ERP migration

Migrate from Masterplan to Infor CloudSuite Corporate

Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Masterplan and Infor CloudSuite Corporate. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Infor CloudSuite Corporate.

Masterplan logo

Masterplan

Source

Infor CloudSuite Corporate

Destination

Infor CloudSuite Corporate logo

Compatibility

92%

11 of 12

objects map 1:1 between Masterplan and Infor CloudSuite Corporate.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

6-10 weeks

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

Moving from Masterplan ERP to Infor Cloudsuite is a structural migration with an unusual extraction dependency: Masterplan has no publicly documented REST API or self-service export endpoint, so every data pull requires vendor coordination and an active support contract. We build vendor coordination into the project plan as a gating milestone before field mapping begins. On the destination side, Infor CloudSuite uses a SQL Server-based migration utility that requires sequential load ordering—GL accounts before customers, customers before orders, BOMs before work orders—so we map the dependency graph during scoping and execute each phase in that order. We do not migrate workflows, custom field configurations, or user-defined automation rules; we deliver a written inventory of these for the customer's admin team to rebuild post-migration. Historical journal entries older than a configurable cutoff are excluded unless the customer confirms archiving settings before extraction.

Field-level fidelity

Every standard and custom field arrives verified.

Schema-aware mapping

AI proposes the map; you confirm before any record moves.

Relationships preserved

Parent–child, lookups, and ownership stay linked.

Full activity history

Calls, emails, meetings — with original timestamps.

Attachments & notes

Documents, uploads, and inline notes move with the record.

Why teams make this switch

Two sides of the same decision

Leaving

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Masterplan

What's pushing teams away

  • Per-user pricing from $200/user/month adds up quickly for growing organizations versus consumption-based ERPs.
  • Implementation timelines and customization effort lean closer to traditional ERPs than to modern SaaS time-to-value.
  • Limited public reviewer presence on G2 and Capterra compared with NetSuite, SAP Business One, or Acumatica.
  • Mobile experience while present is less polished than cloud-native ERPs.
  • Smaller partner ecosystem and integration library than mainstream mid-market ERPs.

Choosing

Infor CloudSuite Corporate logo

Infor CloudSuite Corporate

What's pulling them in

  • Infor CloudSuite is industry-specific out of the box — manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, and food & beverage editions ship with preconfigured workflows that reduce the need for extensive customization and accelerate time to value for operations-heavy organizations.
  • The platform's deep integration with Excel for financial reporting is frequently cited as a key productivity feature, allowing finance teams to pull data directly and make changes without leaving familiar tooling.
  • AWS-hosted multi-tenant deployment eliminates data center management for IT teams, and Infor OS provides a unified integration layer (ION) that connects the CloudSuite to third-party applications without point-to-point middleware.
  • Organizations with multi-site or multi-country operations choose Infor for its multicurrency, multilanguage, and local regulatory compliance capabilities across 175+ countries, which simplifies consolidation for global CFOs.
  • The two-tier ERP strategy positioning lets corporate headquarters run CloudSuite while subsidiaries run lighter instances, which appeals to complex organizational structures that want standardization without full replacement.

Object mapping

How Masterplan objects map to Infor CloudSuite Corporate

Each row shows how a Masterplan object lands in Infor CloudSuite Corporate, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.

Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.

Masterplan

Customers

maps to

Infor CloudSuite Corporate

Business Partner (Customer)

1:1
Fully supported

Masterplan Customer records map to Infor Business Partner records with Role = Customer. We extract customer name, billing address, shipping address, payment terms, credit limit, currency, and tax ID. The Customer number from Masterplan becomes the Business Partner ID in Infor. If Masterplan stores multiple shipping addresses per customer, each ships as a separate Business Partner Address record linked to the parent Business Partner.

Masterplan

Vendors

maps to

Infor CloudSuite Corporate

Business Partner (Supplier)

1:1
Fully supported

Masterplan Vendor records map to Infor Business Partner records with Role = Supplier. Address, payment terms, W-9 data, and 1099 eligibility flags migrate as Business Partner attributes. The vendor number becomes the Business Partner ID. We flag any Masterplan vendor records that share an email domain with a customer record for the customer admin to review for potential duplication.

Masterplan

Items / Products

maps to

Infor CloudSuite Corporate

Item / Part

1:1
Fully supported

Masterplan Item records (Finished Goods, Raw Materials, Components, Services) map to Infor Item master records. Item type, costing method (Standard, Average, FIFO), unit of measure, and default warehouse all migrate. The Masterplan item number becomes the Infor Item Code. We extract the costing configuration separately and map it to Infor's cost set structure. If Masterplan stores volume or weight-based pricing, we flag these for manual entry in Infor's pricing module.

