Whilst companies in the past were busy optimising processes such as procurement, production and sales, the future will bring a need to coordinate the horizontal networks and business processes better with each other.
This gives rise to a huge number of benefits, such as lower warehousing costs, better readiness to deliver, shorter process throughput times as well as better product and service quality.
In order to make full use of this potential for optimisation, it is important that clients and suppliers are included in the efforts to optimise processes. This means that there must be an efficient flow of material and information between all the partners that are involved. And that, in turn, means that what are usually heterogeneous systems have to be able to be connected as optimally as possible using suitable interfaces and system protocols.

Against this background, IPS sublimates all the appropriate technologies and activities which coordinate and optimise the process chains in an association of companies so that the market participants - the clients, suppliers and intermediaries - can communicate and exchange information with the highest possible level of cost savings and protection of resources. Supply and demand should be synchronised beyond the limits of a single company.