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In the age of e-commerce, the French lingerie manufacturer has just launched a vast project to future-proof its information system and industrialise its processes to meet the requirements of the online market.

RUEIL-MALMAISON, France – Infor, the industry cloud company, today announced that Wolf Lingerie has chosen its Infor CloudSuite Fashion, an ERP solution specifically designed for the fashion, textile and luxury industries, as part of a project to overhaul its information system and processes by 2022.

Find out more about Infor CloudSuite Fashion: https://www.infor.com/products/cloudsuite-fashion.

With 150 employees and a turnover of €50 million, Wolf Lingerie has been making its mark in the highly competitive world of women’s lingerie for over 40 years, with the ambition of creating and offering all women “positive & inclusive bodywear” through a variety of product lines and a rich and coherent range of brands. Voted third favourite brand by French women this year, “Sans Complexe” (which is its flagship brand alongside “Billet Doux”) is a line of lingerie that meets the needs of generous breasts with beautiful fantasy models allowing every woman to feel beautiful.

Eric Bricout, administrative and financial director in charge of IT at Wolf Lingerie, says: “Our project dates back to the second quarter of 2020. Aware of the obsolescence of a large part of our IT systems, we wanted to equip ourselves with a modern and scalable ERP solution, capable of supporting us in our international development — particularly in Southern Europe, Germany, Turkey and Scandinavia — and opening the doors to an increasingly demanding clientele in terms of innovation, product quality and associated services. However, our commercial management system was becoming outdated and we were encountering more and more problems in terms of supply and stock management. These difficulties are compounded by the increased demands of certain sales channels such as supermarkets and the arrival of ‘marketplaces.’ ”

After calling on the German consultancy firm P5 Empowering, which had already assisted with the creation and product life cycle management part of the project, Wolf Lingerie reviewed its procedures and selected around 15 solutions, ultimately choosing four. After providing the finalists with a set of data, the manufacturer decided to proceed by testing, workshop by workshop, before making its final decision.

“Infor quickly came out on top in terms of all the criteria we had defined, in particular the user-friendliness, the functional richness of the solution, the modernity of its technology, as well as its ability to handle a large part of our business problems as standard,” Bricout continues. “At the same time, we decided to work with LTTD Consulting, Infor’s reference integrator partner for its CloudSuites and, in particular, the Infor Fashion CloudSuite. Its experience and expertise were decisive in revising our procedures to bring them into line with a more industrialised approach, as proposed as standard in the Infor solution.”

The choice of the Infor solution, which was made in May 2021, covers a broad scope, from the entire supply chain to purchase planning and customer invoicing, including supply and stock management, accounting and financial management and, in a second phase, the implementation of the Infor Birst BI module. In addition, the power and openness of Infor OS technology will allow Infor CloudSuite Fashion to be easily connected with Wolf Lingerie’s other business applications, including Infor Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Infor Warehouse Management System (WMS).

“The deployment is planned for mid-2022, and by then we must have reworked and upgraded all our processes so that they can benefit from the full functional wealth of Infor’s CloudSuite Fashion as standard,” Bricout explains. “The choice of the cloud was also a natural choice because of its advantages in terms of agility, scalability and speed of deployment.”

The company has a team of five people in charge of the project, as well as some 15 key users, who will be involved at all levels of the company, around 20% of its total workforce.

At the same time, it has begun a recruitment process to adjust its resources to its online sales objectives (in particular through marketplaces), objectives which are the basis of its standardisation and industrialisation approach.

Romain Charreton, Infor senior account manager, says: “Our CloudSuite Fashion allows fashion brands to manage all aspects of their business within an integrated, configurable and scalable solution. In addition, its collaborative sales forecasting module will allow Wolf Lingerie — as is already the case for all our other customers in this sector — to optimise its order and replenishment management and to improve operational performance and customer satisfaction.”

Bricout concludes: “Thanks to Infor CloudSuite Fashion, we can look forward to the future and manage the issues related to the evolution of our omnichannel distribution strategy with greater peace of mind. Its open infrastructure, capable of interfacing with third-party applications, should also enable us to rapidly transform all of our IT systems into a fully centralised and secure system, both from an application and data perspective.”

About LTTD Consulting
Founded in 2006, LTTD Consulting is a strategic partner of Infor in France, which is continuously involved in the reflections on the Infor M3 roadmap. The company has a hundred employees and works throughout France and Europe with dynamic companies in many sectors, including fashion, luxury, food, and distribution. LTTD Consulting brings together the best Infor M3 specialists from all over the world, including engineers, developers and consultants, and relies on strong values of respect, commitment and knowledge to support its clients on a daily basis with projects, continuous improvement, MCO / TMA, training, and more. For more information: https://lttd-consulting.com/index.php

About Infor
Infor is a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry. Providing mission-critical enterprise applications to 65,000 customers in more than 175 countries, Infor software is designed to deliver more value and less risk, with more sustainable operational advantages. We empower our 17,000 employees to leverage their deep industry expertise and use data-driven insights to create, learn and adapt quickly to solve emerging business and industry challenges. Infor is committed to providing our customers with modern tools to transform their business and accelerate their own path to innovation. To learn more, please visit www.infor.com.

