Essential Results

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

Product Innovation and Faster Time-To-Market
World-class automotive system integrators and suppliers are moving to more comprehensive product lifecycle management systems that integrate design collaboration, supplier access, product specifications and other relevant data. With these systems in place, designers and engineers can effectively reuse existing product designs, modular components and parts. Manufacturers can gain efficiencies by standardizing and modularizing products. Enterprises can procure higher-quality and lower-cost materials through more strategic sourcing practices.

MAPICS (now Infor) is unique for its strength in integrating global design, development and production processes for improved concept-to-production deployment. This allows you to accelerate time-to-market success and take full advantage of market opportunities.

Cutting Lead-Times for Rapid Replenishment Flexibility
The best suppliers stay in sync with their partners and customers via electronic communication and other sophisticated methods. Using lean manufacturing practices, they are able to streamline their plants and double throughput while reducing assets and waste. It gives suppliers the ability to provide critical on-time replenishment and offers customers flexible collaboration possibilities to help meet throughput and cost objectives.

MAPICS (now Infor) has solutions that support the collaborative workflows necessary for outsourced operations, supply chain communications and customer compliance.

Information Integration for Reduced Costs
To combat the costly problem of fragmented information and legacy system disconnect, leading system integrators and suppliers are implementing global information systems that standardize and integrate operations — from the front office, to the shop floor, and beyond the four walls. They are also using the Internet as a foundation for centralizing shared services, establishing common data viewpoints, and promoting cost restructuring.

The MAPICS (now Infor) automotive industry offerings are highly integrated, multi-entity solutions that enable global centralized sourcing and planning, cross-operational visibility and collaboration, and synchronized supply chain replenishment.