For manufacturing companies, "it's paramount to quickly understand the impact of every order, constraint, and bottleneck, in order to make the best use of resources on hand," said Mark Humphlett, Infor's senior director for industry and solution strategy, said in a prepared statement. Among new features are lifecycle notifications to send emails when specified sales and purchasing events occur, determine notification points at the business partner level, and notify production when a late or urgent delivery is received. An enhanced audit capability enables users to see a log of changes made to a document. Companies can measure lead-time performance across product lines and functional areas and there are user-defined dashboard analytics.