Plastics Industry - Track Technology Information

Plastic products, which have a wide application area due to their material characteristics, have entered many points of our lives. The requirements of the industry that produces products with such a wide range of applications also differ in a similar way. In addition to the products produced in the form of mass production, there are manufacturers that make custom-made production, even customer-specific design and mold work in line with customer requests. In enterprises with a wide product range, the same company can produce customer-based special products while mass-producing. IFS ERP offers the solutions that manufacturers need with its structure that supports such different types of production models at the same time and advanced production planning, tracking and production data collection systems.

In addition to some special requirements in the field of Sales, Marketing and Distribution, there are some special requirements in the plastic production stages due to the production flexibility and possibilities offered by advanced ejection and extruder machines. Issues affecting production planning and manufacturing times such as the use of alternative machines on the basis of products, the production of a product with molds with different mesh numbers on the same machine, the cutting of the product coming out of an extruder in different sizes, the production of more than one product at the same time, the GIS (Restriction) offered by IFS ERP Based Finite Capacity Planning) Solution.

The burrs, runners and wastes that arise during the production process need to be broken down and brought back into production at certain rates. This type of recyclable waste, which should be taken into account in material planning and costing, can be tracked in detail with IFS ERP.

Although the product content is the same, it may be necessary to produce the product in a different color, different brand, special logo and different size with minor changes made on the product in line with customer requests. IFS ERP also offers businesses a comprehensive product configuration solution that can manage such variables.

Since the quality variability depends on the production process settings, the effective use of process quality control processes has a special importance for the sector. It is necessary to keep what the machine settings are during the production and to evaluate the critical measurement values by constantly measuring. IFS ERP helps to keep production quality under control thanks to its Statistical Process Quality Control features and input quality control plans.

For the Automotive Industry, which is rapidly developing in our country and in the world, the continuous increase in customer needs and expectations and the competitive environment brought by globalization force the automotive industry to work efficiently, to keep costs under control and to make cost improvements permanent. This price and cost pressure has led to the emergence of industry-specific working styles.

Working more principled and disciplined than many other sectors has become a necessity in this sector. As a result of continuous improvement studies by eliminating all processes that do not create added value in the supply chain and production stages, the automotive sector is the leading sector in which many new production styles and supply chain applications have emerged and applied. This dynamic structure causes the system requirements and demands of the automotive industry to be at a higher level than all other industries.

The starting point of many applications such as this is considered to be the automotive industry.

For more than 20 years, IFS ERP has been following both sectoral requirements, sectoral tendencies and trends in its special R&D center located in Germany, which is considered the center of the automotive industry, and day by day, it has been including functions that support sector-specific working systems within the scope of IFS ERP Applications. .

IFS ERP companies operating in the automotive industry; It deals with sub-segments including OEMs, primary suppliers and After-Sales Service companies (Dealers) and continues to produce solutions that meet the different sectoral needs of each.

IFS ERP, which has over 250 customers in the automotive industry worldwide, offers solutions to the needs of businesses thanks to its expert consultancy team.

While IFS ERP Applications support the above-mentioned main requirements of businesses in the Plastics Industry with richly functional Production Solutions, Sales and Distribution Modules developed specifically for the sector, IFS ERP Retail and Wholesale Applications enable the management of the sales channel. The combination of other modules within the scope of classical ERP applications creates a complete corporate solution for plastic manufacturers.