Metal fabrication ERP

Your next productivity breakthrough isn’t a machine, it’s intelligent ERP. From chaos to control, connect shop floor to top floor with real-time data, quality control, and precision scheduling for fabrication success.
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How Infor's metal fabrication ERP can transform your business

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From slow response to market leader
Win more projects with faster quoting, accurate delivery dates, and controlled costs.

Shorten delivery times with smarter sequencing and confident commitments your customers can trust.
From scattered systems to a connected enterprise
From engineering to shipping: one source of truth.

Integrate CAD, production, service, and supply chain in one secure cloud platform.

From shop floor to top floor, real-time data for better decisions.
From margin erosion to profitable growth
You can’t improve what you can’t measure.

Gain real-time insight into project costs, warranty liabilities, and service profitability.

See job profitability as it happens, not months later, track costs, reduce excess stock, and boost billing accuracy.
From unplanned downtime to optimised output
Stop guessing about capacity, start planning with certainty.

Monitor OEE, track equipment performance, and predict maintenance needs.

From chaos to control, keep production flowing and deliver with precision, every time.

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Benefits of Infor ERP for metal fabrication

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Tailored for metal fabrication, right out of the box

Infor’s industrial manufacturing solutions include preconfigured functionality built specifically for the metal fabrication industry and primary metals - not just bolted-on add-ons. 

Designed with over 25 years of industry experience, these integrated suites help you streamline operations, forecast more accurately, and optimize scheduling and inventory, enabling faster delivery and better responsiveness to customer needs.

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Improved planning, forecasting and decision-making

Infor provides real-time visibility into your operations, spanning inventory, production schedules, sales orders, and financials, helping you make smarter, faster decisions. By breaking down silos and enabling end-to-end transparency, it boosts efficiency and helps eliminate bottlenecks.

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Faster time to market through agile operations

Infor gives you the flexibility to rapidly adjust to changing customer demands, whether that's custom configurations, accelerating product lifecycles, or improving responsiveness. It also ensures quality and compliance are maintained throughout production, enabling you to launch on time, every time.

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Scalable cloud infrastructure with lower IT burden

Built on AWS with a multi-tenant cloud architecture, Infor delivers automated updates, scalability, and secure performance. This modern foundation reduces IT overhead and supports multi-site operations, helping you focus on growth rather than infrastructure.

Why these matter for metal fabricators

Stay responsive in a fast-moving environment:

With better planning tools and real-time updates, you can pivot quickly to meet customer needs..

Improve accuracy and reduce waste:

Shop-floor automation and job tracking cut errors and inefficiencies.

Reduce risk and maintain quality:

Integrated compliance features ensure standards are met throughout production.

Boost profitability and customer trust

by delivering on time with higher precision and control
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Built to scale with your business

Built for multi-site fabrication

Coordinate production, service, and inventory across multiple plants or service centres with one source of truth. Meet local compliance while managing global operations and multiple currencies.

Industry proven processes, ready to go

Infor ERP includes vertical-specific processes crafted from years of collaboration with a global client base. Every feature has been refined through real-world customer feedback, giving you best-practice practical solutions.

Composable

Instead of being a rigid, one-size-fits-all system, Infor offers composable modules so you can add, remove, or extend capabilities as your business evolves.

Infor Marketplace

Find pre-built extensions, add-ons, and industry-specific modules from a growing ecosystem of partners which let you tailor to your unique processes without expensive customization.

Configured for ETO, MTO, MTS

Supports advanced scheduling (ETO, MTO, MTS) for variable-volume and configure-to-order environments

Make to Order

Deliver customer-specific configurations with real-time visibility from quoting to shipping. Promise accurate lead times and hit them, every time.

Make to stock

Optimise standard product lines with accurate forecasting, lean inventory control, and automated replenishment to eliminate excess stock and shortages.

Engineer to order

Link CAD files and engineering data directly to production and service workflows. Manage complex, custom equipment builds seamlessly from design through delivery and after-market service.

Outcome of using ERP in for metal fabrication

Before Infor ERP

Margins squeezed by inaccurate quotes, material waste, and missed deadlines. 

Disconnected CAD, scheduling, and inventory systems cause delays and errors.

Unclear job profitability, poor cost tracking, and excess material inventory.

Unplanned downtime in welding, cutting, and assembly disrupts delivery schedules.

