Infor SCM (Supply Chain Management) Manufacturing Planning > Advanced Planner

An alternative path for improving manufacturing and supply chain plans.

Soaring costs. Manufacturing bottlenecks. Product variability. When manufacturers reach a level of complexity where multiple options and variables can be traded off against each other, it’s difficult for them to know whether their supply chain plan is optimized for cost, service, and profitability.

Infor SCM Advanced Planner helps improve performance and profitability by giving you an alternative path for truly improving your manufacturing and supply chain plans. It adapts to your evolving requirements, whether you need to plan across multiple sites, balance product mix capability with profitability, consider shelf-life constraints in build-ahead strategies, or choose the best product recipe/formula based on material availability and demands.

Infor’s advanced planning solution helps companies like yours:

• Boost manufacturing productivity by as much as 30%
• Reduce raw materials costs up to 30%
• Minimize finished goods inventory by as much as 50%
• Realize procurement reductions of up to 15%

Completely configurable, Advanced Planner molds itself to your business to solve your specific manufacturing and supply chain challenges. No other system provides this level of flexibility in standard software. At the heart of this solution are constraint-based algorithms and memory-resident processing functionality to improve your supply chain throughput by maximizing the utilization of constrained resources and synchronizing all production and distribution activities to demand. Unlike other solutions which might offer to “cost” a plan, Advanced Planner can use the costs of alternative options to “decide” the plan, ensuring that you’re meeting your customer service objectives at least cost—and with the best use of all your manufacturing, distribution, and inventory resources. “What-if” capabilities allow you to model and compare the outcome of different approaches, such as building inventory, using overtime, sourcing from another factory in your enterprise, or deciding whether to make or buy product to meet demand.

  Contact us to learn how Infor’s SCM manufacturing planning software will make a difference in your business.