Automotive

Infor is a global provider of enterprise business solutions to select manufacturing and distribution industries. Together with IBM, we solve the essential, industry-specific challenges of our customers through our global reach and targeted solutions. Our world-class supply chain and enterprise solutions optimise business performance and deliver rapid return on investment, low total cost of ownership and bottom-line business results. By focusing on select vertical markets, we deliver deep domain expertise to the industries like automotive, consumer packaging, discrete manufacturing, food and beverage, specialty chemicals and pharmaceuticals, and distribution.

• How much will we sell?
• Where will we sell it from?
• What, when and how much are we going to supply?
• How much should we buy/make?
• Do we have enough material to fulfil the changes in the production plan?
• Why, even with this inventory, we cannot fulfil our demand?
• Why do we have to change the production plan again?
• What did I order? Did I fax it?
• How can we cut costs?
• Why the planners are always on the phone?
• Who do I call next and when?
• How much did we spend on this?
• Why do we have this amount of unexpected freight costs?
• Which supplier do we have to focus first?
• Did we credit the wrong deliveries?
• Where is the shipment?
• Which shipment do we have to look first, where do we have more risk?
• Did the supplier attend to the Defective Material Notice?
• Is there a way to know what is going on with the new product?

Infor's Supply Chain Management product suites using IBM's iSeries deliver best of breed software applications for supply chain and inventory management. These solutions allow customers to optimise their return on investment by implementing the latest supply chain planning techniques in conjunction with state-of-the-art technology in a cost-effective manner. Infor is committed to providing solutions that address the unique needs of our customers that require minimal customisation, delivering rapid implementation, low cost of ownership, and long-term return on investment.

• Fast and Slow Moving with Forecasting Techniques
• Product Life Cycle Planning (Supersession / Obsolescence)
• Seasonality
• Causal Modelling
• Initial Provisioning
• Collaboration

• Multiple Safety Stock Rules
• Inventory Classification
• Economic Order Quantities
• Stock Location Planning

• Time Phased Requirements (Recommended Purchase Quantities).
• Kitting & Bills Of Material
• Rough Cut Capacity Planning
• Flexible Sourcing

• Vendor Managed Inventories
• Stock Transfer
• Balanced Allocation

• Supports the S & OP Process
• Monitors and Reports
• User Defined Comparative Data

• Customer Forecasts & Collaboration
• Requirements Planning
• Product Information

Available upon request

Infor has helped countless manufacturers in various industries implement Lean Manufacturing strategies that help to lift their businesses to new heights. Using IBM's iSeries, Lean Thinking can cut down waste, enhance delivered quality to the customer and reduce lead-time through the plant. Lean can be seen as part of an overall fitness campaign for the manufacturing sector. Businesses that are fit are more flexible, responsive and efficient and therefore more alert to new business opportunities and focused on achieving their objectives. As with personal fitness, a key aspect of business fitness is goal-setting and measurement.

• CRM
• Help Desk
• Sales Force Automation
• Service
• eBiz
• EDI connection

• Integrated Trading Partners
• Tracked Cumulated numbers
• Release Management
• Shipping Management. Scan to Ship
• Container Management
• Self Billing Invoice

• Sales Planning
• Product Configurator
• Market driven pull systems
• Quotation and Order Management
• Purchasing Management
• Concurrent Advanced Planning
• Repetitive Manufacturing
• Kanban
• Manufacturing control
• Inventory Management
• Project Management

• Transactional based warehouse management
• Alerts for exceptions
• Radio Frequenz
• 3LP
• Real Time inventory visibility
• Workload Planning and Processing

• Engineering and Product Management
• Product and Process Quality
• Preventive Management and Gage Management
• Business Performance Management
• 5s Management

• APS. Advanced Planning and Scheduling
• TOC (Theory of constraints)
• Time Management
• Shop Floor Data Capture
• Tooling Management

• Financial Accounting and Budgeting
• Asset Management
• Costing and Value Flow
• Cash and Credit Management

• Business Intelligence
• KPI's
• Financial Reporting
• Operational reporting
• Workflow and alert Management

Available upon request

SupplyWEB™ is a web-based supply chain solution that helps you connect and reduce costs in dealing with your suppliers. Together with IBM's iSeries, SupplyWEB is the most complete solution on the market for enabling two-way communication of procurement data and performance rating information between you and your suppliers. SupplyWEB is the leading tool in the market enabling lean processing, inventory reduction, and creating true ROI / cost saving through-out your supply chain.

• Reduce inventory levels: have your suppliers deliver only what you need, when you need it
• Reduce Premium Freight
• Improve Visibility: know what's on hand, and what's on the way
• Automate Receiving
• Eliminate faxing, communication and paper costs
• Have your Suppliers do their own data entry
• Reduce overhead involved in managing suppliers

• Extend EDI Integration to your suppliers
• Speed needed for Deliver-to-Order (DTO)
• Track OEM usage and allow suppliers to manage their inventory
• Quickly disseminate changes throughout the supply chain
• Increase productivity.
• Improve operation efficiency with automated processes.
• Streamline process.
• Ease information access.
• On demand responsiveness
• Business innovations
• Paperless environment
• Real time access
• Improve workflow management
• Ahead of competition

• Multiple and Mixed Procurement Methodologies
• Exception driven
• Pull systems: SMI and eKanban

• Real Time Multiple replenishment options are at part level
• Demand Consolidation view by part
• Premium freight management
• Standard shipment documentation for entire supply chain

• Supplier scorecard to both buyer and seller
• Delivery performance issues tracked
• Discrepant material notification tracked
• PPM calculated
• PPAP status

• Financial control system to facilitate automated payments
• Ability for suppliers to enter invoicing information online
• Remittance history posted online
• Supports Self-Billing process
• Payment remittance

• Global Track and Trace of goods in-transit from long distant suppliers
• Outside Processing
• Receiving information
• Bar code labels and ASNs to automate receiving

• Event driven dashboard
• Alerts with email notification functionality
• Multiple communication methods (EDI, XML, CSV¡K)
• User roles and security
• Supports 14 standard languages
• ERP Independent

Available upon request