ERP Manufacturing Software: White Papers
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Manufacturing ERP System White Papers
Whitepaper – You don’t have to be big to go digital
Addressing the five common worries SMBs have over digital technologies
Digital technology is a hot topic in the IT world today. The media is buzzing with tales of total transformation occurring in a wide range of industries, from ride sharing in the automotive industry to the influence of Amazon® in the retail industry. Whenever such an abundance of hype arises around a topic, misconceptions inevitably creep into the dialogue. A common misconception plaguing small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) is that their size may hinder them from joining the ranks of the digital-enabled.
This is far from true. SMBs can engage in digital strategies as well as any company.
In fact, the SMB’s size often provides advantages, such as greater agility. In this paper, we address some of the common worries SMBs express and explain why digital technologies are essential for any growth-centered company, no matters its current size.
Whitepaper – A proactive manufacturing supply chain
Today’s global economic volatility has put increased pressure on the manufacturing supply chain. It’s more important than ever to be able to respond quickly to changing market conditions. This becomes especially important as the US-China trade relationship erodes over imposed tariffs, and politically charged NAFTA discussions test relationships with neighboring North American countries. Manufacturers, fabricators, component makers, industrial distributors, and suppliers are all affected by uncertainty and shifting market conditions. Fortunately, with proactive insights, modern technology solutions can help manufacturers increase their agility and ability to manage the supply chain.
Whitepaper – Create a company culture of digital transformation and continual improvement
Whether it is e-commerce, the Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, or digitally connected global supply chains, food and beverage (F&B) manufacturers are investing in IT solutions in order to take advantage of innovative technologies and opportunities for growth. Unfortunately, in efforts to achieve a quick return on investment (ROI), companies often overlook a fundamental element that needs to be in place before true transformation can occur: workforce buy-in.
Whitepaper – Using configure-price-quote software to shorten lead times in high tech
With high tech manufacturing playing such a fundamental part of the global economy, key stakeholders and policy makers alike are placing a higher priority on increasing efficiency. This is made even more important in an environment where developing industrialized countries can use their low-cost, highly skilled labor to grab a growing piece of the global demand for technology manufacturing.
Whitepaper – Break down barriers for successful customer collaboration
Accommodating customer collaboration can introduce more complexity into an already complicated manufacturing process. Customers bring ideas, usually without a complete understanding of what it takes to turn vision into product. This misunderstanding can create delays, frustrated customers and employees, and lost revenue.
Whitepaper – Choosing the Right IoT/IIoT Provider Using Proof of Concept Processes
IIoT or “Industry 4.0” is one of the hottest and most highly rated technologies for manufacturers today. Picking the right partner and solutions provider is paramount to success. As a manufacturer, there’s no doubt you have seen the high levels of information, stories and hype surrounding the Industrial Internet of Things market and the large number of providers that make claims to their expertise in the market.
With the plethora of IIoT providers hawking their wares, the need to have a solid understanding of what the solution provider can bring to the table is critical. PowerPoint and demoware in a market that is rapidly growing is not a way to insure the vendor has a solution that is viable. The best suppliers will offer to perform a proof of concept (POC) of their system running in your plant, collecting live data from your machines and presenting you with analysis, as well as charts and reports that are drawn from this live data. The client should not hesitate to challenge the IIoT suppliers to perform such a POC in order to see the actual results. Find out more right now.
Whitepaper – Four Trends Driving High Tech Manufacturers to Collaborate With Non-High Tech Companies
The lines have been increasingly blurring between high tech and non-high tech manufacturing—in large part due to the proliferation of technology into everyday consumer and business products, coupled with the transformation of society’s infrastructure from pervasive Internet connectivity. This has major implications for how high tech manufacturers operate today and how they’ll need to operate in the future. C-level executives at high tech manufacturing companies need to respond to this shift by transforming their business strategies and operations to effectively collaborate with non-high tech companies.
The first step in managing this transition is to understand the forces driving the integration of high tech manufacturing and other industries. Read on to learn about four trends that are compelling high tech manufacturers to collaborate with non-tech companies, and what manufacturers can do to make the collaboration work.
