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CloudSuite Food & BeverageThe digital platform for food and beverage manufacturers

Your technology roadmap to enable digital transformationOld, heavily modified ERP systems that were implemented years, often

decades ago, can no longer support the complex demands of the food

and beverage industry. Keeping current isn’t just smart—it’s profitable.

From cloud computing and collaborative technologies to mobility and

analytics, technology holds the key to competitive advantage and growth.

To remain relevant to the market and responsive to customer expectations,

you need a roadmap to enable digital transformation.

CONTENTS

3 Driving forces behind

the disruption

6 Right for today,

ready for tomorrow

7 End-to-end capabilities

8 Take a closer look

10 Albertsons Companies

11 The platform for your

future-proof digitally

driven organization

12 Reliability you can trust

13 Transform your business

with Infor CloudSuite

Food & Beverage

Innovation & transparency Innovation is fundamental for the food industry

as consumers are continually looking for new

products to try. But today, they also have clear

expectations that products are fresher and

ingredient statements simpler. This requires a new

level of transparency, as customers now want

even more information about a product and its

origin than what you are required to provide. How

we communicate, educate, and market requires a

different approach, and that includes embracing

digital marketing and social media both

for customers and consumers.

Quality & compliance The constant push to innovate adds additional

pressure to already complex compliance issues.

New varieties, flavors, ingredients, and packaging

are just some of the areas where manufacturers

explore niche opportunities, with the

understanding that in their market, differentiation

is key to success. The resulting proliferation in

SKUs, however, directly correlates with labelling

complexity. A new list of items means a new

list of potential errors. Compounding this, few

industries must deal with regulations as complex

as those of the F&B industry, including increasing

environmental and sustainability initiatives that not

only are tied to government regulations, but can

also be central to a company’s specific needs

and aspirations.

Employee optimization The industry is struggling with a new level of

employee engagement and optimization. The skill

set required in the modern, automated food and

beverage plant is much different than in the past.

This makes defining, recruiting, and retaining

employees more challenging. The industry faces

additional gaps as retiring baby boomers take

“tribal knowledge” with them, and Millennial

workers expect consumer-like user interfaces

and self-service features in their technology,

and place high value on collaboration.

Driving forces behind the disruption To understand why it’s important to evolve and utilize modern technology to transform your business, it is helpful to discuss the business drivers

facing food and beverage manufacturers today. While many of the high-level issues may seem like the same challenges the industry has been

fighting for years, the specifics have evolved—requiring you to take a fresh look at your business and core competencies in order to determine

the best path for the future.

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Margin pressures Many manufacturers operate on very tight

margins; just small changes in seasonal supply

and/or pricing can undermine your business.

Customers are expecting faster response times

with near-flawless order fill rates. With so many

products and changing demand, trying to analyze

and rationalize all these products/SKUs can be

a bit overwhelming, or frankly impossible to

do manually.

Channel progression What does the future preferred channel to market

look like? Brick-and-mortar locations, including

mass market retailers and warehouse clubs, are

expanding their offers—putting more business

pressures on manufacturers. Does this mean

you have to partner closer with your retail and

distribution partners? Do you need to provide

e-commerce? Whether and how to transform

business models, specifically with regard to these

channels to market, are big decisions companies

will need to make.

Driving forces behind the disruption (cont’d)

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Cloud technology offers the only platform that can provide the speed, scalability, global reach, and agility required by businesses seeking to embrace innovation.

To succeed, you need to reposition the cloud within your organization, making it the fundamental element of your competitive strategy and embrace new methods of technical operations.

Source: Accenture, Forging an Operational Link to Cloud Innovation, 2018

Right for today, ready for tomorrowInfor® CloudSuite Food & Beverage gives your business a modern digital platform to enable future growth. Less hassle, more value,

and true business agility—that’s the bottom line. CloudSuite™ Food & Beverage can help you:

Extend ■ Take advantage of extension solutions

that integrate with existing systems and

increase the value of your technology.

■ Easily connect to existing third-party

hubs, such as SAP or Oracle, with

pre-built integrations.

■ Integrate relevant data, KPIs, and

reports to get a comprehensive view

of your business.

■ Extend the capabilities of your solutions

with a growing number of mobile-

enabled offerings.

Modernize ■ Get a clearly defined project scope

and complete program for moving to

a modernized platform.

■ Speed deployment with implementation

accelerators and pre-built industry

platforms.

■ Reduce uncertainty with transparent

pricing, SaaS-based, per-user

per-month.

■ Scale up or down to meet

changing needs.

■ Get supports for hybrid deployments,

including Infor and third-party solutions.

Accelerate ■ Keep your technology up-to-date

and performing at optimal levels

with automatic upgrades.

■ Get comprehensive, industry-driven

suites that deliver that capabilities

you need, right out of the box.

■ Provide a modernized, consistent user

interface across all of your applications.

■ Increase response times and

productivity with dynamic workflows.

■ Improve decision-making with

embedded, pervasive industry analytics.

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End-to-end capabilitiesCloudSuite Food & Beverage gives you end-to-end

capabilities—fully integrated because that’s the way

software should be, delivered in the cloud to give you

ultimate security and flexibility, and infused with deep

industry-specific functionality so you can say good-bye

to costly and limiting customizations.

