Infor CloudSuite Process Manufacturing

Challenges Impacting Process Mfg.

Margin Pressure

Highly volatile raw material costs and availability.
Tightened SLAs from retailers and distributors.
Unpredictable utility and transportation costs.

Order lead times

Issues

Short lead times.
Product to forecast vs. orders.
Short shelf life.
Penalties for late or incomplete fulfillment.

Infor Difference

Multi-site planning.
Algorithm accounts for shelf life.
Promotional considerations.

Total Cost of Ownership

Issues

Cost of IT.
New technology adoption.
IT strategy as core competence.

Infor Difference

Quick return on investment.
Low IT requirements.
Empowered users.
Successful implementations.
One stop shop.

Quality and Compliance

Regulations and Labelling laws changing.
Less processing/preservatives puts new pressure on quality.
Environmental laws & sustainability innovative evolving.

Product Traceability

Issues

Required to know where specific serial & lot traced items are used and shipped.

Infor Difference

Full traceability including detailed tracking of serial tracking items going into serial track items.

Innovation and Differentiation

Consumer demands continue to evolve requiring new products be developed.
New ingredients, technology and packaging.
Consumer demands for information continue to expand.

Formula Management

Issues

Variable Ingredients
Variable Product Cost
Fixed Selling Price

Infor Difference

Optimize across ingredient and operational variable.
Actual costing helps determine optimum product mix.

Key Differentiators

User Experience

Workspace – In-Context BI
Mingle – Social Business Platform
EPAK -Enterprise Performance Accelerator Kit & KNOWLEDGE ZONE – Online Training Portal

Infor CloudSuite Process Manufacturing

Make to Order	Make to Stock	Engineer to Order	Configure to Order	Repetitive

Financial Management	Costing & Analysis	Production & Operations Management
Multi-site	CRM	Sale & Operation Planning
Human Capital Management	Procurement & Strategic Sourcing	Quality Management
Project Management	Warehouse Management	Barcode Data Collection
eCommerce	Corporate Perfomance Management	Product Lifecycle Management
Expense Management	Portal – Customer – Vendor	Energy Sustainability

Technology

Microsoft .NET – Mongoose Toolset – SQL Database

ION – Integration – Workflow – Alerts – Event Management

Deployment – On-Premise – Hosted – SaaS

Make Your our CloudSuite Process Manufacturing your Own

Software that works the way you do.
Configurable for each user.
Access information from anywhere.
Easy customer portal access.

Built Exclusively on Microsoft

Full integration with Microsoft Office
AQL database
Browser agnostic
Cloud or on-premise
Low cost of ownership
- Minimum IT resources required
- Minimum servers
  - Virtual servers are supported

Infor Mongoose

Technology and Smart Framework

Application Development: Mongoose is Infor’s rapid development framework for building new and extending legacy applications.

Flexible Architecture: Mongoose can be used to build anything – from complex ERPs to simple web parts.

Efficient & Fast: Mongoose is engineered to scale quickly, enabling a low cost, unified platform for all business applications within an IT footprint.

Rapid application Development

Why is it fast?	How Does it Work?
Wizard-driven features to create tables, IDOs and base forms.	Minimize code via metadata (Forms, IDOs and AES)
Basic Functions pre-plumbed.	Behaviors implemented via event-driven architecture
No separate development tool, it’s in Mongoose.	Code is .NET, built in Visual Studio, Managed by the framework
Code can be Added as needed using standard Microsoft Language.	Uses MS SQL Server databases