20Nov2014 BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Uses for LX Bill of Material Thursday, November 20, 2014 Read more In Infor LX, based on how your items are set up and on how you structure the Bill of Material, the following are some usages of a bill of material by functioning area: Engineering & QA – change control, product design and specifications Manufacturing – build instructions , material pick lists Accounting – product costing Materials Inventory – material and inventory planning Sales – customer order processing Production Scheduling – item scheduling (also a component of an MES solution) Read more
12Nov2014 BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Indirect Labor Reporting Wednesday, November 12, 2014 Read more In the Shop Floor Control Module, you have the ability to key in both direct labor and indirect labor. However you want to establish specific types (reasons) for the indirect labor. The SFC600 labor entry program shows a reason code field, but it is designed for reject quantity and machine downtime reasons, not indirect labor reasons. There is a way around this. With an MES solution you have the ability to setup and report indirect time against a specific reason code. 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