There’s been a recent evolution of traditionally non-technical products becoming things that now integrate technology. This has generated a growing collaboration between high tech manufacturers and non-tech companies that need to increase their high tech expertise and capacity. Not only is this driving demand for high tech companies, it’s also creating new business and revenue opportunities.
Here are six best practices to help high tech manufacturers like you make the most of your collaboration with non-tech companies.
As a small to medium-sized business (SMB), you know that agility helps you stay ahead in a competitive environment. But to stay ahead, you need the right business tools. Increasingly, that means looking to the cloud. By 2020, 80% of US small businesses will be using cloud computing. There’s a good reason: Digital technologies, like cloud-based ERP systems with built in analytics and collaboration tools, can help you innovate more quickly, collaborate more effectively, streamline your supply chain, and keep your employees engaged.
Whitepaper: SMALL TO MEDIUM-SIZED BUSINESSES – You don’t have to be big to go digital
Addressing the five common worries SMBs have over digital technologies
Digital technology is a hot topic in the IT world today. The media is buzzing with tales of total transformation occurring in a wide range of industries, from ride sharing in the automotive industry to the influence of Amazon® in the retail industry. Whenever such an abundance of hype arises around a topic, misconceptions inevitably creep into the dialogue. A common misconception plaguing small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) is that their size may hinder them from joining the ranks of the digital-enabled.
This is far from true. SMBs can engage in digital strategies as well as any company. In fact, the SMB’s size often provides advantages, such as greater agility. In this paper, we address some of the common worries SMBs express and explain why digital technologies are essential for any growth-centered company, no matters its current size.
Whitepaper – 10 Things You Should Know About Newly Empowered Automotive Consumers
Power and influence in the automotive industry have dramatically shifted from the companies that make and sell vehicles to the consumers who buy them. As a result, automotive suppliers are being forced to change their business strategies.
Download this Whitepaper to learn 10 critical things related to this market shift.
Whitepaper – Five Ways to Improve Profitable Growth with New Technologies in High Tech & Electronics
Perhaps more so than with any other industry, high tech and electronics customers consistently demand the latest technologies. This combined with the quick pace of technological advancements, help explain why high tech and electronics manufacturers are “50% more likely [than other manufacturers] to be focused on getting new products to market,” according to LNS Research. With the strains that this constant drive for innovation put on your organization, how do you profitably satisfy customer demand and grow your business?
Here are five ways you can achieve profitable growth when you’re incorporating
new technologies into new and existing products.
Executive Brief: Five Levels of Manufacturing Collaboration – How to plan and build an effective collaboration platform for the stringent demands of manufacturing
All manufacturers need a richer, deeper collaboration architecture that incorporates broader business functions than newly popular social collaboration tools usually provide. The collaboration process needs to be integral to the overall workflow—not an afterthought. The kind of collaboration system that’s most likely to help manufacturers succeed offers a combination of breadth and power so that the entire process is supported, while retaining enough flexibility to allow the business to respond freely to new situations.
White Paper: Infor Predicts the Future of Manufacturing – Machine-to-machine connectivity, integrated analysis, mobile, social, cloud to fuel innovation in manufacturing
What does the future hold? As the manufacturing environment continues to change at an astounding rate, ERP solutions must also evolve at an equally aggressive rate in order to meet the new demands and expectations. Keeping an eye on the future is, therefore, essential for the manufacturing executive who wants to make sure the company’s IT infrastructure is up-to-date and aligned with future innovations.
White Paper: Equipped for Speed – Driving strong profitability throughout the equipment lifecycle
This paper will discuss some of the areas that we at Infor have found can reduce operational costs, boosting your efficiency and your bottom line. Once process improvements are in place, you will be able to focus on driving new revenue streams that can help give you a competitive edge as the economy improves.
From Nice-to-Have to Necessity: Why companies are getting serious about social business
White Paper – Social media is a loaded term that means different things to different people. Facebook™ and Twitter™ are what spring to mind for most people, along with images of party photos and 140-character musings. But those vehicles are far from where social media ends. The lines between emerging technologies and ones that have become so firmly entrenched that they are now thought of as “traditional” (like email or even instant messaging) are blurring, expanding, and continually changing.
The Democratization of Data: How information can give power to your people
Businesses have long viewed information as critical to building a competitive advantage. Without full visibility into your business, how can you know with certainty what’s making it succeed or fail?
