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Sales AI for Infor

Huge catalog, lots of customers.
Acto reads your Infor data for you.

Infor exports overnight. Acto crunches the numbers. By morning, your reps see which accounts need attention, in the app, their CRM, or Outlook.

INFOR EXPORT
02:00
Nightly export
Orders12 MB
Customers2 MB
Products4 MB
Sent to Acto
Risiko
Reorder cycle overdue: Pro Brush Set 2"
Avg. cycle
21 days
Last order
38 days ago
TRUSTED BY LEADING DISTRIBUTORS
Schäfer ShopBöllhoffPlate
The problem

The data lives in Infor.

Way too much of it to read by hand.
100,000
Products
880,000
Customers
11,223
orders per week
Example: 
Schäfer Shop
, office supplies and facility equipment, SAP S/4HANA

The result: Revenue opportunities stay buried in transaction data.

Cross-sell goes unnoticed

Because with a huge catalog, nobody can keep track of what similar customers also buy.

Declines show up in the report, too late

Because someone still has to work through the sales lists. By then, the customer has often switched.

Reps spend time searching instead of selling

Because prepping for a call starts in a pile of scattered spreadsheets.

The problem

The data lives in Infor.

Way too much of it to read by hand.

The result: Revenue opportunities stay buried in transaction data.

Cross-sell goes unnoticed

Because with a huge catalog, nobody can keep track of what similar customers also buy.

Declines show up in the report, too late

Because someone still has to work through the sales lists. By then, the customer has often switched.

Reps spend time searching instead of selling

Because prepping for a call starts in a pile of scattered spreadsheets.

With Acto

No dashboard. No new tool.

Your Infor setup stays exactly as is.

Set up the export

Your IT team decides once what Infor exports each night, via file export or SFTP.

IT effort: 2–3 days, one time

Acto does the math

Every night, a full run across every customer and every product.

Böllhoff: 8.6% more revenue from reps in the pilot

Your reps see it

First thing in the morning, in the app, their CRM, or Outlook, ranked by revenue potential.

Böllhoff: more than 100,000 products

How it works

How your data gets to Acto.

Your Infor setup stays exactly as is.

Set up the export

Your IT team decides once what Infor exports each night, via file export or SFTP.

IT effort: 2–3 days, one time

Acto does the math

Every night, a full run across every customer and every product.

Böllhoff: 8.6% more revenue from reps in the pilot

Your reps see it

First thing in the morning, in the app, their CRM, or Outlook, ranked by revenue potential.

Böllhoff: more than 100,000 products

Ausschnitt der Acto-Grafik: Daten laufen im Acto-Kern zusammen und werden als Risiken und Potenziale bewertet
Acto-App mit Leitfaden für einen Kunden
How it works

Complex under the hood.

Every night, your system exports orders, customers, products, and pricing. Acto runs the analysis, scores every account, and writes the results to the sidebar. No live access required.

What Acto finds

What’s hiding in your Infor data.

Re-scored every night.

Every customer is measured against their own history. Only what’s worth a call or a visit reaches your reps.

Kraus & Meier GmbH
Risiko

Time between orders up 14 days

Kraus & Meier is ordering less often than usual, and their quote win rate has been dropping since July.

Bauer Technikwerkstatt GmbH
Chance

Cross-sell: striking tools

Bauer buys hand tools regularly but never striking tools. Similar shops also buy long-life grease.

Strichzeichnung eines Hammers
Blatter GmbH
Risiko

No order in 172 days

Blatter usually orders every 32 days. Similar customers regularly buy pliers.

Strichzeichnung einer Kombizange
Dunder AG
Chance

Quote only partially ordered

The order is missing 5 of the 8 quoted product groups. Worth a follow-up on the rest.

Customers

11.2% more revenue with the same headcount.

11.2%
more revenue
Schäfer Shop
Marcel Höhn, Director Sales bei Schäfer Shop
“Acto’s AI analysis and automation save our sales team up to 8 hours every week. The result: more productivity, less time digging through data, and more time with the right customers.”
Marcel Höhn
Director of Sales, Schäfer Shop · SAP S/4HANA
Böllhoff↗ 8,6%
Plate↗ 10,0%
HITADO↗ 5.4%
Case studies

Same sales team.
More revenue per rep.

11.2%
MORE REVENUE
Schäfer Shop
8.6%
MORE REVENUE
Böllhoff
5.4%
MORE REVENUE
HITADO
10.0%
MORE REVENUE
Plate
Two places

At the desk and on the road.
Same insight.

