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Infor ERP SyteLine 8

Now more than ever, manufacturing is a race against time. fierce global competition makes it imperative for manufacturers to shorten time to market, and that means tight synchronization of supply and demand across the business. It’s simply what customers have come to expect these days, and enterprising manufacturers not only meet the expectations; they exceed them with unprecedented speed and agility. The key is having the right technology support.

Effective supply chain synchronization is vital to stay competitive and meet customer requirements, but the true measure of success is how well your manufacturing plants perform. Within those four walls, you can’t afford anything less than optimum flexibility and agility, with systems that support the smooth flow of information and materials through all your operations. Lean manufacturing is the key to efficiency, supporting mixed modes of production to help you be as responsive to changing customer demand as you need to be. The manufacturing capabilities of Infor™ ERP SL (formerly SyteLine) make it possible.

Infor ERP SL, a powerful solution that brings a new level of performance to manufacturing operations, enabling you to:

Maintain multiple production environments simultaneously.
Effectively plan capacity and material available for each of your manufacturing sites.
Keep inventory low while avoiding shortages.
Reduce the cost of goods sold.

With Infor ERP SL, you can rely on a solution that is built, serviced, and managed by manufacturing professionals who understand your production requirements—above all, the need for processes to flow smoothly, without obstacles or hold-ups. With our focus on helping you achieve your lean manufacturing and quality goals, Infor ERP SL provides ongoing value to your organization.

Core capabilities

Mixed mode manufacturing. Our solution accommodates true mixed mode manufacturing. From repetitive to engineer-to-order, Infor ERP SL enables the processes you need to accelerate production and meet customer demandmore quickly.
Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS). The solution includes a fully integrated, lean advanced planning engine that synchronizes material and capacity to customer orders. You provide accurate and real-time capable-topromise estimates to your customers, so when you make a promise, you keep it.
Complex product configuration. Infor ERP SL provides integrated management tools to ensure configured orders are accurate for the customer and feasible for the production department.
Materials and inventory management. Keep inventory low while avoiding shortages with Infor ERP SL. The solution automates the process of calculating and monitoring your inventory drivers—forecasts, safety stocks, and order size.
Business intelligence. Infor ERP SL includes sophisticated tools to gather, analyze, and act on data—turning it into useful information for the purposes of planning and decision making.
Customer management. As the market changes, you have the flexibility to adapt business processes to continually satisfy customers and work more closely with suppliers.
Kitting. New kit builder allows items to be defined as kits with kitting activities to automate the issue of kit components. Kitting activities are included for customer orders, projects, transfer orders, and job orders.
Robust user interface (UI) and personalization. New forms reduce the number of clicks and support high volume data entry. New linked buttons allow users to navigate easily increasing productivity. Personalization features are standard and are fully upgradeable thus eliminating or reducing costly modifications.

Built-in flexibility and global support

Every business is slightly different from the next, Infor ERP SL empowers manufacturers to personalize the UI to meet unique industry, team, or individual user requirements. Users can easily add, remove, and edit fields, labels, and complete screens without the need for technical programming. Most important, the time invested and business value created are not lost when the system is upgraded. As the business changes, the system will adapt and move forward, too.

Infor ERP SL enables exceptional APS capabilities, it also recognizes that most customers must evolve to APS. As such, it delivers the options and parameters for users to smoothly migrate from traditional MRP planning to advanced, demand pull capabilities.

Infor ERP SL also provides the global support you need. Our solutions are built to accommodate multiple languages and currencies, as well as to support local statutory compliance. Our customers like the geographic spread we are able to offer, meaning we can get you up and running quickly—your business subsidiaries, too—no matter where the location. We are unique in our global reach, providing a combination of global functionality and local support that is unmatched by other business software providers. But it is more than location that our customers like about us. They also appreciate our knowledge of the issues involved in implementing systems in global companies.

If you are grappling with disparate sub-systems that require significant maintenance, Infor ERP SL provides the centric technology solution you are looking for, allowing for consolidation of effort and reduced total cost of ownership. It’s ideally suited for companies looking for a global footprint with dynamic configuration modeling needs, because it allows your multiple sites to operate based on their needs, while retaining your corporate governance standards. In short, it’s a solution designed for enterprising companies that want to achieve specific business benefits with global presence.

This extended business value is being delivered through interoperable solutions by leveraging our Infor Open Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). This allows customers to augment what they have today with minimal disruption to their business and provides them with extended capabilities through seamless business process execution regardless of technology platform.

Get the results now.

Packaged with smart functionality to address the key challenges manufacturers face today, Infor ERP SL requires less customization, shorter implementation time, and fewer IT resources to maintain. That means an immediate return on your investment, and lower total cost of ownership over the long term. From the very first day, you’ll see improvements in visibility and transparency of data to address your challenges. The solution’s lean planning and scheduling capabilities provide the latest in demand pull algorithms, but also honor traditional lean pull parameters, enabling you to achieve the best of both lean worlds. And you will take a giant leap forward in your ability to manage materials and inventory more efficiently.

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