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Liljeholmens candle factory sees bright future with Infor M3 CloudSuite
Infor , an industry cloud company , has announced that Liljeholmens Stearinfabrik has chosen Infor M3 CloudSuite to help future-proof the processes for purchasing , planning , manufacturing and deliveries . The multi-tenant cloud solution will be powered by Amazon Web Services ( AWS ).
Liljeholmens Stearinfabrik manufactures candles and has production in Oskarshamn and headquarters in Malmö , Sweden . Liljeholmens is one of the world ’ s largest manufacturers of candles made from Stearin and one of Sweden ’ s oldest companies still operating . Liljeholmens has been running Infor M3 Enterprise Resource Planning ( ERP ) on-premises for many years . it would suit our organisation better to run M3 in the cloud ,” said Sofia Lanebäck , responsible for supply chain and M3 at Liljeholmens . “ With Infor M3 CloudSuite , we will automatically receive all new updates and new features while still maintaining the ease of use of M3 .”
After a procurement process , Liljeholmens selected one of Infor ’ s local Swedish partners , Meridion , as its upgrade partner . The project is expected to be live in May . Meridion is project-responsible and will secure a smooth transition to the cloud including verification of the processes and of the technical migration done by Infor .
Infor M3 , Qlik and integrations , we can quickly solve the updated and new integrations via Infor OS that Liljeholmens needs to keep on-prem , such as with the machinery in the factory and the various EDI integrations that exist for several of Liljeholmens ’ customers ,” said Johan Bystedt , CEO at Meridion .
“ We feel that we now have a future-proof platform where we also can connect to processes we lack today , such as workflows between different departments and be able to store documents about production and quality management directly in respective subsystems instead of the network ,” said Lanebäck .
“ We were prepared to upgrade our onpremises solution to the latest M3 version but realised that , with our limited IT resources ,
“ Since we have a local office near Liljeholmens ’ factory and have extensive experience with the combination of
“ It is exciting to see what is already available in the cloud solution as we now get the system updated more regularly as well .” p
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