Supply Chain Planning & Management in Infor CloudSuite™ Industrial (SyteLine ERP)

Goods Receiving Notes (GRN)

Infor CloudSuite Industrial Goods Receiving Notes allows you to link a receipt to multiple purchase orders for the same vendor. The GRN lists which items and quantities have been received and when. This GRN can be sent to the Accounts Payable department and can be used in the matching process.
Once the supplier sends the invoice, this is matched to the GRN and purchase order. In addition to receiving under one GRN number, multiple receipts can also be vouchered under one voucher number during the voucher generation process.Fixed Assets

Full control over your entire asset picture — from acquisition to retirement and replacement planning — is crucial when it comes to managing assets. Infor CloudSuite Industrial Fixed Assets, a complete capital asset information and management system, gives your enterprise worry-free, boundary-free control.

CloudSuite Industrial Fixed Assets allows you to manage your assets through their entire lifecycle.

CloudSuite Request for Quote

Infor CloudSuite Industrial Request for Quote (RFQ) module allows CloudSuite Industrial users to create and maintain within their CloudSuite Industrial system the RFQs they send to potential vendors and subcontractors. Users can record a variety of RFQ responses including lead time, quote quantities, and price breaks for each individual RFQ. RFQs are created and managed out of the standard Purchase Requisition function of CloudSuite Industrial.

Using RFQ, a user can shop the purchase request to all or a predefined set of vendors. RFQ contains the complete flow from the creation of the RFQ Header to the selection of the winning Vendor. It helps streamline the entire purchasing process, making it more efficient and effective, helping managers make decisions to optimize use of resources.

Inventory Management

Infor CloudSuite Industrial gives you more control over your inventory by providing greater accuracy and immediate access to inventory information throughout the company. CloudSuite Industrial automates the process of tracking parts by adjusting inventory whenever you create a transaction involving a part.

CloudSuite Industrial updates and maintains raw materials, WIP and finished goods inventory quantities and costs. Inventory items can be designated as purchased, manufactured, or transferred so that you can immediately place a purchase order or issue a job order when you need a particular item.

CloudSuite Industrial also allows you to easily track material and costs on a per-project basis. The extensive reporting capabilities provides complete profiles of any part in the system.

Physical Inventory

Infor CloudSuite Industrial Physical Inventory is the process of manually counting all inventory for a specific warehouse or location. Upon completion of the actual physical inventory, all numbers are then recorded, and discrepancies are identified and explained.

Accurate inventories result in more profitable and successful businesses. Customer relationships are improved because you can ship their orders. Accurate inventories also lead to buyers being confident in buying goods at the right time and the right quantity avoiding over- or under stock.

CloudSuite Industrial Physical Inventory allows you to obtain accurate information about quantities on hand, which will help you make more informed business decisions.

Cycle Counting

Infor CloudSuite Industrial Cycle Counting allows you to perform an inventory count on small subsets of your total inventory on any given day. Cycle counts are similar to a total physical inventory in that it allows you to track your on-hand inventory but do not require a warehouse inventory freeze.

Therefore, Cycle counts do not disrupt your daily operations, provide continuous measures for inventory accuracy, and can be triggered to focus on the items with high value, high volume, and that are critical to on-time delivery.

Shipping/Receiving

Infor CloudSuite Industrial Shipping and Receiving allows you to ship and receive items coming in or out of your inventory. This might include shipping against a customer order, receiving raw material from a purchase order directly to a job or directly into inventory, or shipping an item from stock.

• CloudSuite Industrial Shipping and Receiving are online transactions that are easy to use, efficient, and cost-effective. You get:
• Hard and soft allocations/reservations
• Picking and Packing lists
• Delivery Orders
• Goods Received Notices
• Advanced Ship Notice
• Available to ship analysis
• Multiple units of measure
• Pick, Pack, and Ship Workbenches
• Package Label Integration
• UPS/FedEx Integration (not available for Cloud)
• Receipt rejections and reason codes
• Landed Costs
• The ability to create payment vouchers from purchase order receipts
• The ability to create invoices from shipments to a customer
• Shipment of Non-inventory items

Transfer Orders

Use Infor CloudSuite Industrial Transfer Orders for moving items or materials between distribution centers, or for component and sub-assembly movement between plants that require a more formal multi-stage transaction. Transfer Orders do not require an approval process or a requisition function.

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) 

Any organization that exchanges information, including enterprises involved in procurement/purchasing, finance, trade and transport, health, law, and revenue/tax collection, can use Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

EDI can help you reduce paperwork and administrative lead times, send timely business transactions, access information quickly and easily, and eliminate redundant data entry. These benefits allow your enterprise to adopt more efficient practices such as Just-In-Time Delivery.

Infor CloudSuite Industrial has an interface that can be used to integrate to an EDI translator. The system imports inbound transactions from the translator and exports outbound transactions to the translator. The EDI translator interface supports six demand side and six supply side transaction sets.

Outside Process Management

Infor CloudSuite Industrial Outside Process Management (OPM) extends the value of CloudSuite Industrial allowing the CloudSuite Industrial user to streamline the process of tracking and shipping materials from a standard CloudSuite Industrial job to an outside vendor/service.

OPM leverages the “Outside Service” field on the standard CloudSuite Industrial Work Center to flag material that requires the services of an outside vendor. With OPM, no changes to the standard CloudSuite Industrial Bill of Material are required. However, when the job material is moved into an operation flagged with an “Outside” work center, the system automatically creates a purchase order for the materials along with the necessary records to identify those items to be shipped and to which vendor.

Users also have the ability to print packing slips and ship items from a new Vendor Shipping screen. When the outside vendor completes the contracted service, items are received back into the job using the standard CloudSuite Industrial Purchase Order Receiving functionality.