Materials Management for Infor VISUAL

Enterprise Resource Planning Module

In today’s world of globalization and price pressures, it’s imperative that your enterprise resource planning systems offer a business-specific solution with industry experience built in. This is true whether you produce goods made from distinct parts and components such as automobiles, electronics, and machinery or goods made by blending ingredients such as foods, beverages, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals.

As an ERP software vendor, Infor offers a variety of ERP systems that help manufacturing businesses in a wide spectrum of subsectors develop, automate, plan, collaborate, execute, and deliver according to their unique business requirements.

Built on an open, flexible, service-oriented architecture (SOA) with modern, web-based user interfaces, our scalable ERP solutions never lock you into one mode of operating. Instead, they offer a breadth of functionality that enables you to automate key manufacturing and financial processes, meet fluctuating customer demand and compliance requirements, and collaborate internally as well as externally across your supply chain-all at a low total cost of ownership.

Lean manufacturing core functionality is built into our ERP solutions to minimize material waste and increase quality and productivity; strong aftermarket service capabilities expedite service management.

With multiple deployment and buying options for Infor ERP, including SaaS, manufacturers can choose the model that meets their specific requirements

Product Lifecycle Management Module

Successful new products are the lifeblood of your company’s growth and profitability. The success of 60% of most new products is determined in the product development phase, including 80% of costs and 90% of regulatory risks. Supplier collaboration early on can improve your product’s functionality, as well as minimize costs and time to market.

Infor VISUAL PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) helps your business maximize profit by optimizing every stage of your product’s life, from portfolio management to product development to ongoing maintenance and retirement. It integrates product information from design and engineering with sourcing, compliance, suppliers, and supply chains to speed product development, ensure quality, and mitigate regulatory risks.

Infor VISUAL PLM has Helped Order-Driven Manufacturing Companies Like Yours:

• Improve product innovation
• Drive revenue growth with successful new product introductions
• Boost new product profitability by up to 10%
• Reduce time to market by up to 50%
• Improve on-time product launches by up to 98%, including regulated industries

Quality Management Module

In today’s global market, quality is king as manufacturers face increased competition for customers. The pressure to reduce time and error makes it imperative that manufacturing businesses establish and maintain quality assurance criteria that fully support industry regulations. To remain competitive, manufacturers need to optimize their engineering and product lifecycles and leverage supply chains to bring superior products to market on time and on budget.

For order-driven manufacturers looking to balance productivity, quality assurance, customer satisfaction, and profitability, Infor delivers a solution for fully integrated, robust, scalable, automated quality management designed to fit their specific industry requirements. Our solution integrates all logistic and quality management processes, enabling manufacturers to improve operational performance and leverage their supply chains to attain superior quality and exceed customer expectations.

Infor VISUAL ERP’s Quality Management Solutions Help Manufacturing Businesses Like Yours:

• Manage quality across multiple plants and distributed teams
• Improve decision-making with real-time, accurate engineering and product data
• Monitor supplier performance against industry benchmarks
• Increase customer satisfaction with shorter response times 
• Establish and manage criteria to support industry standards and regulations 
• Improve collaboration between employees, suppliers, and customers
• Reduce the cost of goods sold

Ideal for makers of complex products, the quality management components of Infor VISUAL ERP system help manufacturing businesses improve quality levels and take corrective action when necessary. They allow you to streamline business processes by automating associated concept, design, pre-production, production, and post-production activities and by facilitating the collection, analysis, and control of key data.

You’ll get support for cost-effective decision-making with pre-production process analyses, including performance and capability indices. You’ll also improve response times; increase customer satisfaction by maintaining accessible, detailed customer histories; and monitor and manage communications with customers and suppliers to improve all supply chain relationships. And through better process management, you’ll prevent and reduce failure-increasing your profit margins.