Winning Solutions

Achieving and maintaining a competitive advantage is an ongoing challenge. MAPICS (now Infor) enterprise software solutions help manufacturers improve product innovation for faster time-to-market, synchronize multi-entity operational collaboration for on-time replenishment, and use information integration to reduce costs.

Here are some benefits of using this industry solution:

• Maintain both engineering and manufacturing bill of materials, providing seamless data transfer for development, prototyping, testing and production.
• Fully integrated product data management, variant product structures, document management and engineering change control.
• A secure network portal for Internet connectivity and exchange of designs and documents with suppliers and customers on a one-to-many or many-to-many configuration.
• Provides workflow-driven approval processes, product configuration visibility, and complete audit trail tracking and control to further improve efficiencies and time-to-market.
• A one-instance global architecture providing highly configurable multi-entity, multi-site standardized processes and localized requirements for centralized and decentralized operations.
• Centralized e-procurement to consolidate requisitions, evaluate bids, negotiate volume contracts and transmit purchase orders, acknowledgements, changes, and schedules.
• Support of customer-specific EDI formats integrated with back-end demand planning, product configuration, production scheduling and accounting.
• Integrated maintenance management with production planning and procurement.
• Includes Kanban management and repetitive production planning and backflushing.