Infor has announced a strategic partnership with Oak Barrel Software, LLC to enhance Infor10 PLM Process (Optiva) with additional modules for supplier collaboration, product specification, document management, and recipe building. These enhancements will enable improved supply chain collaboration and document management capabilities to speed time-to-market and to help ensure greater accuracy of product development across the supply chain.
Venkat Rajaji, Global PLM Product Manager, Infor said, "Getting new products to market is a race that continues to grow more complex, and process manufacturers must be increasingly agile, responsive and focused on the rapidly changing demands of the market to outpace the competition. The process manufacturing expertise of both Infor and Oak Barrel Software enables companies to speed product time-to-market and help ensure that products are accurately and efficiently guided through critical steps of development, a differentiating capability for our customers."
Rory Granros, President, Oak Barrel Software said, "Infor delivered the first ever PLM application specifically geared toward the process manufacturing industry, putting them ahead of the curve in experience and innovation and making Infor the perfect partner for our company. In fact, one of the most appealing aspects of joining forces with Infor is their industry-specific approach to applications, which maps perfectly to our deep domain expertise. Our customers expect us to offer solutions that are designed with their unique pain points and challenges in mind, and an integrated PLM solution that manages the fundamental processes in product innovation and development, allows us to offer a better approach to PLM and help our customers accelerate innovation."
