INFORM UK - Demand Planning / Inventory Optimisation

CEO
Dipl. W.-Ing. Adrian Weiler

INFORM’s 5 Divisions
INFORM has six separate divisions. Our subsidiary in the UK is connected with the Materials Management Division. If you would like information on the other divisions and their products, please see: www.inform-ac.com

Materials Management Systems
Logistics Systems
Manufacturing Logistics & Healthcare
Airport Systems
Production Systems
Risk & Fraud

Scientific Advising:
Prof. Dr. h.c.mult. Hans-Jürgen Zimmermann

Employees
Today, the company employs more than 350 software engineers and business consultants. When compared to other IT firms, INFORM’s annual staff fluctuation of around 4 % is very low. Although average staff age is around 35, the average employee will eventually stay onboard for 25 years.

Mitarbeiterentwicklung

Resulting benefits include:

Extremely high software productivity because all engineers have meanwhile developed a quite intimate knowledge of the program’s entire source code
Long-term client partnerships facilitated by personnel that rarely changes, consequently acquiring invaluable know-how on clients’ operations over time”

Customers
More than 700 system installations in 2009 worldwide.

Turnover
Established in 1969, since 1986 INFORM enjoyed a sustained average revenue growth rate of around 22 % p.a. over an uninterrupted period of now 22 years, with profits being consistently re-channeled into research & development.
Turnover in 2009: approx. € 40 million.

Responsible Ownership
INFORM is owned by its working directors and some 50 long-time employees.

History

2008	Begin of construction for third office building (for max. 500 employees on INFORM campus)
2005	1st global system for inventory optimisation
2002	1st System for see-port logistics (Container terminal Hamburg, Germany)
2001	Second office building: the INFORM campus is developed (for max. 225 employees)
1999	First time international project proceeds exceed 50% of total turnover
1998	Extension of the office building (for max. 125 employees)
1997	Airport-Logistics becomes the 5th Division: Airport Systems 1st System in Asia (Dubai Airport, Emirates)
1992	4th Division: Fuzzy Technologies / Risk & Fraud
1991	3rd Division: Production Systems 1st system for airport-logistics (Frankfurt/Main, Germany) 1st system in the U.S.A. (Steelworks in Canton, OH) )
1990	Office building Pascalstrasse 23 in Aachen, Germany (move-in with 25 employees) founding of sister company in Chicago, U.S.A
1986	Two company divisions: Materials Management Systems, Logistics Systems
1985	Focus give to standardizing software systems to optimize business processes by means of operations research and fuzzy logic (5 employees)
1969	Established Training, consulting, development of individual software on the basis of operations research and fuzzy logic

Headquarters in Aachen, Germany