IFS Cloud Lobbies & Custom Objects
Unlock Your ERP’s Full Potential
In today’s fast-moving business environment, instant access to the right data is essential for productivity and decision-making. With this in mind, IFS Cloud Lobbies provide a powerful and intuitive way to streamline workflows, enhance visibility, and drive efficiency. All of this is delivered through a personalised and user-friendly dashboard.
But personalisation goes even further. With IFS Cloud Custom Objects, businesses can extend functionality without relying on heavy modifications. As a result, they reduce long-term costs and minimise the risks associated with legacy ERP customisations.
At Sorcha Systems, we help businesses maximise the value of their IFS Cloud upgrade by leveraging these tools to customise dashboards, enhance automation, and deliver smarter insights all while ensuring a seamless, scalable ERP solution.
What Are IFS Cloud Lobbies?
IFS Cloud Lobbies are dynamic and role-based dashboards that bring essential data to the forefront. As a result, users can quickly access relevant information and take action without digging through multiple screens.
How IFS Cloud Lobbies Transform Workflows
IFS Cloud Lobbies act as your personal command centre, bringing critical data, reports, and tasks to the forefront so you can make faster, smarter decisions. Instead of navigating through multiple screens to find what you need, lobbies deliver key insights in a single, customisable view, tailored to each user’s role.
Want to know how IFS Cloud Lobbies can optimise your daily operations? Explore the key benefits below.
✔ Personalised Insights:
No two roles are the same – so why should everyone see the same dashboard? IFS Cloud Lobbies allow users to customise their workspace, ensuring that the most relevant data is always front and centre.
- Role-Specific Dashboards: Tailor views for finance, supply chain, HR, or operations teams, so each department accesses the information they need without distractions.
- Real-Time Data Widgets: Configure live metrics, reports, and alerts that update dynamically, helping teams stay informed.
- Task Prioritisation: Display urgent tasks, outstanding approvals, or workflow bottlenecks, so nothing slips through the cracks.
By putting the most relevant insights at your fingertips, IFS Cloud Lobbies reduce time spent searching for information helping users focus on high-value tasks.
✔ Improved Decision Making:
Better data = better decisions. IFS Cloud Lobbies ensure leaders and teams have instant access to the right information, empowering faster, more informed choices across departments.
- Real-Time Business Intelligence: Make data-driven decisions using live analytics, rather than outdated reports.
- KPI & Performance Tracking: Monitor key business metrics and compare them against targets, so teams can take proactive action.
- Cross-Departmental Visibility: View integrated data from finance, sales, and operations in one place – eliminating silos and ensuring a unified approach to decision-making.
With IFS Cloud Lobbies, businesses move from reactive decision-making to proactive strategy execution—all with real-time, role-specific insights.
✔ Faster Task Management:
Time is money, and wasting it on unnecessary clicks and searches is costly. IFS Cloud Lobbies eliminate inefficiencies by bringing the most-used functions directly to the dashboard.
- Quick Access to Key Features: Pin frequently used functions such as approvals, orders, or reports directly to your lobby for one-click access.
- Automated Alerts & Notifications: Get instant updates on pending tasks, ensuring you never miss a deadline.
- Streamlined Workflows: Reduce the need for manual tracking with interactive dashboards that highlight what needs immediate attention.
Instead of spending time navigating menus, IFS Cloud Lobbies let users complete tasks faster, keeping workflows moving efficiently.
✔ Seamless User Experience:
A great ERP system isn’t just powerful – it’s easy to use. IFS Cloud Lobbies are designed to enhance user experience, making ERP navigation intuitive and accessible for all users.
- Responsive Design: Whether on desktop, tablet, or mobile, lobbies adapt to different screen sizes, ensuring a smooth experience across devices.
- Drag-and-Drop Customisation: No coding required users can rearrange widgets, adjust layouts, and personalise their views with simple drag-and-drop functionality.
- Reduced Learning Curve: With a clean, user-friendly interface, new employees can onboard faster and existing users can boost productivity.
