Achieving excellence in dynamic, fast-moving markets
Efficiency, cost control, and asset uptime are three fundamental drivers of the logistics industry worldwide. From fleet operations to warehousing management, logistics organizations are constantly looking for ways to streamline their businesses—ultimately, to ensure that goods flow seamlessly from factories to store shelves with minimum disruption or delay.
However, logistics can be a complex and challenging environment. Fleet management goes well beyond merely maintaining trucks and other vehicles—it is about overseeing potentially thousands of technically sophisticated road-based assets and constantly adapting to a highly dynamic environment in a safe and compliant way.
Meanwhile, warehouse management brings its own complexities. Tasks such as inventory control and order fulfilment require a careful blend of manual labor and automated systems such as forklifts and conveyor belts to meet ever-evolving customer demands. In short, logistics is a multifaceted industry that requires extensive foresight, planning, and customer focus to deliver success.
Frequently Asked Questions
IFS Ultimo offers clarity about your assets, in terms of hierarchy, relation and location. By registering all relevant information about your assets, you build towards a greater understanding of your assets, which will bring you the insight needed to take well-informed decisions to extend their longevity and improve their availability.
Ultimo excels at managing manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, infrastructure and utility-related assets. The scope of the system is also perfectly suited to combine two or more industry solutions, to make sure all assets within your organization benefit from our best-of-breed EAM product. We even optimize asset management for the BEAT Cycling team in the Netherlands and the AJ Foyt Indy 500 racing team in the United States.
Using IFS Ultimo’s platform as a single source of truth, all of the connected data is empowered by features such as track and trace, barcode scanners and inventory management methods. Less time spent searching for specific assets means more hands-on tool time, and higher availability of your critical assets, allowing you to significantly reduce your maintenance costs.