KUNDENAKTEACTO-SEITENLEISTEUNTERWEGS: ALS APP

On the road: in the app

Call plan before the meeting, dictated report after.

(oder Outlook)

As a sidebar next to the account record, and in Outlook if you want.

Running a different system?All integrations ↗
Business logic

Acto learns your business.
Before it sends a single insight.

Before going live, Acto learns your rules. That’s how you get recommendations that fit your business instead of generic alerts.

Customer types
and buying rhythms

One customer orders every week, another only when a project comes up. Acto learns when silence is normal and when it’s a red flag.

Strichzeichnung eines Maulschlüssels

Seasons
and patterns

Seasonal business and incentive programs can shift entire weeks. Acto separates the usual from the unusual.

Your language

Press fittingsSupply/returnBalancing valvesYour category codes

Acto learns your industry jargon and in-house terms instead of guessing. So the insights sound like they came from a colleague.

Strichzeichnung einer Lagerbox mit Schraube

Segments
and campaigns

Priority accounts and new products: who your reps should see first.

Warning and
buying signals

Fewer orders mean risk, bigger baskets mean opportunity. You set the threshold for when it’s worth stepping in.

Strategic
product categories

You decide which categories go together and which ones you want to push. Acto only suggests what fits.

Rollout

Live in weeks.

No Infor project.

Acto sits on top of your existing Infor. Your IT team sets up the nightly export once, it runs on its own from there, and Infor doesn’t slow down.

Böllhoff runs Infor M3 and started Acto as a pilot. Reps using Acto drove 8.6% more revenue than colleagues without it.

01WEEK 1

Kickoff and groundwork

Requirements · business logic · SFTP access

02WEEKS 2–3

Data delivery and audit

Tenant setup · daily export · data audit

03WEEKS 4–5

Validation and tuning

Checks on sample customers · sidebar in your system · feedback

04WEEK 6 · LIVE

Training and go-live

Training · sales team goes live · first results shortly after

Zero changes to Infor

Data arrives via export or SFTP. No live access, and Acto does the heavy lifting.

Your data stays yours

Stored in Frankfurt, language models hosted in the EU. Prediction models train only on your data.

Rollout

Live in 6 weeks.

No Infor project.

Acto sits on top of your existing Infor. Your IT team sets up the nightly export once, it runs on its own from there, and Infor doesn’t slow down.

Böllhoff runs Infor M3 and started Acto as a pilot. Reps using Acto drove 8.6% more revenue than colleagues without it.

01WEEK 1

Kickoff and groundwork

02WEEKS 2–3

ERP export and data audit

03WEEKS 4–5

Validation on sample customers

04WEEK 6 · LIVE

Training and go-live

Zero changes to Infor

Export, file share, or SFTP. No live access, so your ERP doesn’t slow down.

2–3 days
of IT work

One time, to set up the export. After that it runs on its own, every night.

Your data
stays yours

Stored in Frankfurt, language models hosted in the EU. Prediction models train only on your data.

FAQ

Questions

about AI for Infor.

Does anyone already use Acto with Infor?

Yes. Böllhoff, a fastening technology specialist, runs Infor M3 as its ERP. In the pilot, reps using Acto drove 8.6% more revenue than colleagues without it.

Does this work with Infor M3 and other Infor systems?

Acto doesn’t need an integration with a specific Infor product. It needs a regular export of orders, customers, products, and pricing. At Böllhoff, that export comes from Infor M3. There’s no live access to Infor.

Can Acto handle a really large catalog?

Yes. Böllhoff carries more than 100,000 products. Acto measures every customer against their own buying history and only suggests products that fit.

Does Acto work for food and beverage distributors running Infor M3?

Yes. Besides industrial distribution, Infor M3 is widely used in food and beverage. Customers there reorder in short, regular cycles. If one skips an order or drops a product group, Acto flags it the next morning.

We already have Infor reports. What does Acto add?

Reports show numbers someone still has to interpret. Acto does the interpreting and only gives your reps the insights worth a call or a visit, with the reasoning.

How long does rollout take?

About six weeks. Böllhoff started with a pilot and compared reps using Acto against colleagues without it.

Where is our data processed?

Stored in Frankfurt, with language models hosted in the EU. Prediction models train only on your data.

Book a demo

Infor collects the data.

Acto turns it into tomorrow’s plan.

In 30 minutes, we’ll look at your system and your sales team, then show you real examples from your industry of what Acto would flag.

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