BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: HOW ACCURATE IS YOUR INVENTORY?

Anthony Etzel / Tuesday, August 16, 2016 0 48422 Article rating: No rating

Just a refresher on a tip I’ve shared previously from Supply Chain Technology Bulletin regarding how to attain greater inventory accuracy. I thought it would be worthwhile to share again:

Record data regarding your inventory as soon as the items arrive at your door / receiving dock. With information, you can make decisions. Without it, you waste money, time and effort.
Leverage data collection, label generation and RFID solutions to make your life easier.
Set inventory accuracy goals for the business and for employees.
Train your employees so they know what is expected of them, and how to best perform their job and therefore how best to maintain accurate inventory counts.
Count the inventory – and do it regularly. Find a method that works best for your employees, and for your business.

Optimize Your Manufacturing Today!

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: How Accurate is Your Inventory?

Kathy Barthelt / Tuesday, August 16, 2016 0 73510 Article rating: No rating

Just a refresher on a tip I’ve shared previously from Supply Chain Technology Bulletin regarding how to attain greater inventory accuracy. I thought it would be worthwhile to share again:

Record data regarding your inventory as soon as the items arrive at your door / receiving dock. With information, you can make decisions. Without it, you waste money, time and effort.
Leverage data collection, label generation and RFID solutions to make your life easier.
Set inventory accuracy goals for the business and for employees.
Train your employees so they know what is expected of them, and how to best perform their job and therefore how best to maintain accurate inventory counts.
Count the inventory – and do it regularly. Find a method that works best for your employees, and for your business.

Optimize Your Manufacturing Today!

BPCS/LX TIP OF THE WEEK: INVEST IN YOUR EMPLOYEES

Anthony Etzel / Wednesday, August 10, 2016 0 50161 Article rating: No rating

Employee empowerment is important if you want to retain the skilled workforce you have and attract new talent.

Here are 5 ways you can motivate your employees to give their best every day

Train your employees
Give your employees the right tools
Automate processes
Give your employees real-time feedback
Provide incentives to do more

Can you do it? Of course you can!
You don’t have to do it all by yourself. Companies like Crossroads RMC can assist. We provide training services which can be completely tailored to your business. We also provide software solutions to help automate many of your manual processes, and dashboard solutions to provide real-time feedback on performance.

If you choose to do this, the benefits to your company will be amazing. You will have a happy, loyal and prepared workforce, ready to come to work each day to make the company wildly successful.

Optimize Your Manufacturing Today!

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Invest in Your Employees

Kathy Barthelt / Wednesday, August 10, 2016 0 76242 Article rating: No rating

Employee empowerment is important if you want to retain the skilled workforce you have and attract new talent.

Here are 5 ways you can motivate your employees to give their best every day

Train your employees
Give your employees the right tools
Automate processes
Give your employees real-time feedback
Provide incentives to do more

If you choose to do this, the benefits to your company will be amazing. You will have a happy, loyal and prepared workforce, ready to come to work each day to make the company wildly successful.

Optimize Your Manufacturing Today!

Tip of the Week: The Key to Increasing Efficiency

Anthony Etzel / Tuesday, August 2, 2016 0 51052 Article rating: No rating

Want to increase your efficiency across your organization?

Is access to real time data important to you?

Take a look at how and where your information is stored. Do you have employees keeping separate spreadsheets or databases outside of your ERP?

Separate data silos means that information is not being shared between departments. This can hamper growth, and cut down on overall efficiency. Take a look at why these silos exist. Can something be done within your ERP system to avoid having to store the information elsewhere? Can an integration be cre

ated to allow the ERP to have exposure to other databases, or allow updates to occur between systems?

Need help figuring out where to start? Contact us. We’d be happy to help.

Optimize Your Manufacturing Today!

Tip of the Week: The Key to Increasing Efficiency

Kathy Barthelt / Tuesday, August 2, 2016 0 78479 Article rating: No rating

Want to increase your efficiency across your organization?

Is access to real time data important to you?

Take a look at how and where your information is stored. Do you have employees keeping separate spreadsheets or databases outside of your ERP?

Need help figuring out where to start? Contact us. We’d be happy to help.

Optimize Your Manufacturing Today!

Hoffmaster Expands Their Use of Crossroads MES

Anthony Etzel / Friday, July 29, 2016 0 33036 Article rating: No rating

Hoffmaster, a leading manufacturer of disposable tabletop paper products, has chosen to expand their use of the Crossroads MES system to their Oconto, WI and Oshkosh, WI plants. The Oconto implementation kicks off in August 2016 and is expected to be completed before year-end.

Tip of the Week: Month End Miscellaneous To-Do's

Anthony Etzel / Tuesday, July 26, 2016 0 50569 Article rating: No rating

Print Sales Order History Information - all invoices processed through sales
Check Inventory Valuation - this should tie out to your inventory accounts
Print Integration Information - see all postings from WIP to finished goods
Print G/L Transaction Information - print specific transaction types for any GL account
Print Lot Control Information - will show where serial numbers were used

Optimize Your Manufacturing Today!

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Infor LX/BPCS Tips for EXECUTIVES

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

FINANCE: Override Warning in Invoice Entry PO Costing

OPERATIONS: Auto Calculate Vendor Delivery Date

TECHNOLOGY: User Provisioning

10Jun2025

Infor LX/BPCS Tips & Tricks for FINANCE: Override Warning in Invoice Entry PO Costing

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Improves control over PO costing changes during invoice entry by replacing passive warnings with an intentional override action.

In ACP500D3 (Invoice Entry PO Costing), users previously could unintentionally accept changes by pressing ENTER, even when quantity to cost or amount to cost values had changed.
A new “F14 to Override” warning message replaces the old message:
“Details have changed. Press enter again to accept data.”
This ensures users acknowledge and confirm significant changes explicitly.

New System Parameter:

“Apply GRN Costing Tolerance for PO Costing” (optional):
- Within tolerance: Displays the original message —
  “Details have changed. Press enter again to accept data.”
- Outside tolerance: Triggers the new override requirement —
  “F14 to Override”

Benefits:

Enhances oversight and reduces unintentional cost acceptance.
Enables better control of PO costs when invoice details differ from expectations.

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Tips: LN | Baan

Kathy Barthelt / Tuesday, June 22, 2021

/ Categories: Infor LN & Baan Tips, Analytics Dashboard, Finance, Manufacturing, Operations, Technology

Infor LN & Baan: BIG DATA - Keeping Track of Key Metrics

In order to communicate effectively as a team, everyone needs to speak the same language and operate off the same playbook. If decisions are made based on the data or the view of data that individuals are maintaining through their own spreadsheets or other data silos, then communication is negatively impacted.

Manufacturers need to review large amounts of data every day, making it difficult to keep track of key metrics within your department.

That’s where Crossroads RMC’s Analytics Dashboard solution comes in. Our Analytics Dashboard was developed to make tasks easier by putting all of the key information in one convenient location so you can view all of your crucial data in real-time.

With powerful dashboards, you can:

Create pie charts, graphs, interactive maps, and more with just a few clicks.
Build a dashboard once and make it instantly available on any device.
Tell a story with your data with your own custom layouts, colors, and commentary—all with no coding.
Confidently provide reports with real-time data updates.
Access your dashboards from anywhere–computer, tablet, or phone.

Check out the sample of our dashboards by department below. Then, to get started, request a demo for a complete walkthrough of our Analytics Dashboard.