduling.