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Infor, a leading provider of beautiful business applications specialized by industry and built for the cloud, today announced that La Laiterie de Montaigu, a French specialist in dairy products, has selected Infor M3, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, to enable greater flexibility and boost performance.

Following an ERP selection process comprising some of the biggest vendors in the enterprise software market, La Laiterie de Montaigu selected Infor M3 to support the development of the company, whilst integrating with third party applications, including desktop publishing solutions.

Founded in 1932, La Laiterie de Montaigu is an independent family business based in Vendée (West of France) that has established itself as a key player in the dairy products industry. With a strong traditional know-how, the company consistently invests in advanced, best-in-class technologies for its production facilities in order to deliver high quality products to its customers.

La Laiterie de Montaigu initiated the evaluation process for a dedicated ERP system in the beginning of 2015. The dairy leader selected Infor in early 2016 and the implementation is set to take place in two stages throughout 2017.

“Our business is constantly evolving. The development of new ranges of high value-added products, combined with the emergence of new markets for export, were key drivers for new software.  To support growth, we set out to acquire an IT solution capable of driving all our activities, particularly for our culinary and dehydrated powders ranges, while optimizing our supply chain, managing traceability, and better monitoring our business and organizational processes. Infor M3 will bring more visibility and cost control to our company,” says Christophe Morisseau, CFO of La Laiterie de Montaigu.

Infor M3 differentiates itself from other systems through its innovative user interface, a great deal of rich integrated applications, a series of dedicated business functionality, specifically for Food & Beverage industries, and, additionally, for its ability to easily manage mixed and complex environments. Infor M3 is a multilingual, multi-company and multi-site solution.

“Infor M3’s rich functionality, its ability to cover our numerous specific developments with standard processes, the involvement of Infor’s teams to support our staff during the integration of industry and company specific features, as well as the proximity of its partner LTTD Consulting, were all key to our selection of the application,” adds Christophe Morisseau.

Infor, a leading provider of beautiful business applications specialized by industry and built for the cloud, today announced that Cianbro Corporation has successfully implemented Infor M3 Equipment to enhance core operations throughout the organization. Cianbro is a self-performing, employee-owned, merit-shop construction company that is headquartered in Pittsfield, Maine. In an effort to modernize operational efficiencies and replace homegrown applications, Cianbro had undertaken a search for a forward-thinking software vendor that could provide an end-to-end process management platform. This search ultimately led decision-makers to engage Infor, and more specifically, Infor M3, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that is designed to manage complex environments. The implementation, which was recently completed, is purposefully designed to heighten asset visibility, streamline warehouse management, reduce procedural complexities and lay the foundation for forward-thinking technologies that will create value-driven growth within the organization.

“As a construction company, our Team Members are focused on delivering a high level of service to our jobsites and clients.  To do this most efficiently, they need feature-rich technology that offers a holistic view of our equipment and business processes. With Infor M3 Equipment, we not only gain ease of use but are better able to manage the lifecycle of our equipment, tracking it from acquisition to rental and return,” said Russ Rodrigue, CIO, Cianbro. “Infor’s strategic roadmap of value-driven applications aligns with our long-term goals for displacing homegrown applications with forward-thinking disruptive technologies.”

With the implementation of Infor M3 Equipment, Cianbro is now able to automate processes and reduce complexities that impact everyday operations. Before utilizing Infor M3, many of these processes were based primarily on manual data entry, spreadsheets or paper-based tracking systems. For a company with over 16,000 assets constantly on the move, this was no longer a feasible operating model. Before upgrading to Infor M3, a task such as taking a new equipment rental order could involve multiple Team Members collecting significant information about a wide range of equipment, small tools, forms and consumables via email, spreadsheets or paper forms, which added to the complexity of an already fast-paced warehouse and maintenance facility. Using Infor M3, Cianbro is able to efficiently take equipment orders, determine equipment availability, establish picking and packing plans for shipping, manage 3rd party rentals and sales and reduce equipment downtime for required maintenance. Warehouse Mobility may provide the most immediate value by allowing Team Members to quickly track when equipment is returned or in need of repair or transfer to another facility or job site – a process that was once primarily paper driven is now automated, creating greater organization-wide visibility.

