Filtrec Bharat Accelerates Growth With Infor

Filtrec Bharat, a specialist in manufacturing filter elements for industrial and process filters, has recently announced that it has selected the Infor LN solution for its expertise in manufacturing planning and supply chain. Infor LN offers a comprehensive ERP solution that provides a consolidated view of complex global operations from design to delivery, including manufacturing, supply chain management, and after-market services.


With business operations spread across India and Italy, Filtrec Bharat faces complex challenges. Among the key considerations are seamless production planning for product customization, shorter product lifecycles and effective traceability for transparent integration across multiple systems. Filtrec Bharat's existing legacy infrastructure was unable to meet the agility required by a modern discrete manufacturer. With Infor LN, Filtrec Bharat will benefit by streamlining operations and drive collaboration across business functions for informed decisions.


"Our business required a robust solution addressing the complexities of modern discrete manufacturing comprising product prototyping, production planning and supply chain management. We chose Infor for their expertise in meeting our unique business requirements and compressive solution capabilities that are built for the future," said Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, Executive Director-Commercial, Filtrec Bharat Manufacturing.



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Lineage Logistics Selects Infor's Cloud-Based Supply Chain

Infor, a provider of business applications specialized by industry and built for the cloud, recently announced that Lineage Logistics has successfully implemented Infor Supply Chain Execution (SCE) version 10.3 in a cloud-hosted environment. Lineage, one of the largest temperature-controlled warehousing and logistics companies in the world, sought to improve process efficiencies while consolidating Warehouse Management Systems (WMS). By moving to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model for hosting core supply chain systems, Lineage is able to create a more stable and more scalable business ecosystem, which can help them deliver better inventory visibility and more dynamic allocation to their customers. As a logistics provider, Lineage serves customers that operate with considerable sensitivities to disruptions or delays, which made it critical to find a strategic partner like Infor to help deliver a more rapid, yet made-to-order, implementation process.  

Lineage supports a wide variety of WMS systems as a result of various acquisitions activities made over the last several years. To help improve enterprise-wide processes, the organization is undertaking a consolidation initiative with the goal of making each warehouse activity more efficient. Lineage selected Infor as one of their strategic partners for this initiative to help minimize disruptions and delays that could impact Lineage customers. In choosing and implementing Infor SCE in the cloud, Lineage gains a highly scalable solution that combines enhanced warehouse management functionality, labor management, and 3PL billing and transportation execution in a single, unified cloud-enabled solution.

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Vaillant Industrial Selects QAD's DynaSys Cloud Production Planning

DynaSys, a division of QAD Inc., and a leading provider of demand and supply chain planning solutions, recently announced that Vaillant Industrial, one of Europe's leading heating and boiler manufacturing companies, will implement the DynaSys Cloud Production Planning solution to improve its manufacturing planning process.

DynaSys provides integrated and collaborative planning solution that allows businesses to optimize their supply chains, including sales and operations planning, demand planning, and network, inventory and business resources optimizations. DynaSys software enables customers to meet their goals of better managing Demand and Supply Chain Planning, and becoming more effective enterprises.

Vaillant was founded in 1874 and is currently the second-largest company in the European heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) industry. Its core business centers on the development and distribution of energy-saving, environmentally friendly heating systems and water heaters based on natural gas and renewable energy sources.

After investigating several demand and supply chain solutions, Vaillant chose DynaSys for the following reasons:
•A comprehensive production planning tool.
•The ability to easily incorporate DynaSys Demand Planning.
•The Cloud model was best for their business.
•A structured Easy On Boarding project methodology.

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Demand Solutions Increases Value with Demand Solutions SaaS

Demand Management, Inc. a global supply chain planning software company that offers tools for manufacturers and distributors to increase forecast accuracy, improve customer service levels and reduce overall inventory, recently announced its collaboration with Microsoft to deliver the Demand Solutions SaaS solution built on Azure. Demand Solutions SaaS delivers full supply chain planning functionality in a solution that’s hosted outside the corporate firewall, and relieves IT staffs of the burden of performing updates and fixes.

