Infor snags Dutch Flower Group ERP deal

Dutch Flower Group (DFG) has selected the Infor CloudSuite M3 enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for its subsidiaries Bloom - Green Partners, Van Dijk Flora, SuperFlora and JZ Flowers.

Michel van Hout, CIO at Dutch Flower Group, comments: “If you undergo a major operation, you look for a professional surgeon that you trust and feel comfortable with; that’s what we have with Infor.”

“After matching their licence model to our needs and dynamics, we have some exciting times ahead and we are happy Infor is supporting us in this new adventure. This means that we have the opportunity to review and rethink our processes and benefit from an ERP system that has a higher level of integrated capabilities.’

Every week, Dutch Flower Group delivers, on average, 75 million flowers, 10 million bouquets and 10 million plants to consumers. Once Infor CloudSuite M3 is live, the company hopes to “harmonise and professionalise” its existing business processes to make integrations run smoothly.

Van Hout says: “Our goal is that we want to realise an automation rate of 90% and reduce manual work. We want to fully utilise the qualities of our workforce and achieve truly integrated processes instead of departmental optimisation which was our only option in the past.”

“We want to reduce working with many Excel sheets, but more importantly remove the “hidden factories” that are below the surface. Finally, we want to achieve an integrated logistics and finance ERP solution. All in all, we want to better handle resources, decrease waste and improve our turnaround times.”