We performed a comparison between Infor LN and Infor M3 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two ERP solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The best feature of this solution, is that it provides businesses with a way to see information from across different process streams, in one place via dashboards."
"The best thing about Infor LN is that you can use it for inter-company business and for international businesses, especially by mid-sized and big companies."
"Most of them who use Infor LN have add-ons connected to ERP. It's either a supplier exchange, or they've got sales problems that are integrated with it."
"The most valuable features are manufacturing, and manufacturing costing modules. These are all powerful features of Infor LN."
"It has strong sales, purchase, warehousing, and logistics order management."
"It's fast, predicts well, and is basically the best tool in the market for the automotive industry and network planning projects."
"Infor LN is a completely integrated product that provides good stability."
"The best feature of this solution is it comes as a complete bundle. The solution has effective project, document, and application management. Additionally, the collaboration is fantastic, it is well integrated, and can be customized."
"It's very stable, and it handles all types of industrial and manufacturing businesses in very good ways. I've found it to be easy."
"provides all modules, supply chain, HR - it's good for management."
"Infor M3 has tailor-made packages for each and every industry."
"The most valuable feature of Infor M3 is the level of detail it has about the different manufacturing processes compared to other ERP solutions. Other ERP solutions provide the same level of integration as Infor M3, but Infor M3 specializes in several functions, such as planning and manufacturing."
"Infor comes up with different tools every year, and they are all compatible with Infor M3, which makes it a more reliable and trustworthy tool. The integration is very smooth."
"The user interface and user experience were good."
"It's simple to use. You don't need any complex training to use it."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the Infor GL tool that allows us to do our application support and development."
"The interface can be difficult sometimes. I need to apply a bar code system, such as business intelligence and user interface tools. The user has to be a technician sometimes to use it."
"The training for Infor LN is not straightforward, so a non-specialist will need training before using it."
"Only people who undergo training from the companies can learn about Infor products."
"The solution’s performance could be improved."
"It's not that intuitive."
"The user interface is not very intuitive for newer users."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"The finance model within this solution does not have very strong reporting functionality, which I would like to see improved."
"An area for improvement in Infor M3 is training. There should be more training resources available for clients. Clients also find it challenging to get consultants or integrators for Infor M3. The product doesn't have enough resources in the market to help clients."
"The solution's technical support is an area with shortcomings that need improvement, especially the support for the product named M3 rather than the support offered by Infor as an organization."
"Sometimes, M3 alone cannot handle all the planning functionalities required by a customer. It has to be used along with industry-specific planning tools because M3 doesn't have all the features. However, no product can handle all the requirements of all the industries. There will be some shortcomings in all the products. Though this is an area for improvement, it is not a very serious shortfall or limitation. It can be covered by using third-party planning applications that integrate with Infor M3."
"The implementation could be simplified, it's complex."
"I would like to have some kind of dashboard to show an overview of different data on the same dashboard or on the same screen instead of moving to BI."
"It would be great if Infor added some new workflows in the finance module. I'd also like to see better integration with third-party applications."
"It should be improved in terms of procurement of the supply chain and business intelligence analysis. We have the Infor BI tool, but it's more complex to use than, for example, Power Pivot or QlikView in the market."
"Infor should create one product to handle the whole business. At present, they make ERP systems for each type of business, and then sell additional features. I would like to have one system handing all organizations or all the business in deep ways and not have to buy additional features."
Infor LN is ranked 8th in ERP with 25 reviews while Infor M3 is ranked 9th in ERP with 13 reviews. Infor LN is rated 8.2, while Infor M3 is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Infor LN writes "A flexible ERP with the best project module and excellent support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Infor M3 writes "The solution is a reliable, stable, and cost-saving ERP". Infor LN is most compared with SAP ERP, Infor LX, Infor CloudSuite, SAP S/4HANA and Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, whereas Infor M3 is most compared with SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA, Infor CloudSuite, Microsoft Dynamics AX and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. See our Infor LN vs. Infor M3 report.
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