Your Infor™ SyteLine solution collects, manages, and distributes the information you need to run your manufacturing business more efficiently and profitably. But sometimes it’s difficult to mine such a rich trove of data quickly enough to support important decisions and gain real business benefits. That’s why we developed Infor BI for SyteLine to give manufacturers the power to analyze trends in market forces, understand what’s driving the business, and make quick and informed decisions.
You’ll gain the ability to transform your business with Infor BI for SyteLine because of two powerful differences that set this solution apart from all others: Prepackaged content and technical integration. While other solutions offer pre-built dashboards and analytic tools, Infor BI for SyteLine integrates ready-made cubes and dashboards as seamless parts of the Infor SyteLine environment you already use to make your business run. By creating a single, unified platform where you can analyze, support, and execute decisions within your ERP, you’ll gain a level of business insight that’s simply not possible otherwise. You’ll also accelerate your decision making process, add unmatched agility and responsiveness, and prepare yourself to adjust to new business conditions and opportunities as they arise.
Now you can grow a comprehensive business intelligence system, step-by-step, as your needs require and budget allows, because of Infor’s tiered business intelligence architecture. You’ll not only keep costs under control, you’ll have the opportunity to take a careful, methodical approach to implementation, perfecting each phase before going on to the next.
You’ll get quick answers to the questions that matter most with Infor BI for SyteLine, thanks to its assortment of pre-built, role-based dashboards and reports, organized to support the most important aspects of your business, including:
- Manufacturing - Analyze critical aspects of your manufacturing operations, throughput, ongoing costs, and other critical variables. Monitor performance by product, department, cost center and projects.
- Finance - Track costs and profitability according to customer, site, and time period. Compare current performance to past periods and monitor costs against budget.
- Sales - Review sales performance by product, channel, customer, representative, and region.
- Inventory and Purchasing - View key statistics, including inventory cost by line item, vendor performance, receipts and returns, and cost by product code.
But strategic business decisions often involve multiple disciplines, crossing boundaries between sales, finance, operations, purchasing, etc. With Infor BI for SyteLine, you also get a set of innovative analytical cubes, prearranged information structures that automatically draw on data from your Infor SyteLine system to address sophisticated, in-depth issues that help make your business more productive, including:
- Accounts Receivable
- Booking
- Business Performance
- Financial Income
- Inventory
- Job Efficiency
- Material Scrap
- Sales and Product Contribution
- Sales Delivery
- Vendor Received
You can also customize any pre-built dashboard or cube to create your own personalized view for measuring the critical variables that make the biggest difference to you. Together, these components provide powerful business intelligence capabilities that you can use to understand and gain insight into the key factors that impact your business.
Understand and identify your company’s problems and challenges fast with Infor BI for SyteLine. You’ll have access to the latest reliable information you need to help you drive the most value for your manufacturing organization. You’ll be able to:
- Analyze buying patterns and better understand customers
- Finely target marketing and sales strategies
- Discover market and product opportunities
- Pinpoint supply chain weaknesses
- Minimize inventory and associated costs
- Spot strategic trends in product mix or cost structure
Above all, you’ll get to the right answers quickly, your business will become more competitive, and you’ll be able to react faster and with more confidence.
