TLDR: IFS, a global enterprise software company, has received the prestigious AI in Sustainability Award at the Global Sustainability Awards 2025 for its AI-powered Planning and Scheduling Optimisation (PSO) solution. The award recognizes IFS’s innovative use of AI to help asset-intensive industries reduce emissions, enhance efficiency, and achieve significant sustainability benefits.
IFS, a leading global enterprise software company, has been lauded with the ‘AI in Sustainability Award’ at the esteemed Global Sustainability Awards 2025. This significant recognition, announced on September 12, 2025, highlights IFS’s groundbreaking efforts in integrating sustainability directly into daily business operations through advanced Artificial Intelligence. The company, which boasts over 7,000 employees and serves customers across 80 countries, continues to solidify its position as a frontrunner in delivering industrial AI solutions aimed at reducing environmental impact, optimizing costs, and boosting operational efficiency.
The accolade was specifically presented for IFS’s AI-powered Planning and Scheduling Optimisation (PSO) solution. Michael Backstone, Global Climate Strategy Manager at IFS, elaborated on the solution’s impact: “We’ve won the AI in Sustainability Award for our solution PSO. PSO is a scheduling optimisation engine that delivers a combination of operational, commercial and sustainability benefits. So it really is a win-win-win for customers.”
Backstone further emphasized the AI-driven nature of PSO, stating, “It’s AI-driven using agentic flows and it gives our customers the ability to optimise all of their resources and drive sustainability benefits at the same time.” By intelligently minimizing factors such as travel, fuel consumption, and waste, PSO empowers organizations to significantly cut their carbon footprint. Simultaneously, it unlocks substantial financial and operational gains, demonstrating a powerful synergy between environmental responsibility and business success.
IFS views sustainability not as an isolated initiative but as a fundamental component embedded across its entire product portfolio. Sophie Graham, Chief Sustainability Officer at IFS, articulated this philosophy, noting that IFS Industrial AI plays a crucial role in supporting asset-intensive industries as they transition towards a low-carbon future. The award validates IFS’s conviction that technology can provide the ‘how roadmap’ for industries committed to decarbonization.
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The Global Sustainability Awards 2025 celebrate organizations that effectively leverage artificial intelligence to enhance environmental performance. IFS’s triumph underscores its success in developing solutions that yield measurable outcomes, reinforcing the growing importance of data and AI in addressing complex global sustainability challenges.
