3form, Inc.
After implementing Infor ERP VISUAL, a manufacturer of chemical resin materials for the architecture and design industry boosted revenues from $3 million to $70 million within five years, increased productivity in sales and all accounting processes, improved accounting accuracy of each product cost, and developed a more seamless engineering process.
Advanced Input Systems
A leading designer and manufacturer of application-specific input devices for OEM manufacturers upgraded its legacy system to Infor10 ERP Business (SyteLine) in six months. The company automated numerous processes resulting in operational efficiencies, 98% inventory accuracy, and overall employee acceptance with a low total cost of ownership and the scalability to meet future business needs.
AKG of America
Growing at a rapid pace year after year, AKG, specializing in custom-engineered solutions for heavy industrial markets, needed an open, out-of-the-box system with the flexibility to sustain future growth. The company implemented Infor ERP VISUAL to automate all business processes, gaining significant efficiencies and a competitive advantage.
Belden Brick
A world-class manufacturer of high quality bricks has leveraged technology to increase its data visibility with Infor10 ERP Enterprise, resulting in cost reductions, minimized scrap, real-time order status, and a competitive advantage to keep the company looking towards the future.
Brentwood Industries
A longtime Infor10 ERP Business (SyteLine) customer, Brentwood routinely reassesses its technology infrastructure. "Every seven to ten years, our company wants to re-evaluate what's out there to see if there's a better product for our business," says Kenneth Kemp, Brentwood's IT manager. Like any other company in an industry as competitive as plastics, Brentwood constantly seeks to increase workforce efficiency, product quality, and operational excellence by improving the speed of access to data throughout the company. The most recent assessment came at a crucial moment. Despite being mired in of one of the toughest recessions that manufacturers had ever seen, Brentwood still maintained a healthy 45% rate of growth over six years. The company needed its technology to support that level of growth while keeping margins strong. Managers also wanted to consolidate their list of software vendors to improve global visibility for all operations and provide users easier access to data.
Carlton Taylor Industries
Carlton Taylor Industries expects to achieve significant cost savings through integration, efficiency and productivity improvements through its implementation of Infor10 ERP Business (SyteLine).
Chicago Tube & Iron
The distributor and manufacturer of a wide range of items that include pipes, tubing, valves, bars, and fittings implemented Infor FMS SunSystems within an aggressive three-week schedule with the help of Infor Consulting Services. The company even closed its fiscal year-end without a parallel system running after seeing how successful the monthly close performed. Preparation time for monthly reporting dropped 40% in just initial attempts, and ad hoc reporting now takes a few hours instead of a day or two.
Duramax® Marine LLC
One of the world’s largest manufacturers of vital marine products incorporated Infor ERP SyteLine for accounting and manufacturing, including issuing purchase orders, scheduling, planning, invoicing, and business analysis. The open architecture allowed easy customization, resulting in greater efficiencies throughout all departments, and built-in business intelligence enabled analysis of sales trends and reporting to compare sales and inventory.
Herman Miller
By implementing Infor10 ERP Business (SyteLine), Herman Miller was able to reduce US inventory by $1.2 million in two years, tripled their production capabilities, and enhanced their JIT (Just-In-Time) supply chain. Herman Miller is also upgrading to the latest version of ERP Business, including Infor ION, to integrate and enhance inter-company, company-supplier, and company-customer communications.
High Point Furniture
Using Infor IntelliChief Document Management with Infor ERP XA, High Point Furniture cut its order process time in half; achieved cost savings in labor, faxing, postage, check stock, and paper; and gained visibility into the status of every order.
Interface Inc.
The world leader in the design, production, and sales of modular carpet and a leading manufacturer and marketer of broadloom carpet, panel fabrics, and upholstery fabrics selected Infor HCM Infinium Self Service to automate the new employee recruitment, payroll, and employee benefits processes, and at the same time reduce its carbon footprint. The company has streamlined all of its business operations to improve efficiency and ensure profitability while moving closer towards its goal of becoming the world's first environmentally restorative company by 2020.
Jabil
Jabil, an industry leader in the design, manufacture, and service of electronics products to a global customer base in a variety of industries, migrated from a spreadsheet forecasting and reporting environment to Infor PM. The company has increased visibility into its customer data to produce management reports in days—not weeks—improve operational decision making, and enhance customer communications to deliver higher business value.
Lacks Enterprises Inc.
A leading manufacturer and supplier to the automotive, telecommunications, and consumer electronics markets integrated Infor10 Supplier Commerce Portal (SupplyWEB) with Infor ERP BPCS, resulting in improved supplier communication, more precise inventory accountability that eliminated safety stocks, lower premium freight costs, and greater credibility with the customer toward continuous improvement.
Logistics Management: Infor Supplies Both ERP and Supply Chain Solutions to Generac
This article addresses whether companies with ERPs need best-of-breed supply chain management (SCM) applications or SCM functionality from their ERP vendors. Generac Power Systems, an Infor ERP customer, decided that Infor's warehouse management and transportation management systems applications met their exact needs at a much lower cost. Resulting benefits: over 90% on-time ship rates, reduced manpower needs, and improved inventory control.
Novum
Since deploying Infor10 ERP Process iBusiness, Novum, a leading manufacturer of refrigeration products, has begun a process of reducing the overall life cycle of their product process from order to sale. Within 12 months Novum hopes to have reduced this by 35 %. They are already on track to accomplish this.
Overly Door
Overly Door realized that its largest source of waste came from the way that it took orders and translated those orders into information that drives manufacturing—a process affecting the entire business. The company's overall goal was to reduce quoting and delivery time, and it has achieved that with Infor ERP SyteLine and Infor ERP SyteLine Configuration. Now, sales people can produce accurate quotes in minutes, often while on the phone with a customer, and automatically produce approval drawings without engineering assistance. Pricing is standardized across all of sales based on accurate BOMs that the configurator generates, and order prices always contain the correct built-in margin.
PG Bison
PG Bison manufactures and distributes sawn timber, poles, wood-based panel products, decorative laminates, and solid surfacing materials through its comprehensive national footprint. Planning and executing the implementation of the new Infor ERP LN platform at PG Bison was a great success. The team was able to meet all their timelines. Although the implementation was purely a technical upgrade, it forms a vital part of PG Bison’s value chain that covers finance, manufacturing, distribution, shop floor control, warehousing, inventory, and tracking of various points of sale throughout the country.
Shaklee Corporation
As a leading global manufacturer and distributor of nutritional supplements and eco-friendly cleaning products, Shaklee chose Infor ERP BPCS and ERP LX to manage its complex set of requirements among multi-country operations. The centralized database of Infor ERP LX enabled productivity improvements and easy reporting despite time zone and language differences, and best practices were incorporated without code changes.