Infor Automotive Essentials

Your key to driving lean, profitable growth in the automotive industry.

Maintaining a lean, yet flexible global automotive supply chain is not enough. There’s opportunity for enterprise-wide process improvement. You must be able to survive aggressive cost cuts and supply chain complexity, yet thrive by meeting consumer demand for customization and variety.

Infor Automotive Essentials allows you to integrate lean business processes throughout your entire enterprise quickly and cost effectively. Over half of the world’s leading automotive suppliers depend on these tailored, scalable solutions for lean automotive customer management, lean supply chain management, lean manufacturing, and lean quality management, as well as business intelligence and multicurrency financials that help them stay profitable.

 
Infor Automotive Essentials includes:
Infor ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)—exclusively for automotive manufacturing; no special setup or configuration required. The only repetitive manufacturing solution with integrated EDI, financials, barcoding, SCM, and Quality Management including QS9000 and ISO/TS16949 standards.

Infor ACM (Automotive Customer Management)—fully integrated electronic data interchange (EDI), release accounting, shipping control, and invoicing system. Includes business rules for 450 trading partners with the latest EDI transaction sets.

Infor SCM (Supply Chain Management)—quickly integrates automotive supply chain partners to improve operational performance, materials flow, and manufacturing flexibility. 

Infor SRM (Supplier Relationship Management) SupplyWEB - ERP independent supplier collaboration and execution software that lowers supplier-related costs by enabling two-way communication of procurement, replenishment, and performance rating information and reducing related inventory, premium shipments, quality defects, and more.

Infor FMS (Financial Management System)—integrated financial solution to effectively manage the multinational finances of automotive manufacturers and suppliers.  

Infor PM (Performance Management)—corporate performance management software including dashboards and key performance indicators; business intelligence (BI) software for effective business decisions.

Infor Open SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture)—an architectural approach that helps automotive organizations enhance the agility of their Infor solutions for greater business efficiency.

Automotive-specific business expertise built in.
Infor Automotive Essentials is comprised of solutions that improve customer service and increase satisfaction, directly support lean manufacturing initiatives, reduce the cost of quality, drive excess costs out of the supply chain, and enable innovation through supplier collaboration.

Infor has years of embedded industry expertise acquired by partnering with global automotive manufacturers including Magna and TI Automotive. Our business-specific, integrated solutions are tailored for the automotive industry, ensuring you can meet the challenges of today’s highly volatile marketplace. As a result, you’re able to improve quality, lower costs, accelerate time to market . . . and be more enterprising.

Download our whitepaper: Trends, Challenges, and Solutions for Success in the Global Automotive Industry.