Solutions for the Metal Fabrication Industry: A More Profitable Industry Value Chain

Solutions for the Metal Fabrication Industry

A more profitable industry value chain

Manufacturers in the metal fabrication industry face many challenges. Fabricators must maintain flexibility to change capacity requirements while operating effective continuous-replenishment systems. They must determine a productive way to collaborate with customers on designs and manage resources globally to fulfill design elements. In order to align their production plans with customer's demand, metal fabricators must integrate seamlessly into the customer's own processes. As a result, integrated systems are essential, bringing design, product lifecycle management and service together in ways that predict, act and rapidly change in accordance with the customer's needs.

Infor Manufacturing Essentials for metal fabrication integrate data and processes to give you better visibility into your customer needs, production operations and extended supply chain. They enable you to respond rapidly to changing customer product mixes and shorter lead times. Our online collaboration capabilities give you the ability to synchronize your production schedules easily with those of your customers. Even more, our solutions save Comprehensive real-time you time and money in the sourcing process, enabling you to purchase raw materials when you need them at the best price possible, then help you utilize factory equipment and communications across your value inventory as efficiently as possible. Our solutions also give you the flexibility to move aggressively into lean manufacturing, with complete coverage for both core and outsourced operations.

With our solutions, you can order and allocate inventory across multiple facilities in real Multifunction analytical tools time. You can also carry only the raw materials and work-in-process you need, with cost savings that pass directly to your bottom line. Automated lot control assigns and tracks orders with specific materials, including lot-based expiration dates to help you avoid unusable or obsolete inventory. Lots can be assigned to individual orders so that the correct specified material is used and inventory is consumed with minimal waste.

Infor's deep knowledge of metal fabrication helps you deliver design and engineering services that support higher-margin products. Multi-dimensional inventory management, including both standard units (sheets, coils, ingots, etc.) and dimensions (square feet, length by width, weight, etc.), maximizes the use of available materials. Automated financial monitoring of preparation, machining, fabrication and finishing processes, Infor takes pride in the 20 years of experience we have in the metal fabrication industry.