The Right Shade of Best Practice
8 November 2024
8 November 2024
Paula Yarwood, Solutions Architect at Inforlogic, explains why personalisation and flexibility are key to achieving the right manufacturing ERP
When it comes to best practices for choosing new ERP capabilities, the days of a one-size-fits-all approach are long gone. For manufacturers in particular, flexibility and personalisation are key if businesses are to align functionality with often highly nuanced needs. For this reason, choosing a partner that can deliver the right amount of personalisation is paramount if organisations are to drive performance and achieve best practices.
Manufacturing is highly complex, with effective supply chain management, production efficiency, and regulatory compliance all vying for the top spot on executives’ priority lists. Such is the industry’s dynamic nature that manufacturers need a manufacturing-centric ERP platform that can adapt to a rapidly changing market while providing the core functionality that modern production environments demand.
For these reasons, more manufacturers are turning to Infor SyteLine (CloudSuite Industrial), one of the few ERP platforms on the market designed to meet the specific needs of the manufacturing sector. It delivers robust, out-of-the-box capabilities that chime with manufacturers’ typical needs and challenges, including comprehensive inventory management, advanced production planning, intelligent scheduling, and supply-chain-wide logistics. But what sets it apart from other solutions is its capacity for light customisations to align with the nuances of individual organisations.
With Infor SyteLine, customers can tailor capabilities and personalise their ERP solution without over-customising to the point where future upgrades, enhancements, or system improvements become either too costly, too complex, or both. This balance of functionality and adaptability makes Infor SyteLine such an appealing proposition for manufacturers. It enables the creation of a functional ERP environment while remaining responsive to changing requirements and doesn’t jeopardise the potential to upgrade the solution.
However, choosing the right ERP platform is only part of the equation. For manufacturers, it’s crucial that they select the right implementation partner, too, one who can guide the business through the entire process. When it comes to light customisations, working with the right partner ensures that the system is configured to maximise its potential without sacrificing agility or scalability.
In the same way that Infor SyteLine stands out from the crowd of manufacturing-centric ERP solutions, Inforlogic, as Infor’s biggest UK partner for Infor SyteLine, brings the right blend of experience and expertise for manufacturers who are looking to optimise their ERP capabilities. By providing a depth and breadth of knowledge and creativity to each implementation it carries out, the Inforlogic team helps manufacturers achieve the very best results.
Inforlogic consultants come with extensive expertise and experience as standard, not only in ERP but also in the wider manufacturing arena. This means that they’re an invaluable resource in terms of understanding and even unearthing a business’s unique needs while identifying how these nuanced requirements can be addressed by the right system configurations.
Inforlogic consultants are also Infor SyteLine experts, more than familiar with all aspects of the platform. From core capabilities to even the most individual customisation options, the Inforlogic team can advise on best practices for personalising the system in line with business needs and workflows while ensuring the viability of future upgrades and system improvements.
Also, Inforlogic support doesn’t begin and end with implementation. Once live, the Inforlogic team is on hand to provide ongoing support via a dedicated helpdesk, providing direct access to experienced and expert support specialists who understand the ERP system in the context of the issues that manufacturers face. This ensures that problems are addressed quickly and efficiently, enabling customers’ in-house teams to stay focussed on operations with minimal downtime.
Underpinning all this is Inforlogic’s commitment to digital transformation. The team of consultants is incredibly well-versed in cloud-led solutions, with the knowledge and expertise to help manufacturers leverage cloud capabilities to improve accessibility, collaboration, and scalability within their ERP environments.
Working with the right partner helps to ensure that manufacturers implement their ERP platforms of choice in a way that reflects their versions of best practices. By leveraging the core functionalities of Infor SyteLine in combination with tailored light customisations, manufacturers can achieve an optimal ERP environment that aligns with their individual business goals without sacrificing the upgradability and, perhaps most importantly, the longevity of the solution.
This combination of solution and partner represents true best practice. In addition to helping manufacturers implement and maintain a robust, powerful ERP system that gets the best results today, it ensures they can adapt easily to meet the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow.
If you’d like to learn more about the benefits of Infor SyteLine for your organisation and how Inforlogic can help you embrace best practices to support your long-term goals, get in touch or call us on 01606 720499.
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