Industry Expertise

Overcome unique challenges in the automotive industry

C.A.S.E. (Connected, Autonomous, Software-Defined, and Electrified) megatrends, increasing demand for product configurability, and new sustainability regulations are fundamentally changing the automotive industry. OEMs, tier suppliers, and specialty vehicle manufacturers need to adapt fast – and at the same time, address pressing geopolitical, market, and profitability challenges.

At Infor, we’ve combined deep industry-specific functionality with the latest technologies to help you meet these automotive challenges and others – head on.

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Catering to your specific automotive industry needs

Our cloud-based automotive manufacturing software is designed by experts with an in-depth understanding of OEMs, specialty vehicle manufacturers, and tier suppliers.

Tier Suppliers

Our intelligent industry platform empowers automotive tier suppliers to adapt to OEMs’ high demand variability and optimise financial performance. With AI/ML capabilities, they can enhance forecasts, improve quality and compliance, mitigate risk, and improve stakeholder returns.

OEMs

Infor provides secure, industry-complete solutions for automotive OEMs. Our capabilities support complex configuration and pricing, in-sequence assembly, supply chain visibility, and operational transformation. They also facilitate real-time collaboration with partners across multi-site operations.

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Specialty vehicles

Infor solutions offer purpose-built capabilities for manufacturers of specialised vehicles – such as tow trucks, recreational vehicles, firetrucks, and buses. They can help improve sales and streamline the manufacture of highly configured, complex products – while increasing profitability at the single vehicle level.

Key Stats

Top automotive companies run Infor

From improving on-time delivery, to minimising waste and increasing labour efficiency, Infor’s industry-complete automotive cloud solutions and latest AI innovations deliver real-value to customers.

25

Nedschroef runs a global business across 25 subsidiaries with Infor CloudSuite

16%

Miller Industries increases productivity by 16% using Infor Birst® analytics

42%

Sogefi approves POs 42% faster with automation - reducing factory downtime and non-compliance risks

Benefits

Key benefits of our automotive manufacturing software

Drive continuous innovation

From design to manufacture, leverage seamless product data and interoperability to drive innovation and reduce time-to-market.

Easily collaborate with partners

Leverage a fully integrated, preconfigured EDI trading partner collaboration platform that adheres to industry standards.

Optimise manufacturing productivity

Optimise plant capacity utilisation as well as volume and mix. Improve throughput and employee productivity – and integrate data and Industry 4.0 capabilities.

Improve quality and compliance

Eliminate manual processes to improve vehicle and parts traceability, quality control, and output – and monitor and enforce compliance and regulatory obligations.

Comprehensive automotive industry software in the cloud

Infor CloudSuite Automotive is an integrated, intelligent, industry-specific platform for automotive OEMs, tier suppliers, and specialty vehicle manufacturers. In addition to a powerful core ERP, Infor CloudSuite Automotive offers tools for supplier collaboration, PLM, MES, warehouse management, and more – no extensive customisations or integrations required. Take advantage of automatic upgrades, an unmatched user-experience, industry-leading AI, machine learning, robotic process automation (RPA), and cyber security.

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Discover how Infor CloudSuite Automotive helps manufacturers drive innovation, improve operational efficiency, and future-proof their business.

Cloud-based automotive ERP

Transform your business operations with Infor’s automotive cloud ERP software, pre-configured for your needs.

Improve mission-critical processes, from product design to financial reporting
Run multiple divisions and business models in one place to get financial visibility across the enterprise, instantly
Use multi-site planning for effective material and resource utilization
OEMs can optimize plant capacity, utilization, volume, and mix for high-volume vehicle and parts
Specialty vehicle manufacturers can assemble unique, individually customized vehicles on the same line
Tier suppliers can sync with OEMs’ demand schedules and drive profitability with what-if scenario modelling

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Infor Enterprise Collaboration Portal

Automotive supplier collaboration

Facilitate real-time, EDI-driven collaboration between your OEM and tier suppliers – including logistics service providers, third-party processors and contract manufacturers, service providers, and parts suppliers. Infor’s online enterprise collaboration portal provides greater contractor and sub-contractor visibility and transparency to help you deliver better management of the supply chain. Buyers save time on routine tasks, freeing them up to focus on more strategic activities.

