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Infor M3 ERP Overview, Pricing, User Interface & more

Infor M3

Find out everything you need to know about Infor M3.

Discover Infor M3 ERP functionality, industry fit, customer references, customer reviews, license pricing and implementation with our independent overview.

  • MODULES & FEATURES

  • PROS & CONS

  • INDUSTRY FIT

  • HISTORY

  • DEPLOYMENT

  • FAQ

Modules & Features List

Manufacturing Operations

Product Data Management (PDM): Manages product data throughout the product lifecycle, including design, introduction, manufacturing, and discontinuation.


Planning and Scheduling: Offers tools for demand planning, production scheduling, and material requirements planning (MRP), ensuring efficient use of resources and timely delivery of products.


Shop Floor Control: Provides real-time visibility into manufacturing operations, enabling better control over production processes, work orders, and quality management.

 

Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Customer Order Management: Supports the entire order-to-cash process, including order entry, pricing, configuration, and delivery scheduling, enhancing customer service and fulfillment accuracy.


Purchasing Management: Automates procurement processes from requisition to payment, including supplier selection, purchase order management, and invoice matching.


Inventory Management: Offers comprehensive tools for managing inventory levels, locations, and movements, optimizing stock levels and reducing carrying costs.


Warehouse Management: Provides functionalities for warehouse operations, including receiving, putaway, picking, packing, and shipping, improving warehouse efficiency and accuracy.

Sales, Service, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

  • Sales Management: Supports sales processes from quotation to order fulfillment, including sales contracts, pricing, and discount management.
  • Service Management: Manages after-sales services, warranty claims, and service contracts, ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction and loyalty.
  • CRM: Offers tools for managing customer interactions, sales opportunities, and marketing campaigns, aiming to improve customer relationships and drive sales growth.

Financial Management

  • General Ledger (GL): Serves as the core of the financial management module, handling all financial transactions and reporting.
  • Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR): Manages all aspects of invoicing, payments, and cash management, improving cash flow and financial controls.
  • Asset Management: Tracks and manages fixed assets, from acquisition through disposal, including depreciation, maintenance, and insurance.

Human Capital Management (HCM)

  • Human Resources Management: Supports HR processes, including recruitment, onboarding, employee development, and performance management.
  • Payroll: Manages payroll processing, tax calculations, and compliance with regulatory requirements, ensuring accurate and timely employee payments.

Equipment and Rental Management

  • Equipment Management: Tailored for businesses managing heavy equipment or machinery, this module supports the lifecycle management of equipment, from acquisition to disposal.
  • Rental Management: Provides tools for managing rental operations, including contract management, billing, and inventory availability, catering to businesses that rent out equipment or products.

Analytics and Reporting

  • Business Intelligence (BI): Offers advanced analytics and reporting capabilities, enabling businesses to derive insights from their data, make informed decisions, and monitor performance in real-time.

Pros & Cons

Pros:

  • Wide and deep functionality for product centric businesses in regulated industries such as chemicals, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing & distribution.
  • Deployment flexibility with both Cloud (multitenant & single tenant) & On-Premise offerings.

Cons:

  • Many users complain of an outdated user interface.
  • The product future is uncertain with Sage focussing on Sage Intacct.

Industry Fit

Sage X3 is used by companies in various industries, including:

Manufacturing

Sage X3 manufacturing capabilities are very robust.

History

Sage X3 has had a long history with many acquisitions, rebranding exercises and several years of development. Sage X3 started life in a small French company called SPEMI. In the early days, X3 was built for use on SORD computers but due to Toshiba acquiring SORD, the decision was made by SPEMI to build their future applications on UNIX OS. This decision gave birth to Adonix Enteprise V2 which covered accounting, distribution and payroll.

With international ambitions, ADONIX launched into new markets in 1997 and soon after acquired PRODSTAR and their product, Prodstar 2 which added manufacturing capabilities to the ADONIX platform. 

In 2005, Adonix was acquired by British software vendor, Sage and the product was renamed to Sage X3. Today, Sage X3 boasts more than 7,000 customers worldwide.

Deployment Options

Sage X3 can be deployed as both an On-Premise solution through perpetual licensing or as a Cloud ERP solution with an annual subscription cost.

The Sage X3 Cloud solution also comes in two flavours, Single-Tenant or multitenant. Single Tenant offers more flexibility and control over the system, data and wider access to customization options and third party extension. On the other hand the multitenant offers greater standardization, reducing software and IT maintenance costs whilst also reducing licensing costs.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Is Sage X3 Cloud based? 