By delivering an intuitive, visually engaging experience, IFS Cloud Lobbies ensure that businesses don’t just use their ERP – they maximise its potential.
For businesses that rely on Cloud ERP, lobbies provide a single source of truth, ensuring teams can make informed, strategic decisions faster than ever.
The Power of IFS Cloud Custom Objects
For many businesses, ERP modifications have long been a necessary evil which is essential for custom functionality but often costly, complex, and difficult to maintain during system upgrades. IFS Cloud Custom Objects solve this problem by providing built-in, configurable solutions that eliminate the need for traditional customisations.
How IFS Cloud Custom Objects Deliver Value
Traditional ERP customisations frequently create long-term challenges, ultimately making upgrades complex, costly, and time-consuming. However, IFS Cloud Custom Objects provide a more flexible and future-proof alternative, enabling businesses to extend functionality seamlessly without disrupting core system upgrades.
By replacing hard-coded modifications with configurable and upgrade-friendly enhancements, organisations can streamline workflows and reduce IT dependencies. As a result, they also boost productivity.
Want to know how IFS Cloud Custom Objects can transform your ERP? Explore the key benefits below.
✔ Reduce Legacy Modifications:
Hard-coded ERP customisations may seem like a solution today, but they become roadblocks when it’s time for an ERP Cloud upgrade. Over-customised systems lead to higher costs, longer upgrade times, and compatibility issues.
- Upgrade-Friendly Approach: Unlike traditional modifications, IFS Cloud Custom Objects remain compatible across system updates, reducing upgrade complexity.
- Lower Maintenance Costs: Say goodbye to expensive, time-consuming modifications that require developers to update custom code with every ERP change.
- Seamless Migration to IFS Cloud: Avoid carrying over outdated customisations that no longer serve your business needs.
By shifting from legacy modifications to custom objects, businesses ensure easier upgrades, lower costs, and long-term ERP stability.
✔ Enhanced Flexibility:
IFS Cloud Custom Objects give you back control by allowing businesses to create custom fields, tables, and logic. Best of all, this can be done without requiring extensive coding or IT intervention.
- Custom Data Fields: Store unique business data in structured, reportable formats.
- Extend Workflows: Automate processes using custom triggers and workflow rules.
- Integrate External Data: Seamlessly connect third-party applications with IFS Cloud.
- Role-Specific Functionality: Provide teams with the data and processes they need without cluttering the system for other users.
Whether you need custom approval processes, additional reporting metrics, or enhanced user workflows, IFS Cloud Custom Objects make it possible without breaking the system.
✔ Improved ERP Stability:
Many ERP systems struggle with customisation overload, leading to performance issues, system errors, and upgrade challenges. IFS Cloud Custom Objects allow businesses to tailor their ERP system while keeping it stable and scalable.
- Maintain a Lean ERP: Keep the core system clean and structured, ensuring that modifications don’t impact overall performance.
- Upgrade with Confidence: Reduce the risk of upgrade failures caused by outdated or conflicting customisations.
- Enable System-Wide Consistency: Ensure that new custom fields and tables follow best practices and remain compliant with future updates.
By leveraging IFS Cloud Custom Objects, businesses gain the flexibility of customisation. At the same time, they maintain ERP performance without compromise.
✔ Boost Productivity:
IFS Cloud is designed to be intuitive and adaptable, and Custom Objects take this a step further by making the system work for you without complex IT development.
- Self-Service Customisation: Business users can configure custom views, reports, and workflows without relying on developers.
- Automated Processes: Reduce manual tasks by setting up custom triggers for automated actions.
- Better Data Visibility: Create dashboards that surface critical business insights, ensuring teams always have the right information at their fingertips.
- Faster Time-to-Value: Customising an ERP system doesn’t have to be a multi-month development project, IFS Cloud allows for fast, effective modifications.
With IFS Cloud Custom Objects, businesses can customise smarter, not harder. As a result, they ensure a more productive and efficient ERP experience.
