24May2016 BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: What Should I Consider When Analyzing my Sales? Tuesday, May 24, 2016 Read more From a recent article published by M4B Marketing: When analyzing your sales performance consider the following: Pricing changes eg. price increases or discounting Competitors – competitors entering or exiting the market New product or service launch growing sales New product or service cannibalizing existing product or service sales Customers moving between products or services Changes in customer demand eg. increasing or decreasing The segments and distribution channels you operate in Read more
18May2016 Tip of the Week: Operational Inefficiencies Wednesday, May 18, 2016 Read more Two big sources of inefficiencies in manufacturing are paper and spreadsheets. I know that you love ‘em, but they are the cause of more problems than you probably realize. Think of how long it takes you to get paper-based data into the hands of those who can do something valuable with the data. Is the information captured correctly? Can everyone access the information? Is this an accurate representation of what’s going on across all operations? Make your shop floor paperless and put systems in place that talk to one another and automatically pull and push data to and from your ERP so that you can look in one place for all the information you need to run your business effectively. If you’re not doing this today, you might as well be burning money. 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