Infor PLM

Infor, an enterprise software company founded in 2002, headquartered in Atlanta and wholly owned by Koch Industries since 2020, sells three PLM products. Infor PLM for Process, formerly Optiva, serves food and beverage, chemicals, health, hygiene and life sciences manufacturers. Infor PLM for Discrete handles engineering change and complex portfolios for make-to-order, configure-to-order and make-to-stock production. Infor PLM for Fashion covers design, materials, trims and BOMs for apparel and footwear.

The process product is the most documented. It supports recipe and formula development with cost and nutrition optimisation, what-if analysis, raw material specification checks and supplier collaboration. Labelling functions generate ingredient statements, allergen information and claims from formulas and export them to packaging design tools. Packaging BOMs can be validated for cost and sustainability from container to pallet. All three products run on Infor OS, which adds analytics, automation, integration services and generative AI for tasks such as product descriptions and translations.

Infor PLM fits manufacturers that already run, or plan to run, an Infor CloudSuite ERP, because complete BOMs flow to ERP and purchasing costs flow back to PLM. The vendor states that the products also integrate with non-Infor ERP, CAD, CRM and LIMS systems, though prebuilt depth is greatest within the Infor stack. Infor runs European country offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, France and the Netherlands, but buyers should still confirm data residency options for the cloud service.

Infor documents formula checks against regulatory requirements, automated allergen labelling and packaging BOM validation for sustainability in PLM for Process, plus a separate Infor Sustainability and ESG solution; no specific DPP or PPWR features are documented.