Infor generates a best-fit picture of future demand. A library of algorithmic techniques captures patterns from seasonality and intermittent sales to new products and supersessions. The system can blend models, self-tuning as new data becomes available. Highly configurable, it supports market intelligence overlays, user-defined metrics, and multi-tier hierarchies. With time-phased, segmented forecasts, meaningful shifts are identified sooner, enabling bottom line impact.

Effectively responding to demand requires a comprehensive assessment of possibilities, costs, capacities, and time sensitivities. Feasible plans align growth strategies and service priorities, incorporating distribution, production, and procurement alternatives. Infor’s configurable solution adapts to evolving requirements, looking across sites, balancing assortment and profitability, capturing shelf-life constraints, and identifying the optimal use of assets.

Infor derives a balance between service and responsiveness on one side, and inventory costs and exposure on the other. Algorithmic models capture network demand, supply, and lead-time variability, capacity constraints, and the role of products and markets in the portfolio. Segmentation and scenario analysis drive time-phased safety stock strategy, with service, profit, and risk profiles, amidst shortening lifecycles, broadening assortments, and shifting customer requirements.

Traditional approaches sequentially weigh capacity, distribution, and materials requirement. Infor simultaneously trades off to identify the best use of assets and supply. Generate optimized, time-phased plans, weighing cost, revenue, and priority implications. Coordinate across production sites, lines, and steps. Scenarios examine interdependencies and constraints, sequencing batch and continuous flows. Resulting plans deliver improvements in throughput, profit, and service.

Infor supports S&OP and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) with an intuitive cloud-based solution designed to coordinate collaborative processes. Workflow templates enable stakeholders to perform joint reviews on a regular cadence, aligning operations and the commercial organization, pinpointing key variances and imbalances. Scenario impact analyses guide aligned resolution to capacity constraints, inventory issues, product launch surprises, budgets, and performance shifts.

Specifically architected to reflect the complexity of retail supply chains, Infor Demand Management provides a comprehensive set of cloud-native, machine-learning solutions that holistically address supply chain needs. Integrated solutions include demand forecasting, merchandise financial planning, lifecycle pricing, assortment planning, markdown and replenishment optimization. Harness the power of predictive and prescriptive analyses for retail operations.