This on-going quest for knowledge has been responsible for a tremendous amount of investment and innovation in the business intelligence (BI) and analytics arena.
From Products to Services: Service Excellence as a Strategy to Combat Market Uncertainty
Get an inside look at aftermarket service trends.
IDC Manufacturing Insights conducted a survey sponsored by Infor to find out how equipment manufacturers plan to capitalize on the opportunity that service and the aftermarket presents. The report looks at the ways that service excellence can help combat the market uncertainty of new equipment and machinery sales by providing differentiation, customer value, brand loyalty and, most importantly, high margin revenue.
Download the whitepaper to learn:
-The number one barrier to achieving service excellence
-Why service as a percentage of overall revenue is large and expected to grow
-The top benefits of a service oriented strategy
Detecting and preventing duplicate invoice payments
White Paper – Duplicate invoice payments occur far more frequently than most organizations realize. On average, approximately 0.1% to 0.05% of invoices paid are typically duplicate payments—which for a medium-size organization with annual costs of $100 million over a three year period, could represent a loss of $300,000.
Keeping problems private to reduce risk
White Paper – Few provisions of the Dodd-Frank Financial Regulatory Reform Act of 2010 have received as much attention—and caused as much consternation—as those authorizing monetary rewards for corporate whistleblowing. Under Dodd-Frank, company employees who go directly to the SEC with concerns about fraud or other illegal activities can receive a portion of fines, sanctions, and settlements ultimately recovered—as much as 30% of recoveries over $1 million. The first payment under this program was awarded last year on August 21, 2012 to a whistleblower who received nearly $50,000.
Executive Brief – Production for Profit
White Paper – How you can benefit from an industry-specific, next-generation ERP solution:
Increase profits and reduce costs. Improve productivity to get products to market faster. Streamline processes throughout your organization. React quicker to business changes.
Make decisions faster.
The 5 point plan to ERP selection success
White Paper – Why you need a new system: Figuring out your business drivers
These days, an ERP system is a necessity—not a luxury. You need a system that helps you operate and manage your business. But what else do you need it to do?
Former Gartner analyst Lee Wylie introduced Enterprise Resource Planning to the world in 1990. Over its 21 year history, ERP software has undergone a significant transformation. While the early systems were purchased and used primarily for financial applications, order management, purchasing, and manufacturing, today’s systems are designed for broad use across your company.
Executive Brief – Traditional reliance on disparate, loosely patched systems and manual processes are preventing companies from keeping pace with market demands and global competition. To take advantage of the new global economy and opportunities to expand market share, companies need to leverage next-generation ERP tools. An end-to-end ERP solution that offers industry-specific functionality and best practices can create a competitive edge.
The Mobile (R)evolution – Choosing the right road to mobile enablement
White Paper – Mobility is a technology that has quickly become an intimate part of daily life, with adoption and popularity going nowhere but up. Though mobile’s roots may have started in the consumer world, its uses have been spilling over into the business environment for some time now and show no signs of slowing. Employees increasingly expect the technology in their work and personal lives to mirror each other, and companies are anxious to exploit the benefits of mobile enablement. The research firm IDC predicts that worldwide IT spending will be up 5.7% in 2013, with investments in smart mobile devices accounting for nearly 57% of that growth.
IDC Manufacturing Insights White Paper – Beating Complexity, Achieving Operational Excellence
A Call to Action for the Metal Fabrication Industry
White Paper – IDC Manufacturing Insights recently published global research from a survey of 722 manufacturing leaders across eight countries and four industry verticals, namely industrial equipment and machinery, metal fabrication, automotive, and high tech. The resulting white paper — Beating Complexity, Achieving Operational Excellence — summarizes the key findings from this survey and provides essential guidance for manufacturers developing their strategies post recession.
White Paper – Beating complexity in doing business in manufacturing requires companies to be able to fundamentally and fully exploit all actual and potential information sources to achieve the highest possible level of visibility and intelligence along the value chain.
The new face of competitiveness for automotive suppliers
Five practical steps to managing the speed of change
White Paper – Worldwide vehicle output is forecast to grow more than 50% over the next 10 years, yet many automotive companies are fighting for survival. Clearly, the market’s bounty is not being divided evenly, largely because many external OEMs and tier 1, 2, and 3 suppliers are struggling to adapt to changing pressures and evolve with the market.
