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Infor VISUAL ERP

Infor VISUAL ERP is an end-to-end ERP solution that is easy-to-support, low-cost, and already assists thousands of order-driven manufacturers. VISUAL delivers quality products on-time with a look and feel your employees will intuitively grasp.


  • Shop-floor data collection and WMS mobility
  • Finite scheduling
  • Restive API toolkit
  • WIP management
  • Quality management
  • Performance management
  • Deployment options
  • Manufacturing Window™

Why is Infor VISUAL ERP unique?

Every manufacturer will experience business challenges and opportunities. How quickly you can diagnose and respond to these challenges and opportunities can be the difference between liabilities and profits for your company. Infor VISUALs unique, graphical user interface provides “information at your fingertips”, in one screen, to proactively plan & schedule work orders on the shopfloor while being reactive (everything is only a couple of clicks away) to quickly respond to change. 


Infor VISUAL is uniquely designed to support the goal of order-driven manufacturers: increasing throughput while minimizing or maintaining overhead, ultimately driving profits.


Order-driven manufacturing is highly complex, and guessing what the next step should be is never the best option. Manufacturers need to proactively visualize the impact of any material shortage, capacity constraint, and/or bottleneck as well as factors that impact accurate quoting, calculated delivery dates, shorter lead times, quality assurance, supplier coordination while leveraging the delicate balance of customer service.


To achieve the GOAL, Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS) had to be architected into Infor VISUAL (never a bolt-on), and was awarded a patent (#5,000,500) for its unique ability to schedule Concurrent Resources – essential for complex manufacturers. While every ERP can show a Gantt chart and appear to handle the challenges of APS, VISUAL continues to be the only ERP in the market to have customers successfully using its native APS capabilities.



Infor VISUAL Manufacturing Window

The Manufacturing Window is at the heart of the Infor VISUAL solution. It not only represents the master engineering component driving production but also provides real-time insights into delivery and cost performance for your customer orders.

Leverage Infor VISUAL's Concurrent Scheduling features to streamline production efficiency today while accurately planning for long-term opportunities and changes.

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Manage Proactively, 
and/or Reactively

Infor VISUAL proactively visualizes your resources and constraints over time, while also reactively adjusting to real-world, daily changes in your complex manufacturing environment.

Scheduling
  • Would you like to balance the shop floor, maximizing shop throughput without increasing your overhead (therefore increase profit)? 
  • Do you want to drag and drop work centers blindly across a Gantt chart or do you want to compare on-time delivery simulations versus the impact to the company’s bottom line? 
  • Does your shop have continual rush orders? Would you like to utilize a Finite scheduler that offers ‘What if’ scenario profitability metrics, that require less baby sitting and are still effective? 
  • Utilizing Theory of Constraints concepts to simulate on time deliveries (CTP) versus profitability and choose the best alternative for you and your customer.
Sub Assemblies
  • Legs (sub-assemblies mfg specifically for this build, and never stocked) – Most ERPs force you to place subs into stock before issuing to the next level up. Losing the cost breakdown as well as the scheduling capabilities (manually updating the schedule of each sub). Make to order sub-assemblies (legs) retain the complete cost breakdown through the entire build while also auto-updating the entire build schedule.
  • Complex and multi-level BOMs are common with engineer-to-order manufacturing. You can investigate every single part of your final product and see cost estimates, delivery times and supply.
FIFO Actual Costing

Most ERPs claim actual job costing. Some give it different moniker like ‘Actual Average’, or even hide Purchase Price Variances (ppv) in the GL. The fact is there is only one FIFO costing standard. Eg, have you ever closed a job and received a material invoice afterwards that has a variance from the original PO? Is hiding that variance in a ppv account acceptable? Or would you prefer to post the actual cost against the job so for future quoting the exact job variance is at your finger tips?

Detailed Project Management

Infor VISUAL ERP was originally designed for aerospace and defense contractors. It provides detailed project management functionalities, work breakdown structures, % complete revenue recognition, even integration with MS Project. 

Material Requirements Planning
  • VISUAL’s material plan is updated real time. Never wait to run MRP before updating your VISUAL material demand.
  • Part numbers are never required (unless it is an inventoried part). Avoid cluttering your inventory master with obsolete parts (eg. Part numbers not required for non-stock parts, custom estimates or one-off jobs). 
  • Most ERPs either allow back-flushing within a job or not (at the item master level). VISUAL allows you to decide at the work order transaction level which items to backflush and which to issue at actual. Especially with ETO equipment manufacturers, you will want to track the issue variances, whereas other items in the same project, easily backflush at standard.
Engineering Change Control, PO Requisitions & Work Flow

Like many systems, authorities, messages, and policing policies and procedures are pervasive throughout VISUAL. The difference with VISUAL is that they are easy to create and maintain.

Watch our complimentary VISUAL Engineering Change Control Webinar.

Quick Implementation & Easy-to-Use
  • VISUAL was designed by manufacturing professionals, not just accountants or programmers. The user interface was designed to emphasize user-friendliness. ‘A picture says a thousand words.’
  • Many Visual ERP customers have gone live in under 6 months.

Customer Story

Pacific Mako is a brass and aluminum foundry in Langley BC that purchased Visual ERP in 2019.  Read how they have invested in Visual as a company strategy.

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Customers are the best salespeople

Requires Very Little Hardware or IT Support

The fact that VISUAL requires very little hardware or IT support compared to other ERPs was perfect because we do not employ any IT staff.’ 

- Dave Rebic, Railcraft International

Resources

Cloud ERP vs On Premise ERP Comparison Chart
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VISUAL ERP 2024 Year-End Procedures & Costing Utilities
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