A major objective for Cianbro was aligning the organization with a technology vendor that could demonstrate core industry competencies, while still offering a growth-based value proposition. According to Rodrigue, one of the major draws of Infor as a solution partner is the ability to deliver industry-specific applications that touch upon each aspect of the business, thereby providing tools to improve performance, reduce costs, and access great asset information.

“Cianbro stands out as a strong industry-oriented example of how a strategic technology investment can fundamentally fortify key operational methods. For years, Cianbro had successfully functioned using time-intensive manual data entry and tracking. With Infor M3, they are able to automate many of these processes and reallocate resources to better serve their customer base,” said Andreas Hellström, senior director, Industry & Solution Strategy, Equipment, Infor. “Cianbro has expressed a very thoughtful approach for enhancing the company-wide technology portfolio for years to come, and we look forward to building upon our flourishing partnership.”

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Infor, a leading provider of beautiful business applications specialized by industry and built for the cloud, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Starmount, a modern store systems provider serving large and mid-market retailers. When the acquisition is complete, Starmount will provide point-of-sale, mobile shopping assistant, and store inventory management products along with a data-rich commerce hub to engage shoppers, streamline operations, and support consistent cross-channel customer interactions. The acquisition is expected to enable Infor to accelerate delivery of Infor CloudSuite Retail, a new, modern suite of enterprise applications delivered in the cloud and designed for today’s retailing landscape.

As retailers struggle to force outdated software to meet the new demands of the industry, Infor has been building CloudSuite Retail to address these issues by providing modern, cloud-based software services.  After forming its Infor Retail business unit during the summer of 2015, Infor announced a collaboration with Whole Foods Market to build a modern merchandising system, and subsequently the acquisitions of GT Nexus for supply chain network, Predictix for demand management, and now Starmount for store systems.

“The market is littered with antiquated software built 20 or 30 years ago that just can’t provide what modern retailers need,” said Wade Gerten, VP of Customer Experience & Digital at Infor.  “They want alternatives, built in the cloud, with native support for mobile.  This acquisition will help Infor bring such solutions to market faster.”

Infor is investing heavily in products that help retailers achieve converged commerce, the next step after omni-channel in which retailers use a single selling system for all consumer interactions.  Not only does converged commerce improve the customer experience with accurate and timely information across all touchpoints, but it’s also cheaper to operate, avoiding many of the costly integrations necessary with traditional omni-channel approaches.

“Since announcing our intention for Infor CloudSuite Retail last fall, our phones have been ringing off the hook with retailers hungry for the software to help them overcome the serious disruption the industry is facing,” said Corey Tollefson, SVP and GM of Infor Retail. “For Infor it is all about accelerating delivery of the solutions our customers crave, be that through building software as we are with Whole Foods Market, partnering with industry leaders, or buying leading-edge technology like Predictix and Starmount.”

Infor, a leading provider of beautiful business applications specialized by industry and built for the cloud, today announced the availability of the next generation of Infor Fashion Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), a rich, industry-specific solution developed to help meet specific needs and nuances of the retail, apparel and footwear industries. Infor Fashion PLM is designed to help organizations enhance speed and agility to assist with rapid adjustment to what’s happening in retail. Infor Fashion PLM is designed to help retail companies with faster innovation, quicker response times and more informed decision-making.

Infor Fashion PLM was created using the latest Infor technologies to help fashion brands, manufacturers and private brand retailers develop styles more quickly and efficiently. The application can help link certain, vital areas of the fashion supply chain to the business – from line planning, design and development to sourcing, production, inventory management, customers and distribution. The newest generation includes a bi-directional Adobe™ Illustrator plugin, which can help designers focus more on product innovation and adding value specific to their roles. Users can also better protect the brand through new tools aimed at supplier compliance that request confirmation from suppliers that they comply with designated regulatory and policy requirements which can help with sourcing compliance. Sourcing compliance templates can be uploaded using .csv files, which can assist organizations in keeping an organized compliance audit trail.

In addition, Infor Fashion PLM is available with Infor CloudSuite Fashion, which is designed to help organizations better integrate from concept to consumer through a flexible, subscription-based delivery model, which  can help lower IT expenditures while continuing to provide visibility across the global value chain with system-wide transparency for key stakeholders. Infor CloudSuite Fashion provides small – to large-sized fashion, apparel, footwear, accessories, luxury goods, and textile companies with a full suite of tools to help manage the entire fashion process from design, development and sourcing, to production, distribution, customer service, and finance.

