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Infor VISUAL ERP Rating displays the level of support for functionality and services provided by Infor VISUAL ERP by Infor. | |
Average Competitor Rating displays the average level of support for functionality and services provided by all of the vendors within TEC's knowledge base. | |
Competitor with the Lowest Rating is a real product or service solution. It indicates the overall lowest level of support for functionality or services (based on TEC's model of ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments solutions). | |
Competitor with the Highest Rating is a real product or service solution. It indicates the overall highest level of support for functionality or services (based on TEC's model of ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments solutions). |
*To learn more about criteria rating definitions please consult the ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments Rating Guide
| Module | Total Criteria | Infor VISUAL ERP by Infor | Lowest Rated Competitor for ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments | Highest Rated Competitor for ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments | |||||||||
| Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | ||||||||
| Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | |||||
| FINANCIALS Includes:General Ledger; Accounts Payable (A/P); Fixed Assets; Cost Accounting; Cash Management; Budgeting; and other | 900 | 723 | 8 | 169 | 90.07 | 742 | 32 | 34 | 85 | 788 | 22 | 90 | 94.62 |
| HUMAN RESOURCES Includes:Personnel Management; Benefits; Payroll; Employee Self-Service; Data Warehousing; Health and Safety; and other | 435 | 108 | 17 | 121 | 34.23 | 133 | 1 | 85 | 34.07 | 146 | 70 | 30 | 44.55 |
| MATERIAL CONVERTING MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT/MILL INDUSTRIES Includes:Cut-to-shape Environments; Plastic Injection Molding, Blow Molding, Thermoforming, Transfer Molding, Reaction Injection Molding, Compression Molding, Vacuum Forming, and Extrusion Environments; Wire and Cable Manufacturers; Hazardous Material Reporting; Quality Testing and Regulatory Compliance; Process Manufacturing Costing; and other | 899 | 667 | 58 | 160 | 86.27 | 206 | 99 | 146 | 33.55 | 738 | 13 | 134 | 90.8 |
| INVENTORY MANAGEMENT Includes:Inventory Management--Online Requirements; Processing Requirements; Data Requirements; Reporting and Interfacing Requirements (Inventory Management); Locations and Lot Control; Forecasting; and other | 183 | 126 | 6 | 50 | 84.97 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 31.15 | 156 | 15 | 11 | 92.46 |
| PURCHASING MANAGEMENT Includes:Profile of Suppliers; On-line Requirements; Rating of Suppliers; Requisitions and Quotations; Purchase Orders (POs); Pricing; and other | 265 | 219 | 13 | 33 | 91.25 | 158 | 73 | 25 | 76.72 | 216 | 35 | 14 | 89.55 |
| QUALITY MANAGEMENT Includes:Defective or excess material return processing must update on-hand; Damaged material--corrective action and failure analysis available to vendor on-line; Flags need to perform inspection of a specific item or a supplier's items; Receives items and records as “inventory on hold” when quality inspection is pending; Identifies items awaiting or in process of inspection through an online query; Validates inspection disposition using criteria that specify inspection process; and other | 29 | 24 | 0 | 5 | 89.66 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 35.86 | 27 | 0 | 2 | 94.48 |
| SALES MANAGEMENT Includes:Online Requirements (Sales Management); Reporting and Interfacing Requirements (Sales Management); Available-to-Promise (ATP); Pricing and Discounting; Customer Service and Returned Goods Handling; Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and E-Commerce Requirements; and other | 229 | 188 | 10 | 31 | 88.95 | 148 | 30 | 27 | 73.93 | 173 | 31 | 25 | 87.69 |
| PRODUCT TECHNOLOGY Includes:Architecture; User Interface; Platforms; Application Tools; Workflow and Document Management; Reporting; and other | 327 | 152 | 29 | 146 | 73.06 | 122 | 1 | 85 | 38.47 | 193 | 6 | 128 | 74.86 |
Financials
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Financial system modules for bookkeeping and ensuring accounts are paid or received on time.