Infor PLM

PLM for automotive

Designed to meet the highest automotive quality standards, Infor PLM empowers employees, suppliers, and partners to get products to market faster and share timely, transparent access to critical product information.

Manage BOMs “as designed”, “as built” and “as maintained” to stay on top of revisions
Capture real-time quality data and leverage statistical process control (SPC) to ensure in-spec machine performance
Meet the highest quality standards and comply with industry regulations
Gain full visibility throughout the entire PLM lifecycle – from initial concept to production and end-of-life
Integrate with your ERP, CAD, and manufacturing systems – and easily share product information with your network

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Infor PLM for discrete is a strategic game-changer. Find out why.

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Infor Manufacturing Execution System (MES)

Automotive manufacturing software

Improve productivity, efficiency and quality control across your automotive production line with powerful MES software from Infor. Digitize all manufacturing operations, integrate with your ERP, and empower shop floor users with real-time data, visibility, and control.

Transform manufacturing operations across production, quality, inventory, logistics and maintenance
Monitor production in real time and improve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
Gain real-time visibility and control into shop floor operations and production execution
Leverage advanced inventory management and instant bi-directional traceability
Use AI to easily analyze manufacturing data and improve decision-making
Empower shop floor users with the information they need on a single screen
Deliver a truly paperless shop floor and digital factory experience

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Infor Warehouse Management System (WMS)

Warehouse management

Transform warehouse operations and inventory management for your automotive needs with an enterprise, cloud-based warehouse management system.

Our unified solution easily integrates to your ERP and is built for performance and scale. Infor WMS includes advanced AI-powered capabilities for core operations, inventory management, labour management, 3PL billing and invoicing, 3D visualisation, and embedded analytics.

Infor Industry Cloud Platform

Cloud technology platform

The Infor Industry Cloud Platform brings together advanced technologies and AI-driven intelligence within a true multi-tenant cloud environment. As the backbone of industry-specific Infor CloudSuites, the composable platform delivers all the functionality you need in one place while integrating with third-party systems.

Solution areas:

Industry AI: Drive hyper-productivity with prescriptive, predictive, and generative AI in your flow of work
Data & Insights: Gain actionable insights to drive more strategic decision-making and superior performance
Value+ Solutions: Accelerate innovation with pre-built, quick-to-deploy Infor ERP add-ons
Application Development: Rapidly design, build, extend, and deploy enterprise apps – easily and at scale
Integration: Connect your systems and data across your enterprise for smoother, faster operations

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Customer Stories

Real automotive manufacturing software success

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Miller increases throughput by 10%

Discover how Miller Industries, the world leader in towing and recovery equipment, is improving efficiency on the shop floor.

We will be able to effectively communicate to every customer across the world when they’re going to absolutely receive their motorcycle. We’re going to be able to give them a progressive update on their order. That’s incredibly powerful.

Paul Stroud

Chief Commercial Officer, Triumph Motorcycles Ltd.

Resources

Automotive industry insights

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RESEARCH REPORT

Unlock value in automotive

Discover how leading automotive organizations are unlocking the full potential of advanced technologies to transform operations, overcome supply chain disruption, and enhance agility in our new report.

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Platform

Drive automotive innovation with platform technology

Infor automotive software solutions run on our cloud platform, powered by Infor OS. The platform makes it easy to integrate all your systems in the cloud, leverage data from any source, gain deeper insights, and accelerate efficiency with AI, GenAI, and automations built for your industry.

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News and Blogs

Automotive industry news and blogs

Many changes are coming quickly

In this Clean Fleet Report, expert Peter Maithel discusses how investments in electrification and related initiatives are reshaping the competitive landscape.

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Harnessing cloud ERP for smart factory success

Cloud-based ERPs are fundamental to the success of smart factories. They act as the central hub for collecting, maintaining, and sharing operational and financial data.

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