April 8, 2009 – Infor announced MyDay for Infor ERP LN, an enterprise resource planning solution for companies in the discrete project-based manufacturing industries. Much more than a portal or dashboard, Infor MyDay is a dynamic Web 2.0 user interface for Infor applications that provides central access to the critical information users need to excel in their daily work. Companies operating on Infor ERP LN with Feature Pack 5 or higher and active maintenance plans are able to take advantage of Infor MyDay at no additional charge. Infor MyDay takes the vast amounts of business data captured and stored by ERP LN and delivers the pertinent information to employees based on their roles within the organization.
Previously, ERP solutions did not allow for users to easily access and analyze data that was often trapped in information silos or documents in the system. Infor MyDay sets relevant data free and presents it so that the appropriate decision-makers in the company can respond quickly when necessary.
Infor MyDay Helps Manufacturers by Personalizing Information Delivery
Infor has identified more than 150 roles for which Infor MyDay will personalize information in functional areas such as operations, sales, manufacturing/production, and finance. The information presented to users in these roles can help manufacturers improve cash flow, boost profits, reduce operating expenses, improve product quality, increase revenue, and speed time to correct problems. Companies in the discrete manufacturing industry must identify ways to reduce costs without sacrificing product quality. Infor MyDay provides information that helps users in production and operations analyze material usage, resource usage and other specific production-related metrics that give insight into trends like commodity price changes or quality issues.
Acting on the information presented by Infor MyDay, users can make decisions that reduce unnecessary costs and improve product quality, bolstering operational effectiveness. Manufacturers using Infor MyDay can strengthen customer service with insight into the true cost of serving individual customers, which enables them to prioritize their customer investments in a way that produces the greatest return. Through analyzing data on order processing, accounts receivable and inventory, Infor MyDay delivers metrics to employees in sales and finance, such as customer and product pricing, off-invoice discounts and post-invoice discounts, and helps users to effectively respond to mandates to reduce costs and add customized services.
Such visibility enables users to maximize revenue and profits for the company. In addition, Infor MyDay enables manufacturers to improve cash flow by providing metrics to users in the finance department, helping them to manage cash, reduce the consumption of working capital and minimize the time to address cash flow issues.
Infor Open SOA
Infor MyDay utilizes Infor Open SOA, a unique, event-driven service-oriented architecture (SOA) that leverages an industry standard business language to distribute data between Infor solutions and other systems. Infor Open SOA provides a standards-based approach for integration of both Infor and non-Infor systems and data sources. Through Infor Open SOA, Infor customers can rapidly and economically add Infor, third-party and in-house software applications without the need to “rip-and-replace” software or interrupt other systems during operations, a key benefit to Infor Open SOA. Infor Open SOA allows future component-based enhancements to Infor solutions to be delivered in the same non-disruptive manner, easing the implementation process for future technology integrations.