Infor Positioned as a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems

Infor recognized for completeness of vision and ability to execute

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May 14, 2019, 11:55 ET

NEW YORK, May 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Infor, a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry, today announced that Gartner Inc. has positioned Infor in the Leaders quadrant of the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems. Infor was positioned in the Leaders quadrant for its ability to execute and its completeness of vision.

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"While a very mature market, WMS offerings continue to differ in areas like usability, adaptability, intelligence, scalability up and down market, and life cycle costs," Gartner said in the report. "Furthermore, customers increasingly favor supply chain suites that can support end-to-end logistics process orchestration."

Rod Johnson, EVP & GM, Manufacturing and Supply Chain, Infor, said, "We believe that Infor's position as a Leader in this Gartner Magic Quadrant reaffirms our belief that a single, unified, global warehousing solution built to take advantage of business value of the cloud, provides a strong foundation for sustainable growth in the age of customer-driven supply chains."

Infor CloudSuite WMS is the next evolution of Infor SCE (Supply Chain Execution), combining Infor's enhanced capabilities in warehouse management with the computing power of the cloud. As a cloud offering, Infor CloudSuite WMS offers the same experience to customers, no matter how they choose to deploy it (multi-tenant, single-tenant or on-premises), and it has native support for 14 languages.

The newest member of Infor's CloudSuite products, CloudSuite WMS also brings the agile, flexible and proven performance Infor cloud customers have come to expect.

Visual warehousing, labor management, and open API framework come standard with CloudSuite WMS, to help reduce the need to add additional features or customizations, while paving the way for advanced warehousing capabilities.

Infor Summary of CloudSuite WMS Competitive Differentiators

Unified solution. CloudSuite WMS is a single platform for core and advanced warehousing with embedded, cross-site inventory management, 3D visual analytics, and labor management.
Highly configurable. CloudSuite WMS can preserve company migration paths, while supporting business-specific processes and constraints. It is designed to support a broad range of drivers and levels of complexity, serving as a single solution across multiple distribution centers (DCs).
B2B/B2C fulfillment from a single warehouse.
Contemporary UI. CloudSuite WMS includes mobile, voice, and personalized radio frequency (RF) options, and the user interface is tailored to facilitate productivity.
Flexible deployment and extensibility. With Infor OS and its extensive API library, Infor CloudSuite WMS can extend and enrich functionality.

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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems, C. Klappich, Simon Tunstall, 8 May 2019.

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About Infor
Infor is a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry. With 17,300 employees and over 68,000 customers in more than 170 countries, Infor software is designed for progress. To learn more, please visit www.infor.com.

Infor customers include:

19 of the top 20 aerospace companies
9 of the top 10 high tech companies
18 of the 25 largest U.S. healthcare delivery networks
18 of the 20 largest U.S. cities
19 of the top 20 automotive suppliers
17 of the top 20 industrial distributors
15 of the top 20 global retailers
4 of the top 5 brewers
17 of the top 20 global banks
9 of the 10 largest global hotel brands
8 of the top 10 global luxury brands

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Infor
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