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Infor News You Can Use: Gartner Ranks Infor highest in ERP for Lower Midsize, Process Manufacturing, and Project/Asset-Intensive Manufacturing Use Cases

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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 FIinance

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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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ERP & the Importance of Accuracy & Productivity

Infor LN & Baan

If you don't think accuracy and productivity are important, you need to take a hard look at HOW you’re running your ERP system.

  • Have you eliminated large amounts of data entry?
  • Is your data error-free at month's end?
  • Do all of your systems talk to one another?

If the answer is no, Crossroads RMC can improve accuracy and productivity with system integration and/or automation.

Too expensive you say? Too time-consuming and way too much effort to make it happen? 
Not necessarily... Crossroads RMC consultants deliver valuable integrations and automated processes at a fraction of the cost of other providers.

Whether you’re running ION on the latest version of Infor LN or using Baan IV or Baan V with no integration platform in place, there are benefits to automation and system integration for every area of your business:

Finance:
Say goodbye to typos that lead to huge problems, like paying invoices late or charging the wrong customer. You’ll have accurate data in your system, so month-end processes run smoother and your employees are freed up to do more important tasks.

Customer Relationship Management:
When it comes to keeping customers happy, speed is crucial. You can automate invoicing, customer reports, and more to ensure that customers always have what they need. Automate report delivery from your system to ensure you always have the right information at your fingertips. And even without automating report delivery, your ERP system brings all the information together in one place, and automated data entry and extraction means it’s accurate.

Supply Chain Management:
Set up automated alerts to the right people. With ERP automation, you can trigger an email when a product has low stock or is overstocked. Keeping inventory levels just right is essential to be able to fulfill orders but not waste resources by having too much on hand.

Manufacturing Resource Planning:
Say goodbye to appending data manually. Let’s say you get a shipment of inventory that is a different color than you’d planned, which means they need different SKUs. Now you have thousands of SKUs to update, but an automated process can append data in the system unattended in a fraction of the time it’d take a person to do it.

Human Resource Management:
It might not be that hard to pull the sales data to calculate commissions manually for one sales rep. But multiply that by a growing sales force every pay period, and you’ll be grateful you automated your ERP system. Integrate with HR platforms to manage data transfers for calculating sales and commissions, even setting up triggers to do this automatically at the same time every week.

These are just a few of the possible ways to simplify your ERP system and produce accurate results that save time and money. 


Crossroads RMC has assisted many clients with integrations and automation for Infor LN and Baan. 800.762.2077 |  solutions@crossroadsrmc.com

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