Infor has launched Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage to provide food and beverage manufacturing customers with access to applications in a cloud environment. It offers customers a flexible approach for hosting applications, with a lower upfront IT investment and a subscription-based delivery model.

Designed to meet the needs of process manufacturing customers, it provides tools to improve margins by solving common challenges such as short shelf life and ingredient variability.

The product suite will offer industry-tailored functionality such as forecasting and demand features that drill down to hours and minutes. Production planning, scheduling, tracking, traceability, recipe management and quality compliance are all key components of Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage.