Chemicals
Complex supply chain management
Asset and operations throughput
R&D spend and speed to market
Workforce productivity
Legacy platforms and applications
Micro-vertical expertise delivers business value faster
CASE
SPECIALTY CHEMICALS
CLEANING
RESINS
AGRICULTURAL
INORGANICS
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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 optimization engine
- Optimize 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 optimize between time, volume, costs, and price
Optimize asset productivity
Institutionalize predictive asset maintenance to increase throughput, reduce costs, and improve safety
- Increase capacity utilization 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 standardizing 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 license 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 personalization instead of customization
- 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
Infor solutions for chemical companies
- Infor CloudSuite™ Chemicals
- Infor PLM for Process
- Infor SCP
- Infor Nexus
- Infor Workforce Management
- Infor Factory Track
- Process manufacturing software solutions
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 optimization, seasonality, attribute costing, regulatory compliance, quality, back flushing, catch weight, tank liquid management, traceability, and more. By optimizing 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 optimization across multiple facilities
- Tank scheduling optimization
- 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
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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 maximizes 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 optimization, regulatory compliance, and project management. The solution seamlessly integrates with ERP, CRM, LIMS and other key business systems.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Unify data and processes across the enterprise
- Develop and launch new products faster
- Ensure 100% global labeling compliance
- Deploy quickly in the cloud
- Utilize collaborative project management
- Improve formula optimization
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Infor SCP
Infor SCP is a powerful end-to-end platform that balances supply and demand to optimize 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 Optimization, and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP).
HIGHLIGHTS
- Reduce transportation, overtime, and inventory holding costs
- Predictive financial analysis and reconciliation
- Customized alerts for flexible forecasting
- Collaborative forecasting with sales, finance, production, customers, and trade partners
- Modeling of business cycles and demand spikes
- Optimize key supply chain variables such as capacity, material, inventory, and distribution constraints
- Real-time data to track and optimize the production schedule
- Scenarios guide resolution to capacity constraints, allocation challenges, new product surprises, and performance shifts
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Infor Nexus
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 optimizing 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
- e-invoicing and payables automation
- End-to-end supply chain visibility and control
- Innovative supply chain finance
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Infor Workforce Management
Optimize every aspect of labor 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 labor demand
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Infor Factory Track
Infor Factory Track™ is an end-to-end manufacturing automation solution, along with warehouse mobility, traceability, and tools for tracking labor and time. Designed to help companies streamline production, properly inventory materials, speed inventory operations, keep labor 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.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Barcode handling
- Inbound Logistics
- Job material transactions
- Time & Attendance automation
- Labor data collection
- Overtime rules
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Process manufacturing software solutions
Process manufacturing software solutions
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
PRODUCTS INCLUDED
- Infor ERP
- Infor SyteLine Process Industry Pack
- Infor® OS
- Implementation Accelerator
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