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Industry Leading Solutions for Comprehensive Manufacturing Control
Lean Manufacturing in Complex Markets
Infor Discrete Manufacturing Essentials help you plan better, react faster and expand operating margins within complex global markets. These integrated solutions are built exclusively for discrete manufacturers, with specific functionality that addresses the industry's essential challenges. The result? For one typical Infor customer, a 50 percent reduction in data processing costs and fully automated management of more than 11,000 items and 200 suppliers. That's just one example of how our integrated solutions are helping discrete manufacturers manage Lean initiatives and improve overall operational quality.
Respond Instantly to Changing Conditions
Infor's Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions enable better, faster decisions through real-time visibility into discrete manufacturing operations. Infor's EPM solutions Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) improve the quality and timeliness of your information, so you can respond instantly to Real-time visibility into your discrete operations changing conditions, and make mid-course corrections when you need to. Our intuitive executive dashboard lets you quickly and easily define performance metrics, events that should become problems trigger an alert and how staff members are notified. A common repository for business intelligence collected from your Infor system and other sources provides easy management.
Infor's Solutions Include:
Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) queries, reports, data models and metadata.
Improved process efficiencies and profitability
Accelerated response times to changing supply chains
Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Robust forecasting, demand planning and purchasing tools
Improved quality, minimized tracking expenses, superior customer retention
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Streamlined, automated processes for improved quality
Robust campaign management for customer, vendor and partner promotions
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Demand more from your Supply Chain
- Industry leading financial management able in the right quantities, exactly when needed. Our forecasting, demand planning and functionality that provides real-time, purchasing tools apply advanced statistical analysis for accurate purchasing decisions and accurate information reduced inventory costs. Automated order placement and fulfillment combine with full exception management to handle unexpectedly high or low periods of demand and planned product obsolescence. Better yet, we give you the ability to automatically balance plant, warehouse and supplier capacity constraints, as well as customer proximity and distribution network bottlenecks across multiple locations.
Our Supply Chain Management (SCM) solutions apply multiple alternative procurement methods such as Supplier Managed Inventory (SMI), Discrete Purchase Orders, Standard Releases or Kanban. Automated supplier performance metrics create Defective Materials Notices and Delivery Performance Reviews to help you monitor and improve the quality and reliability of supplier operations. This comprehensive approach to discrete manufacturing improves quality, minimizes recall tracking expenses and helps retain even your most demanding customers. You save time and money by carrying only the inventory you need and avoiding unnecessary premium shipping charges.
Grow your Customer Base
Infor's Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions for manufacturers give you the real-time information you need to grow your base of customers and maximize opportunities with them. By automating manual processes for everything from repeat orders to advanced shipping notification, we improve quality by preventing information delays and minimizing risk and failure points. Infor's CRM solutions integrate with both Infor and other ERP applications to reduce costs and improve operating efficiency. Your customers benefit from reduced resource requirements, and you gain from greater customer satisfaction.
Infor's CRM solutions operate locally and scale transparently for international operations. We help you identify and target what customers need, automate repetitive orders and generate focused programs to open new markets. Robust campaign management enables comprehensive customer, vendor and partner promotions.
Benefits
- Accelerate your response to complex direct and channel activities, giving you a complete picture of every customer touchpoint you changes in your global supply chain have, so you can manage them better and get more value from them.
- Streamline your sourcing and management processes for improved profitability Infor's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions cover every aspect of discrete manufacturing production - master production schedules, order processing, material requirements planning, production scheduling and execution, detailed lot tracking, inventory management, multiple production reporting methodologies and more. Our solutions are fully application scalable, supporting both low- and high-volume manufacturing. And because they are built exclusively for the discrete manufacturing industry, they raise financial management to a new standard of accuracy.
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