*To learn more about criteria rating definitions please consult the ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments Rating Guide
| Module | Total Criteria | Infor VISUAL ERP by Infor | Lowest Rated Competitor for ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments | Highest Rated Competitor for ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments | |||||||||
| Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | ||||||||
| Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | |||||
| GENERAL LEDGER Includes:Parameters and Structuring; Chart of Accounts Structure; Ledger Development and Management; Enterprise Reporting Structure; Journal Entry and Reporting; Journal Vouchers; and other | 314 | 287 | 1 | 26 | 93.89 | 292 | 3 | 9 | 93.66 | 293 | 1 | 20 | 96.69 |
| ACCOUNTS PAYABLE (A/P) Includes:Policies and Procedures; Supplier Master Data; Invoice Process and Aging; Journal Invoice Process; A/P Ledger Posting; Control of Payments; and other | 235 | 218 | 3 | 14 | 95.87 | 211 | 10 | 9 | 92.81 | 220 | 5 | 10 | 97.19 |
| FIXED ASSETS Includes:Records for Fixed Assets; Asset Transactions; Depreciation of Assets; Depreciation Books; Tax Reports; | 89 | 0 | 0 | 89 | 60 | 64 | 8 | 4 | 75.51 | 79 | 5 | 5 | 93.6 |
| COST ACCOUNTING Includes:Cost Data; Cost Allocations; Cost Allocation Processing; Management of Costs; | 49 | 39 | 0 | 10 | 83.27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 29 | 77.35 |
| CASH MANAGEMENT Includes:Up-to-date cash balance report; Projects cash resources from sales, A/R, field services, and miscellaneous cash; Projects cash utilization from purchasing, A/P, and miscellaneous cash; Checks committed funds against cash reserves or availability; Updates and maintains pay date schedule; Reports cash projections; and other | 16 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 96.25 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 85 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 96.25 |
| BUDGETING Includes:Budget Control; Budget Accounting; Budget Development; Budgets; Allocation of Budgets; | 65 | 57 | 0 | 8 | 90.92 | 53 | 2 | 2 | 82.77 | 41 | 1 | 23 | 85.38 |
| ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE Includes:Processing Requirements; Data Requirements; Reporting Requirements; Interfacing Requirements; Credit and Collections Management; | 98 | 76 | 3 | 19 | 90.61 | 76 | 5 | 10 | 85.92 | 90 | 5 | 3 | 95.41 |
| FINANCIAL REPORTING Includes:Online Requirements; Miscellaneous; | 34 | 31 | 0 | 3 | 97.06 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
Human Resources
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Human resources encompasses all the applications necessary for handling personnel-related tasks for corporate managers and individual employees. Modules include personnel management, benefit management, payroll management, employee self service, data warehousing, and health and safety.
*To learn more about criteria rating definitions please consult the ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments Rating Guide
| Module | Total Criteria | Infor VISUAL ERP by Infor | Lowest Rated Competitor for ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments | Highest Rated Competitor for ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments | |||||||||
| Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | ||||||||
| Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | |||||
| PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT Includes:Recruitment Management; Profile of Personnel; Organizational Structures; Job Position and Wage Profiles; Career Development and Training; Management of Rewards; and other | 122 | 50 | 16 | 40 | 61.07 | 54 | 1 | 46 | 50.49 | 59 | 31 | 16 | 66.72 |
| BENEFITS Includes:Standard Benefits; Profile for Employee Benefit Plan; Administering Benefits; | 24 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 63.33 | 15 | 9 | 0 | 77.5 |
| PAYROLL Includes:Profile for Employee Payroll; Earnings and Deductions; Eligibility Parameters; User Balances; Automated Time Sheet; Security and Audit; and other | 70 | 52 | 0 | 18 | 83.14 | 57 | 0 | 12 | 81.43 | 54 | 3 | 13 | 91.86 |
| EMPLOYEE SELF-SERVICE Includes:Review and maintain name, address, telephone number, etc., associated with life events; Review or enroll in benefits for open enrollment period; Change benefits related to a life event; Update W4 information such as tax filling status, number of exemptions, and withholding information; View pay stub info: gross pay, taxes, other deductions, net pay, pay period, and year-to-date totals; Maintain dependents and beneficiaries related to life event; and other | 22 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 21.82 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 72.73 |
