We performed a comparison between Infor LN and Penta based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about SAP, Microsoft, Oracle and others in ERP."The most valuable feature is its ability to handle products with up to 2,500 components, making it valuable for streamlining complex business operations."
"It's not too hard to handle the initial setup."
"I would say that it is typically used by large-scale manufacturing industries, especially in discrete manufacturing, and it has proven to work brilliantly."
"Material planning and predictive planning are both essential aspects."
"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."
"The initial setup is easy."
"We have definitely seen a return on our investment with the product."
"It's fast, predicts well, and is basically the best tool in the market for the automotive industry and network planning projects."
"I believe Penta costs less than SAP"
"Infor LN has customer support in India, but service could be improved. So, basically, they prioritize agreements, and the number of tickets closed within a certain timeframe, not necessarily the quality or resolution of the tickets themselves. They just open and close them, sometimes without even understanding the issue. That's the biggest problem."
"Only people who undergo training from the companies can learn about Infor products."
"It's not that intuitive."
"When it comes to planning, it's more challenging to consider the entire structure, such as having a specific SKU and wanting to look at the planning for the whole structure. You must delve into individual item details to plan for it with order planning. Therefore, improvements will allow more comprehensive planning for each SKU."
"From a technical perspective, LN needs to work on customization and integration. It's fairly expensive for many clients to migrate from a customized private solution to the cloud. Infor needs to improve the cloud solution to make the migration from the on-prem customized solution faster and smoother. Otherwise, many clients will find it difficult or expensive to do."
"From a customers' perspective, Infor LN covers most of the processes in the company, but sometimes, they have to choose other tools because of the functionality or the cost of the Infor solution. It covers the core functions of the company—such as financial, operations, logistics, and so on—very well, but it doesn't cover some parts such as invoices, digitization, etc."
"Regarding areas for improvement within the solution, I would say that the solution's asset management and quality management need attention."
"The training for Infor LN is not straightforward, so a non-specialist will need training before using it."
"However, the production guys tell me that Penta is not suitable for mass production. If we build a hundred cars per day or more, then we'll have problems. At the same time, I can't say whether the issue is Penta or our process. In other words, maybe we have too many manual projects in it."
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Infor LN is ranked 8th in ERP with 24 reviews while Penta is ranked 34th in ERP. Infor LN is rated 8.2, while Penta is rated 7.0. 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 Penta writes "Less expensive than some competing solutions, but it's hard to handle logistics management at scale". Infor LN is most compared with SAP ERP, Infor M3, Infor LX, Infor CloudSuite Industrial and SAP S/4HANA, whereas Penta is most compared with SAP ERP.
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