This enhancement provides additional views, additional order and line details, improved navigation, and additional capabilities to the IDF Customer Order Inquiry cards and to customer order-related business objects such as Allocations, Customer Invoices, Inventory Transaction History, Promotions, Drop Shipments.

Enhanced Order views based on user roles such as customer service, warehouse/logistics, salesperson/commission, data analysis/management reporting

• Improved sort, select and filter capabilities
• Enhanced navigation, data organization and data display
• Improved customer service access to all transactions throughout the entire customer order life cycle – from quote to order, related invoices, and any RMAs, return orders, related credit memos
• Improved grouping of related fields
• New cards to present additional order and order line details
• Consolidation of cards and card details when appropriate
• Enhanced Display and Maintain capabilities for drillback to related customer, ship-to, item, carrier, terms, and other master file details
• Improved display of dates, times and applicable time zones when Region Code time zone support is implemented
• Multi language Description, Name and Address fields displayed in user’s language, if defined, else in base language

This enhancement provides search capabilities on segment value description in Segment Value List window (WINGSVD).

Segment Value List (WINGSVD):

• Converted to a standard subfile
• New action code 10=Search

This makes it easier to locate segment values when defining segment values in Model Account Builder or Alias definition. In addition, WINGSVD has been redesigned as a subfile to enable WebTop grid capabilities.

This enhancement allows reconciled payables and payments to be retained in the system for over 200 years. It extends the retention period in A/P Application Control Maintenance (ACP180) to support up to five digits. This gives LX customers the ability to retain data online for significantly longer durations.

FINANCE: Increase A/P Retention Day

TECHNOLOGY: Search by Description in Segment Value List

OPERATIONS: IDF Customer Order Inquiry Enhancements

We’re standing in the middle of the Fourth Industrial Revolution—Industry 4.0—a transformation that’s redefining how products are made, moved, and managed. But many companies are still operating with Industry 3.0 systems: digitized, yes, but not yet intelligent, connected, or adaptive.

So, what makes Industry 4.0 different? And more importantly—where does your company stand in this transformation?

Automation to Intelligence: The Shift from Industry 3.0 to 4.0
Industry 3.0 introduced computers, electronics, and early automation into manufacturing. It marked the beginning of digital systems and the rise of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) as a bridge between planning and the shop floor. Industry 4.0 takes it further: it brings interconnectivity, real-time data, and AI-powered intelligence into every corner of the industrial environment. It’s about smart factories, self-optimizing systems, and predictive capabilities that weren’t possible before.

8 Pillars of Industry 4.0:

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Learn all this and more in our webinar -Thursday, March 20th at 1:00 PM Eastern / noon Central.

Presenter: Nick Olson, Crossroads RMC Solutions Consultant

In this session, we will explore customizing the User Interface:

• Want to see only the objects you need?
  • Build a Card!  
• Constantly recreating the same filter row criteria?
  • Build it into a Subset!  
• Too many irrelevant or not enough pertinent columns of data?
  • Build a custom View!  
• Need to draw attention to a particular piece of information?
  • Build a Presentation Scheme!  
• Tired of scrolling back and forth to see key data?
  • Freeze columns!  
• Need to add and view attachments?
  • Build an Attachment Viewer Card!

Register TODAY: https://ibmi.workoutloud.com/Event/dive-into-idf-for-lx-part-2

FINANCE Tip: Remap Posted Integration Transactions (tfgld4282m100)-

OPERATIONS Tip: Using Country of Origin for Purchase Orders-

TECHNOLOGY Tip: Impact of Configuration Changes on Audit Trails-

Impact of Configuration Changes on Audit Trails

The impact of changes in the audit settings varies depending on the specific circumstances. The issues typically arise when changes made to audit settings are implemented at runtime without requiring all users to exit the system (LN). As a result, some users may continue to generate audit trails using the old configuration, while those who log in after the changes take effect will create audit trails based on the new configuration.

Changes in User Profiles

Below is a summary table that illustrates the effects of these changes for a specific table within a company: