Infor named leader for the fourth consecutive time in Gartner Magic Quadrant

Industry cloud company Infor announced that Gartner Inc. has positioned the company as a Leader in its Magic Quadrant for Multienterprise Supply Chain Business Networks for the fourth consecutive time. Infor was positioned in the Leaders quadrant for its ability to execute and completeness of vision.

According to the report, Gartner defines multi enterprise supply chain business networks (MESCBNs) as “holistic and cohesive platforms that support a shipper-centric community of trading partners that need to coordinate and execute on business processes that extend across multiple enterprises. Gartner considers MESCBNs to be foundational technology for higher maturity organizations, implemented to coordinate, orchestrate, automate and transform an organization’s extended supply chain within the overall business ecosystem they operate in for driving collaboration and enhancing competitiveness.”

Gartner noted that the core capabilities of the MESCBN market include:

· Extensive network connectivity with support of multi tier and multitype partner ecosystems and technology platforms.

· Centralized information/data hub and visualization

· Universal cross-domain apps

· Core supply chain execution apps (enterprise- and multi enterprise-centric)

· Supplemental supply chain apps (planning or finance)

· Embedded intelligence

In addition, the report states extended capabilities include:

· Analytics, reporting and performance dashboards

· Workflow orchestration and automation

· Collaboration

· Open developments

Bernard Goor, Infor Senior Vice President of supply chain management, said, “With more than 80% of supply chain processes and data existing outside a typical manufacturing enterprise, successful organizations can no longer act as stand-alone entities. They need to leverage agile, multienterprise business networks, so they can respond more effectively to dynamic situations, global uncertainty, and black swan events that can disrupt supply chains at any moment.