IFS, the global enterprise applications company, has announced a significant deal with Wellstream International Limited, one of the world's leading suppliers of flexible pipelines to the oil and gas industry. Wellstream has chosen IFS Applications to help manage its entire project lifecycle.

IFS Applications will enable Wellstream to ensure that products are manufactured to the highest standards of quality, health and safety, Supply Chain Market reported.

Wellstream manufactures flexible pipelines for offshore and onshore oil and gas production. Working on a project by project basis, Wellstream engineers develop pipeline solutions tailored to address specific constraints of each application and project such as pressure, water depth, temperature and fluid characteristics.

Because of its engineer-to-order (ETO) business model, it was essential for the company to choose a software system that could manage the critical path of all project activities in order to deliver products to its customers within a specified critical timeline and support oil field operations, often offshore. IFS Applications will replace a number of legacy systems from multiple vendors.

Wellstream, which currently has operations in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and Australia, is in the process of expanding its South American operations by building a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Brazil.