3form, Inc.
After implementing Infor ERP VISUAL, a manufacturer of chemical resin materials for the architecture and design industry boosted revenues from $3 million to $70 million within five years, increased productivity in sales and all accounting processes, improved accounting accuracy of each product cost, and developed a more seamless engineering process.
AccuSpec Electronics, LLC
ISO and IPCA certified AccuSpec Electronics provides electronic manufacturing services for customers outsourcing either all or part of their electronic assemblies in the industrial, medical, military, and aerospace markets. The ten week implementation of Infor ERP SyteLine has improved efficiency, on-time delivery—with an 85% return rate reduction —and reduced inventory.
AKG of America
Growing at a rapid pace year after year, AKG, specializing in custom-engineered solutions for heavy industrial markets, needed an open, out-of-the-box system with the flexibility to sustain future growth. The company implemented Infor ERP VISUAL to automate all business processes, gaining significant efficiencies and a competitive advantage.
Aldra Fenster und Turen gmbH
A family-run company with high manufacturing standards and precision craftsmanship chose Infor SCM Scheduler to help map its business process—from order acceptance through production, to shipment and invoicing. Aldra also implemented Infor Baan Workflow, enabling an increase in delivery date adherence by over 95 percent.
Aquion Water Treatment Products
Aquion Water Treatment Products, LLC encompasses several strategic business units that serve the global water treatment industry. The company solved its distribution network challenges with Infor ERP VISUAL, which provides a serial tracking scheme that has been implemented globally.
Bay Precision & Mining
Bay Precision & Mining (BMP) operates in the competitive manufacturing environment, making customised products for the mining, industrial and export pumps market. Each manufacturing process is unique to the customers’ specifications and requires an ERP system that can deal with a complex assembly line. Infor’s ERP Visual Jobshop was chosen as the solution of choice as a full manufacturing suite of programmes which includes estimating, stock control, sales, purchasing, shop floor control and scheduling. The benefits of the system focus on improving efficiency and productivity by reducing manufacturing costs. The solution also provides increased visibility and is able to schedule and monitor the progress of all manufacturing jobs, allowing BPM to see potential problems that might arise as the job advances, and to prevent such occurrences well ahead of time.
Belden Brick
A world-class manufacturer of high quality bricks has leveraged technology to increase its data visibility with Infor10 ERP Enterprise, resulting in cost reductions, minimized scrap, real-time order status, and a competitive advantage to keep the company looking towards the future.
Cherasia Limited
A subsidiary of a US-based manufacturing company, Cherasia chose Infor ERP SyteLine as its information management solution for its Chinese operations and improved customer service and accuracy in reporting, saved time, streamlined processes, and gained greater flexibility in reporting between locations.
Colonial Mills
After the leading manufacturer of braided-texture rugs and accessories in the United States implemented Infor ERP SyteLine, the company quickly achieved 92 percent on-time delivery and only 3.75 days to shipment. It has also saved the company $100,000 annually.
CPAC, Inc
When changes in the global supply chain meant stretching out lead time for ordering materials from a few days to at least 30 days and sometimes 120 days, CPAC chose Infor ERP SyteLine to automate inventory transactions, a crucial step in reducing the rising number of rush shipments and minimizing inventory numbers.
CTI
Carlton Taylor Industries expects to achieve significant cost savings through integration, efficiency, and productivity improvements through its implementation of Infor ERP SyteLine.
Cumberland Packing Corp.
The manufacturer of Sweet'N Low® sugar substitute had a 20-year-old custom-built system that had no support for production processes and had limited general ledger functionality. Infor ERP Adage was up and running in five months and has helped reduce inventory by 15 percent, or $1.5 million.
Dematic Asia Pacific
The Asian Pacific region of one of the leading international suppliers of integrated logistics and material handling solutions implemented Infor10 ERP Business (Syteline) and realized a savings of AU$500,000 annually in licensing costs, which is contributing significantly to its business growth.
Draka Kabely
A Czech manufacturer of cable products for the construction, automotive, and engineering industries implemented ERP System 21, resulting in significant benefits to warehouse management through support of the company’s wireless online terminals using bar code technology, and allowing it to process finished products in the warehouse.
DRB-Hicom
Infor ERP SyteLine helps this Malaysian automotive manufacturer manage inventory and provide better service with streamlined processes and visibility into data that was impossible in their previous spreadsheet-based system.
Duramax® Marine LLC
One of the world’s largest manufacturers of vital marine products incorporated Infor ERP SyteLine for accounting and manufacturing, including issuing purchase orders, scheduling, planning, invoicing, and business analysis. The open architecture allowed easy customization, resulting in greater efficiencies throughout all departments, and built-in business intelligence enabled analysis of sales trends and reporting to compare sales and inventory.
