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.

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:

1. Planning
2. Bill of Material and Job Accuracy
3. Inventory Planning
4. 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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Optimize Your Manufacturing Today!

The Facility Period Close process was introduced in Infor LX 8.3.4 and has been enhanced in 8.3.5. This feature allows continuous or 24-hour worldwide operations in multiple facilities to submit Period End Close jobs for each facility as daily operations cease, or shifts end.

This enhancement provides a batch mode for the Facility Period Close (INV930) process and allows the Update IIM Inventory from IWI (INV931) process to be submitted from the INV930B program. The enhancement also provides a batch mode for the INV931 process.

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Sometimes the best ideas have to be tabled due to competing priorities. That doesn’t mean that the idea was bad. Revisit previously suggested cost savings ideas, or ideas to make a manual process more efficient. Now could be the right time to do something great!

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Optimize Your Manufacturing Today!

When you elect to summarize transactions, either by account or journal source, you must remember to turn ‘Journal Grouping’ on in the event. Without this ‘Journal Grouping’ flag set to ‘On’, each transaction creates a separate journal, negating the effort and impact of summarization.

Want to ensure that you have the materials you need when you need them?Want to gain insight into your ability to fulfill current and future orders timely? 

Consider implementing a method of evaluating your suppliers. A good understanding of your suppliers’ capabilities and past performance allows you to better plan and deliver orders on time to your customers. 

Some ERP systems have built in features to track supplier performance data. Reports can also be written to gather the information you need.  By whatever means you can achieve it, getting those results could be eye opening and very meaningful to your business.