A new In Transit Inventory report can be printed in the Print In Transit Inventory (whinr1410m300) session. The report provides an overview of company inventory that is on the move and not stored in a warehouse. This concerns only inventory that is transferred from one warehouse to another. Items that are shipped to, for example, customers or projects, or items that are issued to production lines or service departments are excluded.

The report shows item inventory quantities and values on warehouse transfer orders which are issued at the origin warehouse, but are not yet received in the destination warehouse. These open inter-warehouse transfer orders represent inventory that is loaded on trucks or other means of transport, or located at intermediate pooling points such as harbors and train stations.

The quantities and values are retrieved from the Item-Warehouse-Inventory Transactions and the Inventory Integration Transactions sessions.

The job shop bill of material is defined by site. It is used as the source for the estimated materials in the job shop production order.

The new job shop bill of material differs from the old bill of material. These changes are applicable for the new job shop bill of material:

• It has a header and a status.
• It is always revision controlled.
• It can be designated for planning and for costing.
• The effective dates have been moved from the material lines to the header.
• The BOM quantity has been moved from item production data to the header.
• The use up has been moved from alternatives to the material line.
• The warehouse is defined on the material line (mandatory).
• The routing operation is defined on the material line (optional).

The job shop bill of material can be generated through the production bill of material.

In support of Flexfab Horizons International’s expanded use of Crossroads RMC’s Data Collection Solution in their Dongguan, China location, Crossroads has released a new version of their middleware that supports Mandarin. The China implementation is expected to be completed by mid 2019.

Infor recently announced their support schedule for all versions of Infor LN & Baan.

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Customers who use the Projected Shipments concept, and with that the Shipment Planning Workbench, require more flexibility in modifying outbound order lines before projected shipments are generated. The most important requirement is the option to change item quantities, which is a typical instrument to react on specific circumstances such as truck size and inventory situation. A Shipment Planning tab has been added to the Outbound Order Lines to enable users to perform shipment planning activities in terms of quantities and dates.

The RFQ Comparison Workbench (tdpur8366m000) session has been introduced to compare bidder responses and select the best deal from the existing combinations. The bidder combinations are displayed based on the total amounts or the criteria set defined on the selected request for quotation (RFQ). Users can use the session to:

• Filter the best response from the suppliers or bidders

• Determine the best responses based on Total Amount

• Determine the best responses based on Criteria Set

This session can be started from a specific RFQ or from the RFQ tab in the RFQ (tdpur8310m000) session. Initially, the session is not available on the menu, but users can add it to the menu.

Are you up to speed on all of the sale tax changes that could affect your business?

Tax Law Changes by the Numbers
A look at what's changed in 2018-2019

• 21 states adopted economic nexus as of December 31, 2018, requiring out-of-state businesses with a certain amount of economic activity in the state to collect and remit sales tax

• 33 states have enforced economic nexus as of June 30, 2019

• 43 states will enforce economic nexus as of December 31, 2019

• 7 states had marketplace facilitator sales tax laws as of December 31, 2018, requiring marketplaces to collect sales tax on behalf of their sellers

• 15 states have marketplace facilitator sales tax laws as of June 30, 2019

• 28 states will have marketplace facilitator sales tax laws as of January 1, 2020

The trend to tax remote sales is certain to continue, and there will be the normal slew of rate, regulation, and product taxability changes. 

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The “Use Customer Requested Delivery Date” parameter has been introduced in the Sales Order Parameter (tdsls0100s400) session, which is used to track the customer’s requested delivery date.

If this parameter check box is selected, various additional date fields become available to track the customer Initial Requested Delivery Date and the Original Promised Planned Delivery Date.