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BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: What is Lean Make to Order?

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This is a simple way to go from the customer order to making the order and shipping the order. It involves a few simple steps:

  1. Receive and enter the customer order
  2. Automatic credit review
  3. Automatic release of the shop order tied to the customer order
  4. Issue material, report labor to the production order receipt
  5. Pick the order, ship the order, invoice the customer

With lean, you can skip processing the demand through MRP. You can go directly from the customer order to the shop order creation.

PDIC Goes Live with Crossroads MES

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PDIC, a leading producer of wire products, went live with the Crossroads MES solution on June 30th,2014. PDIC needed a better way to deploy and report shop floor information to BPCS 6.02. Their goal was to eliminate all their manual reporting and position themselves to take advantage of the Crossroads Dashboards.

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Negative Inventory

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If Location Control is turned on in Baan IV, then inventory should never be negative.

If Location Control is not turned on in Baan IV, and the parameter “Negative Inventory Allowed” in INV Parameters is set to “NO”, then inventory should never be negative.

In Baan V and LN, the parameters in Inventory Handling Parameters determine whether you can have negative inventory. If these parameters are set to “NO”, then inventory should never be negative.

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Establish Costing For Purchased Items

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How Does Infor LX Establish Costing For Purchased Items?

In LX, you will establish a standard cost (you define the standard) that LX will use for the purchase items. You also need to establish in LX the Cost Type, the Cost Bucket, and the Cost Set needed for cost accounting.

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Alternate Items

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How can I use an alternate item on a shop order?

The best way is to have the approved alternate item appear on the Bill of Material just after the standard item with a zero required quantity. Now the alternate item will appear on the Shop Order. So, if the standard item is not available, the alternate item can be issued to the shop order.

When the shop order is closed out, one item will have an unfavorable variance while the other shows a favorable variance. This is an easy way to provide alternate items provided engineering approves and they are part of the Bill of Material.

Crossroads MES Version 11 Released

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Crossroads MES Version 11 was rolled out in March, 2014. Some of the new features include a new GUI interface, improved End of Shift review functions, pre-formatted production label printing, and an electronic shop packet on the factory worker Job In screen.

Crossroads MES Released for Tablet

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Crossroads RMC announces that the Crossroads MES solution is now compatible with tablet PCs running Windows 8.1. Tablet PCs are becoming the clipboard replacement for supervisors and managers to monitor what’s happening on the shop floor.

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George Moroses
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Infor LX & BPCS Tip: System i Workspace AnyWhere information and Important Support Dates for IBM and Microsoft Products

System i Workspace AnyWhere is a web application framework that provides a common user interface for Infor’s IBM i products.

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Latest Updates
System i Workspace AnyWhere - Feature Pack 22 is now available - see the Update History section below (as of January 4, 2024)

  • Tomcat 9.0.80 Upgrade Installer Released - see the Update History section below (October 9, 2023)
  • Installer Hotfixes - affects both Silver Copy and Tomcat Upgrade Installers (August 17, 2023)
  • Removed Support for Microsoft Windows 8.1 (January 11, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Silver Copy Build 220930 FP17 (Microsoft Windows 2016/2019/2022 Server - Tomcat 9) has been released (October 6, 2022)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Silver Copy Build 220930 FP17 (IBM i OS/400 - WebSphere Application Server 9) has been released (October 6, 2022)
  • Added support for IBM OS/400 V7R5 (October 6, 2022)
  • Removed Support for Internet Explorer (January 11, 2022)
  • Removed Support for the System i Emulator and Update Manager (January 11, 2022)
  • Removed support for IBM OS/400 V7R2 (July 16, 2021)
  • Removed support for Mozilla Firefox web browser (March 30, 2021)
  • Added support for Microsoft Windows Server 2019 (May 18, 2020)
  • Added support for IBM OS/400 V7R4 (November 28, 2019)

Documentation

  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Installation & Admin Guide (December 15, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - FAQ (December 4, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Feature Pack Release Summary (December 4, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Product Guide (August 30, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - InforOS Integration Guide for System21 (August 31, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Quick Install Guide (September 13, 2022)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere (IBM i) - Quick Install Guide (August 25, 2022)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Release Summary (March 3, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - SSO MustGather & Troubleshooting (March 3, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Load Balancing Guide (August 31, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - 5250 AnyWhere Emulator Designer Guide (December 4, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - 5250 AnyWhere Emulator Extensions Guide (June 6, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Drillback Guide (August 31, 2023)

 

Release Notes

Withdrawal of support for legacy Operating Systems and Products from IBM and Microsoft

Support for the following Operating Systems with System i Workspace AnyWhere has now been withdrawn...

  • IBM OS/400 V7R2 (support ended by IBM on 04/30/2021)
  • Microsoft Windows 8.1 (extended support ended by Microsoft on 10/01/2023)

The System i Workspace AnyWhere documentation has been updated to reflect the removal of support for these Operating Systems.

Advance Notice of 3rd party vendor end-of-life (EOL) dates:

  • Microsoft's retirement date for Windows 10 is 10/14/2025
  • Microsoft's extended support for Windows Server 2016 will end on 12/01/2027
  • IBM's standard program support for IBM i 7.3 ended on 09/30/2023 (extended support available until 09/30/2026)  

Note: An official statement from Infor in relation to our support will be made nearer the EOL date of each product.

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