Essen
After relying on disparate systems that couldn’t communicate, the manufacturer of kitchen cookware successfully integrated all of its production operations with Infor ERP VISUAL. The results were reduced lead times and inventory, streamlined and automated processes, and visibility into production levels that led to improved deliveries. Productivity and customer satisfaction soared.
FLSmidth Krebs
After implementing Infor ERP System21, the manufacturer of hydrocyclones to separate liquids/solids streamlined its manufacturing, distribution, and financial business processes, and helped the company to grow 10 times larger than its former size within 11 years.
Greif
This world leader in industrial packaging products and services consolidated seven legacy ERP systems to Infor ERP Baan and Infor ERP BPCS, leading the way to more than $1 million saved per year in IT costs.
Herman Miller
By implementing Infor10 ERP Business (SyteLine), Herman Miller was able to reduce US inventory by $1.2 million in two years, tripled their production capabilities, and enhanced their JIT (Just-In-Time) supply chain. Herman Miller is also upgrading to the latest version of ERP Business, including Infor ION, to integrate and enhance inter-company, company-supplier, and company-customer communications.
High Point Furniture
Using Infor IntelliChief Document Management with Infor ERP XA, High Point Furniture cut its order process time in half; achieved cost savings in labor, faxing, postage, check stock, and paper; and gained visibility into the status of every order.
ICx™ Technologies
A leader in developing advanced sensor technologies for homeland security and other applications needed to gain visibility into the financial records of all acquired divisions and to accommodate their diverse requirements. After implementing Infor ERP VISUAL, the company realized tremendous cost savings, increased productivity, and gained immediate access to key data for improved decision-making.
Immucor
Immucor, which manufactures blood reagents that test 35% of the world’s blood supply, was able to expand globally and handle the related growth in orders, inventory, and financial processing as well as deal effectively with multiple currencies, languages, and tax systems, all while maintaining costs, with help from Infor ERP Baan.
Inalfa Roof Systems
One of the world's largest providers of innovative vehicle roof systems deployed Infor10 PLM Discrete (PLM8) and ERP BaanIV to redefine, integrate, and standardize a majority of its business processes which has enabled the company to respond more quickly to market changes—resulting in reduced costs and increased efficiencies in all areas by an average of 30%.
International Truck & Engine
A producer and designer of commercial trucks and diesel engines for the pickup truck, van, and sport utility vehicle markets chose Infor ERP Baan Integration to be part of the building blocks of an initial SOA project. The implementation helps them to achieve a savings of several million dollars annually.
J C Steele and Sons
After a manufacturer of heavy clay machinery (crushers, grinders, feeders, extruders, pug sealers) implemented Infor ERP VISUAL, sales increased by 20 percent while staffing levels decreased by 5 percent.
K & W Transmissies
A Dutch company specializing in the wholesale trade of industrial chains, chain sprockets, and drive components chose Infor ERP LN and was able to effectively manage a significant growth in its customer order production.
Koch Equipment
A full-line manufacturer of equipment for meat production, food processing, packaging, and labeling used Infor ERP XA for CRM to study sales trends and learn more about its customers, enabling the company to seek new opportunities in the marketplace.
Lacks Enterprises Inc.
A leading manufacturer and supplier to the automotive, telecommunications, and consumer electronics markets integrated Infor10 Supplier Commerce Portal (SupplyWEB) with Infor ERP BPCS, resulting in improved supplier communication, more precise inventory accountability that eliminated safety stocks, lower premium freight costs, and greater credibility with the customer toward continuous improvement.
Light Corporation
Using Infor ERP VISUAL, a world-class lighting manufacturer specializing in fluorescent task lights and ambient lighting achieved a 67 percent reduction in time to make MRP changes, visibility into inventory and orders, production planning improvement, and confidence in its delivery promises.
Meridian Bioscience
Infor ERP XA enables Meridian Bioscience to run its global business units on one system in one location. Streamlined operations result in the development of innovative medical diagnostic and treatment products at lower cost and improved shop floor control through an integrated inventory system.
Nelson Industrial
The designer and manufacturer of precision fabricated metal products doubled the size of the company within three years after implementing Infor ERP VISUAL—without increasing headcount. The company automated processes and streamlined others in more logical ways to improve efficiency, internal communication, and customer satisfaction. With an instant view of current operations, management can quickly analyze and respond by reallocating resources to eliminate bottlenecks. Upper management can also create monthly financial reports within a few days after month-end.
New Scale Technologies, Inc.