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Maison Sieur d’Arques begins operations transformation project by integrating Infor M3 food industry-specific ERP solution into its core IT infrastructure.

RUEL MALMAISON, France – October 19, 2021 – Infor, the industry cloud company, today announced that French wine company Sieur d’Arques has chosen to deploy Infor M3. The integration of this enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is part of a project to transform the information systems of Sieur d’Arques, which wants to benefit from the many advantages of a solution designed to respond precisely to the requirements of the wine business and its relationships with its producers, distributors, and resellers.

Founded in 1946 in Limoux in the Languedoc region of France, a land with ideal conditions to produce great wines, Sieur d’Arques is a true pioneer in the field of wine production and techniques. It has inherited a tradition of producing sparkling wines that goes back to the 16th century. Today, the company is gathered around a cooperative of 188 wine-grower members that produces around 9 million bottles each year, 45% of which are dedicated to export. At its headquarters, it employs 117 people and generated a turnover of 32.3 million euros in 2020.

The IT overhaul project initiated with Infor and its partner Hetic3 was born from the increasing demand on the system from the winery’s growing commercial activities, which require each day more agility, flexibility, visibility, and integration of exploitable data.

“We wanted to standardize our business processes by capitalizing on a technological solution that would allow us to avoid continually developing specific functionalities and that would allow us to communicate, exchange and analyze crucial data within the framework of our growth in France and internationally,” comments Pascal Vigata, Sieur d’Arques management controller and project manager.

“From the very beginning of the project, we had established precise specifications. One of the conditions was to be able to count on a vendor and systems integrator pairing that was perfectly accustomed to working together. Then, it was essential for us that the chosen solution could offer simple and efficient answers to all of our challenges and standardize our practices related to commercial and financial aspects, production itself, quality control and traceability, logistics aspects (storage and shipping) … The positive feedback from our ecosystem regarding the Infor M3 solution and its functionalities dedicated to our wine business also weighed in our final decision,” Vigata says.

The integration of the Infor M3 solution will be spread over two phases of 12 months each, one devoted to the commercial management part, the other to all activities involving the cooperative. It will occupy a team of nine people within the Maison Sieur d’Arques accompanied from start to finish by the Infor and Hetic3 teams.

Christophe Pino, Hetic3 sales manager, said: “The project entrusted to us by Sieur d’Arques is typical of the expectations of our customers in the wine and spirits industry who are looking to improve and accelerate their operations without sacrificing the quality of their products and services. With Infor M3 integrated by Hetic3, Sieur d’Arques has acquired a solution specifically dedicated to the industry. The functional business processes and the high level of parameterization of Infor M3 will allow Sieur d’Arques to efficiently manage its production activities as well as its relations with all of the company’s distribution channels, which are as numerous as they are varied.”

This new signature validates, once again, the relevance and constant innovation of Infor’s solution dedicated to the food & beverage industry. “We are very happy to accompany Sieur d’Arques in a large-scale project at a particularly difficult time for the wine industry,” said Philippe Maillet, Infor sales director for France SMB & channels. “Infor’s vision, Hetic3’s support and the customer’s resilience allow us to look forward to the coming months with optimism thanks to the implementation of Infor M3, our high value-added solution that is particularly well suited to Sieur d’Arques’ ambitions in France and internationally.”

HELSINKI, Finland – June 23, 2021 – Infor, the industry cloud company, today announced that Finnish grain, malting and food manufacturing company Polttimo has implemented Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage in five European countries. Delivered via multi-tenant cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS) across Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Poland and Lithuania, the application will help harmonize technology and ways of working leading to better traceability and operational transparency. Simplifying processes will improve quality controls and reporting. All this will ultimately increase operational efficiency and enable the company to optimize the operating model.

Following a thorough review of the market, Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage was chosen, and one of the key criteria was Infor’s domain expertise and industry-specific functionality. The application will replace several existing ERP systems and deliver the benefits of standardization to the entire Polttimo Group.

Polttimo decided to go with a multi-tenant SaaS solution due to the lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and the ability to immediately benefit from new innovations that are delivered from Infor on a regular basis. They also saw the benefits of always having an up-to-date solution with reduced need for major upgrades.

Polttimo expects to see an increase in the transparency and subsequent control of key business metrics, better business continuity, improved efficiency and collaboration with stronger quality controls, and preparedness for an evolution towards integrated business planning.

“It is testament to the skills and collaboration of Infor and Polttimo that we have been able to implement a common ERP platform amidst some of the most challenging conditions,” said Teemu Pohjola, CFO of Polttimo Group. “We have completed more than 80% of our go-lives remotely, and we look forward to leveraging the benefits of the new ERP.”

“We continue to support a growing number of leading Nordics businesses as they undertake substantial initiatives to improve their competitive positions,” said Malte Ekedahl, Infor vice president for the Nordic. “This investment by Polttimo is another endorsement of our cloud industry-specific strategies that can help deliver best practice programmes to companies that are looking for a transformation.”

About Infor
Infor is a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry. Providing mission-critical enterprise applications to 65,000 customers in more than 175 countries, Infor software is designed to deliver more value and less risk, with more sustainable operational advantages. We empower our 17,000 employees to leverage their deep industry expertise and use data-driven insights to create, learn and adapt quickly to solve emerging business and industry challenges. Infor is committed to providing our customers with modern tools to transform their business and accelerate their own path to innovation. To learn more, please visit www.infor.com.