After Infor ERP

Accurate quoting, reduced scrap rates, and faster delivery cycles driving higher-margin growth. Win more bids with delivery dates you can hit.

Integrated CAD/CAM, production, and inventory data in one platform with real-time updates. From chaos to control: no more system silos.

Real-time job costing, up to 30% lower material holding costs, and clear profitability reporting. Measure, manage, and maximise margin on every job. 

Dashboards highlight risks early; jobs, materials, and labour aligned for continuous production. Predict maintenance needs before breakdowns stop production.

Integrations

Infor CloudSuite connects with many popular platforms, including CRMs like HubSpot and Salesforce, productivity tools like Microsoft 365 and Teams, and e-commerce systems such as Shopify, BigCommerce, and Magento.
Integrations use RESTful APIs and Infor’s own integration solution, Infor ION, to enable real-time data flows. Some of these integrations (e.g. Shopify via the e Commerce Connector for CloudSuite Distribution) are available out-of-the-box, while others - like Salesforce - typically require setup and configuration work using APIs or third-party tools.

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Global expertise, local support

We partner with the best, to make the best even better. The EMDA Christchurch-based support team has the technological expertise and industry know-how to understand your business needs and deliver fit-for-purpose solutions, backed by global
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Solutions

EMDA offers two Infor ERP solutions in Australasia:

Infor CSI/SyteLine & CSIE/LN

Focused on discrete manufacturing for small to mid-sized companies.

Best for engineer-to-order, make-to-order, assemble-to-order production.

Flexible deployment (cloud or on-prem), lower cost of ownership and easier to maintain.

Strong advanced planning & scheduling, product configuration, CRM, and shop floor control.

Scales best for 20–2,000 users needing agility and responsiveness.

Infor LN (CloudSuite Industrial Enterprise/CSIE)

Built for large, complex, multinational manufacturers.

Excels in aerospace & defense, automotive, and industrial equipment industries.

Designed for multi-country, multi-site rollouts with strong global finance and compliance.

Powerful for project manufacturing, program management, supply chain, compliance, and quality management.

Scales best for 1,000+ users managing highly complex global operations.

ERP Solutions

Add ons

Configure Price Quote CPQ

CPQ is a standalone design portal that can be used with most brands of ERP (it’s ERP agnostic) where you configure to manufacture. It has rules e.g. minimum thickness (based on your size of this, you’ll need that thickness). It creates a bill of materials at the back end, generating routings and drawings (“you’ll need cuts at these points”) to speed up accurate production.

Factory Tracking

Factory Track helps management of shop floor operations, tracking production activities, and optimising labour and materials usage in real time. It provides visibility from scheduling and production tracking to inventory and quality control. Modules include time and attendance, shop floor control, traceability, and warehouse mobility.

Velocity

Infor Velocity is a process optimization toolkit that helps organizations speed up the value they get from Infor CloudSuite. It uses process mining, robotic process automation (RPA), and AI-driven insights to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and compliance gaps, while benchmarking performance against best practices. Velocity gives quick visibility into where money and time are being lost and provides data-driven insights to prioritize improvements, reducing reliance on manual analysis and guesswork. With preconfigured templates and Infor Value+ automation assets, businesses can eliminate repetitive tasks, enhance efficiency, and achieve measurable outcomes faster.
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5 easy steps to set up/migrate

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Mutual Discovery

Understanding needs drives solutions. Collaborative, future-focused demonstration.

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Interactive Sessions

Scoping workshops. Refining deliverables.

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Project Planning

Honing core functions, elaboration.

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Implementation

Working as one. Training unified teams to ensure progress.

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Your project goes Live

Offering local and global support

About Infor

GLOBAL

Infor is based in New York, USA and used by manufacturing companies in over 170 countries around the globe. Infor delivers 24/7 support for all Cloudsuite customers.

TRUSTED BY

60,000

manufacturers globally

EMPLOYEES

17,000

GLOBAL

15,000+

CLOUD CUSTOMERS

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About EMDA

NZ + AUSTRALIA

EMDA is the Australia and New Zealand support office for Infor ERP software, a specialist software system for the manufacturing and distribution sectors. EMDA is headquartered in Christchurch and has satellite offices throughout ANZ.

IN BUSINESS SINCE

1998

SERVING

200+

NZ & Australian companies

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