Masterplan

Chart of Accounts

maps to

Infor CloudSuite Corporate

GL Account

1:1
Fully supported

The Masterplan GL hierarchy (account number, name, type, department, cost center) maps to Infor GL Account records. We extract the full account structure and preserve parent rollup relationships. Account types (Asset, Liability, Equity, Revenue, Expense) map directly to Infor GL Account Type. If Masterplan uses a cost-center dimension that Infor does not expose as a native GL dimension, we map it to an Infor OS extended field or document it as a manual post-migration configuration step.

Masterplan

Open AP / Vouchers

maps to

Infor CloudSuite Corporate

Accounts Payable / Voucher

1:1
Fully supported

Outstanding payables from Masterplan (invoice number, vendor reference, amount, due date, aging bucket) map to Infor AP Voucher records. We normalize Masterplan's aging buckets to standard 30/60/90/120-day buckets and reconcile the total open AP balance to Infor's AP ledger before closing. Vouchers in Approved or Pending status migrate as open; Posted vouchers are excluded from the transaction migration but included in the balance-forward opening balance calculation.

Masterplan

Open AR / Invoices

maps to

Infor CloudSuite Corporate

Accounts Receivable / Invoice

1:1
Fully supported

Outstanding receivables from Masterplan (invoice number, customer reference, amount, due date, aging bucket) map to Infor AR Invoice records. We compute the aging distribution and reconcile total open AR to Infor's AR ledger. Any invoice with a disputed status in Masterplan is flagged and migrated as a note attached to the Infor invoice rather than a standard open record. Payment terms, freight terms, and tax amounts preserve at line-item level where Masterplan exposes them.

Masterplan

Sales Orders

maps to

Infor CloudSuite Corporate

Sales Order

1:1
Fully supported

Open Sales Orders from Masterplan map to Infor Sales Order records with their current status (Open, Confirmed, Partially Shipped). Line items, quantities ordered, unit prices, discount percentages, and scheduled ship dates migrate. For partially shipped orders, we capture the shipped quantity and compute the remaining open quantity. Order total and tax amount are reconciled to Infor's order total before migration. The Masterplan order number becomes the Infor External Reference field for traceability.

Masterplan

Purchase Orders

maps to

Infor CloudSuite Corporate

Purchase Order

1:1
Fully supported

Open Purchase Orders from Masterplan map to Infor Purchase Order records. Line items, quantities ordered, unit costs, and delivery dates migrate. For partially received orders, we capture the received quantity and compute the remaining open quantity. We map Masterplan's vendor reference fields to Infor's supplier item number fields. Any blanket PO structure in Masterplan (parent blanket PO with release schedules) is extracted as separate Infor Purchase Orders with a common blanket PO reference field.

Masterplan

Inventory / Stock

maps to

Infor CloudSuite Corporate

Inventory / Stock

1:1
Mapping required

On-hand quantities from Masterplan map to Infor Inventory records at the item-warehouse level. We extract quantity per warehouse and per bin location, then reassign to Infor's warehouse structure, which may differ from Masterplan's location hierarchy. Negative quantities, negative cost entries, and items with no price are flagged in the pre-migration data assessment report for the customer to correct before load. Inventory valuation amounts are reconciled to Infor's on-hand value report post-migration.

Masterplan

Bills of Materials

maps to

Infor CloudSuite Corporate

Item Bill of Materials

lossy
Fully supported

Masterplan multi-level BOMs with component quantities, scrap factors, phantom assemblies, and alternate BOMs require a design decision during scoping: preserve the full BOM tree structure or flatten to single-level BOMs. Infor CloudSuite Industrial supports multi-level BOMs natively, but the BOM explode logic differs from Masterplan's. We extract the full BOM tree from Masterplan and discuss with the customer whether to preserve nesting or flatten before load. Phantom assemblies are mapped to Infor's Phantom BOM flag. Routings attached to BOMs are extracted separately for Work Order mapping.

Masterplan

Work Orders / Manufacturing Orders

maps to

Infor CloudSuite Corporate

Work Order

1:1
Mapping required

Open and recent Work Orders from Masterplan map to Infor Work Order records. Status (Released, In Process, Complete, Closed), routing steps, labor hour estimates, material allocations, and backflush transactions migrate. Work Orders must be sequenced after BOMs and Items because Infor Work Orders reference the Item and BOM records by ID. Closed Work Orders older than the customer's historical cutoff are excluded from migration. Any in-process Work Order with partial material consumption is flagged and the customer decides whether to close it in Masterplan before cutover or migrate it as an open Infor Work Order with partial completions.

Masterplan

GL Journal Entries

maps to

Infor CloudSuite Corporate

GL Journal Entry

1:1
Fully supported

Historical journal entries migrate to Infor GL Journal Entry records if they fall within the customer's agreed lookback window. We extract entry date, journal code, account references, debit/credit amounts, and description. Entries with non-determinative amounts (rounding adjustments, currency revaluation) are flagged for the customer's GL team to review. Entries referencing accounts that do not exist in the destination chart are held in a reconciliation queue. Cutoff policy is agreed with the customer during scoping and confirmed against Masterplan's archive settings.