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Media contact:
Richard Moore
Infor EMEA
+447976111243
Richard.Moore@infor.com

Source: Infor

RUEIL-MALMAISON, France – May 26, 2021 – Infor, the industry cloud company, today announced that the famous French luxury leather goods manufacturer Lancel has chosen to implement Infor CloudSuite Fashion, an ERP solution dedicated specifically to the fashion, textile and luxury industries, as part of a project to migrate and streamline its IT systems.

Learn more about Infor CloudSuite Fashion: https://www.infor.com/industries/fashion

The Lancel family business was founded in Paris in 1876. Specializing in the manufacture and sale of accessories related to the use of tobacco, which was becoming increasingly popular among women, the company naturally made its first leather goods, namely bags, to store these accessories. For nearly a century, Lancel continually innovated and filed numerous patents that allowed the brand to become a part of the French luxury goods industry and then, in the 1980s, an international brand. Integrated into the prestigious Swiss group Richemont in 1997, it was finally acquired in 2018 by the Italian group Piquadro.

As part of this latest acquisition, the challenge of migrating Lancel’s IT infrastructure out of the Richemont network prompted the new CIO to completely rethink the existing model, which was heterogeneous and had changed little since 2011. “I joined Lancel at the end of 2019 with the mission, in 24 months, to migrate the legacy systems — three ERPs: Infor M3, Cegid Y2 and SAP — out of the Richemont Group’s infrastructure and networks,” says Michael Joncour, CIO at Lancel. “This was an organic, precise and perilous mission, especially in the middle of the COVID-19 period, which had a strong impact on the project.”

The urgency of the situation led the CIO to capitalize on one of the existing solutions. An in-depth study of the Infor M3 ERP solution found that, although it had been installed in 2011, it was very functionally rich and it met the manufacturer’s business requirements. The plan was to upgrade this robust system dedicated to the fashion and luxury goods industry, and it was only natural that Lancel chose the latest multi-tenant cloud SaaS option in order to migrate and upgrade Infor M3 to Infor CloudSuite Fashion as quickly as possible, without creating any disruption in current processes.

“The functional fit of the solution and its numerous standards dedicated to our industry; the prestigious customer references — in particular Zadig&Voltaire; the lack of time and the team available and the support provided by Infor’s partner, CGI, which mastered the solution and the Lancel environment, all weighed heavily in the balance when choosing Infor,” Joncour confirmed. “We decided to streamline the environment using the latest version of Infor CloudSuite Fashion, which runs in the AWS cloud, and added the Infor Birst BI tool for analytics and kept our Cegid Y2 tool interfaced with the Infor solution.”

Today, the project is on track with the schedule as envisioned before the pandemic began. “The project started in March 2021 and the objective is to have migrated all of Lancel’s infrastructure and data by December 31, 2021,” said Olivier Scheidegger, director of consulting services at CGI, who is working with Lancel and the Infor teams on the project. “The choice of the cloud in this context is particularly astute in that it offers agility and a speed of deployment that is unmatched by traditional installations.”

For Infor, the project validates the vertical industry approach and investments made in the cloud with AWS. “The popularity of our Infor CloudSuite Fashion solution with prestigious fashion brands in France and internationally is now more than ever a reality,” said Philippe Maillet, Infor SMB & channel sales director in France. “With this project, carried out jointly with Lancel and our partner CGI, we are once again demonstrating our ability to rapidly transform a heterogeneous legacy environment into a homogeneous infrastructure for digital that centralizes both application solutions and data. In less than one year, despite the pandemic, Lancel will be able to benefit from a dedicated, centralized and secure business solution. In addition, it will be able to continually benefit from the regular updates to its CloudSuite Fashion solution thanks to its open architecture and interface it with other applications, in particular with a PLM solution, as it plans to do.”

About Lancel
Lancel, a French leather goods company, was founded in 1876. A family-owned group, it has taken care, since its origins, to give Parisian life a mischievous and innovative air at the same time, the timeless seal of what appears to the world as the “French touch.” Integrated into the prestigious Swiss group Richemont in 1997, it was bought in 2018 by the Italian group Piquadro. Today, Lancel continues to embrace its era by following a long tradition whose common thread, as feminine as it is Parisian, can only be translated as “French Légèreté.” For more information: www.lancel.com/fr_en/

About CGI
Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With 77,000 consultants and other professionals across the globe, CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and business process services and intellectual property solutions. CGI works with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform their organizations and accelerate results. CGI Fiscal 2020 reported revenue is C$12.16 billion. CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB). Learn more at www.cgi.com

About Infor
Infor is a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry. Providing mission-critical enterprise applications to 67,000 customers in more than 175 countries, Infor software is designed to deliver more value and less risk, with more sustainable operational advantages. We empower our 17,000 employees to leverage their deep industry expertise and use data-driven insights to create, learn and adapt quickly to solve emerging business and industry challenges. Infor is committed to providing our customers with modern tools to transform their business and accelerate their own path to innovation. To learn more, please visit www.infor.com.

