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Why this matters

Many integration challenges come from systems that don’t communicate effectively. Data is often duplicated, delayed, or manually transferred between applications, creating inefficiencies and limiting visibility.

What this solves

Infor ION provides a structured way to connect applications and enable consistent data flow across your environment, helping reduce manual processes and improve how information is shared.

How it works

Infor ION acts as a central integration layer, allowing systems to communicate using standardized messages.

In Infor LN, ION is natively integrated, enabling streamlined data exchange across applications.
In Infor LX environments, ION can be used as part of an integration strategy to connect ERP with external systems and platforms.

This enables:

Why this matters

In MRP inquiries, limited visibility and paging behavior can make it difficult to review data efficiently—especially when working with larger datasets or modern web interfaces.

What this solves

This enhancement enables full compatibility between MRP320D Master Schedule Detail Inquiry and the WebTop Grid, allowing users to view and work with complete datasets more effectively.

How it works

If your company already uses Avalara for tax compliance, you can integrate it directly with your Infor ERP system.

Crossroads RMC has developed integrations that connect Avalara’s automated tax calculation and compliance platform with Infor ERP environments, allowing tax calculations, reporting, and compliance processes to run seamlessly within your existing ERP workflows.

This integration helps eliminate manual tax processing, improve accuracy, and ensure tax compliance as your business grows.

If you’re already using Avalara and want to streamline tax automation within your ERP, Crossroads RMC can help you connect the two.

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INSTALLBMR

• Installs BMR Explosions from *SAVF or *LIB
• Installs objects after backing up replaced objects
• Installs source after backing up replaced source
• Installs Webtop Metadata
• Installs /InforBMR subdirectories
• Writes all activity to log file and spooled file report
• Optionally runs DBUPDATE command

DBUPDATE

• Installs new or updates existing database tables, views, indexes, triggers, procedures, logical files.
• Installs source for above objects
• Sets authorities to replaced objects based on previous object settings
• Sets journalling on replaced objects based on previous object settings
• Installs Priming Data
• Installs SSAOVR updates
• Installs message file updates for core message files
• Installs message file updates for NLV message files if included in explosion

This enhancement reduces the time required to install BMR Explosions. There still may be manual steps required after the processing completes, but the overall time required is dramatically reduced.

Access to Order Entry/Maintenance has traditionally been controlled by using LX Program Security to grant or remove authority to ORD700. LX Company Security and LX Warehouse Security further control which transactions a user is allowed to create or maintain. A separate 8.4.2 enhancement allows security managers to control which types of transactions a user is allowed to create or maintain, through LX Order Type Security and LX Order Class Security. Building on these LX transaction security features, the Order Entry Action Code/Function Key Security enhancement allows security managers to further control what actions a user can take regarding an authorized transaction.

Security managers can now control the actions each user is allowed to be restricted from in the Order Entry job stream. The benefit is easily illustrated by some examples:

• Regular users can be allowed to create and revise customer orders but are restricted from deleting an order.
• Salespersons can be authorized to full authority with quotes and can be allowed to create customer orders but not to revise or delete them.
• Or, salespersons could be restricted from 1=Create in Order Directory, with the result that they could only create an order by copying a quote, if they are authorized to 3=Copy in Quote Directory.
• Only selected customer service users can be allowed to create RMAs, by controlling 1=Create in RMA Directory. A different group of customer service users who handle the actual returns can be authorized to create the return orders or credit memos from those RMAs, by controlling 3=Copy in RMA Directory.