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.

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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 optimize 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.

Optimized asset productivity

Boost profitability with predictive maintenance that keeps your equipment reliable, safe, and running smoothly. Use AI-driven analytics and dashboards to minimize downtime, increase output, 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.

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 optimize throughput. 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. Synchronize bulk orders, handle complex product formulation and processing, and optimize flow rates and liquid across tanks. Plus, run theoretical formulations to speed up innovation.

Soaps and detergents

Optimize potency for your soaps and detergents. Maximize 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. Optimize inventory by visualizing and reducing in-transit, buffer, and safety stock based on various regulatory constraints.

Bulk chemicals

Optimize 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.

Specialty 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.

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 customizations 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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Explore our chemical manufacturing software

Infor CloudSuite™ Chemicals is a composable suite of solutions that help chemical manufacturers improve safety and compliance, speed time-to-market, increase throughput, and optimize productivity.

Chemical ERP
Product lifecycle management (PLM)
Supply chain planning
Warehouse management
Cloud technology platform

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. Optimize your supply chain to significantly lower total manufacturing expenses, cost of quality, service costs, and compliance overhead.

Highlights:

Optimize 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 formulas
Accelerate product launches with collaborative management
Ensure global compliance with comprehensive labeling tools
Optimize formulas and drive innovation with real-time analytics

PLM for process manufacturing

Supply chain planning

Synchronize supply and demand with our integrated, cloud-native supply chain planning portfolio. Leverage advanced modeling, 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: Optimize inventory levels to balance service, cost, and risk Infor
Production Scheduling: Efficiently schedule resources and maximize 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, labor management, 3PL billing and invoicing, 3D visualization, embedded analytics, and more.

Highlights:

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

WMS software

Infor Industry Cloud Platform

Cloud technology platform

The Infor Industry Cloud Platform brings together advanced technologies and AI-driven intelligence within a true multi-tenant cloud environment. As the backbone of industry-specific Infor CloudSuites, the composable platform delivers all the functionality you need in one place while integrating with third-party systems.

Solution areas:

Industry AI: Drive hyper-productivity with prescriptive, predictive, and generative AI in your flow of work
Data & Insights: Gain actionable insights to drive more strategic decision-making and superior performance
Value+ Solutions: Accelerate innovation with pre-built, quick-to-deploy Infor ERP add-ons
Application Development: Rapidly design, build, extend, and deploy enterprise apps – easily and at scale
Integration: Connect your systems and data across your enterprise for smoother, faster operations

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INFOR VELOCITY SUITE

Become an agentic enterprise with our AI suite

Infor Velocity Suite is an all-inclusive AI package that pairs with every Infor CloudSuite – industry-specific AI agents, GenAI, process mining, and automations, plus a team of experts to implement it for you. One flat fee, no matter where you’re starting from. It’s the simplest way to put AI to work across your business – and ultimately, to become an agentic enterprise.

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Customer Stories

Real chemical industry software success

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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.

Review the latest analyst reports

Get unbiased, expert perspectives on what makes Infor a leader – and see how we stack up against the competition.

Gartner ranks Infor #1 in process manufacturing for the 6th consecutive year

Learn why Infor was ranked #1 in process manufacturing in the 2025 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises report.

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IDC names Infor an MES Leader

Find out why Infor is positioned as a Leader in the 2024-2025 IDC MarketScape for worldwide manufacturing execution systems (MES).

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Nucleus names Infor a supply chain planning leader

See why Infor was once again recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Nucleus Research Supply Chain Planning Technology Value Matrix.

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Gartner names Infor a Leader in WMS

Learn why Infor was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Warehouse Management Systems for the 8th consecutive year.

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Resources

Chemical industry insights and tips

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EXECUTIVE BRIEF

Conquer tank scheduling complexity

Learn how you can effectively manage the complex characteristics of tanks, vessels, silos, buffers, and bins – and schedule accurately even under capacity pressure.

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WHITE PAPER

Supply chain excellence in chemicals

Explore best practices for achieving a true digital supply chain. Learn how to improve demand sensing, accelerate new product introductions, boost agility, and more.

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Conquer complexity with chemical manufacturing software

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.

Industry cloud software for molecule-to-market efficiency

Become an agentic enterprise with our AI suite

Chemical industry software to unlock your advantage

Conquer complexity with chemical manufacturing software