🚛 ERP Insight: AI is Reshaping Manufacturing Resilience
AI-driven automation is no longer just about efficiency—it’s about resilience. With skilled manufacturing labor shortages predicted high as 2.1 million by 2030, companies focused on making products have to start preparing to be agile. Leveraging AI toolsets within your business systems will increase productivity through process automation, provide data-driven insight for swift decision making, and positively impact the bottom line when deployed correctly.

Kal Tire - Kal Tire Uses AI to Increase Fleet Productivity and Employee Safety | AI in Distribution
Benefits realized: 20% reduction in downtime with a boost in issue detection leading to improved safety.

🤖 AI is everywhere, what does that mean to the ERP market?
“While many ERP vendors are racing ahead with new AI features, some are lagging. They’re trying to add the latest tools to stay competitive and meet their customers’ demands.” Here’s a particular vendor that’s changing the game, we believe AI should be easy to use, easy to implement, and easy to adopt ( Read More)

AI in ERP?  -This article discusses how AI is enhancing ERP systems by enabling smarter automation, deeper insights, and faster data-driven decisions. It highlights the merging of ERP and AI, leading to a new generation of intelligent ERP solutions that can analyze vast amounts of data, optimize processes, and enhance decision-making.

☁️ ERP Insight: Cloud ERP is a Business Model Shift for Many…but it is Table Stakes
Cloud ERP is not just a technology shift—it’s a business model shift. Manufacturers moving to the cloud must rethink security, integrations, and even their IT skillsets. Have your clients made the modernization jump to leverage all the aforementioned technology gains?

Valid reasons for a transformation are constantly evolving. Take a Look at the this Master checklist- If your clients haven’t made this leap to the cloud, advise them that the market views it as the new normal. Less on-prem offerings are available today when evaluating software, not to mention cloud transformations enables a quicker adaptation to new technologies.

In case you were wondering, Infor has deep cloud experience because we started developing our platform and migrating our Industry ERP’s to Multi-Tenant in 2014.

Which begs the question : where were SAP and Oracle in 2014? We searched: Apparently they were busy suing each other over copyright infringement 😁 

🔧 ERP Insight: PLM is a Competitive Weapon, Not Just an Engineering Tool
PLM isn’t just an engineering tool—it’s a competitive weapon. The ability to manage product data from concept to end-of-life within ERP enables faster pivots to market demands. The MAJOR PROBLEM: PLM is often not integrated to ERP.

Infor PLM Overview Recording

Unlocking the Power of Infor PLM - Infor strategically embedded PLM within the LN CloudSuites. This knocks down cross-functional data silos and operationalizes the engineering data for manufacturing and quality stakeholders. For example, wouldn’t it be nice to create an Engineering Change Request (ECR) as part of a defect disposition and have it land directly on the desk of the design group? Now you can!