TOKYO, Japan, Apr 10, 2026-(JCN Newswire)- IFS AB (IFS), the leading service provider of Industrial AI software application, and NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) have actually revealed that Hoshizaki Corporation, a world-leading producer of industrial foodservice devices, will execute IFS Cloud as its next-generation core system to change its tradition ERP systems. The execution will support over 700 users throughout 2 significant production websites and develop a structure for AI-enabled production optimization.
In the middle of heightening competitors, growing item diversity, and the approaching end of assistance for tradition systems, Hoshizaki recognizes this timing as a chance to drive service improvement. The business’s existing ERP environment relies greatly on substantial modification and fragmented secondary systems, which constrains functional dexterity and restricts the innovative usage of information.
IFS Cloud offers thorough protection of core company functions through basic abilities, while likewise providing the versatility needed to support make-to-order and tailored production. By updating to IFS Cloud, Hoshizaki intends to lower extreme personalization, enhance financial investment expenses, and develop a scalable ERP platform efficient in supporting future development and growth.
At the heart of this improvement is Hoshizaki’s vision not just to produce top quality items, however likewise to take advantage of IFS in its basic setup any place possible. This will permit the business to remain lined up with the current releases in a prompt way while allowing future improvements in making performance and advanced decision-making through AI and other digital innovations. By combining order management, production preparation, making execution, and stock control into a merged platform, IFS Cloud offers the standardized information facilities and real-time exposure vital for innovative AI-driven analytics and optimization, placing the business to take advantage of emerging AI abilities within the IFS community as they progress.
Hannes Liebe, Regional President, APJMEA, at IFS, stated: “Hoshizaki is undertaking the modernization of its IT foundation with a forward-looking perspective, in response to the evolving environment surrounding the manufacturing industry. By establishing a modern, standardized ERP foundation, the company will make the use of industrial AI a practical option to support the next stage of manufacturing advancement, strengthening Hoshizaki’s sustainable competitive advantage.”
Tetsuya Kawai, Managing Director, Manufacturing Industries Solutions Division at NEC, stated: “NEC has continuously supported Hoshizaki’s core business operations through the implementation of IFS solutions. We are pleased to support Hoshizaki’s upgrade to IFS Cloud as a strategic partner as it embarks on its business transformation journey. Through this collaboration, we will contribute our experience in large-scale manufacturing IT transformation to help build a stable and scalable ERP foundation. This platform will enable Hoshizaki to enhance operational efficiency while creating new value through the application of Industrial AI.”
About IFS
IFS is the world’s leading company of Industrial AI for hardcore organizations that service, power and safeguard our world. Our innovation makes it possible for organizations which produce products, preserve intricate properties, and handle service-focused operations to open the transformative power of Industrial AI ™ to boost performance, effectiveness, and sustainability.
IFS’s AI-powered platform is totally composable, created for supreme versatility and flexibility to a client’s particular requirements and organization advancement. IFS innovation leverages AI, artificial intelligence, real-time information and analytics to empower our consumers to make educated tactical choices and stand out at their Moment of Service ™.
IFS was established in 1983 by 5 university buddies who pitched a camping tent outside our very first client’s website to guarantee they would be readily available 24/7 and the requirements of the consumer would come. Ever since, IFS has actually become an international leader with over 7,000 staff members in 80 nations. Driven by those fundamental worths of dexterity, customer-centricity, and trust, IFS is acknowledged around the world for providing worth and supporting tactical changes. We are the most suggested provider in our sector. See ifs.com to discover why.
About NEC
The NEC Group leverages innovation to develop social worth and promote a more sustainable world where everybody has the possibility to reach their complete capacity. NEC Corporation was developed in 1899. Today, the NEC Group’s around 110,000 workers make use of world-leading AI, security, and interactions innovations to fix the most important requirements of consumers and society.
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