Financial Management

Purchasing

DemandPlanning

Product LifecyleManagement

Manufacturing& Scheduling

Sales OrderManagement

Quality& Compliance

Asset Management Technology

IntegrationMobility

WorkflowAlerts

WarehouseManagement

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Financial management Increase your financial insight with complete

visibility and compliance across your

business, whether you are a global business

with dozens of sites, or you operate in a

single country or region with one site.

Warehouse management Get the capabilities you need to automate

common processes in the warehouse and

on the production floor, ranging from goods

receiving, pick & pack, dispatch, inventory

transfers, physical inventory counts, and

manufacturing order reporting.

Sales order management Maximize your global sales through a

sophisticated sales order management

system that serves as the hub for your

customer and pricing information. You’ll

be able to enter orders more quickly and

accurately, easily manage EDI orders as

well as intense order volumes in tele-sales

environments. Standing order templates,

buying patterns, assortment control, and

advanced global capable-to-promise

ensures rapid and faultless order entry.

Purchasing Make intelligent purchasing decisions

with access to a demand dashboard that

has all the information you need right at

your fingertips, including color-coded

notifications for problems and exceptions.

You’ll be able to plan for seasonal supply,

manage the purchase of both stock and

non-stock products, special, and rush

orders. With both local and centralized

purchasing, you also have the flexibility to

manage purchases more cost-effectively.

Manufacturing and scheduling The manufacturing and scheduling tools

in CloudSuite Food & Beverage allow you

to schedule production orders to minimize

downtime, convert formulas into production

recipes, and effectively manage variances

and yield.

Demand planning Improve delivery performance, reduce

excess finished goods inventory, and avoid

product obsolescence. With automated

forecasting that uses mathematical

forecasting models, you can create an

unlimited number of forecasting methods. In

addition, planners can track all promotional

activity to monitor progress and adjust

forecasted demand, as required.

Take a closer lookCloudSuite Food & Beverage has all the right ingredients to manage your complex operations, financial, and compliance requirements. This

complete, yet flexible solution offers deep, proven, end-to-end capabilities for all your critical processes so you can focus on quality, growth,

and profitability.

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Take a closer look (cont’d)

Quality and compliance Ensure that the sourcing and production

of food products safely meet national and

international reporting and compliance

requirements—including ingredient

and nutritional declarations. To assist in

rapid recall situations, powerful search

capabilities enable you to quickly trace

backwards from end products to identify

potentially contaminated raw material lots,

or forwards to determine the potential

consequences of product issues.

Asset management Integrate the planned maintenance with the

with the production planning and execution

activities. Equipment and plant maintenance

can then ensure that maintenance will occur

at the right time, maintaining an optimum

level of production efficiency required.

Product lifecycle management Streamline the development of new

products, speeding time-to-market,

improving quality, and reducing

development costs. In addition,

development of new products is

supported by strong formulation

capabilities, rolling up characteristics

and cost from ingredient levels through

intermediates to final products.

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Albertsons Companies

Infor helps Albertsons Companies modernize US manufacturing plantsInfor CloudSuite Food & Beverage will provide Albertsons Companies a standard

solution to support milk, bread, and grocery manufacturing plants across the

company, while also integrating with the technology the company had to support

its sales, production, finance, and inventory operations. “With manufacturing

plants across the country producing a variety of products, we needed a solution

that would not require customization. We appreciate Infor’s partnership and ability

to address the complexities of unifying our technology system.”

Rucha Nanavati

Group Vice President, IT

Albertsons Companies

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The platform for your future-proof digitally driven organizationInfor Operating Service (OS) serves as the unifying foundation for the entire CloudSuite ecosystem, providing a platform for your own digital

transformation, in whatever form it may take. Its focus is on delivering technology that goes beyond enabling business—to driving it, putting

the user at the center of every experience. The result is a connected, intelligent network that automates, anticipates, predicts, and informs

your stakeholders in everything they do.

Role and user productivity

■ HTML5, responsive design

■ Anytime, anywhere access

■ Social and business collaboration

■ Contextual navigation

■ Mobile enablement

Cloud computing architecture

■ In-memory, multi-tier execution

■ Multi-tenant framework

■ Homogeneous object model

■ Action requests and

process automation

Unified applications

■ Embedded analytics

■ Embedded security

■ Pervasive auditing

■ Effective dated transactions

Harness the power of Infor OS

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Reliability you can trustWith CloudSuite Food & Beverage, you get guaranteed levels of server availability and system up-time that are both difficult and costly to replicate

with internal resources. Leave the hardware, licenses, and upgrades to us.

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High-performance standards

■ 99.5% guaranteed server availability, 24/7/365 (99.9% historically)

■ Service level agreements covering application uptime; strong business

continuity measures

■ Architecture designed to help support unexpected spikes in demand

■ Secure connectivity with encrypted internet traffic and server access

Disaster recovery strategy

■ Immediate response to outages, threats, and other incidents

■ Daily backups and data replication with a minimum of 14 days’ retention

■ Off-site data centers containing redundant energy, networking, and hardware

that include backup generators, UPS, PDUs, HVAC, firewalls, load balancers,

N++ server farms, clustered servers and storage, and double parity RAID

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