Infor LNStatement of direction

IntroductionInfor® is changing the face of business enterprise

software. We deliver more than just enterprise software

solutions, we deliver proven microvertical, business-

specific solutions with technological innovation and

industry experience built in. For our Infor LN customers,

we provide a business solution that:

• Delivers on your complex engineering-driven manufacturing needs

• Embraces exception-based processing concepts with an easy-to-use user interface

• Offers deep functionality for aerospace, defense, automotive, high tech, and industrial manufacturers, as well as complex after-sales service needs

• Makes it easy to maintain, deploy, and scale both vertically in size and horizontally across multiple entities and sites

• Delivers a single-instance ERP that can be deployed for organizations with multisite, multicurrency, and multi-lingual needs

• Offers you the option to run the solution in the cloud as a SaaS offering

Infor LN is a rich ERP solution that is used by some of

the largest companies in the world. It’s built upon years

of industry experience that addresses the many needs

of complex manufacturers around the world. Our team’s

passion and creativity is driven by the voice of our

valued customers in collaboration with our research

and development organization.

By utilizing Infor LN, along with the Infor OS technology

platform, our development team is aggressively

creating the next generation of enterprise software.

The team will deliver innovative new capabilities in the

areas of social business, mobility, analytics, and

integrations. And Infor LN will enhance the ability for

customers to make accurate, critical business decisions

quickly with the addition of Infor’s industry-specific

analytics and business intelligence.

“Our mission is to support discrete

manufacturers, helping them to

optimize their operations across

various countries and divisions.

Infor LN is a configurable, platform

independent, and flexible ERP system

that can help you to adapt to your

changing enterprise and supply chain.

Infor LN is purpose-built for the

aerospace, defense, automotive, high

tech, and industrial manufacturing

industries. Infor LN can deliver on

complex after-market service needs

with its microvertical capabilities that

are built into the product. With

Infor LN, customers do not have to

customize the software.”

–Marco Hoogenraad,

Infor LN Product Management, Infor

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This document highlights the enhancements that are

available in the recent release of Infor LN, and offers a

glimpse into its future.

Recent releases: Infor LN 10.5Infor LN empowers you to run your entire business—

across every department, every site, and every country—

on one platform. Delivering flexibility in operations and

strength in financials, Infor LN is a uniquely versatile

system that gives complex product manufacturers like you

everything you need in the form of a standard, packaged

ERP solution. The result is an integrated system that gives

you complete visibility and control across your

organization, along with the flexibility to make adjustments

as your business evolves.

Infor values our relationship with our customers. Over the

past few years, we’ve continued to invest in your product

to provide value for your maintenance. Surveys show that

our customers appreciate our maintenance work. In every

new release of Infor LN, we add many new features that

our customers require. We grouped the features below

into categories on investments in the core features,

industry-specific features, and the user-experience domain.

Core features:

• Data authorization framework allows you to manage role-based data authorizations (for example, not allowing US-based users to see a project in Germany).

• Intercompany trade is a new module that provides a transparent way of controlling and viewing trade transactions between financial entities in your company.

• Quality management extends sampling rules and standard test procedure to provide additional support.

• Invoicing now provides you with many options to configure your invoices with extending or changing core logic.

• Purchase and sales processes include many new workflows.

• Mobile field service app can work offline, in areas where there is no connectivity.

• Widgets library has been extended, giving you a broader choice of widgets to help you control your business.

• Financials includes features for segment accounting (IAS8), reduced mouse clicks, FX variances in inventory, and credit and rebill.

• Infor ION® API support allows you to access Infor LN data via additional interfaces, such as widgets and apps.

• Extensibility options extend the logic and data model of Infor LN, without changing the core of the system.

• Infor LN is completely ready to run in the cloud, which can significantly lower your total cost of ownership (TCO).

Industry-specific features:

• For industrial manufacturing (IM), resource management was added to Job Shop, PCS, Project, and QM.

• For IM and aerospace and defense (A&D), we’ve made investments in global trade compliancy functionality. Infor LN supports the blocking of shipments and receipts based on several characteristics of the originating transaction.

• For A&D, contract flow down capabilities were extended to allow information to flow from contract deliverables to purchase and quality management. Additionally, minority reporting and estimates based on actuals of previous project were also added to help further support A&D.

• For automotive, a completely new package, repetitive manufacturing, has been added to the Infor LN suite. This allows for the support of completely orderless flow shops that operate using shifts and production schedules.

• For automotive, customer-specific labels and documents are now supported. Also, many changes were made to improve support for Honda® certification.

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User experience—Infor OS

• Infor OS user experience—Starting with Infor LN 10.5, the user experience was completely overhauled to conform to the Infor OS user experience outline. This uses the Infor Ming.le® framework to interact with supporting information, such as alerts and workflows. Here is an example.

• In-context analytics—Many types of in-context analytics were added, including quality, procurement, and project control.

• Integrations—The exchange of information with suppliers and supplier collaboration integration has been improved. Sales reps out in the field can benefit from the integration of Infor CRM, Infor Approva®, Infor HCM, and Infor Expense Management.

• Warehouse mobility—Barcoding and data collection offer improved warehouse mobility.

• User experience—Infor Ming.le workflow content adds social collaboration capabilities.

• Cloud enablement—HTML5 standards are available in the cloud.

These features were the result of direct input from our customers. We continue to listen to you as we plan for

upcoming releases.

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Next-release features: Infor LN 10.6Infor LN 10.6, the next major release of Infor LN, is incorporating several themes that will drive its new functionality.

These themes include, but are not limited to:

• Easy access to information—To make the system even more user friendly, the user experience will be further improved in several areas, such as shipping. This includes an easy-to-understand work screen designed by Hook & Loop®, as well as a series of widgets that can run on mobile and desktop devices. Here is an example:

• Repetitive manufacturing—To further support repetitive flow shops, we’re adding next-gen orderless production concepts.

• Extending multisite capabilities—Support for multisite handling has been improved, such as support for a multiple standard cost set within one logistical data set. Commercial terms and logistic terms can be defined at office and site level. This gives you the option to have enterprise units and sites modeled within one logistical data set, while still performing management accounting at the detailed unit level.

• Extending the authorization framework—The authorization framework allows how Infor LN will appear to a user, based on the user’s role authorizations. Both DEM and AMS can be used in conjunction, so that the business processes modeled can drive the authorization settings of the individual users.

• Project-centric industries—By integrating projects with operational execution, a project-based service provider can have access to all required information from both cost and operational perspectives during all project stages.

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The benefits of Infor LN

Productivity

Infor LN continues to focus on placing key decision-making information at your fingertips in a pleasing and easy-to-use

format. This is critical when you’re communicating with a customer on the status of an order, or a supplier on delivery of

material. Here is an example of an Infor LN, Infor OS role-based homepage:

Intuitive drill-to icons are part of the application—making it even easier for you to drill-to related information. Simply click on

the arrow to open related or supporting documents or go to the most granular source of the data that the dashboard is

based on.

Our implementation accelerators will drive the configuration of the processes as well as the authorization configuration for

the various roles with your company.

A rich library of widgets is delivered together with LN, which makes it possible to configure your own analytics pages and

role-based homepage, as well as use predefined dashboards. Here is an example:

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regard to the specific product(s) described in this

document, all of which is subject to change by Infor in its

sole discretion, with or without notice to you. This

document is not a commitment to you in any way and you

should not rely on this document or any of its content in

making any decision. Infor is not committing to develop or

deliver any specified enhancement, upgrade, product, or

functionality, even if such is described in this document.