Sample Model Description—Engineering and Project Delivery

Introduction

IFS Applications for Engineering & Project Delivery supports projects from tender through design, engineering, demand, testing, maintenance to after sales support. Manufacturing and assembly/installation can be carried out by subcontractors at customer's sites. Deliverables include full documentation of the project.
IFS Applications for Engineering & Project Delivery is based on efficient links between project and product structures, ensuring maximum control, flexibility, cost-effectiveness and security - for everyone working in the project.
 

Definition of the market, segments, competition and characteristics.

IFS Applications for Engineering & Project Delivery offers enterprises the functionality to manage information across all the business processes, which is needed in a project oriented company.
Segments:

• Heavy industry equipment
• Government / military
• Contractors
• Maritime industry
• Technical R&D Companies

IFS has a flexible project solution that supports both complex and smaller projects within these organizations. 

Business characteristics

Most Important Processes: 
Project Management, Procurement, Engineering, Tendering, Change Management.
(Procurement 80 %, Standard/Engineering 10/90) 

Requirements and solutions

Below is a list that describes the most common areas where project oriented companies need business solutions in order to be more competitive:

• Project Management
• Project Planning
• Resource Management 
• Project Inventory
• Quotation and Sales
• Project Financial 
• Project Driven Manufacturing and Purchasing
• Project Design Configuration
• Document Management
• Collaboration
• Outsourcing
• Integration to CAD systems
• Project Time & Attendance
• Competence Matching

Main Processes

Sales Quotation

• Lead Management
• Customer point of contact
• Quotation Revision Management
• Quotation Documentation

Customer Order

• Contract Management
• Invoicing Plan
• Deliverables
• Project Entry

Project Management

• Customer Order Acquisition Method
• WBS
• Budgeting
• Pre-Calculation
• Project Performance
• Project Pre-accounting
• Project Planning interface
• Project Access
• Collaborative Back-Bone
• Project Documentation.
• Project Resource Management

Design Project Delivery Product

• Project Design
• Cost roll-up
• Characteristics
• Functional Structures
• Status requirement handling
• Project interface for Manufacturing and Logistics
• Documentations
• Development Journal Revision 
• Change Management

Project Part Demand Preparation

• Acquisition Definitions
• Project Quotation List
• Acquisition Status and progress.
• Availability check
• Purchase and Shop Order connection.

Prepare Purchase

• Purchaser handling of project request for quotation and orders.
• Purchase Milestone definition
• Approval Routing Handling
• Documentation

Manage Purchase

• Price and delivery negotiation
• Project Feedback
• Project Pre-accounting
• Project Progress measurement

Purch. RFQ.

• Request for Quotation revision Management
• Project Supplier Blanket definition
• Project price Feedback.

Receipt

• Project Inventorying
• Project Progress.
• Quality Measurement Processing.

Prepare Manufacturing

• Shop Order planning and Sequencing 
• Work Instructions
• Documentation
• Design Verification
• Project Pre-accounting 

Shop Order Handling

• Project Progress
• Project Feedback
• Project Inventorying

Shipment

• Shipment Documentation
• Deliverables Contents List
• Assembly Instructions 

Assembly and Test Project Delivery Product

• Project Reporting
• On location Project Management
• Documentation
• Project Progress feedback
• Milestones 

Project Invoicing

• Invoicing Plan
• Stage Billing
• Project Revenue

Fault Report and Work Request

• Warranty feedback

Service WO Preparations & Planning

• Material and resource planning.
• WO execution and project feedback.