For businesses undergoing an IFS Cloud upgrade, leveraging Custom Objects allows them to tailor the system. At the same time, it ensures long-term maintainability remains un compromised.
How Sorcha Systems Optimises IFS Cloud Lobbies and Customisation
At Sorcha Systems, we firmly believe that ERP solution should never be one-size-fits-all. That’s why our team of IFS consultants works closely with businesses to carefully design IFS Cloud lobbies and custom objects that not only align with operational goals but also enhance overall efficiency. As a result, every department benefits from a tailored, highly efficient user experience.
Our IFS Cloud Lobbies and Customisation Approach
IFS Cloud offers powerful customisation capabilities, but to truly unlock its potential, businesses need a structured approach that aligns with their operations, goals, and future growth. At Sorcha Systems, we don’t just configure your IFS system, we optimise it to ensure you get maximum efficiency, automation, and long-term value from your IFS Cloud upgrade.
Here’s how we ensure your IFS Cloud customisation is seamless, scalable, and aligned with your business needs.
🔍 Business Process Review
Customising an ERP system without first understanding your business processes is like assembling furniture without the instructions. You might get it done, but it won’t be efficient.
That’s why our IFS consultants start with a deep dive into your operations, identifying opportunities for:
Workflow automation to reduce manual effort and errors.
Data visibility improvements to surface the most critical business insights.
Role-based customisations to ensure each team member sees exactly what they need.
By analysing your existing ERP setup, we pinpoint inefficiencies and design a customisation strategy that enhances productivity while keeping your system clean and upgrade-friendly.
📊 Tailored Dashboard & Object Design
IFS Cloud isn’t a one-size-fits-all ERP. It’s a flexible system designed to be configured for your specific needs. Our team works closely with you to:
Create role-based IFS Cloud Lobbies that display real-time, business-critical data for each department.
Design Custom Objects to store, manage, and process unique business data without unnecessary complexity.
Optimise reporting and dashboards so that insights are always available at a glance.
The result? A truly user-friendly, data-driven ERP experience that empowers your teams to work smarter – not harder.
⚙ Seamless Integration
ERP customisation is only effective if it fits seamlessly into your existing business ecosystem. Our IFS Cloud consultants ensure:
Smooth integration of IFS Cloud Custom Objects with external data sources.
Automated workflows that streamline processes and eliminate repetitive tasks.
A fully connected ERP system, ensuring your data flows accurately and efficiently across departments.
Whether you need to link IFS Cloud with third-party applications, extend API functionality, or sync data across multiple systems, we make it happen without adding complexity to future upgrades.
📈 Ongoing Support & Optimisation
ERP Customisation isn’t a one-and-done process. It’s an ongoing strategy to keep your ERP aligned with your evolving business needs.
At Sorcha Systems, we provide post IFS Cloud Implementation support to:
Continuously optimise dashboards and custom objects as your business scales.
Train your teams on best practices for managing and modifying custom configurations.
Ensure your IFS Cloud system remains stable and upgrade-ready for future enhancements.
By taking a proactive approach to IFS Cloud customisation, we help businesses maximise ROI, reduce technical debt, and future-proof their ERP investment.
IFS Cloud Customised, Scalable, and Built for Growth
IFS Cloud is more than just an ERP. It’s a strategic enabler for businesses that demand flexibility, efficiency, and future-ready solutions. But to truly harness its power, you need an IFS Cloud customisation strategy that aligns with your unique workflows, industry demands, and long-term objectives.
At Sorcha Systems, we don’t just configure ERP systems, we optimise them for real-world success. Whether it’s intelligent dashboards, process automation, or seamless system integrations, our expert IFS Cloud consultants ensure your ERP is not only tailored to your business today but built to scale with your future growth without unnecessary complexity or costly rework.
With access to over 140 qualified and experienced IFS Consultants across several timezones, Sorcha Systems are bridge partners working with both IFS Consultancies and IFS Customers to find, design, and implement the best solutions.
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