Wescast Industries to Optimize Their Supply Chain With Infor Advanced Planning
ATLANTA, Nov. 1, 2004 -- Infor Global Solutions Inc., a global provider of enterprise software solutions to select manufacturing and distribution vertical markets, announced today that Wescast Industries Inc. has selected Infor Advanced Planning to optimize their two-stage, production management operations. Wescast is a leading supplier of exhaust components for passenger cars and light trucks. Their implementation of Infor Advanced Planning will be integrated with their existing Infor TRANS4M ERP solution from Infor Automotive Essentials and will eliminate the existing manual planning and supply chain execution processes.
With Infor Advanced Planning, Wescast can now accurately determine which of their manufacturing facilities can best meet forecasted product demand requirements based on production costs, inventory, capacity, where demand is originating, and many other variables. They can do this while taking into account and respecting the numerous constraints in their planning processes including finite labor and capacity and increasing raw material procurement costs. With Infor Advanced Planning, Wescast can now make informed, optimized business decisions even when dealing with competing business objectives and production requirements.
In addition to creating optimized supply chain plans that respect their operational constraints, Wescast wants to improve their ability to adapt to changes in their production forecast, improve visibility into inventory positions, react quickly to changes in supply chain requirements and most importantly, ensure they are able to service their customers at the highest possible levels.
"Our goal is to align all of the components of our supply chain, improving our ability to be more agile and adaptable. Infor Advanced Planning is the solution that supports our business objective and enables our team to make the best informed decisions for our business and our customers," said Kuldeep Chandra, Director of Procurement & Supply at Wescast. "With this, we will be able to more effectively balance our supply and demand requirements and improve our responsiveness to our customers."
Infor Advanced Planning is a powerful supply chain planning solution with an analytical engine that allows your business to model complex strategic and tactical business problems and optimize the solution. It delivers very high return to your business by showing you ways to be more profitable through operating changes, how to utilize existing resources more effectively, how to enable higher levels of customer service or any other key performance indicator. Infor Advanced Planning ultimately helps you drive your business to higher levels of supply chain efficiency and success.
About Wescast Industries Inc.
Wescast Industries Inc. is the world's largest supplier of exhaust manifolds for passenger cars and light trucks. Wescast designs, develops, casts and machines high-quality iron exhaust manifolds for automotive OEMs. Wescast's global sales and design activities are coordinated through its technical development centre in Canada and supported by sales and design centers in the United States, Europe and Japan. Wescast operates eight manufacturing facilities, including a 49% interest in United Machining Inc., an accredited Minority supplier in Michigan. Wescast is recognized worldwide for its quality products, innovative design solutions and highly committed workforce.
About Infor
Infor provides vertical specific, enterprise-wide business solutions to select manufacturing and distribution industries worldwide and delivers best- in-class products that address the essential challenges our customers face in areas such as supply chain planning, relationship management, demand management, ERP, warehouse management, marketing-driven distribution, and business intelligence. Infor has 30 locations worldwide and its solutions are used by 13,000 customers in over 45 countries. Infor is proud to provide business solutions to some of the world's largest and most respected companies, including Denso, TRW, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Pez International, Grohe, Cargill, Heinz, Heineken, xpedx, Godiva, Valvoline, 3M Unitek, GlaxoSmithKline, and Bristol Myers Squibb. For additional information, visit http://www.infor.com/ .