The Arcelor group is the world’s largest producer of Flat Carbon Steels and Long Carbon Steel, among the leaders in Stainless Steels production, and among the largest firms in Europe for steel Distribution, Transformation and Trading. Arcelor was created in 2002 through the merger of three European steelmakers – Aceralia, Arbed and Usinor. Arcelor has approximately 104,000 employees in over 60 countries. In 2002, the Group’s annual production was 44 million tons of steel, with revenues of € 26.6 billion on a pro forma basis.

Tailored Blank Arcelor, a division of Arcelor Auto, started in 2003 with a benchmarking project to compare defined Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) between the 9 different manufacturing plants of the company. A pilot was set up using Microsoft Excel.

At the end of 2003, the company decided to use Infor Performance Management software to automate its benchmarking project throughout all the manufacturing plants.

Around 20 decision makers of 9 different manufacturing plants of Tailored Blank Arcelor will use the Infor application to facilitate their monthly MIS reporting.