1,000+ chemical manufacturers trust Infor’s 30+ years of expertise
Chemicals
Micro-vertical expertise delivers business value faster
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SPECIALTY CHEMICALS
CLEANING
RESINS
AGRICULTURAL
INORGANICS
Solutions for your most critical challenges
Infor CloudSuite™ Chemicals provides chemical manufacturers enterprise solutions to augment safety and compliance, improved time-to-market, increased throughput, and optimized productivity.
Make SI&OP process a winning strategy
Improve supply/demand, scheduling and planning, inventory, and warehouse processes
- Improve predictiveness with machine-learning enabled demand sensing
- Create balanced plans with a constraint-based optimisation engine
- Optimise international shipping routes and increase visibility of inventory in transit
- Perform finite-capacity planning that adheres to constrains and bottlenecks
- Run “what-if” scenarios to optimise between time, volume, costs, and price
Optimise asset productivity
Institutionalise predictive asset maintenance to increase throughput, reduce costs, and improve safety
- Increase capacity utilisation by improving overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
- Maintain high uptime for high profitability
- Improve safety and regulatory compliance with prescriptive dashboards and planned shutdowns
- Increase reliability with predictive maintenance via extended reality (XR) and artificial intelligence (AI)
- Jumpstart capital expenditure process and drive accuracy
Accelerate innovation and improve ROI on R&D spend
Improve return on R&D by automating and standardising formulation and new product innovation processes
- Enable quick innovation via data-driven formulation development
- Check for ingredient allowance and compliance per requirements and targets
- Improve project success by leveraging stage-gate process management capabilities
- Conduct scenario comparisons for costs, margins, and performance
Increase employee productivity
Reduce time spent on finding the right talent and increase focus on employee engagement, training, and team dynamics
- Tie output, quality of work, and certifications to performance and compensation
- Find the right talent based on technical requirements and aptitude/personality parameters
- Flag advanced certification and licence requirements for EHS compliance
- Improve employee allocation and management
Create a platform for digital transformation
Enable an Industry 4.0 transformation with a complete, industry-specific platform
- Apply last-mile, industry-specific functionality in a scalable and secure cloud implementation with extensibility for personalisation instead of customisation
- Deploy as cloud-based multi-tenant via Amazon Web Services® (AWS®) or on-premises
- Improve decision-making with IoT connectors AI, machine learning, predictive analytics, and more
- Increase productivity with social collaboration, role-based homepages, and industry-specific KPIs
Productivity by the numbers
Infor solutions for chemical companies
Infor CloudSuite™ Chemicals
CloudSuite™ Chemicals is a complete, yet flexible software solution designed to conquer the unique challenges of chemical manufacturing—including planning of co-products and by-products, formula optimisation, seasonality, attribute costing, regulatory compliance, quality, back flushing, catch weight, tank liquid management, traceability, and more. By optimising your supply chain around your business’s unique needs, you’ll be able to reduce your manufacturing costs, total cost of quality, cost to provide service, and total cost of compliance.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Planning and scheduling optimisation across multiple facilities
- Tank scheduling optimisation
- Extensive quality management and traceability capabilities
- Efficient adherence to regulatory and compliance mandates
- Creation and continuous improvement of formulas
- Raw materials sourcing for lower costs
PRODUCTS INCLUDED
- Infor ERP
- Infor OS
- Infor Birst® Industry Analytics
- Infor Implementation Accelerator