Planning & Forecasting

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

 

 

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.
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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

Demand planning

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

Supply planning

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

Production scheduling

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

Productivity by the numbers

25%
reduction in supply chain costs
40%
reduction in wastage costs
30%
improvement in forecast accuracy

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Procurement, payables, and supply chain finance processes
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Multi-enterprise business network product orchestration
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New product design, development, and introduction
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Advanced Analytics


Business intelligence, KPIs, reporting, data management, and portal integration
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