INFOR Syteline

Infor ERP SyteLine is the extended ERP system for the Microsoft® platform that allows manufacturers to compete against time. Using Infor ERP SyteLine, companies can manufacture, sell, and service with speed and accuracy. As time passes, Infor ERP SyteLine empowers manufacturers to maintain their competitive
edge and adapt their business processes to continually satisfy customers and work closely with suppliers.

Infor ERP SyteLine provides the foundation to improve business efficiency, customer service, and overall manufacturing productivity. From selling and sourcing to production and fulfillment, Infor ERP SyteLine manages and automates the business processes manufacturers require to win today and prepare for future growth.

Infor ERP SyteLine lets you:

• Increase customer satisfaction
• Plan and schedule order-by-order
• Minimize error-prone manual steps
• Deliver orders on time, every time
• Improve production accuracy
• Leverage innovative technologies

Be enterprising. Now more than ever, manufacturing is a race against time. Fierce global competition makes it imperative for manufacturers to shorten time to market, and that means tight synchronization of supply and demand across the business. No matter how complex your multi-site, global scenario, you must make your supply chain more responsive to change by improving demand planning, sourcing, and supplier collaboration. You must manage inventory and capacity constraints. And you must be able to accommodate last-minute changes to configurations and order quantities, handling new demand with immediate available-to-promise and capable-to-promise commitments. It’s simply what customers have come to expect these days, and enterprising manufacturers not only meet the expectations; they exceed them with unprecedented speed and agility. The key is having the right technology support.

Leverage experience. At Infor™, our manufacturing professionals many with more than 25 years of experience—are helping companies like yours solve their toughest business challenges. That experience is built into Infor ERP SyteLine, a flexible solution that supports the business and operational challenges of manufacturers today in these key areas:

• Improve productivity. Using Infor ERP SyteLine, you can manufacture, sell, and service with greater speed and accuracy than ever before.
• Shorten time to market. By spanning the business of manufacturing, Infor ERP SyteLine lets you align supply with

Infor ERP SyteLine demand so that your organization, no matter how complex, works toward one common goal—satisfying customers. Reduce costs. Our solution helps you gain greater efficiency and accuracy across your business, so you are able to do more with fewer resources. In addition, Infor ERP SyteLine is built to deliver low total cost of ownership on a platform that you know and use every day: Microsoft®.NET™.

• Mixed mode manufacturing. Our solution accommodates true mixed mode manufacturing. From repetitive to engineer-to-order, Infor ERP SyteLine enables the processes you need to accelerate production and meet customer demand more quickly.
• Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS). The solution includes a fully integrated, lean advanced planning engine that synchronizes material and capacity to customer orders. You provide accurate and real-time capable-topromise estimates to your customers, so when you make a promise, you keep it.
• Complex product configuration. Infor ERP SyteLine provides integrated management tools to ensure configured orders are accurate for the customer and feasible for the production department.
• Materials and inventory management. Keep inventory low while avoiding shortages with Infor ERP SyteLine. The solution automates the process of calculating and monitoring your inventory drivers forecasts, safety stocks, and order size.
• Business intelligence. Infor ERP SyteLine includes sophisticated tools to gather, analyze, and act on data—turning it into useful information for planning and decision making purposes.
• Customer management. As the market changes, you have the flexibility to adapt business processes to continually satisfy customers and work more closely with suppliers.

Built-in flexibility and global support Because every business is slightly different from the next, Infor ERP SyteLine empowers manufacturers to personalize the user interface to meet unique industry, team, or individual user requirements. Users can easily add, remove, and edit fields, labels, and complete screens without the need for technical programming. Most important, the time invested and business value created are not lost when the system is upgraded. As the business changes, the system will adapt and move forward, too. Here’s another example of the solution’s adaptability: While Infor ERP SyteLine enables exceptional APS capabilities, it also recognizes that most customers must evolve to APS. As such, it delivers the options and parameters for users to smoothly migrate from traditional MRP planning to advanced, Demand Pull capabilities.

Infor ERP Infor ERP SyteLine also provides the global support you need. Our solutions are built to accommodate multiple languages and currencies, as well as to support local statutory compliance. Our customers like the geographic spread we are able to offer, meaning we can get you up and running quickly—your business subsidiaries, too—no matter where the location. We are unique in our global reach, providing a combination of global functionality and local support that is unmatched by other business software providers. But it is more than location that our customers like about us. They also appreciate our knowledge of the issues involved in implementing systems in global companies. Integration with Infor’s strategic solutions

Infor ERP SyteLine customers also benefit from the fact that the solution integrates with other Infor solutions that offer additional value to manufacturers:

• Infor PLM helps improve the navigation of product information by making it transparent across all stages of a product’s life.
• Infor CRM provides a single interface point to execute and improve all order and customer activities.
• Infor SCM puts you firmly in charge of your supply chain with superior, comprehensive supply chain planning and execution, warehouse management, and transportation management capabilities.
• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) tools improve communication with larger customers and suppliers.
• Data collection tools capture accurate and detailed information throughout your manufacturing operations—from parts arrival to customer order shipping.
• Advanced financial analysis and reporting can be yours with FRx® financial software tools from Microsoft. If you are grappling with disparate sub-systems that require significant maintenance, Infor ERP SyteLine provides the centric technology solution you are looking for, allowing for consolidation of effort and reduced total cost of ownership. It’s ideally suited for companies looking for a global footprint with dynamic configuration modeling needs, because it allows your multiple sites to operate based on their needs, while retaining your corporate governance standards. In short, it’s a solution designed for enterprising companies—companies wanting to achieve specific business benefits with global presence.

Packaged with smart functionality to address the key challenges manufacturers face today, Infor ERP SyteLine requires less customization, shorter implementation time, and fewer IT resources to maintain. That means an immediate return on your investment, and lower total cost of ownership over the long term. From the very first day, you’ll see improvements in visibility and transparency of data to address your challenges. The solution’s lean planning and scheduling capabilities provide the latest in Demand Pull algorithms, but also honor Traditional Lean Pull parameters, enabling you to achieve the best of both Lean worlds. And you will take a giant leap forward in your ability to manage materials and inventory more efficiently. Infor ERP SyteLine lets you:

• Increase customer satisfaction
• Plan and schedule order by order
• Increase forecasting speed and accuracy
• Minimize error-prone manual steps
• Deliver orders on time, every time
• Reduce inventory levels and shortages
• Leverage innovative technologies

Ultimately, Infor ERP SyteLine helps manufacturers improve the bottom line by adapting business processes to market requirements. You deliver more with less, and win the race against time.

Infor ERP SyteLine is ideally suited for companies looking for a global footprint with dynamic configuration modeling needs, because it allows your multiple sites to operate based on their needs, while retaining your corporate governance standards.

About Infor.
Infor delivers business-specific software to enterprising organizations. With experience built in, Infor’s solutions enable businesses of all sizes to be more enterprising and adapt to the rapid changes of a global marketplace. With more than 70,000 customers, Infor is changing what businesses expect from an enterprise software provider.

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Infor ERP SyteLine addresses the focus of manufacturing, including:

• Customer service and order managemen
• Planning and scheduling
• Production control
• Materials and inventory management
• Financials management
• Business process management and automation