Allagaier Germany upgrading to integrated enterprise management

German global automotive supplier Allagaier, which supplies large tools, bodywork parts, components and systems to companies including, Daimler-Chysler, BMW, Porsche and Audi, has bought a 200-user infor:COM ERP system from infor:swan. Initially, the software will replace existing single function applications to provide integrated business management and sales order processing. The system is then going to be rolled out to handle all of manufacturing, logistics and finance. Infor:swan puts its success down to experience with the automotive supply sector, which has resulted in the development of industry-specific additional functionality. Fritz Jurgen Meister, Allgaier managing director, says simply: “Infor has the most modern automotive solution on the market, and covers every business area with one integrated system.” Either way, it’s a feather in the cap for infor:swan, and perhaps symptomatic of what are certainly changing fortunes for what was Swan in this country which, just a couple of years ago, would have been characterised as a comfortable, family business providing low middle range ERP software that was starting to look decidedly old. Certainly one to take more seriously, and one that now has good, strong functionality, particularly in its targets – which are not just automotive, but also include plastics and one or two others.