Industrial Equipment and Machinery Industry

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Industrial equipment manufacturers must deal with complex products, extensive engineering activity, tight deadlines, and cost containment pressures while striving to meet competition from around the globe. Small and medium size manufacturers compete with much larger multinationals all the time and have the same needs as their larger brethren but fewer resources to apply to meet the challenges. That’s why Infor ERP SyteLine is packed with world-class capabilities but designed for ease-of-use so that smaller companies can have the tools they need to compete, without the overhead that other systems, not designed for this environment, might require. Today’s customers expect a lot from their equipment suppliers and Infor ERP SyteLine is ready to help you deliver on-time and on-budget despite complex specifications and designs, frequent design changes and late changes.

Infor ERP SyteLine is unique in its strength in integrated global sales, development, production, fulfillment and service management processes. It is a fully integrated, multi-entity solution that supports lean manufacturing practices, outsourced operations, supply chain communications and real-time order promising that enables global product rationalization, actual product costing, centralized sourcing and planning, cross-operational visibility and collaboration, and synchronized supply chain fulfillment.

Infor ERP SyteLine enterprise software solutions deliver bottom-line results by focusing on the essential challenges that are critical to success in industrial equipment manufacturing. Of particular interest to Industrial Equipment and Machinery manufacturers:

• Rules-based, parametric and multi-level sales configurator
• Rapidly and accurately configure and dynamically price complex products.
• Product data management, engineering change management and document management
• Complete engineering change control, product lifecycle, lot tracking, across all internal and external operations.
• Fully integrated Quality Management
• Satisfy customers, control costs, and improve processes
• Integrated maintenance management with production planning and procurement
• Minimize equipment downtime, maintain highest calibration and manage tooling.
• Advanced Planning System (APS)
• Order driven ATP and CTP promising through distributed multi-site order management capabilities.
• Comprehensive and centralized customer relationship management (CRM)
• Fully integrated sales, support, field services and installed base tracking.
• Integrated contract management
•  Manage product specifications, delivery dates, payment conditions, freight terms, installation and service agreements to ensure common views and real-time accuracy.

Handle individual machine orders and complex contracts with ease. Track equipment through its complete lifecycle from design through service and maintenance. Infor ERP SyteLine has the functionality equipment and machinery manufacturers need to stay ahead of the competition.