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Unlocking Potential: Why Connecting Outside Systems to Your Baan or Infor LN System is Crucial for Business Success

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In an era of rapid digital transformation, having a robust enterprise resource planning (ERP) system like Baan or Infor LN is a solid foundation. These systems are powerful data repositories and transaction engines. However, their true power is often limited when they operate in isolation.

Connecting your core ERP system to other, specialized applications—whether a customer relationship management (CRM) platform, an e-commerce site, a warehouse management system (WMS), or even a specialized QMS—is no longer a luxury; it's a strategic necessity. This integration transforms your ERP from a single source of truth into the central nervous system of your entire operation, enabling seamless data flow, improved decision-making, and enhanced efficiency.

Here’s a breakdown of the advantages, potential disadvantages, and what your business stands to gain.

The Major Advantages of System Integration

Connecting disparate systems offers a wealth of benefits that can fundamentally change how you operate:

1. Enhanced Data Accuracy and Real-Time Visibility...

Infor News You Can Use: Infor's Excellence on Display in Gartner's 2025 Magic Quadrant

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Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises and received the highest scores in 3 of 7 Use Cases of 2025 Critical Capabilities for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises

-October 24, 2025, 11:00 AM

Gartner ranks Infor highest in ERP for Lower Midsize ($50 Million - $250 Million), Process Manufacturing, and Project/Asset-Intensive Manufacturing Use Cases

October 24, 2025 – For the fifth year running, Infor is a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises. Infor is one of only three vendors to be recognized for five consecutive years.

Read full article:  https://www.infor.com/news/infor-named-leader-fifth-consecutive-year-2025-gartner-magic-quadrant-critical-capabilities

Infor LN & Baan Tips & Tricks for TECHNOLOGY: Table Sharing with a Multi-Company Setup - Using a Master Data Company

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You can maintain all the master data, such as items, business partners, central purchase contracts, general ledger and related data in one company and share this data with the other companies. This master data company can be one of the operational companies, but you can also assign a separate company only to be used for the master data.

The advantages of having a separate master data company are:

  • Clarity: Having a single company as master data company is clear for all users.
  • Authorization: In general, only a few people in an enterprise can maintain the master data and, particularly for this maintenance, the authorization is important. If one dedicated master data company exists, you can use the company authorization to maintain this authorization very easily.

Infor LN & Baan Tips & Tricks for OPERATIONS: Generating Manufacturing Item Data by Site

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After selecting the Manufacturing check box and clicking Generate in the Generate Master Data (tccom0231m000) session, LN generates Manufacturing item data by site in the Items - Production by Site (tiipd0151m000) session.

The data is retrieved from:

  • The Items (tcibd0501m000) session
  • The Item - Production (tiipd0101m000) session
  • The Item - Production Defaults (tiipd0102m000) session, if default data have been specified.
  • The value in the Site field is retrieved from the warehouse or the work center listed in these sessions:

    • Bill of Material (tibom1110m000)
    • Generic Bill of Material (tipcf3110m000)
    • Production Orders (tisfc0501m000)
    • Production Schedules (tirpt4101m000)
    • Production Schedule Lines (tirpt4102m000)
    • Routing Operations (tirou1102m000). Sites are not retrieved from subcontracting work centers.

Infor LN & Baan Tips & Tricks for FINANCE: Multilogistic/Single Finance

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In a multilogistic/single-finance company structure, you can manage the manufacturing and distribution processes in a number of separate companies and perform the financial accounting in one company.

You must create one or more enterprise units in each logistic company and link all the enterprise units to the financial company.

For example, you can use a multilogistic/single-finance structure for an organization that consists of a number of separate production plants in one country that use their own BOM and production process but that form one legal entity. The reason for this is because BOMs, and the item cost prices based on them, are specific for each logistic company.

WEBINAR: Strengthen & Streamline Your ERP LX System with LX Bolt Ons

Thursday, Nov. 20th, 2025 - 1:00 to 2:00PM (US/Eastern)

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INFOR LX Bolt Ons

WEBINAR: Thursday, November 20th, 2025 from 1:00 to 2:00 (US/Eastern)

Register Here

Crossroads RMC is excited to participate in this WorkOutLoud webinar, where we’ll showcase eight bolt-on products that extend the power of Infor ERP LX. Each solution is designed for seamless integration, adding valuable features and functions that improve efficiency, automation, and reporting. 

We’ll provide a brief overview of each product, highlighting how they help organizations maximize the value of their ERP investment.

Join us to see how Crossroads can help you strengthen and streamline your ERP LX system.

Presenters:

  • Frank Petrasio, Director IBM i Group
  • Anthony Etzel, Solutions Executive
  • Nick Olson, Systems Consultant

Infor LX/BPCS Tips & Tricks for TECHNOLOGY: Improve PUR500 Navigation for WebTop Grids

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Present PUR500-07 “folded” Purchase Order Line Entry screen as the default Line Entry screen.

Supply Chain Management Enhancements:

WebTop Grid users can personalize the main Purchase Order Line Entry screen to resequencing columns, sort and filter on data values, change column headings, and other features.

In LX 8.4.2, the PUR500-07 “folded” screen is the default Purchase Order Line Entry screen presented to the user. Users can still access the “unfolded” PUR500-06 screen with limited fields displayed, on request.