Yes, and no. Sage X3 comes in both Cloud & On-Premise versions. There are also two versions of the Cloud product - multitenant and single tenant. The On-Premise solution is sold as a one of license fee with annual maintenance costs, whereas the Cloud version is sold as an annual software subscription inclusive of hosting, maintenance, product support and licensing.

 

How much does Sage X3 cost?

Sage X3 has various different pricing variables depending on whether you choose the On-Premise or Cloud version(s). It's also priced based on the amount of users and any third party add-ons required.

As well as licensing, you will need to pay for Sage X3 to be implemented. ERP implementation costs can vary depending on the complexity of your processes, the amount of legal entities, any customizations required plus the geographies you need to roll out in.

Infor M3 Pricing

Infor M3 pricing is licensed on a subscription basis which is typically paid annually.

Licensing is dependent on the amount of users, their level or responsibilities within the system, advanced modules and third party extensions you require.

Let us know how many users you need and we'll be in touch to provide a quick, hassle free Infor M3 cost estimate.

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Infor M3 ERP Guide

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Infor M3 ERP is a versatile, cloud based business solution that can support a variety of business needs. With scalable pricing and a robust set of features, it's no wonder that so many businesses have adopted the software. You can use it to manage customers, products and orders and effectively track inventory. You can also use it to streamline your business processes.

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Infor M3 User Interface (UI)

Dashboards and views of Infor M3 can be tailored based on the user accessing the system, allowing for the user interface to be made as simple as necessary for each of your system users. 

What is Infor M3?

Infor M3 ERP is a cloud-based ERP for the manufacturing and distribution industries. Infor M3 has been designed as a multicompany, multicountry and multisite ERP solution which is perfect for distributed organizations operating in several locations and jurisdictions.
 
Infor M3 has specifically developed functionality for multiple manufacturing and distribution sub-industries, including chemicals, distribution, retail, fashion and industrial manufacturing to name but a few. These industries are catered for with specially designed implementation templates which provide specific capabilities for these sectors out of the box.
 
Infor M3 includes inbuilt analytics, dashboards and KPIs to bring business users closer to the information they need to make business decisions. Infor also features a market leading user interface which is accessible on multiple devices, wherever you are in the world.

Infor M3 Modules & Functionality

Infor M3 provides a rich set of functionality through several modules within the software. In this section we'll take an in-depth look at the full list of Unit4 ERP modules available and provide an overview of the functionality in this Cloud ERP solution.

Infor M3 ERP Modules

Accounting & Financial Management

Every business needs to keep accurate financial records. With Infor M3 Accounting and Finance Management, operational transactions from other modules are automatically recorded using flexible structures and rules that you can control. The integrated financial functionality handles your accounting, budgeting, consolidation and reporting requirements.

 

True multi-country, multi-company, and intra-company capabilities also allow you to manage multiple operational units even when they operate under different regulatory controls. Finance Management provides a single, integrated system to help you manage, control, and analyze your business operations. With a single, integrated view, you can identify and model critical trends quickly and effectively.

 

The Infor M3 Finance Management Suite includes:

  • Budgeting
  • Accounts Payable
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Fixed Assets
  • General Ledger
  • Group Consolidation
  • Cash Flow Management
  • Cost Accounting
  • Product Costing
  • Multiple Unit Coordination
  • Report Generator
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Supply Chain Management

At the heart of a manufacturing, distribution or service management business is the supply chain. Supply Chain Management provides you with a powerful set of tools to plan, schedule, and execute across your extended value chain, resulting in optimum customer service levels and profitability. Supply Chain Management helps you control and optimize information, material and financial flows throughout the organization. Whether you want to plan within your facilities or at a more strategic level across larger divisions of your organization, Supply Chain Management drives efficiencies and effectiveness from planning to procurement, from warehouse to work-in-progress.

 

Supply Chain Management supports the unique demands of highly regulated industries, those demanding a high degree of traceability, those managing by-products or co-products, and those with multiple alternative supply sources or processes. It is particularly suited to environments where operational agility is needed to meet the rapidly changing market demands. By offering functionality based on open standards, Supply Chain Management also provides the opportunity to capitalize on new mobile and data collection technology in the warehouse, in the factory, or anywhere along the extended supply chain.

