Infor M3 Analytics overview

M3 Analytics refers to the content of the Infor Birst package. The application collects the data from M3 Business Engine (M3 BE).

M3 Analytics provides users with strategic and tactical business intelligence through key performance indicators (KPIs), which direct you to critical areas of your business that needs improvement.

The reports generated by M3 Analytics for Manufacturing cover these topic areas:

  • Sales

    Customer, product, and sales organization, revenues and margins, revenue leakage, delivery performance, and sales versus budget or forecast

  • Finance

    Customer payments and debt, financial key ratios, profit and loss, balance sheet, inventory valuation, operational metrics for accounts payable and accounts receivable, and purchase price variance

  • Procurement

    Price history, supplier performance, and agreements monitoring

  • Production

    Production accuracy, inventory turnover, pre- and post-calculation, scrap and yield, resource utilization, and material variances

  • Warehouse/Logistics

    Forecast accuracy and stock transactions statistics

  • Quality Management

    Quality-test analysis to determine causes of high number of failed tests, comparison of passed versus failed tests across laboratories, testers, and products