IFS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT IS WHAT WILL HELP YOUR BUSINESS THRIVE Your business is complex and your processes are unique and intricate. You want to maximize efficiencies and increase customer satisfaction while having visibility over your operations. You know the right technology will help you achieve this and more. But backbone solutions are too often one size fits all, forcing your business to bend to their will, leaving you with a larger project on hand, reinventing the wheel. The way you run your business is your differentiator. The right technology should set you apart by addressing your pain points while enhancing how you work and achieve your goals.

This is where IFS comes in. Our mission is to help you achieve true business agility, so that no matter what happens next, in the market, with technological advances, you always come out on top. We consider our relationships with our customers a true partnership. We aren’t just selling a solution; we are helping businesses achieve their full potential, long after implementation. Our leading enterprise software is designed and developed in collaboration with our customers with the end goal of making them more agile. What sets us apart when it comes to enterprise solutions is what will help you achieve that competitive edge and adaptive advantage. So what exactly is it that makes us different?

WE HAVE A SOLUTION THAT FITS YOUR BUSINESS AND YOUR NEEDSIFS’s products are highly modularized and designed to be process oriented. This means that they are flexible enough to support the way you work according to your established processes. Your solution is built out based on your goals and pain points so you aren’t burdened by a weighty system that you only partially use and you pay for only what you need. Our business philosophy and architecture provide solutions that are easier to implement, run, and upgrade.

Our naturally flexible functionality address needed business versatility including multi-faceted operations globalization. IFS products support multiple languages, currencies, units of measurement as well as global compliance measures and more. The products also come with out-of-the-box

comprehensive support for multiple modes and business processes to easily allow different business units and divisions effective access to the same solution and data and information is easily and effectively transferred and accessed throughout the business for complete operational visibility.

“IFS allows us to have access to the right information to enable employees to make {data-based} decisions.” — Allan Latts, Chief Operating Officer, Heaven Hill Distilleries

IFS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

YOU WON’T JUST HAVE TO USE IT, YOU WILL LOVE TO USE ITIFS’s products are designed to be user friendly and intuitive. Our enhanced usability includes advanced tablet/touch support, consolidated information streams, simplified search, intuitive input fields and more. Our solutions help you to visualize information to support understanding, execution, and decision making at all levels; operational, tactical and strategic. This visualization provides insight in context, wherever and whenever needed. Our UIs are colorful, easy to navigate and learn, and headache free. Our unique lobbies give you an at-a-glance view of your business, based on roles, processes or whatever custom visualization you may need. This real-time view of your business helps you keep up with changing environments, processes, and markets, helping drive your competitive edge and differentiation.

OUR SOFTWARE IS REALLY, TRUELY SCALABLEOur products provide agile infrastructure that organizations can easily and effectively grow on, providing you with a solution that will not one day become legacy or monolithic but rather continue to empower revenue growth, cost reduction, and innovation. It is a true competitive edge, helping you anticipate what is next in the market, with technology, and providing a blueprint of your processes to help you visualize next steps. Our solutions have been proven to maximize profitability by shortening project times, reducing inventory, travel and fuel costs, etc. They also enhance flexibility by easily adapting and automating new business structures, flows and processes as things change in your business and industry and provide real-time visibility and better forecasting with the most accurate data and reporting functionality.

OUR CUSTOMERS ARE OUR PARTNERSIFS takes a collaborative approach in solving businesses problems from product development through implementation and beyond. Our solutions are developed and enhanced in-house and sold and implemented with direct experience. Using this approach we provide not just a solution but the culture, knowledge and expertise that comes with it. We have one of the highest employee tenures in the industry which means our employees are highly skilled people, whose industry and process expertise directly contribute to helping our customers maximize ROI. We consider our relationships with customers to be a true partnership from customer led advisory councils and focus groups to customer satisfactions surveys and customer centric events and training. Our customers interact with us throughout the development and release of our solutions, with actively invested programs like our early-adopters initiative. This active engagement throughout development cycles ensures that we are truly understand the industry’s needs and specific business processes in order to maximize the value of your investment.

WE AIM TO INNOVATE AND INSPIREWe provide software that addresses the business pain points of today with the flexibility and technical capabilities to also anticipate what’s next. From the latest business

“With IFS we didn’t have to get three different pieces of software; it was a true end-to-end solution that met our high-level requirements.” — Josh Warren, Assistant VP Field Service, Associa

“I believe IFS is vital in the sense that we have got from where we were 10 years ago to where we are today with IFS. We have more than doubled in size in a market that’s changing faster and more rapidly as time goes by. We know we have IFS here to assist us with the technology they put into each and every release to help us get to that next level. — Marc Mendez, VP IT, Magnaflow

IFS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

intelligence to trends like wearables, drones, and IoT sensors, IFS not only vets what’s coming but also includes it in roadmaps and development to ensure our technology is constantly ahead of the curve. IFS Labs (part of IFS R&D) tests tomorrow’s technologies in conjunction with IFS software solutions, finding the most innovative ways to improve processes and maximize efficiencies in specific industry environments. Our acquisition and partner strategy evaluates the most forward thinking technology players in our space to grow our footprint and continue to develop and provide the most advanced solutions in the market.

The values that IFS stands on; simplicity, professionalism, and commitment, set us apart from the rest. We won’t promise you something that we cannot deliver. We understand that it takes more than just the software, your people, and ours, are a

significant part of the equation and the value chain. Our goal is to help you achieve success, and we hope that by making your operations more efficient and your costs lower you can continue to innovate and inspire your customers as well.

LEARN MORETo find out more about how IFS can help you prepare for what’s next, visit www.IFSWORLD.com .

IFS has supported our business agility plans by streamlining many of the processes that we have to go through in order to operate.”— Brian Buddemeyer, IT Director, Spang & Company