For more information
Richard Moore
Infor PR EMEA
Richard.moore@infor.com
+447976111243

Source: Infor

RUEIL-MALMAISON, France – May 11, 2021 – Infor, the industry cloud company, today announced that Z Nautic Group — formerly known as Zodiac and whose boat brand has become synonymous with inflatable boats around the world — is deploying Infor CloudSuite Equipment, a multi-tenant cloud ERP system specifically designed for equipment manufacturers, dealers and rental companies. The project follows the group’s demerger and the relocation of its French production unit to Tunisia, events that caused it to lose control of its IT tool in terms of distribution, equipment management and tracking of boats by serial number.

Founded 125 years ago, Z Nautic has undergone several changes in recent years that have reshaped the company and its organisation. Today, with 600 employees, the group has 1,600 dealer partners (and a few distributors) throughout the world and is exclusively dedicated to the production and distribution of boats in the leisure and professional markets.

Z Nautic was already equipped with an older version of Infor M3, which it had not upgraded due to internal events and changes. In 2019, the company decided to transform its IT solution and entrusted Ernst & Young with an audit and market consultation. Following a call for tenders involving various vendors, Z Nautic chose Infor and its partner Hetic 3 at the end of 2020, opting for a cloud migration process rather than replacing its solution.

Anthony Chapeltegui, Z Nautic’s IT manager, says: “There were three main reasons for this choice. The first was Infor’s ability to offer us standard business functionalities that were perfectly adapted to our equipment sales (including rental), spare parts management, procurement and stock management issues. The second is our desire to switch to a SaaS mode configuration for security, scalability, simplicity and reliability. The last is the integration of embedded analytical modules to be able, in the long term, to give our users control over the production of tables and reports, particularly by geographical area and by product.”

Christophe Pino, Hetic 3’s sales manager, comments: “The relationship of trust we have had with Z Nautic for many years, as well as the cloud option offered by Infor, were key factors in their decision to migrate. This option offered real advantages in flexibility and scalability on demand, while respecting the customer’s needs and financial capacities.”

The solution, deployed in a multi-tenant cloud environment, will allow Z Nautic to eliminate time-consuming maintenance and upgrade processes for its IT team.

Today, while the pandemic crisis has accelerated the development of the equipment manufacturer’s activities and filled its order book, 130 users will be working with the new Infor CloudSuite Equipment solution by the end of 2021. For the time being, all the functions that will use the new system (finance, production, sales, marketing, quality, product management, purchasing and supply) have participated in a series of remote training workshops organised by Hetic 3 and have validated the choice of the tool.

Chapeltegui concludes: “We were impressed by the user-friendly interface offered by Infor. It has won over our teams, taking them from the stone age to the digital age, with customised settings and displays to meet individual needs. Combined with strong process automation and workflow capabilities, we expect rapid performance gains once the solution is deployed and ultimately benefit from better knowledge of our dealers through improved data centralisation, as well as our time and budget.”

The deployment of a customer and partner configurator is also expected to eventually offer greater fluidity and efficiency in terms of customisation and choice of options, but also management of associated parts, when building a boat.

About Z Nautic
With its unrivalled experience, Zodiac Nautic, the originator of major innovations in the field of inflatable boats, is today at the forefront of products and services in total harmony with the times. With 125 years of experience and as the inventor of the inflatable boat, Zodiac Nautic offers products of exceptional resistance and reliability thanks to materials and manufacturing processes that are always at the cutting edge of technology. Zodiac Nautic is present in more than 50 countries around the world and has more than 1,600 authorised dealers. Our mission: To enable everyone to experience unforgettable adventures on the water. Visit https://www.zodiac-nautic.com/en-us/

About Hetic 3
A subsidiary of the HELIOS Group, Hetic 3 is the result of more than 15 years of combined skills and experience. A recognised player in the integration of ERP solutions, Hetic 3’s ambition is to position itself as a major partner of Infor for the distribution and implementation of the M3 solution. Hetic 3’s activities are based on three main areas: distribution, integration and third-party application maintenance. Hetic 3 has nearly 70 consultants working in 4 agencies in France and serving more than 100 customers in the food, retail, industrial and fashion sectors. Its functional knowledge of the business, combined with its expertise in Infor M3 ERP, provides real added value and a guarantee for its clients’ projects. Hetic 3 also offers a preconfigured M3 solution for the wine and spirits industry. Visit https://www.hetic3.fr/

About Infor
Infor is a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry. Providing mission-critical enterprise applications to 67,000 customers in more than 175 countries, Infor software is designed to deliver more value and less risk, with more sustainable operational advantages. We empower our 17,000 employees to leverage their deep industry expertise and use data-driven insights to create, learn and adapt quickly to solve emerging business and industry challenges. Infor is committed to providing our customers with modern tools to transform their business and accelerate their own path to innovation. To learn more, please visit www.infor.com.

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Media contact
Richard Moore
Infor PR, EMEA
+447976111243
Richard.Moore@infor.com

Source: Infor

OSLO, Norway – May 10, 2021 – Infor, the industry cloud company, today announced that Norgesmøllene AS, part of Cernova, the Norway-based flour milling and industrial group, has deployed Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage to support its digital transformation process and Industry 4.0 initiaitives to streamline processes and boost visibility. Managed and implemented by Infor alliance partner Elvenite, Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage is based on Infor’s multi-tenant AWS cloud platform.

