Infor ERP Adage includes key business specific capabilities including:

Design-to-deploy

Material and product setup

• Definition of bulk items, packed bulk (item-packs), and packaging materials
• Formula management with full unit of measure (UOM) conversions, mass and volume UOMs, formula balancing, and ingredient substitutions
• Formula management with custom-specific formulas with by-products and co-products
• Inverse formulas for protein disassembly
• Pack-BOMs (bill of materials) with nesting for item-pack management
• Support for full cross-referencing to customer and customer-ship-to product designations
• Support for flexible product hierarchy by product family, group, and line
• Product definitions “as-sold” with relationship to bulk and packaged goods “as inventoried”

• Full quality-management capabilities with qualitative and quantitative tests and specs
• Support for internal and customer-specific specifications
• Full tracking of test results against purchased and manufactured lots
• Specification matching at order entry to select lots based on customer requirements

Plan-to-produce

• Forecast review and management
• Planning workbench
• MPS (Master Production Schedule) and MRP (Material Requirements Planning)

• Produce to bulk, through bulk to pack, or pack off existing bulk
• Catch weight with QC (Quality Control) test results inherited from master lot with sub-lot overrides
• Advanced lot and sub-lot management and lot re-grading capability and genealogy
• Alternate process management by formula, routing, and effectivity dates with costing
• Process variability and variance reporting
• Tank management with lot blending and cost averaging
• Support for electronic signature capture
• Support for special handling of controlled materials
• Support for full Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) based on COOL for ingredients at all levels

Order-to-cash

• Dynamic weights and measures with activity control/dry weight at item and lot level and used-in pricing
• Advanced allocation processing with FIFO (first in, first out), LIFO (last in, first out), or FEFO (first expired, first out) rules
• Support for load planning and load shipping, container, and bill-of-lading tracking
• Actual cost and actual-cost tracking to the lot level with post-transaction adjustments
• Actual cost simulation or full enablement
• Customer commodity-based pricing, promotional pricing, deductions, and trade funds that are integrated with AR (accounts receivables)
• Deductions workbench with automatic credit memo and accrual processing

Procure-to-pay

• Manual and planned requisitions
• Blanket purchase orders
• Supplier pricing and material cross references
• Purchase in multiple UOMs
• Supplier and customer pricing at either normal or actual weight

Manage the enterprise

Enterprise definition

• Global organizational setup to support multi-company, multi-currency, and multi-facility capabilities
• Enterprise level
• Company Level
• Operating entity level (branch, plant, warehouse)

External relationships

• Support for enterprise management of customers and vendors with multiple, company-specific bill-to, ship-to, deliver-from and remit-to relationships
• Support for freight and transportation logistics definitions and requirements
• Support for external warehouse definitions and vendor managed inventories

• Non-lot tracked, lot tracked, catch-weight sub lots
• Full transactional tracking for warehouse transfers
• Full lot genealogy for “used-in” and “made-from” tracking
• Summary-level cycle counting

Financial setup

• Full financial GL (general ledger) and sub-ledgers
• Any base currency by company
• Tax and European VAT (value-added tax) support