| DATA WAREHOUSING Includes:Staff headcount, movement, and turnover trends analyses and reports; Workforce planning reporting; EEO/affirmative action /disabled employee reporting; Absence and leave accrual reporting; Wage and salary costs data, with detailed breakdowns across, for example, earnings, deductions, and disbursements; Reports on vacancies and the effectiveness of filling them such as time to fill, cost per applicant, and average time of retaining the position; and other | 13 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 71.54 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 58.46 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 49.23 |
| HEALTH AND SAFETY Includes:Report and investigate incidents of injury and illness for employees and contractors; Initiation of corrective actions related to an incident; Logging of first aid records and reports; Manage occupational injury and illness claims; Report incidents involving vehicles and equipment; Detect and monitor hazardous conditions (areas) and materials, and exporting them via an interface for further processing; and other | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 62.73 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 18.18 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 64.55 |
| WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT Includes:Project Identification; Resource Identification and Classification; Workforce Forecasting and Planning (Supply and Demand); Workforce Gap Analysis; Resource Allocation and Analysis; Project Management and Tracking; and other | 147 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| TRAINING Includes:Planning; Administration; | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Material Converting Manufacturing Management/Mill Industries
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A mill is a factory where value is added to raw materials by processing it into a form suitable either for further manufacturing or for immediate end-use. Outside the food industry, where traditional mills turn grain into flour or extract sucrose from sugar beet and cane, other processes comply with the foregoing definition. Milling applies to a wide range of industrial activities. These include the spinning and weaving mills of the textiles and carpets sectors to the rolling plants of steel, aluminum, and other metals semi-fabricators, to the continuous outputs of paper and board mills. There are several broad categories of non-food mills:1. Metals--typically rolling cast steel or aluminum into sheets and coils or extruding profiles that are sold either to manufacturers or to distributors2. Plastics--similar to metals, these may also be thermally extruded and formed 3. Paper--products usually delivered direct to printers and packaging manufacturers or to wholesalers and distributors4. Packaging--heavier paper-based products such as foil and plastics that mostly go direct to manufacturers across all sectors; deliveries must align with users' production schedules5. Textiles--woven fabrics produced mostly for apparel manufacturers and the décor trade, but also for the retail sector6. Carpets--supplied to the retail trade cut-to-order for commercial and domestic applications; some specialist mills make-to-order (MTO) for corporate applications such as store chains, hotels, cruise liners, and major companiesOne thing all of these mill types have in common is that they have few input materials but there are many variations in what they output. An aluminum ingot, for example, could be rolled to plate inches thick or foil measured in microns--and everything between. A plain clothing fabric could be printed with hundreds of combinations of colors and pattern. This complicates conventional forecasting and planning below the generic level.
*To learn more about criteria rating definitions please consult the ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments Rating Guide
| Module | Total Criteria | Infor VISUAL ERP by Infor | Lowest Rated Competitor for ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments | Highest Rated Competitor for ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments | |||||||||
| Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | ||||||||
| Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | |||||
