Automotive software solutions

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Navigating the automotive industry transformation: Embrace innovation, while streamlining processes and leveraging data insights

Now more than ever, OEMs and suppliers need to adapt to industry changes but do it carefully, using AI-driven insights and strategic analysis of risks and opportunities. Help your organization thrive by using a modern ERP to streamline end-to-end processes—from customer alignment to proactive supply chain management.

Infor product feature release highlights

Infor President & CTO, Soma Somasundaram, describes the latest product updates from Infor and what customers can expect.

Product Release Highlights

With Infor® CloudSuite™ Automotive, manufacturers can eliminate uncertainty and boost agility across operations, countries, and factories.

From new models with novel technologies to complicated sustainability demands, automotive manufacturers are constantly faced with new challenges. With a newly enhanced toolkit (equipped with more visibility, management assistance, and billing automation), Infor CloudSuite Automotive simplifies these challenges so businesses can stay fast, smart, and competitive.

Control costs and drive profitability
Increase supply chain resilience
Optimize manufacturing productivity

Overview

Control costs and drive profitability

In the automotive industry, profitability depends on precision. And in a market where seemingly unpredictable trends from electric vehicles to international freight costs can have a massive effect on profits, it’s important to stay proactive. Infor's updated CloudSuite provides insights and financial visibility to help customers navigate uncertainty and inform decision-making that will maximize margins. The latest update to Infor CloudSuite Automotive provides a library of KPIs specific to auto manufacturers’ needs, including real-time insights that can help teams make more profitable decisions, enhance financial visibility, and grow margins based on accurate projections that eliminate traditional uncertainty.

With uncertainty in so many facets of the automotive industry – from changing regional sustainability regulations to supply pricing and availability – it’s easy for manufacturers and their margins to fall behind the latest trends. Infor's latest CloudSuite Automotive provides insights and forecasts specific to the automotive industry, helping manufacturers and industry leaders stay in control of their margins and prepared to keep their profits strong.

KEY INDUSTRY ENHANCEMENTS

Self-billing for aftermarket and services business (based on sales orders): As automotive OEMs and suppliers expand their after-market businesses, this new capability helps customers better understand their finances, and simplifies invoicing and payment management for smoother orders.

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Increase supply chain resilience

Supplying vehicles for a global customer base doesn’t need to feel as sprawling as it sounds. The latest Infor CloudSuite Automotive updates reduce unnecessary supply chain uncertainty and enhance customer satisfaction by consolidating collaboration with business partners and suppliers, multi-site planning, and billing – all in one platform. Infor CloudSuite Automotive simplifies supply chain management for automotive customers, providing details like part pricing, environmental regulations, and freight costs all in one sleek, easy-to-use interface.

Major automotive manufacturers handle multiple global supply chains and need to ensure timely, accurate deliveries worldwide. With Infor CloudSuite Automotive, manufacturers have the planning power they need to communicate with suppliers in real-time, avoid missteps, and swiftly remedy mistakes when they arise. Infor CloudSuite Automotive has brought increased supply chain visibility to our auto customers through market-to-order systems so automotive OEMs, specialty vehicle manufacturers, and tier suppliers can understand what materials are in their pipelines, where those materials are at any given time, and make firm promises to customers accordingly.

KEY INDUSTRY ENHANCEMENTS

Trading partner compliance: Infor’s trading partner compliance tool compiles various supplier details (such as costs, quantities, billing, and related paperwork) into ready-to-send messages, which are then shared via the outbound Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). In addition to organizing this information, the trading partner compliance tool ensures all partners and correspondences are compliant with the latest industry regulations.

Streamlining shipments: In our latest software update, improvements have been made to make shipment processes smoother, more efficient, and more compliant with service-level agreements. Improvements include planning for alternative packaging when needed, and a tool for planning and prioritizing shipments to enable timely deliveries to priority customers.

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Optimize manufacturing productivity

As vehicles grow smarter, the way we build them needs to keep pace. Automotive production powered by out-of-date technology leaves room for unnecessary errors, waste, and margin reduction. Infor's updated CloudSuite Automotive boosts productivity by optimizing and monitoring assembly lines, allowing OEMs and specialty vehicle manufacturers to produce more in less time and meet increasingly complicated customer demands with reduced errors. With its latest update, Infor CloudSuite Automotive sequences assembly lines and supports multi-modal manufacturing, allowing auto suppliers to transform a single production line into a streamlined operation fit to produce the multiple models, trims, and options customers crave while handling potential malfunctions and part changes in mere minutes with data-powered insights.

With a shrinking talent pool, automotive manufacturers face staffing shortages and increasingly complex consumer requests. The updated Infor CloudSuite Automotive uses assembly line sequencing and multi-modal manufacturing to boost productivity and transform production across manufacturing types and business models.

KEY INDUSTRY ENHANCEMENTS

Configurable product workspace: As more automotive customers seek the ability to provide special options for consumers using Infor CPQ, Infor’s configurable product workspace provides a new space for customer service representatives to customize products from a single screen. This tool also provides pricing and tracking information for each quote, and links directly to relevant sales orders for consolidated information all in one place.

