Outdoor Gear Canada Improves Efficiency with Infor Distribution

Infor, a provider of business application software serving more than 70,000 customers, recently announced that Outdoor Gear Canada (OGC) has successfully implemented Infor Distribution SX.e and Infor Storefront.

As a prominent distributor of cycling, snow sports and outdoor recreation gear, OGC sought to improve order taking and fulfillment by upgrading from its previous legacy system. The twenty-year-old system lacked sophistication and was proving to be ineffective as a B2B interface, offering minimal business intelligence and integration capability. The implementation of Infor solutions has facilitated increased efficiency in the warranty department, and the online search capabilities enable customers to easily find and purchase desired products.

Key enhancements following the implementation included:

• Infor Storefront providing online search capabilities that improved sales by making it easier for customers to locate products using keywords such as size, color, etc.
• Infor Storefront now enables OGC to use both multicurrency and multilingual functionality, an area previously lacking. As approximately 2% of OGC customers speak French, the bilingual upgrade was an important factor.
• OGC gained in-depth costing and margin analysis capabilities, an area that helps track growth and provides forward-thinking evaluations.

To read more about the implementation, and other case studies, visit the Infor News Blog.

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The Value Of Tightly Managing Subsidiary Ecosystems

From Manufacturing Business Technology
Mike Morel, Senior Director of Marketing, SAP 

Large enterprises need to increase the velocity and efficiency of their order-to-cash cycle within their subsidiary network, which can each reach a count in excess of 1,000 subsidiaries for Fortune 500 companies. These subsidiaries include international and local sales and distribution offices, small operating divisions, customer service units, and joint ventures. While most large manufacturing enterprises have implemented ERP systems at corporate and larger divisions/operations, a vast majority of subsidiaries in these companies still use manual or legacy systems to manage their operations.

Every day that these organizations wait to streamline the order-to-cash processes at their subsidiaries, they are bleeding cash that to the tune of millions of dollars.  According to Aberdeen Group’s 2011 research, best-in-class corporations have 71% lower past due accounts receivables (A/R) and payment time to clear the A/R ledger 80% faster when compared to corporations that are not best-in-class (see Figure 1). These organizations achieve best-in-class metrics by automating major steps in their order-to-cash process at 2.9 times as often as all others. 

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