| CUT-TO-SHAPE ENVIRONMENTS Includes:Concurrently handle and track several inventory item attributes or specifications such as heat, dimension (width, length, gauge), form, diameter, shape, grade, grain direction or texture, density, and more; Consideration of the information on chemical, metallurgical, and physical properties; Tracking of inventory up and down the supply chain, including the lot, heat, tag and certifications. The system must deliver up-to-the-minute information about on-hand available inventory, in-transit inventory, replenishment orders, manufacturing schedules and lead times, all while taking the attributes into consideration.; Trace the ancestry or genealogy of an inventory tag from PO receipt to customer delivery ticket; Detailed search of history information by a master tag number or heat number; Provision of information that shows not only what each customer purchased, but also how much profit (or loss) was generated from that order, part, or tag; and other | 60 | 49 | 1 | 10 | 93.17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 42 | 67 |
| PLASTIC INJECTION MOLDING, BLOW MOLDING, THERMOFORMING, TRANSFER MOLDING, REACTION INJECTION MOLDING, COMPRESSION MOLDING, VACUUM FORMING, AND EXTRUSION ENVIRONMENTS Includes:Handle multiple cavitations and "family tools"; Create complex tools with the ability to block some cavities; Tracking standard and actual cavitations (when some cavities are blocked; Tracking of scrap and regrind for material reuse purposes; Quotes and BOMs that support family tools, with part costing and pricing for individual items of family molds; Scheduling of multiple unique part numbers in a single cycle, on a single machine; and other | 27 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 95.56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 12 | 82.96 |
| WIRE AND CABLE MANUFACTURERS Includes:Quickly find the spool, reel, box, etc. that best fits the customer’s needs, while conforming to customer constraints such as put-up size, packaging requirements, etc.; Provision of the proper certifications and conformance documents, barcode labels, packaging, shipping papers, and other information thecustomer needs along with the product; Quick identification and reservation of the best master reel for a given cut-to-length order; Optimize cutting to make full use of each reel for a given cut-to-length order; Tracking of inventory by individual container (e.g. Gaylord, reel, spool, coil, etc.), with details on length and weight; Automatic conversion from one UOM to another (e.g. pounds to feet when recording scrap) and automatic calculation of the quantity of the commodity (e.g. copper) at each stage; and other | 13 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 83.08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 77.69 |
| HAZARDOUS MATERIAL REPORTING Includes:Automatic generation of material safety data sheets; Automatically generates MSDS when formulas change; Calculates a safe mix of hazardous materials for a formula; Comment field for specified raw materials; Hazardous materials threshold ranges are based on component percentages and tolerance ranges; Hazardous materials can be located by expanding formulas; and other | 16 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 86.88 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7.5 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 74.38 |
| QUALITY TESTING AND REGULATORY COMPLIANCE Includes:Automatically records and maintains data for LIMS; Complies to USDA regulations, HACCP, etc.; Complies to FDA, GAMP, or other standards; Material classifications to prevent use or sale of materials without QA approval; Conditional material pre-release classification; | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| PROCESS MANUFACTURING COSTING Includes:Costing and analysis for co-products or by-products and allows negative number values to represent the cost of their removal; Allocates cost to a by-product or co-product by cost distribution percentage and assigned costs; Uses assigned cost costing method; Uses accumulation of rollup costing method; NRV costing method; Yield planning and tracking (standard versus actual); and other | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| PRODUCT COSTING Includes:Item Costing; Costing Activity; Purchase Costing; Costing Calculations; Cost Report and Inventory Accounting; Actual Costing; and other | 100 | 78 | 2 | 20 | 92.3 | 53 | 22 | 12 | 67.4 | 84 | 1 | 15 | 92.6 |
| SHOP FLOOR CONTROL Includes:Flow Manufacturing; Company Calendar; Work Centers and Machines; Orders Dispatching; Production Orders Control and Reporting; WIP Management; and other | 382 | 286 | 30 | 66 | 86.83 | 115 | 37 | 79 | 42.04 | 344 | 7 | 31 | 95.42 |
| PRODUCTION PLANNING Includes:Master Production Scheduling (MPS); Rough-Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP); Material Requirements Planning (MRP); Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP) and Work Center Scheduling; | 287 | 215 | 24 | 48 | 85.44 | 35 | 35 | 54 | 23.66 | 264 | 5 | 18 | 95.68 |
Inventory Management
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Solutions for inventory management are used for the record-keeping of goods that are warehoused, and managing the movement of these goods to, from, and through warehouses.