Demand Solutions SaaS is designed for manufacturers and distributors that want to streamline and enhance their supply chain planning processes without having to build and maintain complex IT infrastructures. With Demand Solutions SaaS, companies can gain access to the full functionality of the on-premises solution, but without making an up-front investment in software licenses and hardware.

Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, a growing collection of integrated services—analytics, computing, database, mobile, networking, storage, and web—for moving faster, achieving more, and saving money. Azure offers a 99.95% monthly SLA, automatic operating system and service patching, load balancing, and resiliency in the event of hardware failure. Azure’s integrated tools, pre-built templates, and managed services make it easier to build and manage enterprise, mobile, web, and Internet of Things (IoT) apps faster, using skills developers and IT professionals already have and technologies they already know.

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Home Hardware Reduces Excess Inventory With Blue Ridge

Home Hardware is a co-op wholesaler owned by more than 1,000 independent business operators with three distribution centers across Canada. The company works with more than 2,600 suppliers and services its four banners, Home Hardware, Home Hardware Building Centers, Home Building Centers, and Home Furniture. As the co-op business expanded, it began to outgrow its legacy fulfillment solution. Keeping the inventory for each of these brands was becoming costly and cumbersome, creating inefficiencies in both time and stock levels.

After an extensive review, Home Hardware selected Blue Ridge. By implementing Blue Ridge's cloud-based solution, the company has seen a 10% reduction in excess inventory and safety stock while increasing service levels to stores by 2.5%.  In addition, IT costs have been lowered and reporting has become faster and easier, with individual store owners now having the ability to hone-in on data pertaining to inventory at any time from any location.

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Akustica Improves Global Supply Chain Performance With NetSuite

NetSuite Inc., a provider of cloud-based financials, ERP, and omnichannel commerce software suites, recently announced that Akustica Inc., a manufacturer of silicon microphones that improve voice-input quality in smartphones, tablets, and other mobile consumer devices, has notably improved the performance of its geographically-diverse supply chain since implementing NetSuite cloud ERP. In recognition of its innovations and improved supply chain efficiency, Akustica has been named to the 2015 list of 100 Great Supply Chain Projects by Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine, a top publication for supply chain management.

Akustica is a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff acquired by the Bosch Group in 2009. Akustica maintains its corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA with regional offices in Asia and a worldwide team of distributors. It leverages NetSuite to manage end-to-end sourcing, production, distribution and fulfillment processes for its micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) microphones across in-house and third-party factories in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Since going live on NetSuite, Akustica has markedly improved the speed and precision of supply chain processes while gaining real-time transparency into inventory, production and distribution. For Akustica, NetSuite's cloud-based business management suite, functions as the manufacturer's data warehouse, a single unified store of information gleaned from its entire supply chain including information regarding goods in transit on air shipments.

Approximately 24,000 companies depend on NetSuite to run complex, mission-critical business processes globally in the cloud. Since its inception in 1998, NetSuite has established itself as a leading provider of enterprise-class cloud ERP suites for divisions of large enterprises and mid-sized organizations seeking to upgrade their antiquated client/server ERP systems. To learn more about the Akustica implementation as well as additional NetSuite news, visit the NetSuite Newsroom.

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R. Hamilton & Co. Launches Modern And Personalized ERP With Infor

Electrical accessories manufacturer, R. Hamilton & Co., recently announced that they have deployed Infor CloudSuite Industrial (SyteLine) for improved data handling and business intelligence.

The new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application will support two locations in the United Kingdom, and help improve decision-making and reduce business continuity risks.

With a previous system that was over 20 years old and heavily customized, Hamilton maintenance and support was managed in-house and was reliant on a limited number of personnel, exposing the company to risk. This bottleneck also restricted the flow of information around the business and limited opportunities to implement changes to the business in a fast, effective manner.

Following a thorough review of the market, Infor CloudSuite Industrial was chosen on the basis of better functionality and the ease with which screens, data and reports could be personalized. Before going live with the new system, Hamilton performed essential personalization to ensure that the business could take customer orders (at an average of 1,300 lines per day), produce job documentation for shop floor, process the shipping of orders, purchase stock, invoice customers and pay vendors.

