Essential Results

Successful performers are focused on meeting or exceeding the best practice benchmarks in the electronics industry. MAPICS (now Infor) gives you the tools to meet the essential challenges.

Implement Crucial Market-Timing Performance
Market leaders are replacing disparate legacy systems with workflow-driven integrated systems that unify their engineering product structures, manufacturing bill of material and engineering change processes across development, production and order fulfillment. This approach facilitates cross-functional coordination, rapid engineering change approvals and revisions, and collaborative coordination - all necessary to accelerate designs from development, through production and out to the channels.

MAPICS (now Infor) has a fully integrated engineering, production and supply chain solution designed to facilitate rapid product transfer and production volume ramp up. This allows you to accelerate time-to-volume success and take advantage of market opportunities.

Overcome Outsourcing Challenges Through Connectivity
Successful electronics manufacturers are working to develop common data standards and build private networks (or browser-based portals) to drive real-time communications with suppliers and tighter integration with contractors and key accounts. They are achieving online connectivity with workflow-driven processes that facilitate collaborative forecasting, document exchange, dynamic order management, replenishment signaling, outsourced operation planning, visibility of progressive yields, as-built lot and serial tracking, and in-transit shipment status. Enterprises benefit (and can reduce costs) by keeping internal design, marketing and distribution functions while outsourcing assembly, test and packaging processes.

MAPICS (now Infor) is unique for its strength in multi-entity visibility and reporting, particularly when applied to outsourced operations. MAPICS (now Infor) also has a highly integrated unified solution that promotes common data standards and uniform processes configured for localized requirements.

Keep Up With Rising Expectations
Best-in-class electronics manufacturers are centralizing and distributing their order management and fulfillment functions and turning to global planning systems that are dynamic and order-driven. This enables real-time visibility to customer orders anywhere in the network or in production, dynamic order reallocations and rescheduling, real-time and multi-site ATP and CTP, or of shipments handled by parcel carriers. They are also integrating multiple sales channels and service centers into one order fulfillment, customer service and information hub. And they are centralizing demand, distribution and inventory planning for optimal network logistics and localized service objectives.

MAPICS (now Infor) enterprise software solutions provide integrated global sales, development, production, fulfillment and service management processes, as well as order-driven planning and fulfillment, which enables rapid flexibility and a unified face to the channel and customers.