Baan/LN Tip of the Week: 6 Powerful Steps to Win With Automation

Kathy Barthelt / Wednesday, April 20, 2016 0 84265 Article rating: No rating

1. Eliminate paper shop packet and distribution of the paperwork to the shop floor.

2. Eliminate manual (paper-based) recording activities and the need to key in the transactions.

3. Easy electronic scheduling by sequence and changing job priorities.

4. Evaluate differences using actual times compared to standards.

5. Improve data accuracy and eliminate the need to chase and fix errors.

6. Practice Real-Time data reporting to monitor efficiencies and identify problems as they occur.

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Receiving to Inspection

Anthony Etzel / Wednesday, April 13, 2016 0 62878 Article rating: No rating

If the item being received needs to be inspected prior to being available for use, there are two schools of thought.The first is to receive the item to a QC hold location. The downside is the item will show up in on hand inventory.

A better method would be to do a PO receipt to inspection. Both Inv500 and Pur550 support this method. Now you have received the item without showing it in inventory. Only the PO quantity in inspection is updated. This method also allows you to create an Inspection Dispatch Report. After the QC process for the item is complete, then the transaction Receipt from Inspection to Stock is processed. That transaction then updates the PO quantity received field and the Item on hand field in inventory.

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Transaction Accounts – Commissions

Kathy Barthelt / Wednesday, April 13, 2016 0 90659 Article rating: No rating

In Baan IV, if a link with Financials exists for commissions and rebates, invoices are created directly in the Commission Control System (CMS) module and posted to Financials. As a result, users must specify the ledger accounts that are used for posting commissions and rebates in the Maintain Commission/Rebate Transaction Accounts (tdcms2101m000) session.

In LN, the Maintain Commission/Rebate Transaction Accounts (tdcms2101m000) session is removed from the Commission Control System (CMS) module, because invoices are no longer created directly in the Commission Control System module.

Grindmaster-Cecilware Selects NextTrack Sales For Sales Analysis

Kathy Barthelt / Wednesday, April 6, 2016 0 38629 Article rating: No rating

Grindmaster-Cecilware (GMCW), a leading provider of products for the food and beverage industry, has selected NextTrack Sales to satisfy their sales analysis requirements. Integrated with their Baan ERP system, NextTrack Sales provides sophisticated pivot grid and charting functionality, and the ability to generate any number of views of the data, all without customizing their ERP system. Grindmaster’s VP of Sales said it was "the perfect fit for him, and covered all of his reporting needs".

Peerless Instrument Selects Crossroads RMC for Baan Data Collection

Kathy Barthelt / Wednesday, April 6, 2016 0 33883 Article rating: No rating

Peerless Instrument, a division of Curtiss Wright, has selected Crossroads RMC for Baan data collection. Peerless is interested in furthering the data collection partnership that Curtiss Wright began with Crossroads RMC 20 years ago. The data collection implementation will include Receiving, Material Issue, Inspection and Report Operations Complete, and is expected to be completed in July of 2016.

Peerless Instrument provides state-of-the-art electronic components, systems, and software to the US military. Peerless' advanced instrumentation and control systems are not only used in Navy propulsion systems but provide sophisticated monitoring systems for the gas, oil, or petrochemical industries.

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Inventory Control

Anthony Etzel / Tuesday, April 5, 2016 0 57946 Article rating: No rating

In Infor LX you need to determine how inventory will be moved in and out of warehouse storage locations, and which of the following transactions to use for inventory control:
A transfer transaction can be used to move inventory from one warehouse location to another warehouse location.
A production receipt transaction is used to add inventory to a warehouse location.
A material issue or backflush is used to reduce inventory from a warehouse location.

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Project Templates

Kathy Barthelt / Tuesday, April 5, 2016 0 84203 Article rating: No rating

Project templates are useful because you can specify all of the information that you would normally want to include when creating a new project such as project structure, budget and so on.

In Baan IV/V, project templates do not exist, but you can set up a project template by creating a regular project, and setting the status to simulated or free. This is done so that the project does not create plans. Under this scenario, you can easily copy one project to another.

In LN, when you create a new project, a template can be used as the starting point. This is similar to copying a normal project, but unlike normal projects, no costs or revenues can be posted on a template.

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Operational Inefficiencies

Anthony Etzel / Tuesday, March 29, 2016 0 55853 Article rating: No rating

Two big sources of inefficiencies in manufacturing are paper and spreadsheets. I know that you love ‘em, but they are the cause of more problems than you probably realize. Think of how long it takes you to get paper based data into the hands of those who can do something valuable with the data. Are you capturing all of the information correctly? Timely? What about those spreadsheets? Can everyone access that information across your organization? Is that data married with all of the related data regarding your operations to give your executive and middle management the information they need when they need it?

Make your shop floor paperless and put in place systems that talk to one another and automatically pull and push data to and from your ERP so that you can look in one place for all the information you need to run your business effectively.

If you’re not doing this today, you might as well be burning money.

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10Jun2025

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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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.