Business-critical applications designed and built specifically for the manufacturing environment, delivered either on-premise or as a Cloud service.
With comprehensive industry suites, Infor ERP systems, supply chain management, and product lifecycle management applications don’t require customisation to meet the needs of your business.
They already deliver industry-specific functionality and support processes that are critical to your manufacturing sector.
Proximity is the only accredited Infor LX and BPCS partner in the UK and Ireland providing managed services , including hosting, for IBM i based solutions across all release levels ranging from BPCS V2 through to the latest release of Infor LX… and beyond.
We also support a number of organisations with their Infor ERP requirements across Europe.
Proximity has over 30 years of experience in implementing and integrating new and existing Infor ERP solutions for manufacturers in the food and beverage, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, consumer packaged goods, automotive, process, discrete and mixed-mode manufacturing industries.
Our Infor ERP team can help organisations meet the challenge of better managed production, improving operational efficiency, driving growth, reducing risk, meeting customer demand and satisfying regulatory requirements.
Proximity adds value to your organisation through continuity and a deep understanding of your manufacturing needs. Our experienced consultants implement and integrate enterprise solutions, support the optimisation of business processes, manage projects as well as providing strategic business consulting services.
We have been able to develop long-standing relationships with our customer base which demonstrates our ability to offer complete solutions for new and existing clients and deliver comprehensive implementation, development, enhancement and ongoing support services.
Organisations can choose from a selection of deployment options to reduce the total cost of ownership and risk by opting to run their Infor system as a Managed Service either on premise or offsite.
It is vital your business critical applications and infrastructure are properly managed. Our Managed Services and Support ensures your Infor LX and BPCS applications are managed effectively, efficiently and aligned to your business objectives. Whether on premise, hosted or via the cloud our range of enterprise-level managed services and support have been designed specifically to support Infor LX and BPCS applications, regardless of industry sector or business size.
Infor Advanced Planning is a best-in-class, highly configurable and scalable supply chain planning solution that allows you to take a holistic view of your supply chain and determine the optimal scenario based on specific business goals. It creates the best supply chain for your business, calculating the trade-offs so you have an optimised plan that satisfies all your constraints and makes the best use of your assets while minimising costs. The solution helps improve performance and profitability by optimising manufacturing and supply chain plans while determining the lowest total supply chain cost.
Completely configurable, Infor Advanced Planning is extremely flexible and can be configured to your business to solve specific manufacturing and supply chain challenges and constraints. The application operates alongside other Infor ERP solutions, your bespoke ERP systems as well as a host of third-party ERP solutions including SAP, Oracle and MfgPro.
Not only does Infor Advanced Planning optimise all aspects of the supply chain including manufacturing, sourcing, inventory, distribution, labour and warehousing, but also models unique characteristics such as least cost formulation and blend optimisation to determine the most profitable solution.
Infor Advanced Planning solves complex business issues like determining what the most profitable mix of ingredients are to put into a formula, while at the same time considering FDA minimum and maximum constraints, or determining the optimal way to disassemble a chicken when you only have demand for breasts or wings. The software gives you the competitive advantage to achieve profitability and increase overall market share.
It’s a fact of life that manufacturers who mix, blend, brew, cook, react, or distill face different scheduling challenges from those in other industries—challenges that aren’t met by conventional ERP planning software or assembly-based scheduling systems.
Infor Advanced Scheduling operates alongside other Infor ERP solutions, your bespoke ERP systems as well as a host of third-party ERP solutions including SAP, Oracle and QAD.
Infor Advanced Scheduling is a sophisticated, constraint-based scheduling solution that addresses these differences, including the real-world challenges of managing the capacity of vessels, tanks and production lines — and the flow of product between them.
Infor Advanced Scheduling combines constraint-led logic with powerful optimisation to simultaneously schedule all operations across all your production lines. Advanced Scheduling can include any interdependencies you may have in your process manufacturing production processes to deliver a completely synchronised schedule right down to the minute.
Unlike conventional ERP planning software or assembly-based scheduling systems, Infor Advanced Scheduling enables food, beverage, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and consumer goods manufacturers to deal with recipes, by-products, co-products and yield losses more efficiently.
Customers who have implemented Infor Advanced Scheduling have benefited from improvements to their bottom-line, including increased on-time delivery performance, reduced lost time due to changeovers, reduced production costs and increased capacity utilisation.
Plan for profit by tying together your strategic business plan with your operational plan with Infor Sales and Operations Planning (Infor S&OP). Real-time information on demand, supply and finances drives supply chain efficiency and business profitability. Speed up decision and measure the impact of your decisions immediately.
Infor Sales and Operations Planning empowers your organisation’s decision makers to arrive at a single, unified operational plan that profitably matches supply with demand and aligning the plan with the organisations business strategy.
Producing the very best business results are achieved by providing a holistic framework to balance customer demand with supply through key financial measures and numerous ‘what if’ scenarios on both sides of the equation. Infor Sales and Operations Planning software mean you can develop the best plan to meet customer service and financial targets while being agile enough to respond to fluctuating market demand.
Designed specifically for distributors and manufacturers, Infor Sales and Operations Planning works with your ERP and supply chain planning software bringing visibility, insight and clarity into all aspects of your actual demand, inventory, production and supplier plans.
Infor Optiva is a best-in-class product lifecycle management (PLM) solution designed specifically for process manufacturers.
Simply meeting demand is not enough in competitive global markets. In order to bring new products to the market, grow revenue and compete with other manufacturers, you need tools to enable you to accelerate product development cycle times, while at the same time ensure you comply with all regulations in each country.
Seamlessly integrating with you existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, including SAP, Infor Optiva PLM helps you to meet these challenges by providing a cohesive platform with a single product record for unifying all data and processes across your entire organisation, regardless of how complex or dispersed.
With over 30 years PLM experience, Infor is widely recognised as a market leader in developing PLM solutions for process manufacturers. Infor Optiva delivers deep functionality specifically for food, beverage, chemical or life science manufacturers including formulation modelling and least-cost formulation.
Request a demonstration of Infor Optiva PLM and find out how you can dramatically improve time to market, reduce costs and improve quality and certification processes.
Two ERP systems may have the exact same list of functionality, but behave entirely differently depending on the industry-sector they are applied to. Read the case studies to learn how other manufacturers have used Infor to report significant productivity improvements that keep their costs down and margins up.
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