Achieve Operational Excellence by Making Better Decisions
White Paper – Complexity—particularly market complexity—will most likely increase over the next three years. To better manage processes and deliver operational improvements, you need to simplify the impact of this complexity. Manufacturers ranked as best-in-class in a recent Aberdeen Group enterprise resource planning (ERP) benchmarking report listed “streamline and accelerate processes to improve efficiency and productivity” as their number one strategy.
Infor 10x – Specialized by industry
eBrief – Finding an edge for your business is far from easy. Progress is often of the one-small-step variety, rather than the giant leap that companies need to put some distance between themselves and the competition. It’s enough to make you wonder–is settling for less becoming the new normal?
How food & beverage companies gain competitive advantage
The importance of implementing a least-cost formulation strategy
White Paper – In the food & beverage (F&B) industry, you’re only as good as your formulas. While that’s been true for a long time, what constituted a winning formula strategy in the past no longer makes the grade. F&B companies face greater business pressures today than they did just a few years ago. The new environment is characterized by rising commodity costs, retailer price pressure, and tighter regulations. Consumers are playing a role, too, as they demand more nutritional value and the use of ingredients they deem safer and better for the environment.
CLOUD TECHNOLOGY – Claiming Your spot in the Fast Lane
5 ways that cloud solutions power business agility
Change is undoubtedly a double-edged sword for businesses—while it can offer unprecedented opportunity to drive topline revenue and improve efficiency, it can also pose big challenges for your core operations and infrastructure. Change comes in many forms—it can be new products, customer segments, and suppliers; mergers and acquisitions; or expanding geographies. All provide opportunities for growth, but only if you’re in a position to capitalize on them.
Innovation is a central component of the manufacturing industry. It can take many forms and address many functions. It can be a simple tactic for improving shop floor operations. It can be a concept for a new type of product or service. It can be a revolutionary approach that completely disrupts the way you do business. But all innovations start much the same way: as an idea.
But then what? How does an idea evolve from inspiration to execution? Sometimes it’s a mystery, sometimes pure luck—and sometimes an idea comes to fruition via a carefully orchestrated process with many individuals participating, each person playing a vital role.
How critical is innovation to the growth of your business? And what can you do to create an environment that’s conducive to creative thinking and encourages your people to act on those ideas?
Whitepaper – 10 Ways Manufacturers Can Recoup the Costs of Digitalization Efforts
With digitalization, manufacturers can achieve ROI in two ways: By reducing costs or by increasing revenue. According to, “Manufacturing’s next big act: Building an industrial digital ecosystem,” nearly two-thirds of manufacturers expect digital manufacturing technologies, such as increased use of sensors, to help reduce overhead by at least 11%. A very optimistic 23% even hope to see cost savings of more than 30%. Most are basing their projections on the efficiencies gained from automation. In addition, more than half expect to see revenues gains of at least 11% (with 18% expecting revenues to rise more than 30%) over the next 5 years.
As a contractor in the aerospace and defense industry, you often need to run multiple projects under tight cost and schedule control, while maintaining contractual and regulatory compliance. Infor® Aerospace & Defense can help you conduct complex manufacturing more efficiently by improving your ability to simultaneously manage multiple projects within a single enterprise view.
Manufacturers in the aerospace and defense industry often need to simultaneously manage many distinct projects that draw on the same resources and require similar materials. It’s not uncommon to have several projects with deadlines that might conflict and delay each other, if the entire enterprise isn’t managed in a way to minimize those conflicts. The only way to accomplish that consistently is to have multi-project management capabilities built into the core feature set of your ERP system in a way that makes those capabilities intrinsic to your manufacturing process.
Whitepaper – How Do Enterprising Manufacturers Stay Ahead of the Compliance Game?
In today’s society, keeping up with the increasing number of government mandates for regulatory compliance can be difficult and expensive. This white paper provides a 3-dimensional look at how manufacturers who turn risk management and compliance into a proactive process stay ahead of the competition. Through integrated solutions such as Infor ERP and Infor EAM, manufacturers can better manage their processes, reduce costs and build credibility with customers.
