Simplifying high-volume purchasing, reducing bottlenecks in high-volume transaction environments, improving inventory management—these represent some of the toughest challenges electrical distributors must tackle today. To win in the marketplace, they must play a strategic role in their customers’ business, offer new services, expand geographically, or outsource core business processes to reduce costs.
Infor Electrical Essentials enables you to streamline your business by alleviating the problems of manually picking and stocking electrical items and helping manage product movement more efficiently. Sophisticated tools simplify the process of procuring and managing bids and jobs from concept to completion, synchronise job phasing, ensure better management of projects and costs, improve margins, and boost customer satisfaction.
Infor Electrical Essentials helps over 500—and nearly half of the top 100—electrical distributors address their business-specific issues.
Infor Electrical Essentials includes:
Infor ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)—control across order management, demand forecasting and visibility, core materials management, financial and transaction, job management, multi-site distribution, and sales operations help optimise customer service, inventory levels, productivity, and profitability.
Infor SCM (Supply Chain Management)—strategic planning, demand planning, forecasting, replenishment planning, transportation and logistics, warehouse management, event management, and web-based scheduling.
Infor FMS (Financial Management System) and Infor HCM (Human Capital Management)— financials and human asset management for global enterprises.
Infor SRM (Supplier Relationship Management)—seamless connection with suppliers, sourcing and procurement automation, purchasing consolidation.
Infor EAM (Enterprise Asset Management)—automated control and maintenance of equipment, facility, and transportation assets to maximise ROI and depreciation of those assets.
Infor CRM (Customer Relationship Management)—customer service, account histories, view of order status and availability, promotional up-sell, marketing campaign management, integrated web storefront.
Infor PM (Performance Management)—connection of strategy with execution, business intelligence.
Infor Open SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture)—an architectural approach that helps distribution companies enhance the agility of their Infor solutions for greater business efficiency.
Electrical distribution-specific business experience built in.
Infor Electrical Essentials offers platform-independent solutions that spark inventory management improvements, optimise high-volume purchasing, control vendor rebate management processes, simplify downloading of pricing/costing changes from vendors and service, expedite bid and job tracking, maximise high-volume transactional flow, and eliminate picking and stocking problems with barcoding and radio frequency (RF) devices.
Infor has years of embedded industry expertise acquired by partnering with global electrical distributors. Our business-specific, integrated solutions help you overcome obstacles in the ever-tightening electrical environment, drive down costs, improve performance . . . and be more enterprising.
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