Automotive software solutions

Supplying vehicles for a global customer base doesn’t need to feel as sprawling as it sounds. The latest Infor CloudSuite Automotive updates reduce unnecessary supply chain uncertainty and enhance customer satisfaction by consolidating collaboration with business partners and suppliers, multi-site planning, and billing – all in one platform. Infor CloudSuite Automotive simplifies supply chain management for automotive customers, providing details like part pricing, environmental regulations, and freight costs all in one sleek, easy-to-use interface.

Major automotive manufacturers handle multiple global supply chains and need to ensure timely, accurate deliveries worldwide. With Infor CloudSuite Automotive, manufacturers have the planning power they need to communicate with suppliers in real-time, avoid missteps, and swiftly remedy mistakes when they arise. Infor CloudSuite Automotive has brought increased supply chain visibility to our auto customers through market-to-order systems so automotive OEMs, specialty vehicle manufacturers, and tier suppliers can understand what materials are in their pipelines, where those materials are at any given time, and make firm promises to customers accordingly. 

KEY INDUSTRY ENHANCEMENTS

Trading partner compliance: Infor’s trading partner compliance tool compiles various supplier details (such as costs, quantities, billing, and related paperwork) into ready-to-send messages, which are then shared via the outbound Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). In addition to organizing this information, the trading partner compliance tool ensures all partners and correspondences are compliant with the latest industry regulations. 

Streamlining shipments: In our latest software update, improvements have been made to make shipment processes smoother, more efficient, and more compliant with service-level agreements. Improvements include planning for alternative packaging when needed, and a tool for planning and prioritizing shipments to enable timely deliveries to priority customers. 

As vehicles grow smarter, the way we build them needs to keep pace. Automotive production powered by out-of-date technology leaves room for unnecessary errors, waste, and margin reduction. Infor's updated CloudSuite Automotive boosts productivity by optimizing and monitoring assembly lines, allowing OEMs and specialty vehicle manufacturers to produce more in less time and meet increasingly complicated customer demands with reduced errors. With its latest update, Infor CloudSuite Automotive sequences assembly lines and supports multi-modal manufacturing, allowing auto suppliers to transform a single production line into a streamlined operation fit to produce the multiple models, trims, and options customers crave while handling potential malfunctions and part changes in mere minutes with data-powered insights. 

With a shrinking talent pool, automotive manufacturers face staffing shortages and increasingly complex consumer requests. The updated Infor CloudSuite Automotive uses assembly line sequencing and multi-modal manufacturing to boost productivity and transform production across manufacturing types and business models.

KEY INDUSTRY ENHANCEMENTS

Configurable product workspace: As more automotive customers seek the ability to provide special options for consumers using Infor CPQ, Infor’s configurable product workspace provides a new space for customer service representatives to customize products from a single screen. This tool also provides pricing and tracking information for each quote, and links directly to relevant sales orders for consolidated information all in one place. 

Material overage management: Material overage management tightly intertwines Infor PLM for Discrete and Infor CloudSuite Automotive systems to help engineers carefully study the impact of part changes on the rest of the automotive manufacturing process. By illustrating and planning for this impact, automotive manufacturers can better control necessary changes and swaps, which cuts down on waste and makes for smoother processes. 

Infor CloudSuite Industrial is an end-to-end ERP solution for both discrete and process manufacturers, providing predictive analytics, collaboration, lean production tools, and integration options. Infor CloudSuite Industrial is a true mixed-mode application for engineer to order, configure to order, highly repetitive, process, and service-based manufacturers. CloudSuite Industrial helps manage complexity and growth, while enabling organizations to gain performance improvements in customer service, productivity, and cost control.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Innovate faster and more efficiently
• Manage production planning and scheduling
• Coordinate aftermarket service and maintenance
• Optimize production scheduling
• Improve product quality
• Leverage the highly flexible, scalable architecture to be more agile and synchronized with fast-changing customer expectations

PRODUCTS INCLUDED

• Infor ERP
• Infor® OS
• Infor Birst®
• Infor Implementation Accelerators
• Deployed on AWS®

Infor® Supply Chain Management solutions deliver intelligent, real-time supply chain orchestration by digitalizing end-to-end supply chain processes, allowing companies to gain real time visibility that empowers data-driven decisions and optimal delivery to customers on time.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Maximize the reliability and performance of assets
• Predict equipment failure and carry out preventative maintenance
• Comply with strict legal and environmental regulations
• Streamline purchasing and procurement
• Track labor costs and reduce downtime

PRODUCTS AVAILABLE

• Infor Nexus
• Infor Supplier Exchange
• Infor Supply Chain Planning
• Infor WMS

Infor MES solution to improve manufacturing operational performance

Empower operators on the shop floor with a highly visual Manufacturing Execution System to achieve real-time control and visibility of all manufacturing operations in the factory and support data driven decision making.

Highlights

• Create the smart factory with extensive MOM (manufacturing operations management) functionality across production, quality, inventory, and maintenance, centrally orchestrate operations, connecting to machines and equipment for real-time visibility and responsiveness
• Increase efficiency (OEE), reduce waste, and improve FTTQ (first time through quality)
• Accelerate time-to-value and ROI with a modular, highly configurable enterprise MES solution, offering 24/7 resilience
• Support your digital transformation journey in manufacturing operations.
• Integrate with Infor Industrial CloudSuites and leverage rich manufacturing data in Infor OS

Optimize every aspect of labor management and productivity with Infor® Workforce Management. Strategically enhance workforce planning, execution, and analysis with an engaging, industry-specific, enterprise workforce management software solution built on a proven technology platform that delivers time and attendance, demand-driven scheduling, workforce scheduling, and absence management tools.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Enable your people to access workforce data anywhere, anytime
• Track employee time and get the right data to payroll—every time
• Leverage vertically specialized shift- or demand-driven scheduling tools
• Take advantage of intuitive, industry specialized software for budgeting, planning, and forecasting labor demand

Infor® industry analytics deliver relevant and meaningful insights for everybody from the boardroom to the shop floor. Infor Birst® makes business intelligence and analytics easy to consume with pre-built industry and role-specific content and metrics embedded wherever business users need information. Improve decision-making with Birst.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Best in class pre-built industry content
• C-suite dashboards for prescriptive analysis
• Intelligent drill-back with in-context insights
• Open ecosystem for democratized analytics
• Enterprise-wide solution for integrated data

Infor CPQ helps sales teams, partners, and distributors sell complex products more quickly with a rules-driven platform designed for visual quoting and dynamic pricing, to instantly produce a configuration-specific list price, dealer cost, and quoted selling price. Orders are automatically passed to your business system via enterprise integration.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Sell complex products faster with quick and accurate quotes on-demand
• Accelerate product innovation
• Optimize your supply chain to improve demand planning and purchasing
• Bring your products to life with a visual selection and configuration experience
• Complete visibility into real-time data