Whitepaper – The Need for New Focus on Quality, Risk, and Compliance
McKinsey & Company recently predicted that revenue for the auto industry could grow 30% by 2030 to become a $1.5 trillion industry. The report “Automotive revolution—perspectives towards 2030,” projects that vehicle unit sales will increase steadily at an average rate of 2% annually during this period. McKinsey also predicts that the major driver of industry growth will be shared mobility, connectivity services, feature upgrades, and new business models.¹
With disruptive changes like these, C-level executives at automotive suppliers must prepare to lead transformative changes in their organizations.
In this brief, we discuss how automotive suppliers can manage quality, compliance, and risk in a time of change. We also offer tips to help automotive supply chain executives, chief information officers (CIOs), and chief financial officers (CFOs) manage these critical processes so they can be prepared for the automotive industry of the near future.
IDC Infographic – The Role of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) in Modern Manufacturing
Manufacturers wrestle with business and operational challenges…
- 40% of new products fail to meet expectations in the marketplace
- 50% SKU churn per year seen in some consumer products categories
- Inventory, service, and production capacity trade-offs NOT optimized
- High tech product lifecycles are often measured in months, not years
…As well as new technologies and processes
Every manufacturer IDC speaks to says their analytics capabilities are deficient…and will get worse. View this infographic to learn more and get some answers today.
ERP Manufacturing Software: Brochures
ERP Manufacturing Software Brochures: Infor SyteLine ERP
Infor SyteLine ERP: Advanced Planning & Scheduling
Infor SyteLine ERP Advanced Planning & Scheduling (for Infor SyteLine ERP manufacturing software) helps companies achieve dramatic results quickly-results such as an increase in on-time performance by up to 99%, and a reduction in overall inventory, lead times, and makespans by 50% or more. To meet your lean manufacturing goals-to do more and more with less and less-lean planning capabilities are vital. With the right technology support, lean planning can help you meet your goals of world-class manufacturing performance. Infor SyteLine ERP Advanced Planning and Scheduling delivers.
Infor SyteLine ERP: Cloud Deployment
Infor SyteLine ERP manufacturing software is available as a cloud solution. Infor SyteLine ERP takes advantage of advanced cloud computing technology to extend and expand the power of Infor SyteLine ERP to any location you want, with no involvement from your IT staff.
Infor CPQ (Configure Price Quote)
No matter how complex your multi-site, global scenario, you must be able to respond quickly and accurately to customer demand. That includes producing customized products on the tightest of schedules to the most stringent customer specifications. It’s simply what the marketplace has come to expect these days. Enterprising manufacturers not only meet the expectations, they exceed them with unprecedented speed and agility. The key is having the right technology support for guided, customized product configuration at the point of sale, helping you simplify your selling processes and meet your commitments to your customers. This can be accomplished with Infor Configurator (CPQ).
With Infor SyteLine ERP manufacturing software, you’ll not only avoid wasting time, money, and materials, you’ll reduce the massive amount of effort your people spend every day dealing with paper based documents. Also, with accurate, instant information your staff and your managers will make more informed decisions and keep your company competitive. Go green and make paperless manufacturing a reality with Infor SyteLine ERP Doc-Trak for Infor SyteLine ERP manufacturing software.
Infor SyteLine ERP: Forecasting
Infor SyteLine ERP Forecasting automates the process of calculating and monitoring the “inventory drivers” (forecasts, safety stocks, and order size). This allows you to keep your inventory low and prevent shortages. Forecast thousands of items in minutes based on statistical projection or forecast based on customer collaboration. Create or adjust forecasts by groups and be alerted when actual demand varies from the plan. Infor SyteLine ERP Forecasting for Infor SyteLine ERP manufacturing software is a great solution for make-to-order manufacturers, since it handles forecasting of sellable items or the components and considers varying demand.
Infor SyteLine ERP: Mobile Field Service Plus
Seamlessly extend the power of Infor SyteLine ERP Manufacturing Software to the field, in real time, by outfitting your technicians with mobile technology – like wireless handheld devices and laptops – and Infor SyteLine ERP Mobile Field Service. You’ll also bridge the costly gap between your back office and the field. The mobile technology revolution won’t wait for you. There’s never been a more critical or profitable time to extend your information solutions to every member of your field force.
