Consultant: Chris Stanghan
Role: Chief Executive Officer
Focus: Project Manager & Functional Consultant - Manufacturing and Supply Chain

Specialities:Chris is a mature and highly experienced project manager, business adviser and application consultant, who has focused in recent years on implementation of IFS Applications. An enthusiastic and flexible team player who is equally at home in a project leadership or in an applications consulting, training or user support role, where he has built a reputation as one of Europe’s leading independent IFS functional experts. ​Co-founder of the UK IFS User group, Chris is widely known and respected within the IFS community and has collected experience of deploying IFS in many countries and cultures from the USA to South-East Asia. Equally comfortable as a senior project/programme manager in large global roll-outs, application architect or as a hands-on project resource in projects of all sizes, his core skills include;​​


  • Application and Process Audits. ERP Selection and investment approval support.​
  • Project Management for new ERP Implementations (10 IFS projects) and Upgrades (3 projects).​
  • Project Plan construction, team formation, vendor liaison, budgetary control, communications (all levels).​
  • Applications and process architect adept at defining and deploying a process solution without modification.
  • Business process re-structuring and deployment for commercial, service and manufacturing organizations.​
  • Extensive functional knowledge of IFS Applications (20 years experience of IFS2001-3 to Apps 10)​
  • IFS Module specialist expertise in Manufacturing, Engineering, Distribution, Human Resources, Service/Maintenance, Projects, CRM and Finance. 
  • Specialist areas such as Materials Planning(MPS/MRP), Sub-contracting, Demand Planning, Constraint Based Scheduling (CBS/APB)
  • Configure to Order(CTO) and Warehouse Data Collection (WaDaCo).​
  • Specification of interfaces (including EDI and export software), creation of custom objects and lobbies.
  • Key/End User training, IFS Security, helpdesk support and Data Migration/Quick Reports/SQL query. ​
  • Development and execution of test plans.​
  • Strategic and Operational Management and Supervision (to Director Level)​
  • Highly competent in the use of Microsoft Office applications and Visual Basic (.Net).​
  • Remote user support.​​

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IFS Operations Consulting and Project Management

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