Infor LN

Infor LN is an enterprise resource planning system that started life as Baan ERP. Infor acquired it in 2006 and now sells it mainly as a multi-tenant cloud service on AWS, with an on-premise release (10.8) still available. It is aimed at discrete manufacturers with complex operations: aerospace and defense, automotive, industrial machinery, high tech, and engineer-to-order engineering and construction firms. Infor says more than 1,500 manufacturers use it. On the finance side, LN Financials has a central general ledger that receives integration postings from logistics transactions. It supports up to 12 analysis dimensions, transaction, home and two reporting currencies, automatic intercompany and intergroup transactions, and cash flow statements. Accounts payable and receivable include invoice matching against purchase orders and receipts. Cash management handles electronic bank statement matching, payment authorization limits, direct debits and cash forecasting. A Financial Budgeting System and cost accounting run alongside. Configurable audit profiles log changes at table level. E-invoicing such as PEPPOL and Italy's FatturaPA runs through the Infor Localization Services Platform, and Vertex and Avalara offer sales tax connectors. Infor publishes no prices. Licensing is quote-based on named or concurrent users, and independent benchmarks put first-year costs for mid-sized deployments in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Its main limitation for finance buyers is that LN is a manufacturing-first system. Reviewers describe its finance and HR depth as weaker than SAP's, its interface as dated, and its implementations as heavily dependent on consultants, so it is a poor fit for companies that only need accounting software.