Gotchas + challenges

What specifically takes care here

Platform-specific issues from each side, plus the pair-specific challenges that don't show up on either platform's page on its own.

Masterplan logo

Masterplan gotchas

High

No publicly documented API or bulk export endpoint

Medium

Vendor lock-in on support-assisted data extraction

Medium

Single verified review and sparse community data

Low

Custom field handling is undocumented

Low

Transactional history depth varies by customer configuration

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Infor CloudSuite Corporate gotchas

High

Infor OS tier-based usage limits gate API and BaaS capabilities

Medium

Custom Fields use inconsistent naming across Infor editions

Medium

SQL migration utility requires source database access

Medium

Multi-site and multi-currency data require separate period closure sequencing

Low

REST API payload and timeout limits restrict bulk migration throughput

Pair-specific challenges

  • No documented Masterplan API requires vendor support for every extraction

    Masterplan has no publicly available REST API, bulk export endpoint, or documented data model schema. All data extraction requires vendor coordination: either a read-only SQL Server database connection provisioned by Masterplan support, or CSV exports generated by the vendor. We include a vendor coordination milestone in every project plan and request that customers open the support ticket during discovery, not at kickoff. If the support contract has lapsed, the customer must renew before we can begin field mapping. This is the single most common reason this migration pair takes longer than expected.

  • Infor migration utility requires SQL Server as source database

    Infor's built-in migration utility for CloudSuite Industrial connects directly to a SQL Server 2008 or later source database. If Masterplan runs on a non-SQL Server database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle), the utility's predefined mappings do not apply and we must build custom source table definitions from scratch. During discovery we ask the customer to confirm the Masterplan database engine. If the database is not SQL Server, we add a database translation layer milestone that extends the timeline by two to three weeks.

  • Infor requires sequential dependency ordering for master data

    Infor's migration utility enforces a dependency sequence: GL accounts must exist before journal entries, customers before orders, items before BOMs, BOMs before work orders. We design this sequence during scoping and execute each phase in order, emitting a row-count reconciliation report before the next phase begins. Skipping phases or loading out of order causes foreign-key violations and silent record rejection. This is standard Infor CloudSuite behavior documented in the Infor CSI migration utility user guide.

  • Historical data gaps and archiving policies create cutover risk

    Masterplan may archive or purge historical transactions older than a configurable cutoff, and this setting is not visible to customers without vendor confirmation. We explicitly scope the lookback window with the customer before extraction begins and request that Masterplan support confirm the archive cutoff date during discovery. Historical journal entries and closed work orders older than the cutoff are excluded from migration scope. If the customer requires audit retention beyond the cutoff, we document this as a manual reconciliation item rather than a migration deliverable.

  • Custom field handling requires vendor confirmation for Masterplan

    It is not publicly documented whether Masterplan ERP supports user-defined custom fields on standard objects. During discovery we ask customers to enumerate any custom fields, dropdown lists, formula fields, or user-defined tables in their live system. Without vendor confirmation, we cannot guarantee these are included in a standard export. We flag any reported custom fields and request that Masterplan support confirm whether they are stored in the core database or a separate extension table. If they are in an extension table, we add a custom extraction milestone to the project plan.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful Masterplan to Infor CloudSuite Corporate data migration

  1. Vendor coordination and database access setup

    We draft a support request for the customer to submit to Masterplan requesting read-only SQL Server database access or CSV exports of all core modules. We specify the exact tables and date ranges required in our discovery questionnaire. We also request confirmation of the archive cutoff date and any custom field storage locations. This milestone gates the start of field mapping; we cannot begin schema design without knowing how data will be extracted.

  2. Discovery and data audit

    We extract a representative data sample from Masterplan (typically the most recent 1,000 records per module) and audit it for data quality issues: duplicate customer names, inconsistent item codes, missing GL account mappings, negative inventory quantities, and unposted transactions. We produce a data quality report identifying issues that must be corrected before migration. We simultaneously review Infor CloudSuite's DataMap schema and confirm the target table structures for each module. The discovery output is a signed data map and a list of pre-migration data corrections.

  3. Schema design and dependency mapping

    We design the destination schema in Infor CloudSuite, including Business Partner roles, Item types and cost sets, GL account structure, warehouse hierarchy, and BOM routing configuration. We map the Masterplan-to-Infor dependency graph: GL accounts first, then Business Partners, then Items, then Inventory, then BOMs, then Orders, then Work Orders, then Journal Entries. For any Masterplan custom fields identified during discovery, we either map them to an Infor OS extended field or document them as requiring post-migration manual entry. Schema is deployed into a Sandbox or staging environment first for validation.