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Efraín Nuñez Selects Blue Ridge to Improve Profitability

Blue Ridge, a Cloud-based supply chain planning solutions provider to retailers, distributors, and manufacturers, recently announced that Efraín Nunez Inc. will implement Blue Ridge's demand forecasting, planning and replenishment solutions.

Efraín Nuñez is an importer, warehouser, and broad line distributor of bakery products for the manufacturing and retail sectors in Puerto Rico. The company also offers onsite technical service in the areas of baking, decorating, pastry, and other related areas. The company expects the implementation to enhance customer service levels while increasing profitability.

Efraín Nuñez saw strategic value in the ability to maintain and enhance world-class customer service levels. The distributor was also motivated to use enhanced demand planning capabilities in order to increase the efficiency and profitability of its supply chain planning operations. Blue Ridge solutions are configured to automatically fulfill demand in the most profitable way possible, taking into consideration current inventory, logistics costs, freight, and other factors thus allowing the business and sales team to focus on strategic objectives and fully take advantage promotions, trends and other business opportunities. By optimizing product availability, inventory, and logistics costs, companies such as Efraín Nunez can increase cash flow by 50% or more and improve sales by double-digits, while stabilizing or even reducing inventory up to 30%. In addition, Blue Ridge's solutions can be implemented in as little as 90 days and scaled to the most complex supply chains.

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Panorama Gruppen Implements Blue Ridge Solutions To Boost Growth

Supply chain planning provider Blue Ridge recently announced that Panorama Gruppen, Norway’s dominating supplier within the jewelry industry, has selected the company’s demand forecasting, planning and replenishment technology to sustain measurable growth throughout the supply chain.

Panorama Gruppen wanted to increase cash flow and sought a Cloud-based solution that could provide highly accurate inventory replenishment projections and powerful analytics. The implementation of Blue Ridge Dynamic Demand Management technology ranges from the jewelry shelves in PG's 100+ stores to the central distribution center and back to the suppliers, creating an entirely synchronized supply chain.

PG's leadership expects the new technology to strengthen the company's bottom-line and have a profound effect on the future valuation of our firm and sees Blue Ridge's Cloud platform as a very effective way to generate cash flow relative to other alternatives. The flexibility and scalability of the Blue Ridge Cloud solution will allow the company to adjust to the challenges that come along with seasonal retailing.

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Pelco Selects Tofino RMS For Inventory Management

For over two years, Pelco, a global specialist in energy and security management, had been searching for an easy-to-use inventory management and replenishment solution. Specifically, Pelco needed a solution that would allow them to track inventory usage to specific account codes, coupled with automatic replenishment capabilities driven by defined min/max levels. Comprehensive requisition and reporting capabilities were also required.

Tofino’s RMS (Resource Management Software) solution was selected due to the company's commitment to providing industry-leading supply chain management solutions and developing innovative solutions for the manufacturing, distribution, and e-commerce sectors including real-time management of inventory, asset, maintenance, and procurement requirements. As Tofino offers a Cloud solution, no interaction with Pelco’s IT team was necessary, and no additional hardware was required. With support for virtually any barcode scanner, Pelco’s existing devices worked perfectly. Tofino's integrated suite of Cloud applications provided the flexibility to align operations with overall business objectives. 

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The Business Benefits of SaaS Software

The benefits of SaaS software have continued to gain momentum in the context of today’s economic uncertainties. The business benefits of SaaS software are contributing to this growth.

Internet security and compliance firm MXSweep recently cited six business benefits of SaaS solutions:

1. Lower total cost of ownership
2. No infrastructure concerns
3. Faster go-live time
4. Easier upgrades
5. Use-based pricing
6. Improved security

Cloud-based solutions such as SaaS software can help organizations incorporate, design, deliver, or manage software development to build smarter products and services and increase the utilization of hardware and IT staff, all while managing risk and cost across the software development lifecycle.

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Manufacturing the Cloud: The Future Looks Bright

NetSuite has recently upgraded to the 2012.2 release and from a manufacturer’s perspective, there are several highlights:

1) Manufacturing Work in Process: Manage your shop floor activities with finer control with the new Manufacturing Work in Process (WIP) functionality. This new functionality adds a multi-step process, which includes work order issue, work order completion and work order close.