“Infor understands the unique challenges  the fashion industry faces, and has developed specialized applications to link designers, developers and manufacturers who are scattered across the globe, in order to help a company to work on multiple projects as one team, while simultaneously satisfying shorter, faster development cycles,” said Bob McKee, industry strategy director, Infor Fashion. “The intuitive user experience is designed to help make Infor Fashion PLM easier for users to adopt, which can shorten implementation and learning times, while the Adobe integration can assist with certain processes for designers that need to use both Adobe and PLM.”

Infor, a leading provider of beautiful business applications specialized by industry and built for the cloud, announced that Elektrizace železnic is upgrading its Infor M3 system to version 13.3. The new version of its ERP application, which is planned to go live at the beginning of 2017, will enable the company to support business processes more effectively, with a main focus on project manufacturing, and will provide more than 150 users with a better user interface and work experience.

Elektrizace železnic has been using the Infor M3 software for more than 10 years as its core ERP platform, primarily for production, assembly and project management in the areas of overhead contact lines and electro-technological units for transportation infrastructure. The company works in the mixed manufacturing mode of repetitive manufacturing (mechanical and electrical products) and project manufacturing.

With the latest version of Infor M3, the company expects to extend support for and integrate currently disparate business processes, reduce costs on compliance and seamlessly use new technology including mobile devices. Infor M3 13.3 will help provide stronger support especially for its project manufacturing processes, which are a critical part of its business, including integration with document management and Product Data Management (PDM) systems.

Elektrizace železnic also plans to use new capabilities in M3 13.3 to enhance the user experience and create more user friendly access through the Infor Mashup Designer tool to bring together the information that users need on one screen. Once the Infor M3 upgrade is completed, Elektrizace železnic plans to roll-out Infor M3 to its subsidiary companies.

“We expect the new version of Infor M3 will help us to better address current market requirements through more effective manufacturing process support and being able to more precisely meet project delivery terms,” said   Jan Sobotka, business manager in Elektrizace železnic. “Besides adopting new functionality and increasing the number of users, we also plan to use the Infor M3 solution at other Elektrizace železnic companies in the future.”

“Elektrizace železnic and other project manufacturers need to face the challenges of a mixed mode manufacturing environment and focus on their core business,” said Monika Vitásková, Channel Manager, Infor Czech. “This new version of Infor M3 provides even broader support both for repetitive and for project manufacturing, enabling Elektrizace to respond to the market situation and compliance requirements faster and more effectively.”

About Elektrizace železnic

For 60 years, Elektrizace železnic Praha a.s. has specialized in the development, design, production and mounting of components for the installation of overhead contact lines for railways, trams, and trolleybuses. Another branch of Elektrizace železnic supplies electro-technological units such as traction substations, converter stations, transformer stations, and switching stations including central and remote control systems. More information can be found at www.elzel.cz/en.

About Infor

Infor builds beautiful business applications with last mile functionality and scientific insights for select industries delivered as a cloud service. With 14,000 employees and customers in more than 200 countries and territories, Infor automates critical processes for industries including healthcare, manufacturing, fashion, wholesale distribution, hospitality, retail, and public sector. Infor software helps eliminate the need for costly customization through embedded deep industry domain expertise. Headquartered in New York City, Infor is also home to one of the largest creative agencies in Manhattan, Hook & Loop, focused on delivering a user experience that is fun and engaging. Infor deploys its cloud applications primarily on the Amazon Web Services cloud and open source platforms. To learn more about Infor, please visitwww.infor.com.

Infor customers include:

• 18 of the top 20 aerospace companies
• 10 of the top 10 high tech companies
• 10 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies
• 21 of the 25 largest U.S. healthcare delivery networks
• 18 of the 20 largest U.S. cities
• 20 of the top 20 automotive suppliers
• 17 of the top 20 industrial distributors
• 15 of the top 20 global retailers
• 4 of the top 5 brewers
• 21 of the top 30 global banks
• 6 of the 10 largest global hotel brands
• 6 of the top 10 global luxury brands

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