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Chemical industry software to unlock your advantage

Mix the right formula for success. Gain greater control of product development, manufacturing, quality, finance, and sustainability – and speed time to market for new products – with our AI-powered cloud software for chemical companies.
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Industry Expertise

Conquer complexity with chemical manufacturing software

Chemical manufacturers face unique challenges when taking a product to market. Their batch operations are impacted by constant switchovers, variability in lead times, quality, and availability of raw materials – as well as fluctuating costs and unpredictable demand.

With our chemical industry software, we combine deep industry-specific functionality with the latest technologies to help you meet these challenges and others – head on. 

Benefits

Key benefits of our chemical industry software solutions

Greater supply chain agility

Leverage machine learning to anticipate demand and better balance inventory, planning, and scheduling. Get real-time visibility into shipments – and optimise global shipping and capacity planning to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

Increased employee productivity

Find and retain the right talent for your chemical company, aligning skills and certifications precisely with job needs. Improve team engagement, training, and safety compliance – and boost overall performance and job satisfaction.

Optimised asset productivity

Boost profitability with predictive maintenance that keeps your equipment reliable, safe, and running smoothly. Use AI-driven analytics and dashboards to minimise downtime, increase throughput, and meet compliance targets.

Improved ROI on R&D spend

Accelerate innovation by automating your formulation and development processes. Ensure ingredient compliance, manage costs effectively, and use scenario comparisons and stage-gate processes to bring products to market faster.

Infor CloudSuite Chemicals

Industry cloud software for molecule-to-market efficiency

Infor CloudSuite Chemical is a suite of integrated, industry-specific cloud solutions. The suite consists of a powerful ERP system plus PLM, supply chain planning, MES, ESG capabilities, and more. It is designed and built for chemical manufacturers, significantly reducing customisations or integrations, and rapidly increasing time to value. Take advantage of automatic upgrades, robust cybersecurity, a user-friendly interface, robotic process automation, and industry-specific AI use cases. 
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Infor CloudSuite™ Chemicals is a composable suite of solutions that help chemical manufacturers improve safety and compliance, speed time-to-market, increase throughput, and optimise productivity.

Chemical ERP

Infor’s chemical ERP is a complete cloud solution designed specifically for chemical manufacturing. It addresses your unique challenges – including managing seasonality, attribute costing, co-product and by-product planning, back flushing, and formulation management. Optimise your supply chain to significantly lower total manufacturing expenses, cost of quality, service costs, and compliance overhead.

Highlights:

  • Optimise production scheduling across multiple facilities
  • Improve tank and liquid scheduling management
  • Leverage robust quality management and precise traceability
  • Streamline regulatory and compliance mandates
  • Strategically source raw materials to lower overall costs
Chemical ERP software

Infor PLM for Process

Product lifecycle management (PLM)

Infor PLM for Process is a cloud-based solution designed specifically for process manufacturers. It helps your R&D teams innovate faster by simplifying formula management, regulatory compliance, and product introductions. The software integrates with ERP, CRM, LIMS, and other critical systems to boost efficiency, enhance collaboration, and reduce product lifecycle complexity.

Highlights:

  • Unify data and processes across your entire enterprise
  • Easily access global material specs and historical formulae
  • Accelerate product launches with collaborative management
  • Ensure global compliance with comprehensive labelling tools
  • Optimise formulae and drive innovation with real-time analytics
PLM for process manufacturing

Supply chain planning

Synchronise supply and demand with our integrated, cloud-native supply chain planning portfolio. Leverage advanced modelling, AI and machine learning, and analytics to plan and adapt to the unexpected. The portfolio includes the following solutions that can be bought together or separately:

  • Infor Integrated Business Planning (IBP): Align strategic plans seamlessly with operational execution
  • Infor Demand Forecasting: Accurately predict customer demand, reducing uncertainty Infor
  • Supply Planning: Optimise inventory levels to balance service, cost, and risk Infor
  • Production Scheduling: Efficiently schedule resources and maximise throughput
Supply chain planning software

Infor WMS

Warehouse management

Get real-time control over warehouse operations with a tier-1, cloud-based warehouse management system. Our WMS includes advanced AI-powered capabilities to support and power core operations – including inventory management, labour management, 3PL billing and invoicing, 3D visualisation, embedded analytics, and more.

Highlights:

  • Get real-time, 3D visibility into inventory and order fulfilment
  • Automate tasks such as directed putaways, optimised picking, and shipping
  • Streamline labour management and accurately allocate resources
  • Enhance warehouse productivity through proactive analytics and insights
  • Simplify receiving, replenishment, and complex cross-docking processes
WMS software

Sub-Industries

Support for all types of chemical companies

Our purpose-built software is designed by experts with an in-depth understanding of chemical manufacturing – including the micro-verticals that make up this complex and important industry.

Batch petrochem and plastics

Easily account for by-products and co-products in material planning, scheduling, and costing. Manage bottlenecks and routing to optimise throughout. Increase asset uptime and safety. And leverage sophisticated costing to improve razor-thin margins.

Paints and coatings

Manage similar paint and coating materials by attribute. Synchronise bulk orders, handle complex product formulation and processing, and optimise flow rates and liquid across tanks. Plus, run theoretical formulations to speed up innovation.

Soaps and detergents

Optimise potency for your soaps and detergents. Maximise capacity with constraint-based tank and pipe scheduling. Improve make-to-order and make-to-stock planning. And leverage flexible pricing, trade agreement, and promotion management.

Agricultural chemicals

Seamlessly orchestrate natural raw material supply and processing for your agricultural chemical company. Optimise inventory by visualising and reducing in-transit, buffer, and safety stock based on various regulatory constraints.

Bulk chemicals

Optimise index costs, true-up mechanisms, rebates, and spot-price promotions for bulk chemicals. Sophisticated costing identifies materials by potency or specification for accurate catch-weight, back-flushing, and co- or by-product consumption.

Speciality chemicals

Handle complex product structures and their formulation, processing, and stream flows with embedded capabilities for process manufacturing. Improve product lifecycle management, processes, and raw material conformance.

Customer Stories

Real chemical industry software success

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Reckitt Benckiser customer video

Reckitt gains one source of truth

Reckitt Benckiser brands include Lysol, Finish, Durex, and Mucinex – among others. See how they’re using Infor PLM for Process to establish a single source of truth for their chemical products and ensure production perfectly matches design.

Resources

Chemical industry insights and tips

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Platform

Drive chemical innovation with Infor Industry Cloud Platform

Infor’s chemical software runs on the Infor Industry Cloud Platform. Discover how the platform streamlines modern enterprise innovation by bringing together Industry AI, Data & Insights, Integration, Application Development, and Value+ solutions all in one place. Automate, analyze, integrate, and extend your Infor CloudSuite ecosystem with one connected platform.
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