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.
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Metal Fabrication Industry
A more profitable industry value chainManufacturers in the metal fabrication industry face many challenges. Fabricators mustmaintain flexibility to change capacity requirements while operating effective continuous-replenishment systems. They must determine a productive way to collaborate withcustomers on designs and manage resources globally to fulfill design elements. In order toalign their production plans with customer's demand, metal fabricators must integrateseamlessly into the customer's own processes. As a result, integrated systems areessential, bringing design, product lifecycle management and service together in ways thatpredict, act and rapidly change in accordance with the customer's needs.
Infor Manufacturing Essentials for metal fabrication integrate data and processes to giveyou better visibility into your customer needs, production operations and extended supplychain. They enable you to respond rapidly to changing customer product mixes and shorterInfor Solutions Include: lead times. Our online collaboration capabilities give you the ability to synchronize yourproduction schedules easily with those of your customers. Even more, our solutions saveyou time and money in the sourcing process, enabling you to purchase raw materials whenComprehensive real-time you need them at the best price possible, then help you utilize factory equipment andcommunications across your value inventory as efficiently as possible. Our solutions also give you the flexibility to movechain aggressively into lean manufacturing, with complete coverage for both core and outsourcedoperations.Robust capacity planning, scheduling,management and resource Smarter scheduling. Higher quality. Tighter control.management tools Infor solutions link customers, fabrication plants, warehouses, outsourced operations andsuppliers together into a single, seamless business flow. Faster, more accurate flow ofMultiple advanced statistical information helps your design and engineering teams develop new and innovative productsforecasting tools that avoid the commoditization trap. Built-in industry functionality supports a wide rangeof fabrication and machining processes right out of the box. Automated asset managementtracks maintenance, location and availability for factory equipment, so you can build moreComprehensive order-to-cash accurate schedules and improve product quality. processes With our solutions, you can order and allocate inventory across multiple facilities in realMultifunction analytical tools time. You can also carry only the raw materials and work-in-process you need, with costsavings that pass directly to your bottom line. Automated lot control assigns and tracksorders with specific materials, including lot-based expiration dates to help you avoidunusable or obsolete inventory. Lots can be assigned to individual orders so that thecorrect specified material is used and inventory is consumed with minimal waste.
Infor's deep knowledge of metal fabrication helps you deliver design and engineeringservices 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. Automatedfinancial monitoring of preparation, machining, fabrication and finishing processes,
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Infor takes pride in the 20 years including the availability and disposal of raw materials, production chemicals and tailings,of experience we have in the enables better quality through more efficient use of materials. In addition, we simplify thedocumentation required for regulatory compliance.metal fabrication industry. Using our deep base of industryknowledge and proven Features and benefits for metal fabricatorscommunications and planningapplications, we help suppliers Features. Comprehensive real-time communications across your value chain, includingand manufacturers achieve their customers, suppliers, subcontractors, logistics providers, plants and other facilities-business goals. -with EDI, XML and traditional communications such as FAX. Robust capacity planning, scheduling, management and resource managementtools for multiple methods of managing customers, labor, tooling, supply sources,We are passionately focused shipping and plan... [download for more]
