Infor M3

Accounting & Financial Management

Every business needs to keep accurate financial records. With Infor M3 Accounting and Finance Management, operational transactions from other modules are automatically recorded using flexible structures and rules that you can control. The integrated financial functionality handles your accounting, budgeting, consolidation and reporting requirements.

True multi-country, multi-company, and intra-company capabilities also allow you to manage multiple operational units even when they operate under different regulatory controls. Finance Management provides a single, integrated system to help you manage, control, and analyze your business operations. With a single, integrated view, you can identify and model critical trends quickly and effectively.

The Infor M3 Finance Management Suite includes:

• Budgeting
• Accounts Payable
• Accounts Receivable
• Fixed Assets
• General Ledger
• Group Consolidation
• Cash Flow Management
• Cost Accounting
• Product Costing
• Multiple Unit Coordination
• Report Generator

Supply Chain Management

At the heart of a manufacturing, distribution or service management business is the supply chain. Supply Chain Management provides you with a powerful set of tools to plan, schedule, and execute across your extended value chain, resulting in optimum customer service levels and profitability. Supply Chain Management helps you control and optimize information, material and financial flows throughout the organization. Whether you want to plan within your facilities or at a more strategic level across larger divisions of your organization, Supply Chain Management drives efficiencies and effectiveness from planning to procurement, from warehouse to work-in-progress.

Supply Chain Management supports the unique demands of highly regulated industries, those demanding a high degree of traceability, those managing by-products or co-products, and those with multiple alternative supply sources or processes. It is particularly suited to environments where operational agility is needed to meet the rapidly changing market demands. By offering functionality based on open standards, Supply Chain Management also provides the opportunity to capitalize on new mobile and data collection technology in the warehouse, in the factory, or anywhere along the extended supply chain.

The Infor M3 Supply Chain Management Suite includes:

• Warehouse Management
• Manufacturing Resource Planning
• Transport Planning
• Freight Cost Management
• Package Management
• Supply Chain Planning
• Distribution Requirements Planning
• Demand Planner
• Master Production Scheduling
• Advanced Production Planner
• Procurement
• e-Procurement
  
  
  

Manufacturing Operations

Maintaining product definitions and managing your manufacturing operations is a critical part of your success. Manufacturing Operations simplifies complex challenges with the capability to manage traceability, change control, configured products, product attributes, laboratory inspection, co-products, and by products in discrete, process, and mixed mode manufacturing environments.

Integrated with other Infor M3 modules, Manufacturing Operations provides a single source of product data and technical documentation to make it available online to Infor M3 users. ION-enabled integration with Infor CRM provides deep insight into customer relationships and the ability to automate sales processes, manage marketing campaigns, and embed key data into Microsoft(R) Outlook(R) via the Xbar. The manufacturing execution functions bring control and transparency to your manufacturing processes and include the ability to easily integrate with automated data capture and manufacturing execution systems.

The Infor M3 Manufacturing Operations Suite includes:

• Time & Attendance
• Production Statistics
• Manufacturing Execution
• Product Configurator
• Product Data Management
• Attribute Control

Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)

For businesses providing maintenance services to customers, it’s critical. Enterprise Asset Management provides a solution to these challenges. Because Enterprise Asset Management is integrated with other operational, planning applications, and CRM solutions, you can synchronize maintenance with production plans to maximize efficiency, effectiveness, and utilization.

The advanced capabilities of this module focus on increasing asset reliability and therefore on improving operational capacity and output. Better maintenance planning also improves engineer scheduling, reduces the need for emergency repair and purchases, and lowers maintenance cost.

The Infor M3 Enterprise Asset Management Suite includes:

• Preventive Maintenance
• Diagnostics Management
• Work Order Processing
• Equipment & Component Control
• Maintenance Performance & Costing
• Vehicle Operations Management.

Sales & Service Suite

Infor M3 includes functionality for sales and customer relationship management or CRM in its sales and service suite.

Infor M3Customer Sales & Service offers support for market development, sales and after-sales service processes-particularly in multi-channel sales environments where you need a complete picture of customer commitments. Customer Sales & Service combines web, mobile, and traditional order management tools with full service and rental management capability. Advanced internet-based sales tools give your customers self-service capabilities, helping to drive your cost of sales down.

With these applications, you can manage everything from simple discrete products to complex configured products and kits, make-toorder or make-to-stock, telesales, and EDI. You can manage your sales channels using the same availability, pricing, and fulfillment controls whether they are office or field based.

Features include:

• Sales & Marketing Automation
• Sales Management
• e-Sales
• Service Management
• Rental Management
• Maintenance Order Management
• Project Management.

Localizations

QAD ERP claims that their software has been deployed in over 110 countries, configured towards local tax standards.

However, from Oracle NetSuite's SuiteApp website, many of them are offered via local partners rather than via Oracle NetSuite themselves. 

Languages

Oracle NetSuite currently supports 27 languages.