*To learn more about criteria rating definitions please consult the ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments Rating Guide
| Module | Total Criteria | Infor VISUAL ERP by Infor | Lowest Rated Competitor for ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments | Highest Rated Competitor for ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments | |||||||||
| Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | ||||||||
| Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | |||||
| INVENTORY MANAGEMENT--ONLINE REQUIREMENTS Includes:Maintain item number history of usage, both planned and unplanned, and purged upon a specific date criteria; Provide inquiry and reporting capability for inventory transactions by item number, location, and transaction type.; Provide reporting capability by item number (all transactions since last cycle count); Provide inquiry and reporting capability for inventory transaction summary by from and to dates; Provide inquiry and reporting capability for inventory status by item number and serial number; Provide inquiry and reporting capability for slow moving and obsolete inventory; and other | 29 | 26 | 0 | 3 | 91.72 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 68.97 | 22 | 5 | 2 | 85.86 |
| PROCESSING REQUIREMENTS Includes:Provide for multiple facilities, warehouses, stockrooms, and inventory locations; Kanban inventory management; Flexible assignment of inventory processing by product and part (kanban and point-of-use); Provide allocation of raw material and component inventory to firm planned or open work order locations; Provide for non-nettable inventory locations; Provide for ABC classification of parts, based on order activity, historic usage/cost, or projected usage/cost; and other | 28 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 97.86 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 42.86 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 95.71 |
| DATA REQUIREMENTS Includes:Provide product line code information on the inventory master file; Provide item number information on the inventory master file; Provide item description information on the inventory master file; Provide unit of measure information on the inventory master file; Provide effectivity information on the inventory master file (absolute date effectivity may be assigned via item number); Provide effectivity information on the inventory master file regardless of its total product structure usage; and other | 12 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 93.33 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16.67 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 95 |
| REPORTING AND INTERFACING REQUIREMENTS (INVENTORY MANAGEMENT) Includes:Produce system-generated documents for material issues to production runs; Provide reporting of inactive, excess, or obsolete inventory; Provide inventory valuation reporting by item number, product code, warehouse, production facility, distribution center, or stockroom; Provide the ability for a distribution center to run reports or inquiries on inventory status, open order status (sales and production), costs, sales, and quotes for items that only pertain to their specific facility; Reports of inventory by team, planner code, and buyer code; Interface with the general ledger to forward a journal for all inventory adjustments; and other | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 96.67 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| LOCATIONS AND LOT CONTROL Includes:Set stocking locations for each item as fixed, assigned, manual or assigned by the system; Standard ten-position convention to identify location of items in inventory; A given finished item can be listed simultaneously in multiple stocking places in one site; Users define types to classify storage locations, such as warehouse, store, branch, truck, consigned, return, repair, inspection, department, bulk, or category; Use random locations for storing items; Standard locations for stocking items; and other | 20 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 86 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 89.5 |
| FORECASTING Includes:Conducts simulation to test policies; Uses beta factor to resolve forecasting errors; Compares actual service levels to service levels specified in policies; Generates initialization and control reports to create and evaluate forecasts; Generates initialization or simulation reports for safety stock; Measures accuracy of forecasts (adjusted or unadjusted); and other | 51 | 11 | 1 | 38 | 68.82 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3.92 | 49 | 0 | 1 | 97.45 |
| RESERVATIONS AND ALLOCATIONS Includes:Reservation days--time fence between soft and hard allocations; Displays online and in real time resources and inventory that are available in a specific location; Item balances maintained by grade specifications and lot number; Available inventory reduced at time of sales order entry; Customizable rules for reallocating inventory across open orders; Immediate allocation of inventory quantities to backorders; and other | 26 | 19 | 2 | 5 | 81.92 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7.69 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 85 |
| ADJUSTING INVENTORY Includes:Manual adjustments to inventory values; User specifies reason codes for adjusting inventory, such as cycle count or poor quality; Secure access via control number to modify inventory transactions; Displays inventory balance information before and after adjustments; Inventory adjustments tracked for reporting purposes; Authorization on individual transaction level; and other | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 62.5 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 92.5 |
Purchasing Management
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Purchasing management encompasses a group of applications that controls purchasing of raw materials needed to build products and that manages inventory stocks. It also involves creating purchase orders/contracts, supplier tracking, goods receipt and payment, and regulatory compliance analysis and reporting.
