Make a promise, keep a promise
MAPICS in now part of Infor. Visit the Infor site to learn how our enterprising supply chain management solutions will make a difference in your business.
To answer the challenges of the ever-changing needs of today's demanding customer and the pace of emerging technologies, Infor has the solution to enable you to build from your core business system.
MAPICS (now Infor) Supply Chain Management (SCM) solution allows you to improve communications with your downstream customers, while simultaneously forming tighter relationships with your upstream vendors. Infor's customers are now using workflow automation, performance management, advanced planning engines and customer relationship management to improve order fulfillment processes across the supply chain. As a result, many of the unnecessary and lengthy delays prevalent in today's fulfillment process are virtually eliminated. It is now possible to efficiently promise, plan, source and fulfill one customer order at a time across your entire supply chain.
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Select one of the business solution areas above to see how Infor's SCM solution can improve your enterprise.
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Sell
With the MAPICS (now Infor) SCM solution, you can participate in a value chain that makes promises that can be kept. Goods and services flow smoothly from raw material suppliers through manufacturers and distributors to customers. As customers' needs change, your entire supply chain can adjust accordingly - even in the midst of fulfilling a particular order and still be able to meet, if not exceeded customer expectations.
In promising for make-to-stock and make-to-order, the MAPICS (now Infor) SCM solution provides an availability timeline, giving your customers a more complete view of your stocked items and helping you lock in more business.
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Plan
Initial planning requires you to realistically and rapidly determine your ability to deliver, taking into consideration available inventory and production capacity. MAPICS (now Infor) offers a variety of availability models to help determine your ability to deliver such as inventory models, primarily used for promising SKUs in make-to-stock environments, allocate orders against uncommitted inventory and planned supplies or capacity models that include a manufacturer's ability to actually make the item.
MAPICS (now Infor) array of availability models deliver important productivity gains by providing the most current product information and by assuring that your customers consistently get the best information available.
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Source
MAPICS (now Infor) SCM applies highly granular, user-defined sourcing rules to quickly and precisely differentiate vendor responses, helping to ensure that the selection for a particular order is made according to your business interests. By automating the decision process, key order fulfillment performance factors are optimized for each order and reliable promises are made within the current constraints of your existing supplier network - all in real time. This gives you not only the visibility to respond to today's extremely time-sensitive demands, but also the means to quickly adapt to your ever-changing business environment.
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Make
New practices have permeated manufacturing enterprises worldwide - JIT, lean manufacturing and continuous improvement - resulting in leaner, more agile and more tightly integrated systems. Similar events are occurring outside the enterprise to the supply chain.
The transfer of valued information in a timely manner is central to maintaining continuous flow in the enterprise. Immediate notification of events is possible through the deployment of the MAPICS (now Infor) SCM solution giving you access to the information needed to efficiently manage your production. This allows you to intelligently manage make versus buy decisions to best balance your customers' needs against your ability to deliver
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Deliver
MAPICS (now Infor) SCM solution lets you efficiently plan your production operations based on changing order requirements, instantaneously determine the impact of these changes, and realistically quote delivery dates. The result is an order fulfillment process that continuously updates and reliably delivers. Moreover, participants in the supply chain are provided the information they need to continually align their supply with demand-to ultimately deliver on time. It also provides the additional benefit of a customer-synchronized collaborative solution across the extended value stream.
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Service
MAPICS (now Infor) SCM solution keeps visible the projected status of all customer orders. This means customer support personnel have access to the latest order information - a data-rich breakdown of where all orders are projected to be throughout the manufacturing cycle. It provides the means to keep your customers continuously informed, giving them more options to adjust to a change and more time to deal with the implications of that change.
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Finance
The MAPICS (now Infor) SCM solution delivers improved demand visibility that helps you optimize your inventory commitments and allows suppliers and customers to be more informed about orders. Electronic processing of orders, invoices and payments help reduce the cost of transactions, speed processing and provides quick answers to inquiries.
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Related download:
Supply Chain Management Overview
Customer Success Stories:
Brenco, Inc.
has seen on-time delivery performance increased to 98 percent, and according to Ralph Carrell, Production Planner: "What used to take 12 hours to schedule now takes only one hour. We now know almost a day-and-a-half sooner whether or not the non-constraints are affecting customer deliveries."
Tactical Vehicle Systems
uses MAPICS (now Infor) solutions to streamline outsourcing processes by automating its supply chain.
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