Infor CloudSuite Manufacturing

Adds print-job cost estimating, based on paper weight, dimensions, and sections, along with the routings and bills of material needed for print and packaging quotes.

Adds formula-based batch production for process manufacturers, covering formulas, unit-of-measure conversions, and process-versus-discrete manufacturing concepts.

Introduces how the Advanced Planning System evaluates demand against a long-term plan and outlines the modes, order types, and setup steps involved in generating a plan.

Groups the general Planning Parameters that govern forecast consumption, reschedule tolerances, bucket reporting, work-day calendars, and shrink and scrap handling; changes apply the next time APS Planning runs.

Adds automotive-industry features including FMEA risk analysis, returnable container tracking, master contracts, and purchase order repricing, gated behind group authorization.

Covers day-to-day order administration: shipment approvals, non-inventory item costing, billing terms, interaction logging, due-date corrections, price adjustments, reservations, progressive billing, supply pegging, and customer interactions.

Groups the core APS planning parameters covering buffer shift assignment, scheduler handoff, negative on-hand handling, supply usage tolerance, sub-job date calculation, and planned order consolidation.

Adds tooling management, alternate routings, and equipment effectiveness reporting for molding and other highly repetitive, tooling-intensive manufacturing.

Defines fixed and variable lead times used by APS and MRP planning, including the lead time processor algorithm and lead time shifts.

Groups advanced APS parameters covering what-if databases, infinite purchased items, buffer scaling, pull tolerances, iteration limits, lead-time reduction, tracing, alternate materials, and job or production-schedule supply switching.

Manages engineering change notices used to record and approve changes to items, operations, materials, and revisions.

Sets the network details, site priority, and server assignments that let APS realign its plan across several supply locations running in Global mode.

Prorates an employee's time evenly across multiple concurrently running jobs recorded through data collection.

Covers both MRP and Advanced Planning and Scheduling engines, including forecasting, exception handling, and comparing the two planning modes.

Documents APS behaviors that fall outside standard Planning Parameters settings, along with fixed system behavior and how order priority governs planning sequence.

Covers building and running a master production schedule to protect key items from fluctuations in order-based demand.

Provides an alternative to MRP or APS for generating supply orders, plus tools for replenishment rules, source rules, and cross-referencing demand to supply.

Lays out the data objects, including orders, items, batches, routings, resources, materials, and shifts, that the Planner and Scheduler share to keep plans and schedules synchronized.

Covers controlling, consolidating, and firming planned orders into purchase orders, job orders, production schedules, or intra-site transfers.

Explains how the Planner compares an order against the long-term shop-floor plan to project real-time completion dates, covering its database, lead-time, lot-size, safety-stock, and resource-availability logic.

Orders a resource's work based on each job's start and end dates, weighing sequence dependencies and how resources interact, and covers event simulation, scheduling rules, availability, setup time, overlap, splitting, and running the Scheduler.

Configures planning items with feature groups and qualifier logic so configurable products can be designed and ordered with selectable options.

Covers building, importing, copying, and exporting routings and bills of material, including integration with external PLM systems.

Bundles the Value+ enterprise automations, including AI-assisted quality trend analysis, make-vs-buy decisions, and RPA-driven document processing, that automate recurring SyteLine workflows.

Defines the work week, shift exceptions, and overrun handling used by MRP, APS, and the Scheduler.

Defines plants, the manufacturing location tied to a site's manufacturing warehouse, and sets default plant and warehouse assignments.

Models personnel, machines, and equipment as resources so APS and the Scheduler can plan and constrain activity against their availability and capacity.

Defines work centers for capturing labor and overhead costs and groups them into departments and shared locations.

Covers the full job lifecycle, from creation and release through material issuing, outside processing, shop floor execution, co-products, and job costs.

Covers building, releasing, and processing production schedules, a simplified blanket-order alternative to individual job orders.

Covers running and customizing the Scheduler, including batching, operation setup, output analysis, and writing custom scheduling rules.

Covers recording shop floor transactions, backflushing, end-of-period costing, backflush reporting, and reversing job transactions.

Gives a unified view for monitoring and analyzing shop floor activity, including equipment effectiveness, job efficiency, summary metrics, and a job calendar.

Manages the lifecycle of a new item from concept through production, combining material status controls with dedicated NPD codes and item settings.

Tracks and manages in-process rework during production, capturing the reason, work center, and cost of each rework occurrence.

Configures items, estimates, jobs, and customer orders through the product configurator, including authorizations and printing.