 

The Infor M3 Supply Chain Management Suite includes:

 

  • Warehouse Management
  • Manufacturing Resource Planning
  • Transport Planning
  • Freight Cost Management
  • Package Management
  • Supply Chain Planning
  • Distribution Requirements Planning
  • Demand Planner
  • Master Production Scheduling
  • Advanced Production Planner
  • Procurement
  • e-Procurement


Infor M3 ERP Modules

Manufacturing Operations

Maintaining product definitions and managing your manufacturing operations is a critical part of your success. Manufacturing Operations simplifies complex challenges with the capability to manage traceability, change control, configured products, product attributes, laboratory inspection, co-products, and by products in discrete, process, and mixed mode manufacturing environments.

 

Integrated with other Infor M3 modules, Manufacturing Operations provides a single source of product data and technical documentation to make it available online to Infor M3 users. ION-enabled integration with Infor CRM provides deep insight into customer relationships and the ability to automate sales processes, manage marketing campaigns, and embed key data into Microsoft(R) Outlook(R) via the Xbar. The manufacturing execution functions bring control and transparency to your manufacturing processes and include the ability to easily integrate with automated data capture and manufacturing execution systems.

 

The Infor M3 Manufacturing Operations Suite includes:

  • Time & Attendance
  • Production Statistics
  • Manufacturing Execution
  • Product Configurator
  • Product Data Management
  • Attribute Control
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Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)

For businesses providing maintenance services to customers, it’s critical. Enterprise Asset Management provides a solution to these challenges. Because Enterprise Asset Management is integrated with other operational, planning applications, and CRM solutions, you can synchronize maintenance with production plans to maximize efficiency, effectiveness, and utilization.

 

The advanced capabilities of this module focus on increasing asset reliability and therefore on improving operational capacity and output. Better maintenance planning also improves engineer scheduling, reduces the need for emergency repair and purchases, and lowers maintenance cost.

 

The Infor M3 Enterprise Asset Management Suite includes:

 

  • Preventive Maintenance
  • Diagnostics Management
  • Work Order Processing
  • Equipment & Component Control
  • Maintenance Performance & Costing
  • Vehicle Operations Management.
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Sales & Service Suite

Infor M3 includes functionality for sales and customer relationship management or CRM in its sales and service suite.

 

Infor M3Customer Sales & Service offers support for market development, sales and after-sales service processes-particularly in multi-channel sales environments where you need a complete picture of customer commitments. Customer Sales & Service combines web, mobile, and traditional order management tools with full service and rental management capability. Advanced internet-based sales tools give your customers self-service capabilities, helping to drive your cost of sales down.

 

With these applications, you can manage everything from simple discrete products to complex configured products and kits, make-toorder or make-to-stock, telesales, and EDI. You can manage your sales channels using the same availability, pricing, and fulfillment controls whether they are office or field based.

 

Features include:

 

  • Sales & Marketing Automation
  • Sales Management
  • e-Sales
  • Service Management
  • Rental Management
  • Maintenance Order Management
  • Project Management.

Infor M3 ERP Demo

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Infor M3 Industry Fit

Which industries are best suited to Infor M3 ERP and why?

  • Public Sector

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Deployment

Infor M3 is offered both as an On-Premise ERP solution as well as a Cloud ERP solution. Customers can also exercise the ability to move M3 ERP from the Cloud to On-Premise and back again, which is a true differentiator for customers looking for the maximum flexibility.

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Integration 

 

Infor M3 Support

Infor M3 offers global network of local support centers gives 24/7 access to answers, in multiple languages. Support is also provided through online self service resources. Remote access diagnostic tools, extensive searchable knowledge base, online documentation and training guides ensure fast time-to-value during implementation and beyond for Infor M3 ERP users.

Infor M3 ERP also offers:

• Phone, web and chat access • 24/7 critical system down support • Global access to live support • Remote access diagnostics • Established incident response times based on severity Online Self Service • Unlimited and personalized Web Accounts for each employee • QAD Knowledgebase • Incident creation and tracking • QAD Learning Center • Product documentation library • Product training guides • QAD store & download center • QAD license usage tool • QAD forums New Releases & Product Updates • Major and minor releases and upgrades • Product changes information system • Proactive customer advisories • Compatibility guide

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Localizations

QAD ERP claims that their software has been deployed in over 110 countries, configured towards local tax standards.

However, from Oracle NetSuite's SuiteApp website, many of them are offered via local partners rather than via Oracle NetSuite themselves. 

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Languages

Oracle NetSuite currently supports 27 languages.

Infor M3 Learning & Enablement

In this section we'll cover the localization packs, languages and support available in Infor M3 ERP

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