IFS Applications Supply Chain

AOG Management coordinates the response to an aircraft-on-ground event, covering fault analysis, line maintenance work, flight-operations notification, and sourcing extra labor or a third-party maintenance organization to return the aircraft to service.

Moves inventory parts between company sites, automatically generating the linked purchase part and sales part records required to complete the transfer.

Covers delivering a customer order, from picking the goods and confirming delivery to approving exchanges raised under a complex repair order.

Handles returned components, capturing why a component was removed and determining the right repair routing for it.

Analyze Faults supports diagnosing reported aircraft or asset faults, covering repair-reference lookups, fault analysis, proposed corrective actions, labor and material requirements, and troubleshooting.

Covers processing goods a customer sends back, from creating and approving or denying the return through to completing it and deciding whether items are returned to stock or scrapped.

Analyze Non-Routines covers reviewing and managing unplanned findings discovered during maintenance that fall outside the original work scope.

Manages part demand across sites, covering acquiring parts, manually reserving stock at the local site, and reserving inventory held remotely.

Manages shipments that consolidate order lines bound for the same receiver and address into a single dispatch, covering consolidated loading, packing, scheduling, and delivery of goods through preliminary, completed, and closed status.

Asset Procurement covers identifying material demand tied to asset work and initiating the purchasing process to fulfil it.

Provides sales follow-up and analysis tools spanning order statistics, consignment stock, job costing, Intrastat export reporting, customer part acquisition value, superseded part replacement, and order event history.

Asset Work Preparation covers preparing components for installation, including assembly and prefabrication activities ahead of scheduled work.

Batch Balancing aligns batch-produced supply against the demand of parent items and converts balanced requisitions into shop orders.

Registers a CRO (component repair) request and converts its lines into customer orders.

Handles internal transfers of goods between sites or remote warehouses within the same company, executed through the standard shipment and receipt process.

Manages customer orders entered manually, covering confirmation, release, reservation, scheduling, configuration handling, and cleanup of related sales data.

Bundle Task Planning groups many small, geographically clustered tasks under a single schedulable unit, letting dispatchers plan and assign them as one job while still honoring each task's individual constraints. It covers resource allocation for the bundle and the preparation needed before the technician executes it.

Manages sales quotations entered manually, letting sales teams enter and process quotations before they convert into customer orders.

Manages recurring supplier delivery schedules and the scheduling details tied to them.

Authorizes and tracks returned or repaired units through Return Material Authorizations, recording serial numbers per line, tracking service objects, and managing linked warranties and contracts.

Define CRO Work Scope covers inspecting returned parts, selecting the services to perform, reserving parts, and releasing the repair for customer repair orders.

Creates and manages generic service or work requests, including their tasks, before releasing them for execution.

Define Work Scope covers configuring and approving the scope of MRO work, capturing shop visit information, and planning maintenance events for the MRO variant.

Gives B2B customers a self-service platform for viewing product information, placing and changing orders, answering quotations, and reviewing invoices and consignment stock, including bulk orders, templates, and punchout integration.

Demand Driven MRP applies a buffer-based planning strategy that compresses lead times while protecting service levels and inventory cost, starting with identifying which parts should be strategically buffered. It covers calculating buffer levels, positioning buffer parts, running demand-driven execution and planning, and making dynamic adjustments as conditions change.

Demand Planning covers setting up forecasting data, generating demand forecasts, monitoring them through a dashboard connected to a dedicated demand planning server, and controlling which users can access published forecasts.

Manages repetitive customer demand through long-term plan schedules and short-term call-off schedules, governed by a customer schedule agreement and typically received via EDI.

Dispatch covers booking customer appointments, manually adjusting the scheduling optimization workbench, allocating and monitoring field resources, integrating with scheduling engines, and surfacing service data through dashboard widgets.

Maintains freight price lists used to calculate transport charges on orders.

ETOPS Management supports the extended-range twin-engine operations rules for aircraft, covering degradation tracking, oil-consumption analysis, fault handling, line and hangar maintenance execution, aircraft release, work packaging, and configuration validation.

Captures work requests and fault reports, tracking when work should begin and be wrapped up and matching them against service level agreements, before appointments are booked and work orders generated.

Equipment and Personal Safety Management covers creating and preparing isolation orders, planning the permits linked to them, and managing work permits to keep equipment and people safe during maintenance.

Handle Fleet Forecasting covers building an operational budget for the fleet and running forecasts to anticipate future fleet requirements.

Hangar Maintenance Visit Planning builds long-range plans for hangar maintenance visits, covering usage forecasts, duration and yield calculations, non-routine estimation, location capability checks, operational constraints, blocking strategy, frozen visit lockdown, and adjustments as fleet changes or requirements evolve.

Inventory Planning provides reorder-point based replenishment for parts with independent demand, such as sales spares and distribution stock, where supply is decoupled from other parts' bills of material. It can run alongside Kanban and MRP and depends on accurate lead-time, ordering-cost, and inventory-rate data, covering planning-data calculation, reorder handling, availability monitoring, and scheduling.

