Winning Solutions

Achieving and maintaining a competitive advantage is an ongoing challenge. Fortunately, MAPICS (now Infor) enterprise software solutions help manufacturers get their products to the market quicker and more efficiently, manage outsourcing operations to reduce costs, and facilitate effective customer and channel communication to exceed expectations.

Here are some benefits of this industry solution:

• Translation of engineering product structures into manufacturing BOMs, build structure affectivity dating, and simultaneous build of multiple revisions to maximize product lifecycles.
• CAD integration, product data management and variant product structures efficiently modularize designs and speeds up engineering development.
• Advanced demand planning based on sales and operations planning and customer collaboration.
• Constraint-based production scheduling with mixed model order sequencing to provide production flexibility and manage frequent order changes.
• Integration of maintenance management with production planning and procurement to minimize equipment downtime, maintain highest calibration and manage tooling.
• Outsourced operation planning, reporting and tracking capabilities, and management of outsourced consignment inventory handling and backflushing.
• Synchronization of scheduling and yield tracking of production, test and packaging operations across multiple entities.
• Product data management, engineering change management and document management to provide complete engineering change control and product lifecycle and lot tracking across all internal and external operations.
• A robust portal framework to support online communication, document exchange and collaboration.
• Support of distributed global order management for online visibility, multi-site fulfillment and rapid change management.
• A rules-based, parametric and multi-level sales configurator (with unlimited attribute descriptors) to rapidly and accurately configure and dynamically price complex products.
• multi-channel sales management for handling and supporting direct, distributor, reps, reseller and website sales channels.
• Lot and serial number tracking through internal and contract operations.
• Robust customer release schedule handling (including Kanban signals) and release accounting - as well as configurable EDI and labeling.
• A one instance global architecture with highly configurable multi-entity, multi-site standardized processes and localized requirements, consolidated and autonomous reporting, centralized and decentralized operations, procurement, financials and master data.