Material overage management: Material overage management tightly intertwines Infor PLM for Discrete and Infor CloudSuite Automotive systems to help engineers carefully study the impact of part changes on the rest of the automotive manufacturing process. By illustrating and planning for this impact, automotive manufacturers can better control necessary changes and swaps, which cuts down on waste and makes for smoother processes.

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Adapt to unparalleled automotive market challenges

Make smart, bold decisions with confidence and fact-based risk analysis. Be strategic, remove roadblocks, set priorities, and cut through complexities.

See 10 ways to become a more agile auto organization

Get the most from Industry 4.0 advances

Automotive cloud ERP is transforming the auto industry, and Industry 4.0 automotive solutions are providing faster results.

Read about Industry 4.0 process optimization

Micro-vertical functionality delivers business value faster

AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLIERS

TIRE SUPPLIERS

AUTOMOTIVE OEM

SPECIALTY VEHICLES

AFTERMARKET PARTS & SERVICE

Don’t follow the pack. Move to the frontline.

Become a leader in your market. Keep your eyes on the future and your data focused on growth opportunities. With accurate data to back your decisions, you can be confident and creative in your problem-solving.

Trust Infor OS platform with advanced analytics, driven by AI and ML, to provide holistic, accurate insights into your business
Empower business users with role-based dashboards and easily consumable data insights
Take advantage of Infor’s platform as a service for greater flexibility
Improve operational efficiencies using sensors, machine-to-machine connectivity, and IoT technologies

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Car bodies being connected with engines and suspension in car factory

New trends require new thinking, new processes, new software

Dramatic changes in vehicle technology, means more complexity on the shop floor. Visibility helps maintain order, priorities and efficiency.

Navigate R&D and product launch processes more efficiently
Track regulatory compliance and quality control
Manage projects and stage-gating for introductions
Offer highly configured products and RFQs
Maintain APQP, MMOG, and revision control

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Collaborate on complex project details

Choose and rely on secure platforms that expedite your organization’s goals for ever better cars, trucks, engines, and more.

Join forces and share data and design concepts with partners and customers
Use EDIs to safely share information with customers, contractors, and suppliers
Manage a highly secure global commerce network
Maintain visibility upstream and downstream
Securely navigate contracts through Infor Automotive Exchange

Learn about Infor’s supply chain management solutions

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ERP for automotive supply chain management

Optimize complex end-to-end planning , communication, and execution.

Maintain global visibility to anticipate and adjust as needed
Improve S&OP and supply chain planning
Leverage advanced analytics to project outcomes and risks
Manage for multi-site, multi-logistics inventory planning
Control inventory, minimizing investment, reducing costs
Track items by lot and Serial 360

Read about ERP for auto OEMs and suppliers

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Automotive worker inspecting cars on manufacturing production line.

Deploy smart, simplified, preconfigured functionality

Utilize solutions that can help streamline auto or parts manufacturing as well as industry processes.

Take advantage of preconfigured, industry-specific capabilities for ease and speed of deployment
Leverage built-in, proven best practices, forms, and workflows
Manage mixed mode manufacturing, including: project, repetitive, job shop, engineer-to-order, and assemble-on-demand—with one solution
Handle shop floor operations, workforce management, and quality control

See Infor CPQ

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Automotive customer successes

Boost towing and recovery providers’ productivity with advanced analytics

Miller Industries, a world leader in towing and recovery equipment, transformed its business with Infor Birst analytics. Thanks to a top-down, CEO-led initiative, all of the executive and management teams now have easy access to a single source of live, accurate information which has improved productivity and changed decision-making within the company.

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Automotive cloud software

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Automotive manufacturing ERP
Manufacturing ERP software for mid- to small-size businesses
Supply Chain Network / Supply Chain Planning / Warehousing
Manufacturing Execution System
Talent Management
Automotive analytics with AI
Configure Price Quote / Field Service

Automotive manufacturing ERP

CloudSuite Automotive provides a comprehensive suite of industry-proven automotive solutions, including a core ERP and specialized applications to meet the specialized needs of an automotive manufacturer or supplier, such as:
Quality management functionality that streamlines APQP and PPAPs
Statistical process control (SPC) data collection for IATF-16949 compliance
Management of production planning and scheduling, including MMOG requirements
Online collaboration between automotive suppliers up and down the value chain
Certification as a Honda North America Software Solution

Manufacturing ERP software for mid- to small-size businesses

Infor CloudSuite Industrial is an end-to-end ERP solution for both discrete and process manufacturers, providing predictive analytics, collaboration, lean production tools, and integration options. Infor CloudSuite Industrial is a true mixed-mode application for engineer to order, configure to order, highly repetitive, process, and service-based manufacturers. CloudSuite Industrial helps manage complexity and growth, while enabling organizations to gain performance improvements in customer service, productivity, and cost control.