Infor SyteLine ERP: Transportation, Shipping & Logistics
Infor Transportation and Logistics (for Infor SyteLine ERP manufacturing software) helps accelerate and simplify the picking, packing, and shipping processes for engineer-to-order, configure-to-order, and highly repetitive manufacturing companies. Infor Transportation & Logistics can enhance your business performance and results in many ways, including:
- Fewer errors
- Lower costs
- New, enhanced services
- Improved customer service
- On-time delivery
Achieve world-class manufacturing execution and improve labor productivity with Infor SyteLine ERP Shop-Trak. Infor SyteLine ERP Shop-Trak improves quality at every step of your manufacturing process. By adding our specialized shop floor document management system, Infor SyteLine ERP Shop-Trak, you’ll ensure that your workers have the latest, most accurate documentation for every task.
Infor Factory Track Shop Floor
The production floor is the heart of every manufacturing organization, and manufacturers spend considerable time and resources trying to streamline its operations. Fierce market challenges and growing global competition make it more important than ever for manufacturers to have a firm grip on workflows, labor costs, and operational efficiencies. Unfortunately, they often overlook the “last mile” in the production process, and rely on legacy paper-based systems to track plant floor operations. Disparate systems can cause a costly gap impacting visibility, on-time delivery, and the ability to meet customer expectations.
Manage your sales and operations planning process with Infor SyteLine ERP SytePlan for Infor SyteLine ERP manufacturing software. With Infor SyteLine ERP SytePlan, you’ll improve your ability to:
- Develop a plan for sales by dollars or units, according to product group, customer type, or territory.
- Compare plans to forecasts, shipments, backlog, or WIP, and identify supply issues.
- Project sales and inventory through month-end.
- Analyze rough-cut capacity needs, on-time performance, and inventory turn.
- Track changes in your forecast over time and compare that to actual sales.
- Analyze margin by customer, product, or territory.
This datasheet provides a comprehensive overview of Infor SyteLine ERP. See how this enterprise solution spans the manufacturing business including:
- Design
- Sell
- Plan
- Source
- Make
- Deliver
- Service
- Finance
Infor SyteLine ERP: WorkBench Suite
Get more done by focusing on the big picture and polishing off the details with Infor SyteLine ERP WorkBench Suite (for Infor SyteLine ERP manufacturing software). You’ll get a single, consolidated screen that pulls together the data that matters most and organizes it for quick, effective action. In an age when information drives nearly every business decision, you can save lots of time by using a tool that consolidates all the information you need and puts it in one place.
Personalize your Infor SyteLine ERP manufacturing erp system, focus on your work, and be confident you’ve got the right erp manufacturing software and support team for the job…all with Infor SyteLine ERP, a manufacturing ERP system. Infor SyteLine ERP facts at a glance:
- Developed by experts in discrete manufacturing
- More than 30 years of experience built in
- Advanced planning and scheduling
- Embedded best practices and process flows
- Familiar Microsoft tools and navigation
- Automatic upgrades of customizations
- A solution that works for you
ERP Manufacturing Software Brochures: Industry Specific
Infor SyteLine ERP Manufacturing
Effective supply chain synchronization is vital to stay competitive and meet customer requirements, but at the end of the day the true measure of success is how well your manufacturing plants perform. Within those four walls, you can’t afford anything less than optimum flexibility and agility, with systems that support the smooth flow of information and materials through all your operations. Lean manufacturing is the key to efficiency, supporting mixed modes of production to help you be as responsive to changing customer demand as you need to be. The manufacturing capabilities of Infor SyteLine ERPERP make it possible.
Infor Industrial Manufacturing for Fabricated Metal Manufacturers
For companies that manufacture fabricated metal parts for other industrial companies, responsiveness to changing markets must be your most important priority. Profitability depends not only on technical expertise, but also on the efficiency of your manufacturing operations and your flexibility to move where your customers go, even if that means setting up new operations and processes overseas. You must meet the challenges of variable demand cycles and growing competition, as well as new materials, new production methods, and more sophisticated final products. Large inventories of raw materials and semi-finished product, as well as fluctuating raw material costs, intensify the challenges in a lean-driven world. Handling toxic materials and workplace safety issues are growing concerns. The key is an extended, collaborative ERP solution that helps you keep margins low and customer satisfaction high.