*To learn more about criteria rating definitions please consult the ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments Rating Guide
| Module | Total Criteria | Infor VISUAL ERP by Infor | Lowest Rated Competitor for ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments | Highest Rated Competitor for ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments | |||||||||
| Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | ||||||||
| Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | |||||
| PROFILE OF SUPPLIERS Includes:Fields for supplier data such as shipping methods, item references, and conditions; Suppliers may have more than one address; Store e-mail addresses, web sites, and fax numbers in vendor profiles; Associate items with vendors' descriptions; Code different vendor production lead times, taking into account both supplier lead time and transport time; Bill-to-entity information including currency, bank, account number, and mode of payment; and other | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 90 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 90 |
| ON-LINE REQUIREMENTS Includes:Create and use blanket purchase orders; Accepts manual entry of invoices, cash receipts and adjustments with G/L accounts and effective dates; Provides a reference to a contract or master agreement; Accepts debit memo and credit memo transactions as adjustments to the customer accounts; Create multiple releases, each relieving a committed amount; Identifies each transaction via reference number (such as batch number and line number) that is sequentially generated by the system; and other | 20 | 13 | 0 | 7 | 82 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 91 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 98.5 |
| RATING OF SUPPLIERS Includes:Year-to-date description of purchases in dollar value, by supplier; Goods delivery times are maintained as statistics for each supplier; Twenty-four month statistical performance data; Average of early days and late days delivery; Rejected salvaged in number and dollar value; Analyzes suppliers' PO fulfillment performance based on significant data points such as cost or price and quality; and other | 13 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 97.69 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 86.15 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 90.77 |
| REQUISITIONS AND QUOTATIONS Includes:Users can manually enter requisitions, which update along with automatic entries; Procurement system allows multiple line items and delivery schedules; Quality codes included on purchase requisitions; Requisitions can be approved in real time; Processes requests for quotation (RFQ); Manage and update supplier's quotes for particular items; and other | 13 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 95.38 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 73.85 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| PURCHASE ORDERS (POS) Includes:MRP requisition converts to a purchase order; Conversion of a planned purchase order to a PO electronically forwarded to vendor automatically; Manually enter and send purchase order; Assigns sequential PO numbers automatically; Purchase order types including standard PO, blanket/contract, subcontract order/operation, purchase request, and return-from-stock; Purchase orders for miscellaneous (non-inventoried) items "Fast Path"; and other | 62 | 60 | 1 | 1 | 98.55 | 40 | 21 | 0 | 78.06 | 50 | 9 | 3 | 89.84 |
| PRICING Includes:Price and discount table corresponds to individual suppliers and items; Automatic update of an item's record based on the item's most recent purchase price; Orders may be discounted manually or automatically based on the order line; Price adjustments such as quantity discounts are determined from a grade table; Vendor price may be changed for a product class in multiple vendor agreements; Pricing and discounting tables include effectivity dates; and other | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 93.08 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 60 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 82.31 |
| VENDOR CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS Includes:Agreements with suppliers may be discounted at different levels including the product level, product class level, and a level for general terms; Agreement number designating common terms; Defines normal contract and special contract types; Contract effectivity dates (start and end); Users may enter agreement start dates (a signal date); Contract terms may specify ranges for delivery dates and quantities; and other | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 79.38 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 68.75 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 70 |
| MANAGEMENT OF POS Includes:Entities within a company link to a common legal entity (for example, business units, plants, sites, etc.); Consolidates enterprise-wide purchasing as a central unit; Products classified within a purchase class default to a main vendor; Verifies (and holds if necessary) receiving transactions on the basis of controls defined during purchasing; Internal processing lead times provided based on products and warehouses; Retain PO data for audit purposes (PO with electronic approval); and other | 25 | 18 | 3 | 4 | 84 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 79.6 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 81.6 |
| PROCUREMENT REPORTING AND ONLINE REPORTING Includes:Requisition report and query; Purchase order report and query for planned POs and released POs; Purchase order status and follow-up reporting or querying; Purchasing action recommended according to material requirements; User-defined parameters for PO and receipt exception reporting; Released purchase orders traced by part number; and other | 24 | 19 | 2 | 3 | 91.25 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 65.83 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 92.5 |
