Softworx, an EOH company and distributor of Infor in Sub-Saharan Africa, recently announced the availability of Infor SCM Advanced Planner 5.0, a new version of its supply-chain planning and optimisation solution.
Jane Thomson, Managing Director of Softworx, says: "Built on a 64-bit architecture, the new solution allows companies to address a growing number of increasingly complex supply-chain planning challenges, including movement of more products through more sites, and incorporates real-world scenarios in a single, holistic model."
Infor SCM Advanced Planner 5.0 enables companies to tackle globalisation challenges, such as multiple sources of supply and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, where they must recognise real-world constraints in sourcing products from approved suppliers and countries.
"The solution accurately models what-if scenarios, helping organisations to proactively develop contingency plans for risk mitigation, and supports least-cost supply-chain optimisation," says Thomson. Utilising 64-bit technology and parallel processing to tackle these challenges, the solution allows more responsive optimisation to changes in supply-demand conditions and enhanced problem-solving performance.
The solution enables companies to manage inventory and production for all sites, while also factoring in capacity constraints of production, warehousing and distribution. The new version of Advanced Planner incorporates more detail into the planning process, and the accuracy from the additional detail enables companies to reduce inventories while maintaining high customer service levels.
By encompassing all variables within a supply chain, companies can meet changing demand ahead of time and understand how these changes affect their business.
"Other solutions force users to break the model up into silos, which compromise the quality of the total supply-chain plan," comments Thomson. "Infor SCM Advanced Planner 5.0 uniquely combines flexibility and adaptability with scalability, which makes it the leading choice for companies with complex, global supply chains to manage."
Additional features of the upgraded solution include 'priority solving', an enhancement that makes it easier and faster to develop new planning models to rapidly adapt to changes in supply network conditions.
Infor's supply-chain management solutions enable the companies to improve their profitability, competitiveness and growth through network design, demand and supply-chain planning, manufacturing optimisation, warehousing, transportation management and supply-chain analytics. By synchronising cycles of demand, supply and replenishment, Infor's solutions allow our customers to get their product to their customers quickly and cost-effectively.
Additional information can be found locally at www.esoftworx.co.za, or for questions regarding product or technical support, contact Samantha Koegelenberg on 011 607 8299.
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Softworx is a successful South African business applications company that prides itself in being able to deliver world-class products to its extensive customer base, which includes a number of Fortune 500 companies. In addition, Softworx supports clients in industries ranging from manufacturing, retail, distribution and financial, to supporting various government entities. The company is dedicated to marketing, implementing and providing support for its range of complimentary software products to medium and large enterprises that require effective solutions to optimise their business processes.
Softworx has positioned itself as a leading provider of business applications in South Africa, specialising in end-to-end business solutions. The company prides itself in being able to deliver true value to its customers through the implementation of business solutions, based on a powerful combination of leading-edge products and consultancy. As a wholly owned subsidiary of EOH, Softworx has increased the number of services and products that can be offered to its customers from within the group.
EOH
EOH is a technology and business solutions provider, creating lifelong partnerships by developing business and IT strategies, supplying and implementing solutions and managing enterprise-wide business systems and processes for medium to large clients.
EOH operates in the following three clusters of business units as a fully integrated business:
Technology - Through a number of subsidiary companies, EOH is able to sell, implement and support a range of world-class business applications, including ERP, CRM, business intelligence, advanced planning and scheduling, e-commerce and manufacturing execution systems
Consulting - Concentrated under the EOH Consulting brand are business units, offering services ranging from strategic and business process consulting, to project services, change management, supply-chain optimisation and education.
Outsourcing - EOH offers comprehensive maintenance and support of client's IT infrastructure and applications through the rendering of full IT outsourcing, application hosting and managed services. In addition, EOH offers full business process outsourcing services.
EOH has a presence in all major centres in South Africa and Botswana, and operates in the rest of Africa.
Infor
Infor delivers fully-integrated enterprise solutions, as well as best-in-class standalone products that address the essential challenges its customers face in areas such as enterprise resource planning, supply-chain planning and execution, customer and supplier relationship management, asset management, product life-cycle management, financial management, performance management and business intelligence. With more than 8 100 employees and offices in 100 countries, Infor provides enterprise solutions to more than 70 000 customers. For additional information, visit www.infor.com.
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