IFS Capabilities
From a single API extension to running your entire IFS estate. ESS customizes, integrates, migrates and manages IFS for manufacturing and service organizations — built in IFS's custom layer so it carries forward release after release.
- Custom-layer objects on one IFS estate
- 1,900+
- IFS components extended
- 46
- Integration endpoints around IFS
- 220+
- Years of IFS expertise
- 15+
As Much or as Little IFS as You Need
Three ways IFS clients work with ESS today.
Fully managed IFS
We run the whole estate: instance management, installation, development, deployment and support. Your team uses IFS; we keep it running, current and improving.
Deep customization & integration
A long-term partner inside your IFS — custom entities, Aurena pages, PL/SQL business logic and an integration hub connecting IFS to the rest of your business.
Targeted API extension
One well-defined job done well — for example an API extension into your IFS instance so a partner or portal can create and read records safely.
The IFS Toolkit We Work In
Every layer of IFS — from the page a user sees to the PL/SQL behind it and the messages leaving it.
Aurena pages & projections
Hundreds of page customizations and projection overlays that reshape IFS screens and services around each role.
Custom entities & PL/SQL
New custom entities, utility packages and fragments — 100k+ lines of custom PL/SQL business logic built in the custom layer.
Custom events & fields
Event-driven automation (for example, an active work order creating its finance project) and custom fields on orders and purchasing.
Lobbies
Role lobbies with dozens of elements and custom data sources, giving operations live visibility without spreadsheets.
IFS Connect
Routing addresses, routing rules, transformers and BizAPIs for payment gateways, tax engines, location services and legacy ERPs.
REST / OData & PL/SQL APIs
IFS projections over REST/OData with OAuth, plus ~70 IFS PL/SQL APIs orchestrated from a .NET integration hub.
Report layouts
Custom layouts for order confirmations, customer invoices, purchase orders and check printing, plus WMS printer objects.
Migration & build tooling
IFS migration-tools-based import frameworks, build-home setup and automated deployment for IFS environments.
What We've Built on IFS
Capabilities delivered across the IFS suite, by business area.
Work orders & field service
- Work-order staging, preparation, conclusion and payments
- Material requisitions turned into shop orders
- Facility-management platforms feeding work orders into IFS and syncing status, notes and invoices back
- Timesheets from project-management platforms posted as IFS project transactions
Customer orders, sales & service contracts
- Customer-order extensions and custom fields
- Service quotations, service contracts and sales contracts
- Sales-commission customizations
- Order confirmations and invoices on custom layouts
Purchasing & suppliers
- Supplier qualification documents and approvals
- Purchase-order create / read APIs for partners and portals
- B2B cXML order import mapped into IFS
- Custom PO print layouts
Payments & tax
- Credit-card gateway extension inside IFS via IFS Connect
- Card-payment portal that writes payments straight into IFS
- Sales and use-tax engine integration
- Bank and payment file templates
Finance & projects
- Custom events creating finance projects from operations
- GL history migrated as IFS vouchers — create, approve, finalize
- Invoicing and payment-ledger extensions
- Project transactions from external time capture
Inventory, shipments & warehouse
- Inventory and shipment extensions
- Custom WMS printer and printer-type objects
- Address validation and location services
- Telematics location tags on assets and vehicles
Integration hub
- 220+ endpoints around IFS, 75 of them IFS-specific
- 10+ third-party systems connected — FM platforms, payments, tax, procurement, HR
- HR-driven IFS user provisioning
- Scheduled background jobs with logging and failure alerts
Legacy ERP coexistence & migration
- Run IFS alongside a legacy ERP during transition with two-way sync
- Import framework for customers, suppliers, parts, equipment, locations and people
- Row-count and error reconciliation through IFS migration tools
- Apps 10 to IFS Cloud functional transformation
ESS Fusion AI on IFS
- AI document processing for customer orders, POAs and invoices
- AP automation that posts into IFS
- Conversational access to IFS data
- Works alongside your existing IFS customizations
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FAQ
IFS Capabilities — FAQ
Everything from a single API extension to running your entire IFS estate. As an IFS Gold Partner with 15+ years of IFS expertise, ESS customizes IFS in the custom layer — Aurena pages, projection overlays, new custom entities and PL/SQL business logic — and connects it to the rest of your business through IFS Connect, REST/OData projections and a .NET integration hub. On one long-term engagement alone that adds up to 1,900+ custom-layer objects across 46 IFS components and 220+ integration endpoints, covering work orders and field service, customer orders, purchasing, payments and tax, finance, projects and inventory.
Yes. For some clients ESS does everything: manages the IFS instances, installs and upgrades them, develops and deploys customizations, and supports users day to day. Others engage ESS for deep customization and integration while keeping administration in-house, and some need just one targeted piece — such as an API extension into their IFS instance. We scope the engagement to what you actually need.
IFS Applications 8, 9 and 10 and IFS Cloud. ESS builds on IFS's supported layered model — customizations live in the custom layer, not in core — so they can be carried forward, and we have delivered Apps 10 to IFS Cloud functional transformations for clients moving to the evergreen platform.
With whichever IFS mechanism fits the job: IFS Connect routing rules and transformers for message-based flows, REST/OData projections with OAuth for modern APIs, and IFS PL/SQL APIs orchestrated from a .NET integration hub for high-volume or multi-step work. ESS has connected IFS to facility-management platforms, payment gateways, sales-tax engines, procurement networks, project-management and HR systems, address and location services, and legacy ERPs running side by side during a transition.
Yes. ESS builds import frameworks on IFS migration tools covering customers, suppliers, parts, part catalogs, equipment, locations and people, with error and row-count reconciliation on every load. Financial history can be migrated as IFS vouchers that are created, approved and finalized automatically, and when a legacy ERP has to keep running during the transition we keep the two systems in sync.
Bring Us Your IFS Challenge
A gap in IFS, an integration nobody has built, or an estate you want someone else to run — tell us where you are and we'll show you how we'd approach it.