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Infor LN & Baan Tips & Tricks for EXECUTIVES

FINANCE: Currency Differences

When currency differences are posted, several parameters affect the way the entries in the General Ledger are created. This section explains the possible parameter settings:

  1. Ledger accounts by currency

  2. Writing off currency profits

  3. Fixed exchange rate

  4. Writing off currency differences for anticipated payments


1. Ledger accounts by currency
This parameter is recorded in the Finance Company Parameters (tfgld0503m000) session.

If the Ledger Accounts Currency Differences by Currency check box is selected, the (un)realized currency differences are posted to the ledger accounts defined in the Currency Difference Ledger Accounts by Currency (tfgld0119s000) session.

LN retrieves the related dimensions from these sessions:

  • General Ledger: Finance Company Parameters (tfgld0503m000)

  • Accounts Payable: Ledger Accounts by Business Partner Group (tfacp0111m000)

  • ACR: Ledger Accounts by Business Partner Group (tfacr0111m000)

If the Ledger Accounts Currency Differences by Currency check box is cleared, the currency differences are posted to:

  • General Ledger: the ledger accounts specified in the Finance Company Parameters (tfgld0503m000) session.

  • Accounts Payable/ Accounts Receivable: the ledger accounts recorded for the business partner group.


2. Writing off currency profits
This parameter is defined in one of these sessions:

  • ACP Parameters (tfacp0100m000)

  • ACR Parameters (tfacr0100s000)

If the Currency Profits check box is selected, the unrealized currency profits are posted as well as the unrealized currency losses. Unrealized currency losses are always posted when writing off currency differences.

3. Fixed exchange rates
For each invoice, the rate determiner defines:

  • Which date is used to determine the exchange rate.

  • If currency differences are calculated.

  • For which (home) currencies the currency differences are calculated.

The Rate Determiner is set in the Sales Invoices (tfacr1110s000) session or the Purchase Invoice Entry (tfacp2600m000) session.

Unrealized currency differences are written off in one of these sessions:

  • Write Off Currency Differences (tfacp2240m000)

  • Write Off Currency Differences (tfacr2250m000)

4. Writing off currency differences for anticipated payments
This parameter is defined in one of these sessions:

  • ACP Parameters (tfacp0100m000)

  • ACR Parameters (tfacr0100s000)

If the Currency Difference Anticipated Payments check box is selected, invoices with anticipated payments or anticipated receipts are considered for writing off currency differences.

OPERATIONS: Pegging Material Supply Lines for Operation and Product Subcontracting

For project pegged production orders, operations can be subcontracted. The material delivered to the subcontractor can be project pegged or anonymous. The subassemblies that are sent and retrieved are always project pegged. Costing breaks can apply to direct the costs of the subcontracted operation to a specific project cost account. If (production material) costing breaks are used, a purchase order line's peg can differ from the peg on the material supply line.

For product subcontracting, the subcontracted purchase orders can include materials that inherit the project pegs, or can include anonymous materials. The pegged materials are stored in inventory and are shipped to the subcontractor with project pegged orders.

In case of a project pegged order, a peg distribution is linked to the Purchase Order Material Supply Line in the Purchase Peg Distribution (tdpur5100m000) session. For a specific purchase order line (detail) and material sequence, the material supply line's Order and Consumption quantities are distributed across the peg distribution lines for combinations of project/budget, project element, and/or project activity. The peg information in the Purchase Peg Distribution (tdpur5100m000) session includes the line number for the peg in the distribution, the peg (project, element, activity), and the material supply line quantity by peg. The peg distribution cannot be manually created and must always be generated using the parent.

For operation subcontracting, the purchase order line, the material supply line, and the linked peg distributions are generated by Job Shop Control and can only be updated by Job Shop Control.

For product subcontracting, the purchase order line, the material supply line, and the peg distributions are generated by Procurement. A material supply line's peg distribution can be updated only from the parent, that is the purchase order line, the purchase order line peg distribution, or the material supply line. If a purchase order line's distribution line is changed, and no quantities are received or consumed yet, the pegged fields on the linked material supply lines are synchronized to the updated distribution line in the Purchase Order Material Supply Lines (tdpur4116m000) session. However, if a different quantity distribution is applicable, the quantities of the material supply lines' distribution lines are redetermined in the Purchase Peg Distribution (tdpur5100m000) session.


TECHNOLOGY: Load Audit Tables for Profile (ttaud3220s000)

Use this session to load tables for an audit profile.

Usually this session is run from the Specific menu of the Audit Tables by Profile (ttaud3120m000) session. The selected profile in that session is displayed in the first line of the current session.

The result of loading the tables depends on the selection level you use in the current session. For each element on the lowest selection level, a line is created in the Audit Tables by Profile (ttaud3120m000) session. For example, if you select a package and a number of modules, a line is created for each module. Because you did not specify the tables, the All check box is selected.

Field Information

  • Profile: The audit profile for which the tables are loaded.
    Note: If you start the current session from the appropriate menu of the Audit Tables by Profile (ttaud3120m000), the profile displayed is the profile that is selected in that session.
  • Package: The package that contains the tables you want to load.
  • Module: The module that contains the tables you want to load.
  • Table: The tables you want to load.
  • Audit Type: The audit type that must be set for the tables that are loaded.
    Note: You can either select Always, or Changed. However, it is also possible to determine the audit type per field. This is the Not Applicable option in the Audit Tables by Profile (ttaud3120m000) session. If you want to set the audit type per field, you must change the audit type to Not Applicable after the tables are downloaded, and then specify the audit type per field in the Audit Fields by Table (ttaud3125m000) session.

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