3Mar2015 BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Product Routing Tuesday, March 3, 2015 Read more Defining the Product Routing first requires the items to be setup in the Item Master file. Other master files also need to be defined prior to creating the routing. These include: The Facility defined with a SYS program The Warehouses defined with an INV program Locations defined with an INV program The Machines (required if using capacity planning or an MES interface) defined with an MDM program After the above data is set up, the Department file and Work Center files can be setup in MDM. Now you are ready to define a product route. Read more
24Feb2015 BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: What is Lean Make to Order? Tuesday, February 24, 2015 Read more This is a simple way to go from the customer order to making the order and shipping the order. It involves a few simple steps: Receive and enter the customer order Automatic credit review Automatic release of the shop order tied to the customer order Issue material, report labor to the production order receipt Pick the order, ship the order, invoice the customer With lean, you can skip processing the demand through MRP. You can go directly from the customer order to the shop order creation. 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