American Refrigeration Supplies
A wholesale distributor with 33 locations in six states responded to demands from customers and vendors to use electronic data interchange (EDI) for sending invoices by implementing Infor’s Commerce Connect. After using Infor ERP SX.enterprise successfully, ARS easily added Commerce Connect, resulting in time savings, greater invoicing accuracy, and postage cost savings of $45,000 per year.
Ames Tile & Stone Ltd
After implementing Infor ERP A+ and Infor ERP Storefront with off-the-shelf functionality, the Canadian ceramic tile and stone distribution company found that stable functionality and fast, easy upgrades helped to significantly improve employee productivity and customer service.
C.H. Briggs
One of the largest independently owned kitchen- and bath-related building materials distributors in the industry chose Infor ERP A+, which significantly reduced expenses and improved customer service. Now the company can tell its customers when to expect their orders to arrive within a 10-minute window.
Carson-Dellosa Publishing Company, Inc.
Carson-Dellosa Publishing Company, Inc., one of the leading educational publishing companies in the United States, implemented Infor ERP FACTS Warehouse Management, improving distribution center operations. The company realized inventory reductions of 15-25% in 5 months, increased tracking capabilities, and improved throughput, efficiency, and accuracy across the entire organization.
Endries International
After deploying Infor ERP SX.enterprise and Infor SCM Demand Planning, a global distributor of fasteners for MRO and OEM markets significantly improved its business processes while growing to reach its revenue goal—almost seven times larger than the pre-implementation point—in five years. The company also saved $500,000 in warehouse safety stock in one warehouse in one year, improved inventory accuracy to about 99.7%, and more than doubled its pick rate.
Falcon Technologies, Inc.
A leading Midwest distributor of data and telecommunications products expanded its business by over 50% without increasing staff, reduced its AR check posting time by 75%, and improved efficiencies in various areas following implementation of Infor ERP SX.enterprise.
Hayward
A leader in the building materials industry in central California implemented Infor ERP SX.enterprise to gain improved efficiency and productivity through stricter inventory tracking practices and better buying advantages for customers, increasing sales margins by 3 to 5 percent in every location soon after implementation.
Hydro-Scape Products, Inc.
Hydro-Scape Products, Inc, a major distributor of landscape and irrigation products, deployed Infor™ ERP SX.enterprise to streamline and automate its business processes, increasing the speed and accuracy of serving its customers, as well as improving productivity and profitability.
IBT, Inc
A distributor of industrial supplies uses Infor ERP A+ to significantly reduce its inventory through supply chain collaboration as well as improve customer service satisfaction and increase top-volume sales with no cost increases. The company is well on its way toward reducing its $24 million-dollar on-hand inventory by 30 percent.
Kipp Brothers
A worldwide distributor of novelty and seasonal items implemented ERP FACTS Warehouse Management to streamline its inventory, sales order, and accounting processes to effectively reduce inventory overhead, increase productivity, and improve customer service, enabling the company to expand its business operations without additional equipment or overhead.
Minnesota Glove
The Midwest’s largest distributor of work gloves and protective gear has developed stronger customer relationships and cultivated new accounts by gaining a solid understanding of each customer’s business needs with ERP FACTS Relationship Management—resulting in improved productivity and overall customer confidence.
PG Bison
PG Bison manufactures and distributes sawn timber, poles, wood-based panel products, decorative laminates, and solid surfacing materials through its comprehensive national footprint. Planning and executing the implementation of the new Infor ERP LN platform at PG Bison was a great success. The team was able to meet all their timelines. Although the implementation was purely a technical upgrade, it forms a vital part of PG Bison’s value chain that covers finance, manufacturing, distribution, shop floor control, warehousing, inventory, and tracking of various points of sale throughout the country.
Puerto Rico Supplies Group
With Infor ERP A+, one of the biggest distributors in Puerto Rico easily consolidated six warehouses into one 200,000-square-foot facility designed to handle more than 2,000 different products with extra space for future growth. The company significantly increased picker productivity and warehouse receiving productivity: by 44% and 85% for refrigerated goods and dry goods, respectively, for pickers; and by 62% and 57% for refrigerated goods and dry goods, respectively, for warehouse receivers. The company also improved on-time/in-full deliveries by 23%.
Shaklee Corporation
As a leading global manufacturer and distributor of nutritional supplements and eco-friendly cleaning products, Shaklee chose Infor ERP BPCS and ERP LX to manage its complex set of requirements among multi-country operations. The centralized database of Infor ERP LX enabled productivity improvements and easy reporting despite time zone and language differences, and best practices were incorporated without code changes.
Shealy Electrical Wholesalers
An independent electrical distributor, Shealy Electrical Wholesalers chose Infor10 Distribution to manage its sales, inventory and operations in its three store locations. The result was a seamless implementation with the benefit of an experienced Infor project manager, improved reporting capabilities and increased inventory visibility. The company was also able to expand to ten store locations and double its sales volume without adding support staff.
Tampa Tile
A distributor of ceramic tile and related products selected Infor ERP SX.enterprise to enhance its financial and business processes. The resulting insight into inventory and improvement in communications has helped the company perform better on its special-order business, representing 15 percent of the company’s business.
TMS South
Plumbing products distributor, TMS South, specializes in "hard-to-find" items and repair parts for industrial, commercial, and residential applications. The company uses Infor ERP FACTS to enhance customer service, optimize inventory levels, increase productivity, and improve profitability enabling TMS South to leverage its resources in new ways to improve its efficiency.
WAIglobal
After upgrading from Infor ERP Baan to Infor10 ERP Enterprise (LN), this automotive aftermarket company saw system performance improve by two to three times, saved $800,000 operationally, reduced customization from 60 percent to less than 1 percent, and realized tremendous process efficiency improvements. With an array of improvements, users adopted the system within a month.
Wausau Supply
ERP SX.enterprise enabled leading distributor of name-brand building materials and customized building products, Wausau Supply, to centralize operations and gain broad-based visibility into the inventory of its 11 distribution centers, increasing productivity and reducing costs—both by 30%.
Western Wire
The manufacturing and distribution company achieved the extreme in streamlining its operational processes using Infor ERP SX.enterprise. It saved tens of thousands of dollars in annual labor costs, substantially reduced inventory while improving customer satisfaction, and eliminated the annual plant shutdown to count product inventory by cycle counting.
