6Jun2017 BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Efficiency– The What & How Tuesday, June 6, 2017 Read more Efficiency is something we all strive for in our personal lives and at work. How can manufacturers increase their efficiency? Take a hard look at the 4 key areas: Planning Bill of Material and Job Accuracy Inventory Planning Real Time Reporting / Processing Need help figuring out how to become more efficient in each of these areas? Contact us, we’d be happy to help. Optimize Your Manufacturing Today! Read more
31May2017 BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Actual Versus Standard Wednesday, May 31, 2017 Read more Job costing based on standards is great, but what if reality doesn’t match up to that? What if jobs are really taking twice as long, and you don’t know that? What if jobs are taking ½ as long as you think, but you’re scheduling based on how much time they “should” take? Either way, you’re losing money and productivity. Getting a handle on start/stop times for jobs, and therefore the total amount of time actually spent allows you to take proper action and be more productive. Optimize Your Manufacturing Today! Read more
17Jul2025 Infor LN & Baan Tips & Tricks for FINANCE: Moving calendar periods Thursday, July 17, 2025 Read more You can move monthly periods to a different parent period. For example, if you have a monthly calendar, you can create quarter periods and move months to the quarters. Select Financials > Global Ledger > Setup > Finance Enterprise Group > Maintenance. Open the finance enterprise group. Click the Calendar tab. Open the calendar for which you want to move periods. Click the Hierarchy tab. Select the periods to move. Select Actions > Move. Select the new parent period under which you want to move the periods. Click OK. Read more
17Jul2025 Infor LN & Baan Tips & Tricks for OPERATIONS: Revisions and approval Thursday, July 17, 2025 Read more Note that the Bill of Material and Routing are revision controlled. When a structure is generated for the first time, a first revision is made with status New. If the Approve Structures Automatically check box is selected in the Job Shop Master Data Parameter (tirou0500m000) session, the revision is created with status Approved. If the structure is regenerated, the current revision status determines the result: If the status is New, this revision is overwritten If the status is Approved, a new revision is created Read more