The nature of the millling and industrial bakery sector means that Norgesmøllene AS faces a number of challenges in serving its core markets. The company therefore required new modern cloud-based ERP (enterprise resource planning) capabilities to take advantage of the latest functionality and to underpin future growth.

Having used Infor M3 (formerly Movex) since the late 1990s, Norgesmøllene AS had complete confidence in working with Elvenite to deploy the Infor CloudSuite, which encompasses the Infor M3 ERP system, Infor Rhythm for Commerce and Infor Factory Track Warehouse Mobility.

Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage, which also incorporates Eye Share to manage the workflow of inbound supplier invoices, is expected to streamline processes and boost visibility for Norgesmøllene AS. As well as integrating documents better using Infor OS operating service and Infor Document Management, the intuitive user interface supports the company’s vision for modernisation.

“I’ve been involved in implementing and using ERP systems for several decades and can honestly say that, thanks to Elvenite, this is the smoothest project I have experienced since we introduced Infor M3 11 years ago,” comments Rolf Palmesen, Cernova IT manager. “Making the transition to the cloud has transformed our business and provided us with a robust, scalable platform from which to pursue our continuous improvement strategy and Industry 4.0 initiatives. Cloud is undoubtedly the future, and while staying on the latest version wasn’t the driver for this project, access to new functionality and technology updates was most definitely a bonus.”

“We’re delighted to move another of our food industry customers to a multi-tenant cloud environment, and provide them with a best-in-class platform from which to develop and grow their business,” comments Mathias Dyberg, CEO at Elvenite. “Our alliance partnership with Infor means that we can apply our food industry expertise with world-class cloud solutions to help our customers drive digital transformation in a way that facilitates robust foundations for their future journeys.”

“Working closely with our specialist alliance partner for the food industry, Elvenite, we’ve brought together our combined business know-how and in-depth technical knowledge to create long-term value for Cernova,” comments Malte Ekedahl, Infor VP sales in Northern Europe. “Our converged expertise has resulted in a smooth and successful deployment for Cernova, and we look forward to working with them going forward to support their goals.”

About Elvenite
Elvenite was founded in 2007 and is driven by the vision to be a leader in the digitization of the food industry and the grocery trade. The company has 75 employees and sales of over SEK 100 million. Elvenite’s main customers are leading companies in the Scandinavian food industry. Since 2018, Elvenite has been owned by CombinedX, a family of knowledge companies that help organizations take advantage of the opportunities of digitalization. Read more at www.elvenite.se

About Infor
Infor is a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry. Providing mission-critical enterprise applications to 67,000 customers in more than 175 countries, Infor software is designed to deliver more value and less risk, with more sustainable operational advantages. We empower our 17,000 employees to leverage their deep industry expertise and use data-driven insights to create, learn and adapt quickly to solve emerging business and industry challenges. Infor is committed to providing our customers with modern tools to transform their business and accelerate their own path to innovation. To learn more, please visit www.infor.com.

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Media contact
Richard Moore
Infor PR, EMEA
+447976111243
Richard.Moore@infor.com

Source: Infor

JEDDAH, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia — 8 March 2021 — Infor today announced Zahid Tractor, a Saudi Arabia-based Zahid Group company that supplies construction machinery and commercial vehicles, is now using Infor enterprise resource planning (ERP) to streamline and gain visibility across all departments. The integration of Infor M3 for Equipment allows Zahid Tractor to continue to distinguish its customer-centric offering and commitment to excellence across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s construction, transportation and rental sectors.

Zahid Tractor is the authorized distributor of Caterpillar in its Construction Machinery Division, a partnership that has been in place for 71 years. Under its Commercial Vehicles Division, Zahid Tractor is the authorized distributor of Volvo Trucks Group (Volvo Trucks, Renault Trucks and UD Trucks); a partnership that has been in place for 41 years.

Zahid Tractor originally depended on a bespoke homegrown enterprise information technology solution. As the company continued to grow, this solution was no longer feasible and could not support Zahid Tractor’s aggressive digital transformation drive. With the ambition of streamlining all facets of the business as part of its “Ethos of Excellence” and deploying state-of-the-art technologies (such as business intelligence, artificial intelligence and machine learning), Zahid Tractor commissioned one of the big four consulting firms to oversee the due diligence process in selecting the ideal ERP solution.

Upon completion of the due diligence process, Infor M3 for Equipment (manufacturing, distribution, equipment dealership and rental ERP solutions) was selected as the ideal solution in achieving Zahid Tractor’s ambitious digitalization aspirations.

Infor M3 met all the requirements stemming from interface-driven initiatives Zahid Tractor has with its original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners, which help increase supply chain visibility and improve service levels for their customers. This was a key prerequisite of the ERP solution, given the scale and importance of Zahid Tractor’s partners including Caterpillar and Volvo Trucks Group.

From equipment lifecycle, employee productivity and rental service to maintenance, field service, refurbishment and OEM, to name but a few, Infor M3 is transforming key areas of Zahid Tractor’s operations. The end-to-end solution with business analytics provides directors, management and front-line teams with valuable data that assists in planning, day-to-day operations, control and decision-making.

