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Revolutionising Food & Beverage Manufacturing

We help food and beverage manufacturers run complex operations with confidence, improving control across manufacturing, supply chain, and warehouse management while supporting growth, compliance, and operational resilience.

IFS Cloud empowers food and beverage manufacturers to excel today and shape the future, ready for any opportunity ahead

Operating in a fast-moving and highly competitive market, food and beverage manufacturers face critical challenges, including navigating supply chain disruptions, maintaining stringent quality control and compliance standards, and adapting to rapidly evolving consumer preferences.

IFS Cloud offers a comprehensive and flexible, industry-specific solution that helps food and beverage manufacturers balance supply chain, cope with new regulations, drive traceability and ultimately, customer loyalty.

Manufacturing customers have seen the following improvements as a result of using IFS Cloud

27%

reduction in costs

16%

improvements in productivity

IFS Solution Overview for Food &
Beverage Manufacturing

Business Processes

Product Development

Marketing & Sales

Procurement & Sales

Manufacturing

Distribution

Solution Capabilities

Business Intelligence

Product Lifecycle Management

  • New Product development
  • Substances & Formulations
  • Quality Control/Specifications
  • Statistical Process Control?HACCP
  • Material Compliance & Hazard
  • Costing
  • Sustainability Reporting

Sales, Marketing & Demand Management

  • CRM
  • Demand Planning
  • Forecasting (includes AI-Assisted, Collaborative, etc.)
  • Supply Planning
  • Intraday Planning
  • Pricing & Discounts
  • Customer Agreements
  • Rebates & Commissions
  • Charge and Deductions
  • B2B Collaboration
  • Sales Promotion
  • Available to Promise
  • Yields and BY Products
  • MRP/DDMMRP/PMRP
  • Seasonality
  • EDI

Manufacturing & Supply Chain Management

  • Multisite Planning
  • SRM and Sourcing
  • Purchase Order
  • Mixed Mode Manufacturing
  • QualityAnalysis
  • MES
  • Shop Floor Recording
  • Dynamic AI Scheduling
  • WMS
  • Transport Planning
  • Shipment & Delivery
  • Traceability
  • Shelf Life & Expiration
  • Units of Measure
  • Catch Weight
  • Shop Material Control

Finance & eInvoice

Human Resources

Equipment Monitoring and Maintenance

Asset Management

Enterprise Service Management

Quality Assurance

Document Management

Health & Safety, ESG and Audits

5 Differentiators

Industry
Depth

Single
Product

Embedded
Innovation

Modern & Open Architecture

Delightful
Experience

5 Reasons Why to Choose IFS Cloud

IFS Cloud is the Ultimate Choice for Food and Beverage Manufacturing

Complete Business Solution, fuelled by innovation

IFS Cloud provides an end-to-end industry-specific solution for all types of food and beverage manufacturers. With sustainability embedded and ever-evolving AI capabilities, it optimises processes, resources, and production scheduling throughout the lifecycle.

Advanced Planning & Scheduling Techniques

IFS Cloud’s Demand Planner, Intraday Planning, and MSO capabilities revolutionise forecasting, demand planning, and production scheduling, maximising resource, asset, and inventory utilisation.

Operational Excellence

With the Connected Factory, IFS Cloud integrates MES, MSO, and Industrial AI for a comprehensive operational view, optimising resources and inventory through advanced simulations.

Industry Focus

IFS Cloud continuously invest in functionality that meets the critical business requirements of food and beverage companies such as a recipe/formula functionality, lot or batch traceability, yields, by-products, shelf-life and expiration dates.

Integrated Quality and Document Management

The system’s quality management ensures compliance and precision, while the document management system secures critical data with enhanced control, supporting compliance with FDA standards and others.

Manufacturing Scheduling & Optimisation (MSO)

MSO revolutionises manufacturing by intelligently optimising resource constraints, streaming processes, and providing neat real-time insights from planning to shipment.

Increased Efficiency

MSO optimises resource allocation, reducing downtime and enhancing overall production efficiency.

Enhanced Resources Utilisation

MSO intelligently schedules tasks, ensuring optimal use of manufacturing resources.

Cost Savings

MSO helps manage costs by preventing overruns and minimising waste.

Improved Productivity

Real-time insights enable better decision-making, leading to streamlined processes and increased output.

Reduced Lead Times

Finite scheduling minimises waiting times, accelerating production cycles.

Waste Reduction

By minimising inefficiencies, MSO contributes to waste reduction, promoting more sustainable production processes.

Why Change8

At Change8, we’re more than an implementation partner we’re here to make your IFS journey clear, structured, and successful. As an IFS Specialist Channel Partner, we bring the right mix of technical expertise, proven delivery, and customer-first values.

Full IFS Cloud Services

Implementation & Upgrades – Seamless transition to IFS Cloud or latest versions, tailored to your needs.

Support – Ongoing expert support that keeps your systems reliable and future-ready.

Continuous Improvement – Unlock the full potential of IFS with optimisation and adoption programmes.

A Partner You Can Trust

Client Focused – Everything we do is designed to deliver measurable, lasting value.

Collaborative – We work hand-in-hand with clients and partners to co-create the right solutions.

Adaptive – We stay agile, evolving alongside your business needs and industry changes.

Case studies

Customised IFS Implementations

Start your IFS Journey Today

Talk to us about your IFS solution, whether you’re looking to implement IFS for the first time, in the middle of an implementation, looking to upgrade, or looking to get more from your software, we have all the answers that you need.

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