Achieving end-to-end supply chain excellence in the chemical industry
Chemicals
Infor understands unique process manufacturing challenges chemical companies face while taking a product from molecule to market. With Infor solutions most granular level data flows across functions to simplify work for each user. Here are some challenges Infor helps formulate effective solutions for:
Complex supply chain management
Global and local supply/demand push-pull, asset combinations, and new product introductions can lead to suboptimal planning.
Asset and operations throughput
Frequent downtime and unplanned shutdowns impact capacity utilisation and profitability—and can often contribute to additional safety and compliance risks.
R&D spend and speed to market
Lack of standard processes and insights into costs and regulatory data results in missed opportunities and higher costs.
Workforce productivity
Attracting, training, and allocating talent is a challenge due to a shrinking manufacturing workforce and safety and process conformance requirements of a chemical plant.
Legacy platforms and applications
Siloed and customised solutions limit access to insights and analytics, and create barriers to adopting innovations such as smart manufacturing.
Micro-vertical expertise delivers business value faster
Infor CloudSuite™ Chemicals provides chemical manufacturers enterprise solutions to augment safety and compliance, improved time-to-market, increased throughput, and optimised 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
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
15-25%
improvement in productivity of cost accounting and management team
10-20%
improvement in production equipment uptime
1-2%
increase in top-line sales due to responsive supply chain improving volume throughput
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 M3
Infor OS
Infor Birst® Industry Analytics
Infor Implementation Accelerator
Infor PLM for Process
Infor PLM for Process is a cloud-based product lifecycle management solution specifically designed for food, beverage, chemical, and life science manufacturers. It maximises the value of process manufacturers’ R&D teams and helps reduce the time spent performing key PLM processes, such as new product development and introduction, formula optimisation, regulatory compliance, and project management. The solution seamlessly integrates with ERP, CRM, LIMS and other key business systems.
Infor SCP is a powerful end-to-end platform that balances supply and demand to optimise inventory, service, and performance across the supply chain. Businesses can tap into solutions for Demand Planning and Sensing, Supply Planning, Production Planning and Scheduling, Inventory Optimisation, and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP).
HIGHLIGHTS
Reduce transportation, overtime, and inventory holding costs
Predictive financial analysis and reconciliation
Customised alerts for flexible forecasting
Collaborative forecasting with sales, finance, production, customers, and trade partners
Modeling of business cycles and demand spikes
Optimise key supply chain variables such as capacity, material, inventory, and distribution constraints
Real-time data to track and optimise the production schedule
Scenarios guide resolution to capacity constraints, allocation challenges, new product surprises, and performance shifts
Infor Nexus™ is the world’s largest and only single-instance, multi-enterprise business network platform that powers many of the world’s most complex supply chains to drive efficiency and agility by optimising the flow of goods, information, and capital from source to delivery and pay. Boost overall supply chain performance by improving on-time delivery and customer service, with increased velocity; all while significantly reducing costs, lead times, freeing up working capital, and improving partner relationships.
HIGHLIGHTS
Single connection with your network of partners
Supplier collaboration
Transportation sourcing and execution
Multi-leg, multi-mode shipment tracking and monitoring
Optimise every aspect of labour management and productivity with Infor® Workforce Management. Strategically enhance workforce planning, execution, and analysis with an engaging, industry-specific, enterprise workforce management software solution built on a proven technology platform that delivers time and attendance, demand-driven scheduling, workforce scheduling, and absence management tools.
HIGHLIGHTS
Enable your people to access workforce data anywhere, anytime
Track employee time and get the right data to payroll—every time
Leverage vertically specialized shift- or demand-driven scheduling tools
Take advantage of intuitive, industry specialized software for budgeting, planning, and forecasting labour demand
Infor Factory Track™ is an end-to-end manufacturing automation solution, along with warehouse mobility, traceability, and tools for tracking labour and time. Designed to help companies streamline production, properly inventory materials, speed inventory operations, keep labour costs in control, and integrate with Infor's industrial manufacturing platform. Get the visibility and insight to understand true costs, improve cycle times, and respond to customer expectations for on-time delivery.
Chemical manufacturers have unique requirements when it comes to manufacturing operations. Infor SyteLine for Chemicals is the solution to make it easy to adjust formulas, build batches based on exacting manufacturing specifications, and monitor and respond to the evolving regulatory environment.
HIGHLIGHTS
Manage multiple units of measure for any item
Model formulas based on weight or volume, as well as loss or yield percentages
Account for materials used in a formula that are soluble or are removed from the process prior to packaging
Resize a formula based on production needs, using percentages to accurately scale all of the components
Maintain a full history of formulation revisions and be able to recall prior versions and place into production, as needed
Issue materials quickly and efficiently by reporting in batch production quantities
Take advantage of chemical ERP functionality to address costing and lot traceability
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