Tracks export licenses and controlled documents so restricted parts and technical data are handled in line with export regulations.

Kanban Planning supports just-in-time replenishment using standard containers and cards as the signal to trigger supply, organized into kanban circuits defined per part and supply location. It covers creating and calculating circuits, managing kanban cards, initiating replenishment, and recalculating circuits as demand changes.

Line Maintenance Planning covers building work packages for line maintenance, assigning tasks, faults, and parts to them, reviewing upcoming maintenance requirements, scheduling aircraft at a hangar location, and transferring the finished package to production.

MEL OPS Restriction Management tracks the operational restrictions imposed by the minimum equipment list, covering fault review, deferral approval and recording, monitor-task definition, cumulative restriction identification, dispatch notification, and AOG management, and reviewing time-limited item MEL/CDL entries.

Maintenance Standards Planning covers creating and revising the preventive maintenance programs that define recurring maintenance standards.

Make to Order Planning gives planners a visual, chart-based view of labor, machine, and material capacity tied to specific shop orders, so they can spot and resolve shortages or overload before production starts. It covers building and maintaining DOP order structures, calculating costs, netting demand, running capacity checks, releasing structures, and resolving planning alarms.

Make to Stock Planning covers forecast-driven stocking of spare parts and running project-level material requirements planning.

Manage Maintenance Program covers building preventive maintenance programs, defining task cards, life limits, fault deferral rules, and post-maintenance check definitions, and maintaining aircraft or asset modifications over time.

Master Planning covers running master scheduling at different levels, rough-cut resource planning, and sales and operations planning to balance demand against overall capacity.

Material Planning Simulation lets planners model demand and supply scenarios using MRP, master scheduling, and capacity requirements planning logic without touching live data, so they can run what-if analysis before committing changes. It covers maintaining simulation profiles, managing simulation results, and running CRP, MRP, and master schedule level-1 simulations.

PM Planning covers applying and disconnecting preventive maintenance programs, generating and preparing PM actions and work orders, creating work task templates, scheduling maintenance through the planning board or maintenance planning and scheduling tools, handling resource breaks, and marking programs not applicable when needed.

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.

Prepare Line Maintenance covers calculating due dates, planning line maintenance activities and their resource and material requirements, scheduling the resulting work order, and cancelling or replanning work as needed.

Prepare Maintenance Visit covers defining and planning a maintenance visit, handling the customer's requested work scope, and running the induction and inspection steps that kick it off.

Production Control covers receiving and uploading production work scope and reviewing work load against the labor schedule to keep production on track.

Production Schedule Planning acts as a manufacturing execution method for items produced on lines rather than through individual shop orders, with line schedules coming from master scheduling, from MRP, or entered by hand. Schedules move through planned, firm, and past-due horizons, and planners can manually firm a record to keep it from being replanned.

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.

Recurring Services covers setting up and preparing a program of recurring service visits and generating the service requests it produces.

Repair Planning and Assignment covers assigning repairs to a repair bench, planning bench details, searching for available benches, logging repair activity, and tracking repairs still awaiting assignment.

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

Request Bundle Task Planning groups multiple individual request tasks in the same area and timeframe into a single schedulable bundle, saving dispatchers and technicians time while still respecting each task's own constraints. Existing tasks can be connected to a bundle from the request task overview, and more can be added while the bundle hasn't yet started work.

Request Preparation covers checking warranty coverage and preparing the work needed to fulfil a service request.

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.

Schedule Maintenance Visit covers estimating the visit budget, preparing general visit information, and viewing or modifying the work order structure behind it.

Service Campaign Creation lets service organizations plan and coordinate large-scale proactive actions — recalls, upgrades, or scheduled maintenance pushes — across many service objects under a single initiative. It supports generating the underlying requests and repair RMAs in bulk so campaigns can be tracked and executed consistently.

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.

Shop Order Disassembly Planning covers creating and maintaining disassembly shop orders and requisitions, checking material, component, and resource availability, sequencing operations, running finite scheduling, raising material review board cases, and releasing and reserving orders for execution.

Shop Order Manufacturing Planning covers creating manufacturing shop orders and their requisitions, managing them through execution, and preparing finished shop orders for packing.

Shop Order Remanufacturing Planning covers creating remanufacturing shop orders and their requisitions, and pegging direct supply against them.

Shop Order Repair Planning covers creating repair shop orders and managing multilevel repair structures across their components.

Takt Time Planning covers setting the target run rate for a production line and generating the supply needed to sustain it.

Work Order Planning covers preparing work orders for planned and unplanned maintenance or service tasks, whether generated from a PM program, fault report, or service request, including the resource, material, budget, and document requirements attached to each work task. It also supports the mobilization and demobilization work orders used to prepare and return rental assets.

Work Packaging covers preparing and finalizing work packages for hangar maintenance and predrawing materials needed to complete them.