Softworx, a member of the EOH Group and master distributor of Infor, recently launched Infor's next-generation supply chain management solution, Infor SCM Warehouse Management 9.0.
"Infor SCM WM 9.0 breaks down the boundaries of traditional warehouse management by providing business specific capabilities to global manufacturing, distribution, logistics and retail enterprises," says Jane Thomson, Managing Director, Softworx.
"This completely re-architected solution drives business agility by extending warehouse management capabilities beyond the four walls."
Traditional market approaches to warehouse management are focused within the four walls of the warehouse and have limited ability to share information with other systems such as transportation and logistics, supply chain visibility and control, as well as event and performance management solutions.
WM 9.0 breaks down these barriers to provide visibility both upstream to the customer and downstream to the supplier. Enterprises are now able to change their processes more easily. With this new insight, organisations are able to more intelligently respond to changes in inventory demand and supply, virtually eliminating the risk of stock outs and delayed deliveries.
According to Aberdeen Group's The Extended Warehouse Benchmark Report, published December 2006, effective supply chain management does not stop inside the four walls of the warehouse. To reduce warehousing costs and cut order fulfilment times, companies must focus on how they manage inventory in the "extended warehouse". Inventory in satellite warehouses as well as in transit must be visible across the enterprise. Furthermore, once product arrives at a distribution centre, it must be quickly unloaded and received into inventory.
Infor recognises market conditions, business needs and customer demand for real-time visibility of goods in the supply chain can bring about immediate and necessary process change for enterprises. Traditional warehouse management solutions have proprietary platforms, scheduled releases and complex upgrades.
Infor WM 9.0 grows and adapts with the company, regardless of size, helping them differentiate their businesses by helping them create value across the supply chain.
"The majority of systems in use today are inflexible to changes in customer requirements or business needs, and are complicated and expensive to maintain and upgrade," comments Thomson. "Infor SCM WM 9.0 provides inherent business specific functionality, without the need for costly customisation. This significantly speeds installation and optimises performance with third party systems."
WM 9.0 focuses on efficiency inside the warehouse and the highest level of support for RF, voice, wave planning, cross docking and labour reporting. Outside the warehouse, the solution creates value by extending capabilities including yard management, event management, performance management, transportation and logistics, and RFID.
Infor SCM Warehouse Management 9.0 is available in Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.
Infor's supply chain management solutions enable the world's leading 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.
Thomson concludes: "By synchronising cycles of demand, supply and replenishment, Infor SCM WM 9.0 allows our customers to move product to their customers quickly and cost-effectively."
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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 complementary 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.
For more information, please visit http://www.esoftworx.co.za.
EOH
EOH is a business and technology 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:
Consulting - Concentrated under the EOH Consulting brand are business units offering services ranging from strategic and business process consulting, project services, change management, supply chain optimisation and education. The EOH Consulting business unit is responsible for delivering IT solutions that make business sense. We focus on providing remarkable technology solutions using robust methodologies to perform along the following four dimensions of IT excellence:
* Business-alignment
* Quality
* Risk management
* Cost management
Technology - Through a number of subsidiary companies, EOH is able to sell, implement, and support a range of world-class business applications including enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), business intelligence, advanced planning and scheduling, e-commerce and manufacturing execution systems (MES).
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 (BPO) 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 lifecycle 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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