New Scale Technologies, Inc., a global manufacturer of disruptively small ultrasonic motors, realizes improved operational efficiency and enterprise-wide flexibility with ERP SyteLine, enabled by Infor Open SOA. The company is now able to capture, analyze, and efficiently distribute the information necessary to better understand its manufacturing resources and plan for long-term growth.
Novum
Since deploying Infor10 ERP Process iBusiness, Novum, a leading manufacturer of refrigeration products, has begun a process of reducing the overall life cycle of their product process from order to sale. Within 12 months Novum hopes to have reduced this by 35 %. They are already on track to accomplish this.
Organic Valley Family of Farms
One of the leading US organic brands chose Infor ERP Adage, Infor SCM Advanced Planner, and Infor SCM Advanced Scheduler to meet the company’s extraordinary planning challenges. Resulting efficiencies were a slowing of the workforce growth rate while sustaining overall revenue growth, and a 37% increase in sales per employee.
Overly Door
Overly Door realized that its largest source of waste came from the way that it took orders and translated those orders into information that drives manufacturing—a process affecting the entire business. The company's overall goal was to reduce quoting and delivery time, and it has achieved that with Infor ERP SyteLine and Infor ERP SyteLine Configuration. Now, sales people can produce accurate quotes in minutes, often while on the phone with a customer, and automatically produce approval drawings without engineering assistance. Pricing is standardized across all of sales based on accurate BOMs that the configurator generates, and order prices always contain the correct built-in margin.
PCMC
The designer and manufacturer of converting machinery for tissue, flexographic printing, and nonwovens industries that produce consumer products decided to replace SAP with a simplified system to help streamline and improve its business processes throughout the enterprise. It chose Infor ERP XA. The result was improved process visibility across the entire organization. The company was able to develop standard operating procedures and improve its processes that amounted to reduced lead time, increased throughput, and large-scale cost savings.
Promethean
A global leader in interactive learning technology that empowers teachers to engage, educate, assess, and motivate learners used Infor10 ERP Enterprise to improve stock visibility and rationalization. The UK site has reduced part number inventory by 75 percent, and the company plans to use the application to help it gain a single view across its entire business to plan manufacturing more efficiently between sites in the UK and China.
Quality Metalcraft, Inc.
A supplier of high-quality prototype and low-volume production parts for the niche and enthusiast automotive manufacturers, Quality Metalcraft increased visibility into its operations to improve forecasting, planning, and scheduling with Infor ERP VISUAL.
RTC Inc
A global manufacturer of in-store programs that connect with shoppers and drive sales for brand marketers and retailers incorporated modules of Infor10 ERP Enterprise. Only three months after implementation, RTC had the biggest shipping quarter in the company’s history—without adding order entry staff and without one system glitch.
Silex
An industrial equipment and machinery company implemented Infor ERP VISUAL to boost efficiency, gain greater financial control, and provide more tangible customer service improvements. The company improved on-time delivery performance from 50 percent to 90 percent, achieving an industry-leading two- to three-week delivery cycle.
Superior Fastening Technology Limited
A Hong Kong-based manufacturer of high-quality fasteners and metallic accessories implemented Infor ERP SyteLine as a foundation for the company’s further expansion into international markets. Results have included better customer service, increased accuracy in reporting, time savings, and better control over daily operations.
Technicon
A manufacturer in the industrial machinery and equipment industry, seeking to improve customer service, implemented Infor ERP VISUAL. The solution enabled the company to provide more consistent pricing as well as much faster response times on quotes—usually when the customer is still on the phone.
ThermoFab
A company specializing in the thermoforming of high-quality plastic enclosures for a wide range of medical, industrial, and computer products added Infor ERP VISUAL to its operations. With these changes, the average lead times for the high-quality, pressure-formed plastic enclosures that the company makes decreased 50 percent.
Tuff Torq Corporation
A world-class manufacturer of hydrostatic and gear drive transmissions deployed Infor ERP XA resulting in rapid turnaround and just-in-time delivery, increased labor and materials utilization, and enhanced planning and production performance.
Ultra Clean Technology
A global leader in the design and manufacture of critical subsystems for OEMs in the semiconductor, flat panel, medical, and solar industries implemented Infor ERP VISUAL to improve its ability to meet constantly changing and accelerating industry demands. The company obtained the same advanced ERP capabilities of costly systems at a much lower cost, gained enormous productivity increases from using a wireless barcoding system to track inventory, and doubled purchasing efficiencies with an advanced planning tool.
UPCO Inc.
A leading US manufacturer of “downhole” oil field equipment chose Infor ERP VISUAL's scheduling and planning software to enable its plant to run more efficiently and take on far more work. Both work in progress and manufacturing lead time decreased 50 percent while productivity rose from $65-$70 to $147 per man-hour.
