ATLANTA, March 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Infor, a global provider of enterprise software solutions to select manufacturing and distribution industries, announced today that Organic Valley Family of Farms successfully implemented Infor Adage ERP, from the Infor Process Essentials Suite, designed to solve the essential business problems of food, beverage, chemical and other process manufacturers. Organic Valley, the largest organic farmer-owned cooperative in North America, was able to streamline business functions and enterprise data across 50 manufacturing facilities throughout the United States.

Infor Adage ERP, which took only nine months to fully implement, is providing Organic Valley with unique industry-specific capabilities such as quality control and lot tracking, item-pack management, costing, formula management and enhanced pricing and promotions capabilities. In addition, Organic Valley is using Infor's Transaction Event Engine (TEE) to successfully integrate the Company's preferred EDI solution with Infor Adage ERP, enabling more efficient exchanges with its trading partners.

"Having been live with Infor Adage ERP for just over a month, we are already seeing significant benefits in being able to track data more effectively throughout our entire organization," said George Neill, Director of Information Technology at Organic Valley. "The functionality Infor provides is phenomenal in meeting our organic industry requirements and the team of dedicated implementation professionals from Infor really understood our business and helped us take advantage of all the product has to offer."

"The success of our Infor ERP implementation is a critical step in our overall vision to better manage the complexities of our push supply chain," said Louise Hemstead, COO at Organic Valley. "In addition, we are also in the process of implementing demand and supply planning models using Infor Demand Planning and are building a model with Infor Advanced Planning to enable constraint optimization, which will allow us to better balance supply and demand."

"We are excited to provide process industry-specific functionality that enables our customers, like Organic Valley, to achieve greater supply chain visibility and competitive advantage," said Cindy Cronin, Vice President and General Manager of Infor's Process Group. "Organic Valley recognized their industry differentiation and sought a solution that best fit their needs, and Infor's unique capabilities for the dairy industry offer a perfect fit."

About Organic Valley Family of Farms

Stewards of the earth who use nature as their teachers, Organic Valley's 689 farmers in 20 states produce 130 delicious organic products. Look for their organic milk, cheese, butter, spreads, creams, eggs, produce, juice and meats in food cooperatives, natural foods stores and supermarkets throughout the country. For further information, contact Organic Valley, 507 West Main St., LaFarge, WI 54639, tel. (608) 625-2602, or visit http://www.organicvalley.com/ .

About Infor

Infor provides vertical specific, enterprise-wide business solutions to select manufacturing and distribution industries worldwide. With 30 locations globally and a base of over 13,000 customers in 45 countries, Infor delivers best-in-class products that address the essential challenges our customers face in areas such as supply chain planning, performance management, demand management, ERP, warehouse management, marketing-driven distribution, and business intelligence. For additional information, visit http://www.infor.com/ .

CONTACT: Denise Simcox of Infor, +1-610-407-8035, or
denise.simcox@infor.com ; or Todd Craig of Porter Novelli, +1-404-995-4530, or
todd.craig@porternovelli.com

Web site: http://www.infor.com/
http://www.organicvalley.com/