Planning & Forecasting

Synchronizing supply and demand with end-to-end forecasting and planning capabilities

Optimize inventory and performance

With mountains of data, fluctuating variables, and unavoidable constraints, supply chain planning is no simple feat. Infor® Planning & Forecasting solutions help achieve performance goals through real, measurable process improvements that significantly affect the bottom line.

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Infor Supply Chain Planning

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Harnessing the power of supply chain planning

Unlock opportunities for today's enterprise

Rapid insights

Respond to changes and reconcile scheduling in real-time

Advanced analytics

Built-in data series modeling and analytics

Streamlined operations

Synchronize production with demand

Enhanced visibility

Predictive and prescriptive analytics for process manufacturing

Process automation

Easily update forecast parameters across the enterprise

Cloud scalability

Instantly align supply and demand across all product lines using cloud scalablity

With Infor Supply Planning and Infor Production Scheduling, the user interface for changing our model settings can be done easily by an end user, who doesn’t have to be an IT specialist. This allows us to use Infor Supply Planning as an optimization engine for our weekly demand and supply plans, and utilize Infor Production Scheduling for highly-effective periodic production plan scheduling in the factories.

KENJI MAEDA

SENIOR MANAGER IT PLANNING DEPARTMENT, KIRIN COMPANY, LIMITED

Infor Integrated Business Planning

Infor IBP is a comprehensive solution providing core analytics, visibility, collaboration, and execution capabilities. IBP helps organizations across industries get closer to real orchestration of their supply chain and retain control of costs and services delivered.

Adjust demand and supply plans as markets change
Synchronize operations and replace spreadsheet planning
Enable response planning to operationalize decisions
Establish support for growth initiatives, such as new products
Generate predictive financial analysis and reconciliation

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Infor Demand Planning

Infor Demand Planning employs unique, probabilistic forecasting methods to deliver unmatched forecast accuracy. The system automatically processes mountains of information from big data sources, signal feeds, and the endless range of dynamic information within the business process, giving organizations a fast, social, highly collaborative demand planning platform to solve planning challenges for good.

Automate variance detections
Optimize consistent and seasonal demand patterns
Minimize obsolete stock
Social collaboration platform removes silos
Follow real-time changes to adjust forecasts

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Infor Supply Planning

Infor Supply Planning easily adapts to evolving business requirements, whether it’s planning across multiple sites, considering shelf-life constraints in build-ahead strategies, balancing product mix, or choosing the best product recipe or formula based on availability of materials and demand.

Synchronize production with demand
Consider cost and constraints across the entire supply chain
Reduce implementation time and lower total cost of ownership
Solve problems before they slow or halt the fluidity of the supply chain
Evaluate and revise plans with built-in scenario modeling

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Infor Production Scheduling

Infor Production Scheduling is a supply chain planning solution that optimizes production resources, empowering manufactures to reduce costs, improve performance, and grow revenue.

Minimize transportation costs
Improve factory end user decision making with more accurate and reliable production planning
Bring efficiency to the supply chain
Improve the accuracy and reliability of demand and supply planning
Make on-the-fly adjustments to ensure production schedules are optimized for efficient flow and minimal downtime

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