2) Revision Control: Track effective and obsolete components in a bill of materials (BOM) with effectivity dating or revision control.

3) Lead Time per Location: Enter lead time and safety stock levels on a per-location basis. With the addition of this capability, users can refine their planning process with more accurate safety stock and lead time values.

4) Cycle Counting: This new feature provides warehouse managers with a higher level of inventory accuracy, enabling tighter control over the company's assets.

5) Serial Number Generation: Lot and serial tracking has been in core NetSuite for many years, but with this new functionality we can auto-generate the serial numbers for you with a prefix.

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SAP Announces Availability of SAP HANA Cloud, SAP NetWeaver Cloud

SAP today unveiled its plans for SAP HANA Cloud, a next-generation cloud platform based on breakthrough in-memory technology. As part of SAP HANA Cloud, the company also announced the general availability of SAP NetWeaver Cloud, an open standards-based application service.

SAP HANA Cloud will include several key offerings, two of which are the SAP HANA AppServices that aims to allow developers to create next-generation applications using native SAP HANA, Java and other rapid-development services; and SAP HANA DBServices aims to provide database-as-a-service in the cloud.

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The World’s Most Game-Changing Companies Standardize on Cloud ERP

The new generation of leading companies think, act and operate differently and are changing the dynamics of business. What do these companies have in common and why are they consistently out-maneuvering and out-performing their larger, better-funded competitors? These innovative, fast-growing businesses outperform their peers because they move and adapt more quickly, make better decisions faster, operate with greater efficiency, and enable significantly more productive employees. They also all run their core business operations on modern, cloud-based business management software.

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Why the Cloud Won’t Save Your Business

All of the hype and hoopla that has surrounded cloud computing is finally quieting down. We’re almost in the place where cloud computing is no longer being suggested as the miracle cure for what ails business. However, just in case your business still thinks that the cloud will solve all of its problems, here are the top 5 reasons why it won’t...

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Cloud Solutions: Focus on Flexibility First

Listening to multiple presentations from a variety of vendors with cloud-based solutions, you would get the impression that the greatest benefit of the cloud is cost savings. That’s certainly the way most marketing pitches for the cloud seem to lean. While it is true that entry costs for a subscription-based service will almost always be lower than the entry costs for a service or product that is purchased outright, the math begins to favor the capital expenditure after the 5 or 6 year mark. This situation is quite similar to the cost differential between purchasing a home or automobile outright vs the long-term costs of financing these same items over a longer period of time. Ultimately, you pay for convenience, and the cloud offers a special brand of convenience.

The key is for an organization to determine if the benefits which are derived from this convenience, outweigh the raw costs that might be greater over the long haul. It is no wonder that very few vendors will ever suggest that the long-term costs of any particular cloud computing service are automatically lower than the alternatives. No, what the cloud provides is low entry costs plus increased business and technology flexibility.

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Mitigating Common Cloud Risks

Although many vendors are willing to present cloud computing as the perfect solution to all problems (real and imagined), as with all new service delivery mechanisms, it comes along with potential risks that need to be mitigated. If you are evaluating cloud computing for use in your organization, here are some of the most common risks that people fail to identify, assess or mitigate.

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Cloud Computing: Paradise or Peril

From the Association for High Technology Distribution:

Many distributors ask, "should we be moving our technology to the cloud?" Some of the reasons that this question is being asked is based on the following factors listed below. Do any of these apply to your business?

• We just had a server failure and we lost a ton of data
• We are trying to reduce our expenses and we heard that the cloud was cheaper that what we are doing today
• Maintaining our current hardware is expensive and it is not what we want to be focusing our time and dollars on
• Technology is changing so fast, we just never seem to be able to keep up.

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Afraid That Cloud Software Will Drag You Down?

There are many businesses that fear using cloud solutions in their organizations. Security risks and downtime frequently come up as the top issues that discourage companies from adopting cloud technology. But really, how valid are these concerns?  Read more about the security of cloud solutions in this latest article from I.B.I.S. ...

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