Infor VISUAL Reviews

Visual is easy to use and convert to Excel and customer service is very reliable.

There system is geared towards manufacturing more then the finance-accounting side.

I dont have any problems with the system.

Ability to have all records and data available for Payroll/HR in one system

Sometimes it can be a bit laggy or will take a very long time to load

If you want a system that provides great database of information of our employees than I would highly reccommend Infor Visual,

Ability to have all of our records held in one spot.

I like the ease of use and ability to quickly export reports into Excel format for further analysis.

Some of the windows within Visual do not have an option to drill down to a transaction level.

It helps keep track of the various steps of manufacturing and offers a good system to report financial information.

Visual is a stable platform with tons of available customization. It work great out of the box but really reaches its stride when you customize it to your business environment. The support is great and most problems/questions are resolved same day, usually within the same hour.

Visual does have a learning curve and some understanding of databases will help tremendously. The learning curve can be daunting for new users.

A solid product. Use the Infor website, especially the Knowledge Base. Most of the answers to my questions can be found there.

Very capable ERP. It can do things that larger ERP's like SAP can do at a fraction of the operating cost.

The Visual Quality module has many features however approval flow of records could use further enhancement.

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Powerful tool to ensure your program is on schedule and on budget.

The structure of the program. The layouts and the repetition of UI throughout the interface.

The reference materials are static and do not elaborate on the SQL structure behind the UI.

We are implementing full costing of our custom configured products using Visual in conjunction with a full CPQ system.

Visual Manufacturing was like my first car. I loved it, I knew intimately how it worked inside and out and it did the job. Infor Visual as it is now called provides deep manufacturing capability, strong scheduling, fantastic material planning. There are add-on's for cad-integration, bar-coding, quality, HR and more. It works with multiple manufacturing/financial companies and can be setup for all types of manufacturers (engineer to order, make to order, configure to order, even process manufacturers can use it).

The community is small so finding a good partner with experience might be tough. The interface/setup isn't as intuitive as other more modern products and there were always problems with reconciling the financials because it was too darn flexible (ship before you make, collect money before invoicing, delete transactions, re-open months, etc.)

Great product if you own a small to medium size business and don't care about financials, sales/marketing, reporting or remote access. This product does one thing REALLY well. It costs, tracks, schedules and reports on production. If you're reading this and need help or advice, just reach out to me on linked.

Most ERP's on the market require you to spend a small fortune to get up and running, but not Visual. Probably for less than $50,000 you will have a manufacturing system that is equivalent in functionality to SAP or AX. So if you believe that you make money on the shop floor instead of accounting department and don't have a lot of money to spend I strongly recommend looking at this product.

Easy access to all fields pertinent to material purchase

No really good training tools available.

Reduction of raw material on hand. Quick reference to order screen.

It works. Infor support and knowledgebase are helpful. Most questions answered quickly.

can be a little slow to grasp process at first.

Work with a test environment at all times. Using ODBC connections you can easily access the data in Excel or MS Access. Gupta runtimes are archaic and probably the Achilles heal.

Visibility and tracking from design, to orders, returns, bill of materials, customer service. Visual handles a wide range of these processes and has good security features. The software is constantly evolving.

Visual is used as an ERP and management platform that allows us to manage the flow of raw materials, piece, parts, and inventory throughout our work environment. The system is very good at what it does but it lacks in a graphical user interface. This makes most younger employees have a longer uptake time for processing.

I dislike the inability or seeming inability to customize the platform from anyone but a network admin. There are limited selection choices and most of the commands are text based with no hot keys or map for search parameters or shortcuts. it's up to the individual employees to figure out what these are and create there own documentation in an effort for training and practice. Because this is not a graphics based interface it is not intiuative and must be practiced over and over again.

Learn how to operate in a none text based environment. This is not a graphics friendly program. I cannot stress how much a different graphics user interface and ease of data entry and ability to change things would make life so much easy for this software. Though the structure is there to support it.

Visual meets all of our current needs and is very good at managing the flow of materials into and out of the facility. It is so good at this that we are using it to aid us in the expansion of all our facilities.