Infor SCM (Supply Chain Management) > Manufacturing Planning

Advanced, industry-specific tools to maximise the use of your manufacturing assets.

Nowhere are the complexities of supply chain management more extreme than in manufacturing. Manufacturers must meet demand by maximising their most valuable assets—equipment, people, materials, and capital. But the greatest challenges lie at the heart of their production processes.

Infor SCM Manufacturing Planning delivers advanced capabilities that go beyond those of traditional ERP-based planning to help you make the best use of your production resources, improve efficiencies, increase throughput, and lower costs. Because one size doesn’t fit all, each solution is business specific with industry experience built in, providing laser-focused applications that recognise and solve the essential challenges in your business.

Infor’s manufacturing planning solutions help companies like yours:

Boost manufacturing productivity by as much as 15%
Reduce raw materials costs up to 20%
Minimise finished goods inventory by as much as 40%
Realise procurement reductions of up to 15%

Dedicated to the industry it serves, Manufacturing Planning combines advanced capabilities with industry-specific functionality to solve challenges conventional systems can’t. Each planning component features multiple constraint-based planning engines that deliver achievable, fully synchronised plans you can adapt to accommodate the realities of capacity, people, and material constraints. The memory-resident planning engines assess millions of combinations in minutes, making them among the fastest available. They are ideal for “what-if” analysis in response to unexpected changes in your plan such as new orders, machine downtime, or late deliveries. An order promiser module enables you to provide accurate, achievable customer promise dates to new inquiries. Components include:

Planner—this constraint-based advanced planning system (APS) for engineering, assembly, and repetitive manufacturing environments ensures realistic and perfectly synchronised manufacturing plans for optimal throughput.

Advanced Planner—this constraint and optimisation-based planning system delivers supply chain and manufacturing plans from all possible combinations, considering capacity—and cost—to determine the least-cost supply chain plan.