| REPEAT PROCUREMENT Includes:Users (with proper authorization) may issue blanket POs for specified items, quantities, and time periods; Includes established effective dates in contract orders and line items; Tracks quantity or dollar value ranges for contracts; Purchasing agent may establish special conditions for delivery by the vendor; PO line items maintain information pertaining to allocation, delivery, and purchase; Shipping and delivery schedules for the vendor reported in physical or electronic formats; and other | 19 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 76.84 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 67.37 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 78.95 |
| RECEIPTS FOR PROCUREMENT Includes:Reports information on goods reception; Receipt order or receipt number; Creates receipts based on the contract or project; Multiple POs may be grouped as a single receipt for one shipment; Automatically numbers receipts in sequence; Calls up PO receipts in real time and updates inventory data; and other | 30 | 27 | 1 | 2 | 96 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 78 | 28 | 2 | 0 | 96 |
| REPORTING AND INTERFACING REQUIREMENTS FOR PURCHASING MANAGEMENT Includes:Print open PO detail information by vendor, item number, due date, or dollar value; Generate past due reports by vendor or item number in due date sequence; Automatic reminder for overdue shipments sent to vendors via fax or e-mail; Print a vendor performance report based on shipment and purchasing history; Print a vendor performance report based on showing late deliveries (days late); Print a vendor performance report based on orders placed; and other | 18 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 89.44 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 80 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
Quality Management
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| Module | Total Criteria | Infor VISUAL ERP by Infor | Lowest Rated Competitor for ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments | Highest Rated Competitor for ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments | |||||||||
| Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | ||||||||
| Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | |||||
| DEFECTIVE OR EXCESS MATERIAL RETURN PROCESSING MUST UPDATE ON-HAND | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| DAMAGED MATERIAL--CORRECTIVE ACTION AND FAILURE ANALYSIS AVAILABLE TO VENDOR ON-LINE | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| FLAGS NEED TO PERFORM INSPECTION OF A SPECIFIC ITEM OR A SUPPLIER'S ITEMS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| RECEIVES ITEMS AND RECORDS AS “INVENTORY ON HOLD” WHEN QUALITY INSPECTION IS PENDING | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| IDENTIFIES ITEMS AWAITING OR IN PROCESS OF INSPECTION THROUGH AN ONLINE QUERY | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| VALIDATES INSPECTION DISPOSITION USING CRITERIA THAT SPECIFY INSPECTION PROCESS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| TRACKS MATERIAL INSPECTION DISPOSITIONS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| TRACKS AND REPORTS ON NON-DISPOSITIONED REJECTS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| TRACKS QUANTITY REJECTED AT INSPECTION | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| ASSIGNS CODES TO REJECT DESCRIPTIONS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| TRACKS UNRESOLVED REJECTIONS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| PROCESSES MATERIAL RECEIPTS WHICH HAVE FAILED INSPECTION | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| CORRECTIVE ACTIONS CAN BE INITIATED, AND PROCESSED, AND TRACKED | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 70 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| TRACKS ITEMS FOR WHICH THERE IS NO DISPOSITION, OR WHICH ARE REJECTED PENDING VENDOR APPROVAL | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| TRACKS ITEMS AWAITING REWORK ORDER | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 |
| TRACKS ITEMS FOR WHICH USE IS CONDITIONAL ON QA STATEMENT OF ACCEPTABLE VARIANCE | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| TRACKS ITEMS AWAITING RETURN SHIPMENT TO VENDOR | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| PROVIDES AGGREGATE SUPPLIER QUALITY DATA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| TRANSACTIONS RELATED TO MATERIAL RETURNS TO VENDORS CAN BE PERFORMED ONLINE | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| TRACKS CUSTOMER-REJECTED ITEMS AWAITING DISPOSITION FROM ORIGINAL SUPPLIER | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| AUTOMATICALLY UPDATES SCHEDULE INFORMATION FOR ITEMS RETURNED TO SUPPLIERS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| LISTS AUTHORIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR SUBSTITUTION-APPROVED ITEMS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 |
| LISTS AUTHORIZED VENDORS FOR EACH ITEM | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| PRINTS DOCUMENT IDENTIFYING POINT OF RETURN AND JUSTIFICATION | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| PRINTS DEBIT MEMO AS PART OF RETURN-TO-SUPPLIER PROCESS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| RECALCULATES AVERAGE ITEM COST | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| QUALITY DATA ON-LINE | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| REQUIREMENTS GROUPING USING COLLECTION PLANS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| QUALITY DOCUMENT LINKAGE WITH PRODUCT MASTER WITHIN PDM | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
Sales Management
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Sales Management encompasses a group of applications that automates the data entry process of customer orders and keeps track of the status of orders. It involves order entry, order tracing and status reporting, pricing, invoicing, etc. It also provides a basic functionality for lead tracking, customer information, quote processing, pricing & rebates, etc.
