Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Restricted User Access

Kathy Barthelt / Tuesday, June 20, 2017 0 185184 Article rating: No rating

Administrators are able to restrict access in Baan in several ways – including Companies, Packages, Modules, Sessions, and Tables – using the Authorization capabilities of the system.

In Baan IV, access can be given or denied on a user by user basis.

In Baan V and LN, the Authorization Management System can provide or deny access based upon roles to which users are assigned.

BPCS/LX TIP OF THE WEEK: INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

Anthony Etzel / Wednesday, June 14, 2017 0 38275 Article rating: No rating

Establishing the Quantity On-Hand and the Quantity Available.

LX maintains buckets for information associated with the following inventory transactions for each item:

Opening Balance
Issues
Receipts
Adjustments
Allocations for the Customer
Allocations for Manufacturing

The on hand quantity does not include any allocations. To arrive at the on hand quantity, start with the opening balance, less any issues, plus any receipts, then add or subtract any adjustments. Available inventory is the on-hand less any allocations.

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Old Porting Set

Kathy Barthelt / Wednesday, June 14, 2017 0 139661 Article rating: No rating

Here are some issues that you might run into if you stay on an old porting set too long:

Incompatibility because of operating system patches
Printing issues because of out-of-date libraries
Potential performance issues if binaries are not updated
Updating third party products may not be possible because of dependencies
Limited support from Infor
Issues with updating database software/patches because of dependencies (if database is also running on same server as application)

Need help getting on a newer porting set? Let us know! We’d be happy to help.

Hoffmaster Continues on The Path to Efficiency with Crossroads MES

Anthony Etzel / Tuesday, June 13, 2017 0 31224 Article rating: No rating

Hoffmaster, a leading manufacturer of disposable tabletop paper products, has chosen to expand its use of the Crossroads MES system in Oshkosh, WI with the planned rollout of MES to the next group of machines in their facility. Go live is planned for later this year.

Crossroads RMC Moves Arrowhead from 4.0.05CD to Infor LX

Crossroads RMC / Thursday, June 8, 2017 0 35717 Article rating: 5.0

Arrowhead Products, a world leader in the design, development and manufacture of ducting systems for aircraft and propulsion lines for rocks, has partnered with Crossroads RMC to move from BPCS 4.0.05CD to Infor LX. Crossroads RMC is providing financial business consulting as part of this project. Go live is expected in Q4 of 2017.

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: What Could go Wrong With GRINYA?

Kathy Barthelt / Tuesday, June 6, 2017 0 246264 Article rating: No rating

One common GRINYA issue would be incorrectly entered Integration Setups.

Check the Baan/LN manual for recommended Integration setups. If such a mistake were to occur, it is important to know for what period of time the Integration was in error.

It is recommended that the Integrations Setup tables be audited either through Baan or Database Auditing. Corrections can be quickly calculated when an exact timeframe can be determined.

Still have GRINYA questions you need answered?
Contact us. We’d be happy to help.

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BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Efficiency– The What & How

Anthony Etzel / Tuesday, June 6, 2017 0 54056 Article rating: No rating

Efficiency is something we all strive for in our personal lives and at work. How can manufacturers increase their efficiency? Take a hard look at the 4 key areas:

Planning
Bill of Material and Job Accuracy
Inventory Planning
Real Time Reporting / Processing

Need help figuring out how to become more efficient in each of these areas? Contact us, we’d be happy to help.

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BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Actual Versus Standard

Anthony Etzel / Wednesday, May 31, 2017 0 54250 Article rating: No rating

Job costing based on standards is great, but what if reality doesn’t match up to that?

What if jobs are really taking twice as long, and you don’t know that? What if jobs are taking ½ as long as you think, but you’re scheduling based on how much time they “should” take? Either way, you’re losing money and productivity. Getting a handle on start/stop times for jobs, and therefore the total amount of time actually spent allows you to take proper action and be more productive.

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Crossroads RMC / Wednesday, March 2, 2022

/ Categories: Analytics Dashboard, Integrations & Enhancements, Support, Training & Workshops, Finance, Manufacturing, Operations, Technology

Manufacturing vs. Operations vs. Finance: Who WINS?

Infor LX | BPCS | Infor LN | Baan

Manufacturing Goals: develop high-quality products and services in response to the demands of the market, improve efficiency and maximize capacity utilization.

Operations Goals: utilize resources, labor, material, and equipment effectively in order to match supply and demand.

Finance Goals: analyze revenue growth opportunities, control costs, and maximize profitability.

So, who WINS?

Whose priorities take precedence when it comes down to it and what happens when the demands seem to compete? The answer to that question may be simpler than you think. Quite often, production, operations, and finance are operating based on their own sets of data which have been created within their respective group to serve the needs of the group alone. Finance likely does not have access to production or operations reports and production and operations hardly ever have access to financial reports. But why? What if all departments operated based on the same data, viewed in the same way? Would it not be easier to understand where the priorities should be and how the ship should be steered?

Dashboards provide real-time visualization of data through graphs, tables, and other visualization techniques. Through the use of dashboards, the complexity of large volumes of data gets stripped away and instead gets presented through manageable, digestible chunks of information so companies can focus their attention on the areas of the business that need it most. The dashboards then serve as a common ground for further dialogue and present information to everyone in a way that is mutually understandable.

Although the data represented in dashboards can be gathered through multiple reports and sometimes multiple reporting systems, consolidating the data into one unified source provides a highly effective tool to generate actionable insight.

Crossroads RMC's Analytics Dashboard provides a pre-built connection to Infor LX / BPCS and Infor LN / Baan and includes a full suite of ready-to-use, standard dashboards that can jump-start collaboration between your finance, operations, and production departments.