The Infor M3 solution will prove instrumental in helping Zahid Tractor tap high levels of growth in Saudi Arabia’s construction equipment market, which is expected to achieve an estimated compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.79 percent from 2020 to 2025, according to a survey by Reportlinker.com. Indeed, Saudi Arabia is moving ahead with megaprojects including NEOM super-city ‘The LINE’ (a revolution in urban living), the 334-square-kilometer entertainment city of Qiddiya, in addition to large-scale residential construction projects in major cities, in line with its Vision 2030 transformation agenda.

Barig Siraj, Zahid Group vice president of group affairs commented: “Saudi Arabia is home to some of the world’s most exciting development projects, and as a leading supplier of construction machinery and commercial vehicles, the Zahid Group of companies is committed to supporting these important initiatives. By deploying solutions such as Infor M3, Zahid Group is increasing its ability to respond quickly and efficiently to customer demand while also improving our overall agility and business success.”

“We’re thrilled to be working with Zahid Tractor on their digital transformation,” said Amel Gardner, Infor vice president for the Middle East and Africa (MEA). “Infor M3 plays a key role in helping organizations gain visibility across their operations, improving productivity and efficiency, and helping management teams have greater confidence in their decision making — all essential qualities for success in high-growth and capital-intense industries such as construction equipment.”

Currently, Zahid Group is working with Infor to roll out Infor Birst Analytics and Infor M3 CloudSuite to other companies within the group.

About Infor

Infor is a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry. Providing mission-critical enterprise applications to 67,000 customers in more than 175 countries, Infor software is designed to deliver more value and less risk, with more sustainable operational advantages. We empower our 17,000 employees to leverage their deep industry expertise and use data-driven insights to create, learn and adapt quickly to solve emerging business and industry challenges. Infor is committed to providing our customers with modern tools to transform their business and accelerate their own path to innovation. To learn more, please visit www.infor.com.

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For more information
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Wallis PR
+971 50 273 9936
infor@wallispr.com

Source: Infor

VIMERCATE, Italy – 24 February 2021 – Infor today announced that Gruppo Levoni, a historic Italian company specializing in cured meats production, has chosen to implement Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage, an enterprise software solution designed specifically for the food sector. The Infor solution based on Infor M3 enterprise resource planning and Infor OS operating system will help create a digital transformation path for Levoni. The project will be entirely managed by Infor Gold partner Atlantic Technologies.

Learn more about Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage: https://www.infor.com/en-gb/products/cloudsuite-food-and-beverage

Founded in 1911, Levoni is synonymous with high-quality cured meats. Quality comes from selected Italian raw materials and craftsmanship that is perfectly integrated with the guarantees and safety standards of industrial systems. Levoni distributes its 100% Italian products to more than 10,000 delicatessens in Italy and to 50 countries around the world. With 700 employees, Levoni is a group now in its fourth generation that has made excellence a distinctive character.

The strong evolution and competitiveness of the market and the need to satisfy consumers who are increasingly attentive to quality, transparency and sustainability, accentuated even more by the pandemic, have led Levoni to digitize production processes, responding to the new habits of buyers and new consumer trends, while ensuring a high level of efficiency.

Following a careful evaluation of the solutions available on the market, Levoni found Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage the ideal platform to manage the complex processes of the food industry and respond to the needs of the group. Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage is based on Infor M3, an international ERP system with industry-specific capabilities and predefined best practices to achieve results faster. The solution allows users to more accurately plan for demand and respond faster to changing demand throughout a global supply chain and in the factory. It provides operational excellence functions designed for the food and beverage industry, supporting the ever-increasing transparency, traceability, food safety and waste reduction requirements. Thanks to the solution, Levoni will be able to manage both the slaughterhouse and the cured meat production, which are very different processes, with a single tool that provides full traceability from farm to fork.

According to Levoni, the Infor Implementation Accelerator for Food & Beverage makes the solution unique by offering predefined and preconfigured processes based on high-value international experiences in the food and beverage industry. Infor Implementation Accelerator will allow Levoni to create new processes and modify existing ones, starting from worldwide proven industry best practices, providing the agility to respond immediately to the increasingly frequent changes in the market.

The implementation will allow Levoni to embrace the logic of an integrated ecosystem connected with employees, suppliers and collaborators, capable of managing the various aspects of demand from an increasingly aware and demanding consumer. Thanks to the technology roadmap drawn by Atlantic Technologies, Levoni has laid out the foundations for effective process management and systems integration aimed at creating synergy between the different areas and insights of value for its business. The solution will be used by about 230 users, distributed between the Italian and American offices, and will allow the company to rely on a single system to manage all the group’s activities and provide a holistic view of the business.

The implementation of the new ERP solution represents the first step in the transformation of the group’s application landscape. In the future, the analysis of the various integrations with the production lines of the group sites and the specific issues of the new product development process are planned, as well as the choice of an enterprise asset management solution that meets the business needs.

“We believe the Infor M3 solution with the Implementation Accelerator for Food & Beverage will allow us to achieve our project goals. The choice of an enterprise solution will allow us to manage all the companies of the group with the same tool, and with the Implementation Accelerator, we will approach the analysis phase of the project starting from the best practices relating to the processes of our sector, and not from the typical ‘blank sheet,’ with the specific aim of maintaining the solution as standard as possible,” stated Roberto Pigni, Levoni Group’s information systems director.