  4. Staging migration and reconciliation

    We run a full migration into a staging environment using production-like data volume. The customer's finance and operations leads reconcile record counts (Business Partners in, GL accounts in, Items in, Orders in, Work Orders in), spot-check twenty to fifty random records against the Masterplan source, and sign off the schema and mapping before production migration begins. Any mapping corrections, including account number conflicts, item code format issues, and name deduplication decisions, happen here.

  5. Production migration in dependency sequence

    We execute production migration in the dependency order defined during schema design: GL accounts, Business Partners (Vendors then Customers), Items and cost sets, Inventory, BOMs and Routings, Purchase Orders, Sales Orders, Work Orders, then Journal Entries. Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report and balance sheet or trial balance reconciliation where applicable. Open AP and AR aging is reconciled to the penny before we close the migration. Any records rejected by Infor validation rules are logged and corrected in the next iteration within the same phase.

  6. Cutover, validation, and workflow inventory handoff

    We freeze Masterplan writes during the cutover window, run a final delta migration of any records created or modified during the migration window, then mark Infor CloudSuite as the system of record. We deliver a written inventory of all Masterplan custom fields, user-defined tables, and any workflows or automation rules the customer reported. This inventory is scoped for the customer's admin team to use as a rebuild checklist. We support a five-business-day hypercare window where we resolve reconciliation discrepancies. We do not rebuild Masterplan workflows, alerts, or custom field configurations in Infor CloudSuite as part of the migration scope.

Platform deep dives

Context on both ends of the pair

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Masterplan

Source

Strengths

  • Built specifically for manufacturers and distributors by practitioners who understand the domain
  • Cloud-native architecture provides real-time data access across sales, inventory, and finance
  • Integrates core ERP modules—GL, AP, AR, inventory, orders—under a single platform
  • Targets mid-market manufacturing with pricing accessible to companies transitioning from spreadsheets or legacy systems
  • Offers a developer portal with SCORM 1.2/2004 support for training content integrations

Weaknesses

  • Extremely limited public documentation on API endpoints, data model schema, and export mechanisms
  • No public pricing page; sales-led custom quotes make cost comparison difficult upfront
  • Very low review volume (2.0 rating with a single verified review on Capterra) limits peer insight
  • Data model specifics—such as custom field support and user-defined workflows—are not publicly documented
  • Unclear roadmap visibility for cloud vs. on-premise editions and feature parity between tiers
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Infor CloudSuite Corporate

Destination

Strengths

  • Industry-specific preconfiguration across manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, and food & beverage reduces post-implementation customization effort.
  • Deep Excel integration for financial reporting allows finance teams to export, manipulate, and push data back without leaving a familiar environment.
  • Multi-tenant AWS deployment with Infor OS provides a unified integration layer that simplifies connecting to third-party applications and legacy systems.
  • Strong multicurrency, multilanguage, and regulatory localization capabilities support organizations operating across 175+ countries from a single platform.
  • Modular architecture allows organizations to deploy core financials, supply chain, or manufacturing modules independently and expand over time.

Weaknesses

  • Opaque pricing model with no public per-user rates and deployments commonly ranging from $500K to $5M creates significant budget uncertainty for prospective buyers.
  • Implementation complexity and timeline (commonly 2+ years for large deployments) leads to extended periods of reduced productivity and elevated project risk.
  • Steep learning curve with hidden options and a lack of public setup guidance makes self-service onboarding difficult compared to competitors with richer documentation communities.
  • Manufacturing module functionality is perceived by some users as outdated relative to modern ERP platforms, with reported bug issues that require workarounds.
  • Tight coupling between modules and environment-specific configurations makes migration to non-Infor systems labor-intensive, increasing switching costs.

Complexity grading

How hard is this migration?

Standard ERP migration. 1 of 8 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.

B

Overall complexity

Standard migration

Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across Masterplan and Infor CloudSuite Corporate.

  • Object compatibility

    B

    1 of 8 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.

  • Field mapping clarity

    C

    Field mapping is derived from defaults — final spec confirmed during the sample migration.

  • Timeline complexity

    B

    8-object category — typical timelines run 2–7 days end-to-end.

  • API constraints

    B

    Masterplan: Not publicly documented.

  • Data volume sensitivity

    B

    Masterplan doesn't expose a bulk API — REST + parallelization used for high-volume runs.

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Most migrations land between six and ten weeks for single-site deployments under 15,000 customers, 50,000 items, and straightforward GL mapping when Masterplan support responds within two weeks to the database access request. Migrations with multi-site inventory, multi-level BOM structures, open PO/SO migration with line-level detail, and historical journal entry preservation extend to fourteen to twenty-two weeks because of vendor coordination delays, data cleansing scope, and the Infor dependency sequencing across more modules.

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