HIGHLIGHTS

Innovate faster and more efficiently
Manage production planning and scheduling
Coordinate aftermarket service and maintenance
Optimize production scheduling
Improve product quality
Leverage the highly flexible, scalable architecture to be more agile and synchronized with fast-changing customer expectations

PRODUCTS INCLUDED

Infor ERP
Infor® OS
Infor Birst®
Infor Implementation Accelerators
Deployed on AWS®

Supply Chain Network / Supply Chain Planning / Warehousing

Infor® Supply Chain Management solutions deliver intelligent, real-time supply chain orchestration by digitalizing end-to-end supply chain processes, allowing companies to gain real time visibility that empowers data-driven decisions and optimal delivery to customers on time.

HIGHLIGHTS

Maximize the reliability and performance of assets
Predict equipment failure and carry out preventative maintenance
Comply with strict legal and environmental regulations
Streamline purchasing and procurement
Track labor costs and reduce downtime

PRODUCTS AVAILABLE

Infor Nexus
Infor Supplier Exchange
Infor Supply Chain Planning
Infor WMS

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Manufacturing Execution System

Infor MES solution to improve manufacturing operational performance

Empower operators on the shop floor with a highly visual Manufacturing Execution System to achieve real-time control and visibility of all manufacturing operations in the factory and support data driven decision making.

Highlights

Create the smart factory with extensive MOM (manufacturing operations management) functionality across production, quality, inventory, and maintenance, centrally orchestrate operations, connecting to machines and equipment for real-time visibility and responsiveness
Increase efficiency (OEE), reduce waste, and improve FTTQ (first time through quality)
Accelerate time-to-value and ROI with a modular, highly configurable enterprise MES solution, offering 24/7 resilience
Support your digital transformation journey in manufacturing operations.
Integrate with Infor Industrial CloudSuites and leverage rich manufacturing data in Infor OS

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Talent Management

Optimize every aspect of labor management and productivity with Infor® Workforce Management. Strategically enhance workforce planning, execution, and analysis with an engaging, industry-specific, enterprise workforce management software solution built on a proven technology platform that delivers time and attendance, demand-driven scheduling, workforce scheduling, and absence management tools.

HIGHLIGHTS

Enable your people to access workforce data anywhere, anytime
Track employee time and get the right data to payroll—every time
Leverage vertically specialized shift- or demand-driven scheduling tools
Take advantage of intuitive, industry specialized software for budgeting, planning, and forecasting labor demand

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Automotive analytics with AI

Infor® industry analytics deliver relevant and meaningful insights for everybody from the boardroom to the shop floor. Infor Birst® makes business intelligence and analytics easy to consume with pre-built industry and role-specific content and metrics embedded wherever business users need information. Improve decision-making with Birst.

HIGHLIGHTS

Best in class pre-built industry content
C-suite dashboards for prescriptive analysis
Intelligent drill-back with in-context insights
Open ecosystem for democratized analytics
Enterprise-wide solution for integrated data

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Configure Price Quote / Field Service

Infor CPQ helps sales teams, partners, and distributors sell complex products more quickly with a rules-driven platform designed for visual quoting and dynamic pricing, to instantly produce a configuration-specific list price, dealer cost, and quoted selling price. Orders are automatically passed to your business system via enterprise integration.

HIGHLIGHTS

Sell complex products faster with quick and accurate quotes on-demand
Accelerate product innovation
Optimize your supply chain to improve demand planning and purchasing
Bring your products to life with a visual selection and configuration experience
Complete visibility into real-time data

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Automotive software solutions

Explore the biggest technology trends impacting automotive manufacturers and suppliers

This executive brief reveals how digital threads keep EV manufacturers and suppliers in sync

Navigating the automotive industry transformation: Embrace innovation, while streamlining processes and leveraging data insights

Infor product feature release highlights

With Infor® CloudSuite™ Automotive, manufacturers can eliminate uncertainty and boost agility across operations, countries, and factories.

Control costs and drive profitability

KEY INDUSTRY ENHANCEMENTS

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Adapt to unparalleled automotive market challenges

Get the most from Industry 4.0 advances

Micro-vertical functionality delivers business value faster

AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLIERS

TIRE SUPPLIERS

AUTOMOTIVE OEM

SPECIALTY VEHICLES

AFTERMARKET PARTS & SERVICE

Don’t follow the pack. Move to the frontline.

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New trends require new thinking, new processes, new software

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Collaborate on complex project details

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ERP for automotive supply chain management

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Deploy smart, simplified, preconfigured functionality

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Automotive customer successes

Boost towing and recovery providers’ productivity with advanced analytics

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Automotive cloud software

Automotive manufacturing ERP

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With Infor® CloudSuite™ Automotive, manufacturers can eliminate uncertainty and boost agility across operations, countries, and factories.

Control costs and drive profitability

KEY INDUSTRY ENHANCEMENTS

Don’t follow the pack. Move to the frontline.

New trends require new thinking, new processes, new software

Collaborate on complex project details

ERP for automotive supply chain management

Deploy smart, simplified, preconfigured functionality

Automotive customer successes

Boost towing and recovery providers’ productivity with advanced analytics

Automotive cloud software

Automotive manufacturing ERP

Let's Connect