“The Infor OS platform seemed to us a very powerful tool that will allow us to manage both the interfaces with other business applications and the automation of business processes. We also greatly appreciate the expandability of the Infor M3 application ecosystem, which contains product lifecycle management (PLM) capabilities dedicated to the food sector and a solution for enterprise asset management,” concludes Pigni.

“Supporting a prestigious company such as Levoni, which represents ‘Made in Italy’ internationally, is a source of great pride for us,” said Bruno Pagani, Infor sales director for Italy. “The food and beverage sector must adapt more and more to rapid changes in demand, and to respond to new customer requests, flexibility, agility, high safety and compliance with regulations are required. I am sure that our specific technology for the meat processing sector together with the great expertise of Atlantic Technologies will accelerate the innovation process of the Levoni Group, supporting its growth.”

“We are very proud to collaborate with Levoni and lead its innovation process,” declared Angela Colucci, Atlantic Technologies VP strategy & business development. “Atlantic has a consolidated experience with companies in the food sector all over the world, helping them to keep up with the evolution of demand and to satisfy the demands of a consumer increasingly attentive to the authenticity of the product. Thanks to the innovative technology of Infor and the specialized consultancy of Atlantic Technologies, Levoni will be able to manage the complex challenges of the sector and ensure profitability and resilience.”

About Infor
Infor is a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry. Providing mission-critical enterprise applications to 67,000 customers in more than 175 countries, Infor software is designed to deliver more value and less risk, with more sustainable operational advantages. We empower our 17,000 employees to leverage their deep industry expertise and use data-driven insights to create, learn and adapt quickly to solve emerging business and industry challenges. Infor is committed to providing our customers with modern tools to transform their business and accelerate their own path to innovation. To learn more, please visit www.infor.com.

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For more information
Richard Moore
Infor PR, EMEA
Richard.Moore@infor.com
+447976111243

Source: Infor

Leading electrical distribution company selects industry-specific Infor CloudSuite Distribution Enterprise to gain full control.

Infor today announced that Elektroskandia is embarking on a digitalisation journey and will streamline its operations with the help of Infor. It will replace its existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system with a modern, flexible and mobile business system, Infor CloudSuite Distribution Enterprise, to support the company’s future goals.

Learn more about Infor CloudSuite Distribution Enterprise: https://www.infor.com/en-gb/products/cloudsuite-distribution-enterprise

Elektroskandia Norway is one of Norway’s largest wholesalers in the trade electrical distribution market with 11 locations and 300 employees. Its annual turnover is 2.4 billion NOK. E-commerce and tailored solutions are some of the reasons why electricians, power plants, and industry and offshore companies partner with Elektroskandia Norge AS.

To gain even better control over business-critical processes throughout the value chain and to ensure full process visibility, Elektroskandia needed to replace its old platform with an integrated, multi-tenant cloud-based ERP solution.

There was a competitive bid process initially with 14 other ERP suppliers before Elektroskandia chose Infor and its alliance partner Columbus. The agreement, which is worth several million kroner, involves Infor CloudSuite Distribution Enterprise being delivered by Columbus. According to the plan, the solution will be in full operation during 2022 throughout Norway.

Infor CloudSuite Distribution Enterprise was chosen, in part, for its lower total operating cost, lower implementation costs, and because the solution covers the needs of Elektroskandia.

“With Infor CloudSuite Distribution Enterprise, we can continue to provide our well-known customer service. At the same time, it will be possible to add new services that make us a more attractive supplier and partner,” says Elektroskandia’s IT and digitalisation director Arne Reidar Holtvedt. “Infor CloudSuite Distribution Enterprise also supports Elektroskandia’s growth targets in the coming years. With the new solution, our employees get full insight into the flow of goods in real time, also on mobile devices.”

“For an electrical distributor, it is important to support complex discount and price structures. All this in combination with a good user experience will be significantly better for both employees and customers. Therefore, we needed a system that met our needs out of the box. With Infor CloudSuite Distribution Enterprise, which is a multi-tenant cloud solution, we also get a system that is always updated with new services and solutions adapted to our future needs and new requirements from customers.”

“Through a thorough testing of Infor CloudSuite Distribution Enterprise, Elektroskandia soon became confident that the solution covered the current and future needs for its electrical wholesaler business,” says Per Christian Øen, director of Infor M3 at Columbus Norway.

Erlend Skaar-Olsen, Infor country manager for Norway, added: “We look forward to working with Elektroskandia to support its internal and external processes across the entire value chain and to further increase the overall efficiency of the company as it provides just-in-time delivery services to customers across a wide range of industries.”