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| Module | Total Criteria | Infor VISUAL ERP by Infor | Lowest Rated Competitor for ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments | Highest Rated Competitor for ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments | |||||||||
| Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | Criteria Summary | Module Rating | ||||||||
| Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | Sup* | NS* | Oth* | |||||
| ONLINE REQUIREMENTS (SALES MANAGEMENT) Includes:Accommodate an order type for a new order or quote; Status field for new quotes or orders (specifies whether it's a new order or quote); Creates order from quote and retains quote reference identification (for all new orders or quotes); Create an order from only selected lines of the quote; Decrease the amount quoted; Allow for customer account and sales order status on-line by customer name or number or by sales order number; and other | 42 | 38 | 4 | 0 | 94.29 | 36 | 4 | 1 | 89.52 | 39 | 2 | 1 | 96.43 |
| REPORTING AND INTERFACING REQUIREMENTS (SALES MANAGEMENT) Includes:Accommodate processing and printing of invoices, reports, and shipping; Print billing reports by product, invoice number, and customer; Report daily unit and dollar bookings, by item number, by customer and customer type, with month to date (MTD) totals.; Report daily unit and dollar billing/shipments, by item number and by customer with MTD totals and sort by product group; Report booking history (units) by month, displaying each of the twelve months with a total; Report billing and shipment history (units) by month, displaying each of the twelve months with a total; and other | 49 | 43 | 2 | 4 | 95.1 | 38 | 1 | 5 | 85.51 | 35 | 14 | 0 | 82.86 |
| AVAILABLE-TO-PROMISE (ATP) Includes:Allocation reports specify total demand, and on-hand stock, as well as sales order sequencing; Schedule views for available-to-promise items; Available-to-promise scheduling can be viewed by time period and by allocation; Imports available-to-promise quantities and dates into sales order; Available-to-promise items are specified automatically by the system; Available-to-promise items are specified according to capacity; and other | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 51 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| PRICING AND DISCOUNTING Includes:Manual discount entry for single items or for invoice as a whole; Automatic order discounting by buying agreement; Discount templates by product family; Discounts are based on amount, applied by header, or associated with contract lines; Promotion discounts can be associated with products or product groupings; Assigns begin-by and end-by dates for promotional discounts; and other | 76 | 59 | 3 | 14 | 86.18 | 46 | 16 | 5 | 70.79 | 53 | 9 | 14 | 85.39 |
| CUSTOMER SERVICE AND RETURNED GOODS HANDLING Includes:Customizable enquiry procedures; Provides real-time product inventory and delivery status; Order inquiry link to manufacturing status, capacity, ATP yield, and inventory status; Access of customer and customer order information through a single screen, including open orders; order details, status, and history; invoicing, credit details, and payment application; Invoices can be viewed or modified online; Partial shipment against purchase order; and other | 29 | 24 | 1 | 4 | 88.62 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 46.9 | 25 | 0 | 4 | 95.86 |
| CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM) AND E-COMMERCE REQUIREMENTS Includes:Provide the ability to store and report forecasted sales based by salesperson and territory as well as based on the probability and projected closing date for each sale; Provide a period by period trend report of historical sales and salesperson activity based on past performance; Provide a report of the forecast error based on past forecasts compared with past actual sales results; Automatically generate a call or mail list based on a selection of any combination of database elements in the list database; Provide call history for the customer; Provide hot key access to customer account information; and other | 23 | 14 | 0 | 9 | 70.87 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 75.22 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 73.91 |
Product Technology
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This category defines the technical architecture of the product, and the technological environment in which the product can successfully run. Criteria include product and application architecture, software usability and administration, platform and database support, application standards support, communications and protocol support and integration capabilities. Relative to the other evaluation criteria, best practice selections place a lower relative importance, on the product technology
