Every day supply chains become more complex as they stretch further around the globe and involve more products and more participants. Supply chain executives must contend with demanding customers, rapidly changing markets, rising energy costs, and increased congestion at ports and on roadways. More than ever before, natural disasters and terrorism in any area of the world can negatively impact your supply chain. Yet most supply chain systems provide limited capabilities. And each year your team is asked to do more with less.

How do you operate a chaos-tolerant supply chain in this world of increasing uncertainty? It’s just not possible unless you have business-specific solutions that help you manage complexity and be more competitive.

By partnering with us, you're assured of having comprehensive SCM solutions, with best practices built in, that match all of your business priorities, from setting supply chain strategies to executing last mile delivery—from concept to customer.

Infor SCM (Supply Chain Management) represents our commitment to delivering network design, demand planning, supply planning, production scheduling, warehouse management, and transportation solutions designed specifically for your business.

Components include:

Strategic Network Design and Tactical Planning—optimize

The secret to supply chain success starts with the very design of your network. Superior performance is determined by the location and capacity of manufacturing, distribution, and transportation assets. To master the complexities of expansion, competitiveness, and risk, companies need to continually evaluate and strategically align these assets and reconfigure their network to leverage changes in demand, supply, labor, and
transportation, as well as outsourcing options.

With Infor SCM Strategic Network Design and Tactical Planning, you can quickly determine optimal facility location and capacity requirements, evaluate different transportation and inventory strategies, select vendors, mitigate risks—and perform profitability and cost analysis. You can determine where and when to make, buy, store, and move product through your network to your customers. You can also create a time-phased plan of material movement through your enterprise, so you can trade off capacities and the cost of multiple options to optimize service, as well as profit, over multiple time periods.

Demand Planning—a collaborative view

Customer-focused businesses need an accurate picture of demand to drive production, inventory, distribution, and buying plans across their operations. With Infor SCM Demand Planning, you can sense and shape customer demand more efficiently. Advanced statistical capabilities combined with market knowledge gained from internal and external collaboration bring pinpoint accuracy to your demand plans. You can even model the effect of promotions and events.

The Infor SCM Sales and Operations Reporting and Collaborate modules give you the tools to share knowledge internally among different departments and remote locations, as well as externally with customers and suppliers. With this increased visibility, you can boost the effectiveness of demand and replenishment processes, as well as improve the accuracy of all demand, inventory, and supply plans. The result: a single, global view of the “truth” that both provides the foundation for your sales and operations plan and helps you achieve measurable service improvements.

Inventory Planner—achieve balance

Infor SCM Inventory Planner helps analyze, model, and strike the right balance between target service levels and your investment in inventory. You can redistribute inventory according to the predictability of customer demand, ensuring it’s put to best use in meeting tailored service levels. You also profit by increasing your stock turn rates.

Replenishment Planner—increase efficiency

Infor SCM Replenishment Planner can help you profit from better customer service and a leaner, more efficient distribution network by automatically calculating replenishment plans for all points in the network. When used with Demand Planning, it synchronizes supply with demand, and any change or scenario can be rippled through to quickly realign inventory, transport, manufacturing, and buying plans.

Manufacturing Planning—optimization built for your business

In a manufacturing supply chain the greatest challenges lie at the heart of the production processes. Infor SCM Manufacturing Planning delivers advanced capabilities that go beyond those of traditional ERP-based planning to optimize the use of your production resources, improve efficiencies, increase throughput, and lower costs. They even provide “what-if” analysis in response to unexpected changes in your plan like new orders, machine downtime, or late deliveries.

For order-driven, assembly manufacturing environments, we offer fast, memory-resident, solutions that consider real-life constraints ignored by material requirements planning (MRP), such as machine capacity, material availability, and labor skills. We offer equally powerful solutions for process manufacturers who need to plan across multiple sites, balance product mix capability with profitability, consider shelf-life constraints in build-ahead strategies, or choose the best product recipe/formula based on material availability and demands.

Production Scheduling—optimal sequencing

Infor SCM Production Scheduling provides finite capacity scheduling (FCS) capabilities that master all the details required to meet customer order delivery times and maximize the productivity of your production assets. Its powerful scheduling engines synchronize your products on all lines, checking interdependencies and optimally sequencing to shorten make-time regardless of your industry or production style.
In batch-process production facilities characterized by recipes, by- and co-products, and “tank scheduling” for liquids, our constraint-based scheduling solution will optimize productivity, minimize change-over times, and improve on-time delivery performance. We also have a constraint-based solution that synchronizes all operations to deliver higher throughput and faster cycle times in engineering, assembly, and repetitive  production environments characterized by bills of materials and routings.

Warehouse Management—mastering fulfillment

Infor SCM Warehouse Management enables you to see what inventory is or will be available, organize work and align resources and labor to satisfy customer requirements, and optimize fulfillment and distribution processes to ensure that products are delivered on time and in full, each and every time. The result: end-to-end fulfillment from order inception to delivery.

Transportation and Logistics—a complete solution footprint

Infor SCM Transportation and Logistics helps mobilize your global inventory so you can get the right goods to the right customer and place at the right time in the right condition for the right price, even as you comply with trade regulations. This comprehensive, global multi-modal solution manages orders from inception to delivery and provides the essentials to help companies gain global visibility into inbound and outbound supply chain movement—reducing costs, while improving customer service.