About Elektroskandia Norge AS

E-commerce and tailored solutions are some of the reasons why electricians, power plants and industry and offshore companies partner with Elektroskandia Norge AS. Elektroskandia Norge is one of Norway’s largest wholesalers in the trade electrical distribution market with 11 locations and 300 employees. Its annual turnover is 2.4 billion NOK. Elektroskandia Norge is owned by the French company Rexel, the world’s largest distributor of electrical products and services, with companies in 35 countries. For more information, visit www.elektroskandia.no

About Columbus
Columbus is a global IT services and consulting company with more than 2,000 employees serving 5,000+ customers worldwide. Columbus helps ambitious companies maximize, transform, and futureproof their business digitally. Our innovative solutions and services portfolio, 9 Doors to Digital Leadership^®, delivers end-to-end digital solutions that address the lifecycle demands of the retail, distribution, food, and manufacturing industries. We help companies run a sustainable and profitable business. Columbus was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Denmark with offices and partners all over the world, delivering solutions and services locally—on a global scale. Visit www.columbusglobal.com

About Infor
Infor is a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry. Providing mission-critical enterprise applications to 67,000 customers in more than 175 countries, Infor software is designed to deliver more value and less risk, with more sustainable operational advantages. We empower our 17,000 employees to leverage their deep industry expertise and use data-driven insights to create, learn and adapt quickly to solve emerging business and industry challenges. Infor is committed to providing our customers with modern tools to transform their business and accelerate their own path to innovation. To learn more, please visit www.infor.com

For more information, please contact:

Columbus A/S
Kent Enrico Petersen
Executive Director International M3 Business
+45 53 81 60 62
kent.enrico.petersen@columbusglobal.com

Infor
Richard Moore
Infor PR, EMEA
+44 7976 111 243
Richard.Moore@infor.com

Source: Infor

Solution installed at group’s French and American sites enables the global underground infrastructure specialist to standardize its business processes.

Infor today announced that EJ, a world leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of access solutions for water, sewerage, drainage, telecommunications and services networks, has chosen to implement Infor M3 in the cloud as part of an ambitious project to overhaul its global IT infrastructure.

Learn more about Infor M3: https://www.infor.com/en-gb/products/m3

The company, which employs more than 2,500 people worldwide and has production sites in Europe, the United States and Australia, has made a series of acquisitions over the past several decades. It has also built new, state-of-the-art plants over the past three years. Its growth is now accompanied by Infor M3 in a private cloud, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, which provides the manufacturer with a wealth of functionality dedicated to the industrial manufacturing sector without the need for complex, costly and time-consuming custom software development.

The Infor solution replaced existing legacy systems that were no longer suited to the production processes of modern companies seeking agility and optimization of their production costs. Infor M3, which has been widely acclaimed at the global level by the group’s French entity, has won over the market for its ability to meet the business requirements of industrial manufacturers in standard mode.

“Given that the US operations of EJ did not have an ERP system that met future business requirements and that we had experience with Movex for which we had licenses, the choice was fairly quick,” said Gérard Doucet, director of information systems for EJ in EMEA referring to Infor M3’s previous product name, Movex. “For reasons of cost and — in particular with regard to other major suppliers on the market which we also assessed — because of the reduced complexity and thanks to the functional richness of the standard solution, we opted for Infor M3 in a private cloud deployment. This allows us to work with complete freedom without depending on the time and process constraints in the US, with 24/7 availability.”

As Infor’s partner on the project in Europe, the Elcimaï group continues to support EJ with the implementation. “This is a particularly engaging project for our teams: in the cloud, over an extended European geographical area, with the specific zero constraint imposed by the customer. Its implementation enables us to demonstrate our ability to support a significant industrial and digital transformation project,” said Bruno Kientzel, CEO of Elcimaï Business Solutions.

“Organizations’ complex industrial processes need to be supported by software solutions that are the opposite of this complexity,” said Laurent Jacquemain, Infor’s senior vice president & general manager for southern Europe. “A company like EJ has operations all over the world that respond to different rules and production rates. With Infor M3 in the cloud, EJ benefits from all the flexibility and agility of a solution dedicated to industrial manufacturing and open to future developments. All of this ultimately contributes to optimizing their processes and increasing their market share and revenues.”

About EJ

EJ is a world leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of access solutions for water, sewer, drainage, telecommunications and service networks worldwide. EJ has put its technical expertise and know-how to work in infrastructure networks that supply entire neighborhoods, towns and villages. EJ is a global company, spanning five continents and promoting innovation, quality and commitment to customer service. Its global sales presence includes 50 sales offices, 10 manufacturing facilities and multiple research and development centers. To learn more, please visit https://www.ejco.com/

About Elcimaï

Elcimaï is an independent French group created in 1992 and spread over 14 sites in France. Elcimaï employs nearly 380 collaborators in multidisciplinary professions divided into two fields of expertise:

– Elcimaï Consulting, Engineering and Architecture

– Elcimaï Digital Technologies and Services

With this unique and complementary positioning, Elcimaï proposes a global offer and responds to projects combining consulting, implementation, construction, production and IT management. Elcimaï has been an Infor partner since 1999. To learn more, please visit www.elcimai.com

About Infor
Infor is a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry. Providing mission-critical enterprise applications to 67,000 customers in more than 175 countries, Infor software is designed to deliver more value and less risk, with more sustainable operational advantages. We empower our 17,000 employees to leverage their deep industry expertise and use data-driven insights to create, learn and adapt quickly to solve emerging business and industry challenges. Infor is committed to providing our customers with modern tools to transform their business and accelerate their own path to innovation. To learn more, please visit www.infor.com.

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Media contact:
Richard Moore
Infor PR, EMEA
+447976111243
Richard.Moore@infor.com

Source: Infor