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Infor ERP LX / BPCS Expert Help Desk Service

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Infor LX/BPCS Tips & Tricks for TECHNOLOGY: Library BMRTOOLS contains the following commands

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INSTALLBMR

  • Installs BMR Explosions from *SAVF or *LIB
  • Installs objects after backing up replaced objects
  • Installs source after backing up replaced source
  • Installs Webtop Metadata
  • Installs /InforBMR subdirectories
  • Writes all activity to log file and spooled file report
  • Optionally runs DBUPDATE command

DBUPDATE

  • Installs new or updates existing database tables, views, indexes, triggers, procedures, logical files.
  • Installs source for above objects
  • Sets authorities to replaced objects based on previous object settings
  • Sets journalling on replaced objects based on previous object settings
  • Installs Priming Data
  • Installs SSAOVR updates
  • Installs message file updates for core message files
  • Installs message file updates for NLV message files if included in explosion

This enhancement reduces the time required to install BMR Explosions. There still may be manual steps required after the processing completes, but the overall time required is dramatically reduced.

Infor LX/BPCS Tips & Tricks for OPERATIONS: Order Entry Action Code / Function Key Security

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Access to Order Entry/Maintenance has traditionally been controlled by using LX Program Security to grant or remove authority to ORD700. LX Company Security and LX Warehouse Security further control which transactions a user is allowed to create or maintain. A separate 8.4.2 enhancement allows security managers to control which types of transactions a user is allowed to create or maintain, through LX Order Type Security and LX Order Class Security. Building on these LX transaction security features, the Order Entry Action Code/Function Key Security enhancement allows security managers to further control what actions a user can take regarding an authorized transaction.

Security managers can now control the actions each user is allowed to be restricted from in the Order Entry job stream. The benefit is easily illustrated by some examples:

  • Regular users can be allowed to create and revise customer orders but are restricted from deleting an order.
  • Salespersons can be authorized to full authority with quotes and can be allowed to create customer orders but not to revise or delete them.
  • Or, salespersons could be restricted from 1=Create in Order Directory, with the result that they could only create an order by copying a quote, if they are authorized to 3=Copy in Quote Directory.
  • Only selected customer service users can be allowed to create RMAs, by controlling 1=Create in RMA Directory. A different group of customer service users who handle the actual returns can be authorized to create the return orders or credit memos from those RMAs, by controlling 3=Copy in RMA Directory.

Infor LX/BPCS Tips & Tricks for FINANCE: Release Holds from IDF Order Inquiry Host Job

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This enhancement provides the ability for IDF Order Inquiry to release order holds via a host job.

LX IDF Order Inquiry displays numerous details about an order, order lines, special lines and related files. An Order Inquiry user can copy, modify or delete an order through WebTop calls to ORD700 Order Maintenance, if authorized. Among the many details Order Inquiry also lists the Hold Codes for customer hold, credit hold, user hold, margin hold, and credit card hold. This enhancement provides the capability to release holds through a host job function that executes ORD680B, Order Hold Mass Release.   Batch Hold Release host job has been added to IDF Order Inquiry. The Order Inquiry user must be authorized to ORD680 in LX program security, SYS600.

ORD680 has been modified to accept parameters for multiple executions by host job. The user can release holds for a single order, a range of orders, or for multiple individually selected orders.

The following hold releases can be requested:

  • Credit hold – orders on credit hold by the system (01) or by a user (02) are released from credit hold.
  • Customer hold – orders on customer hold are released.
  • User hold – orders on user hold are released.
  • Margin hold – ORD680 re-evaluates orders or order lines that are on margin hold.
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5 WARNING SIGNS Your Disconnected Business Systems Are Costing You Money

  1. You Can’t Track Project Costs in Real-Time
    If you're waiting until after a project wraps up to find out whether it was profitable, that’s a major red flag. Without real-time cost tracking, you're making critical decisions in the dark.

  2. Quoting and Estimating Are Slow, Manual, or Inconsistent
    Does it take hours—or even days—to build a custom quote because you're pulling information from multiple systems? That lost time translates directly into lost sales opportunities.

  3. You Rely on Spreadsheets for Critical Operations
    Spreadsheets are useful—until they’re not. Issues like version control problems, accidental overwrites, and human error can lead to costly mistakes.

  4. Scheduling and Inventory Management Are Disconnected from Financials
    If your production and finance teams aren’t working from the same data, it’s only a matter of time before you face delays, stockouts, or budget overruns.

  5. You Don’t Have a Real-Time View of Project Profitability
    Without live costing tied directly to jobs, small losses can accumulate unnoticed, until it's too late.

Disconnected data refers to information stored outside your core business systems, like your ERP. While this data has value, a lack of integration causes inefficiencies and misalignment across your organization, often more than you realize.


The Cost of Disconnected Data

In a recent study by SnapLogic and Vanson Bourne, 500 business users and IT decision-makers in large enterprises across the US and UK were surveyed. The findings reveal the true cost and challenges of disconnected data:

  • $140 billion is lost annually due to wasted time, duplicated efforts, and missed opportunities.

  • 47% say disconnected data negatively affects their ability to innovate and bring new products/services to market.

  • 46% report it impairs their ability to engage and support customers effectively.

  • 56% believe data silos are creating barriers to achieving business goals.


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At Crossroads RMC, we specialize in integrating disconnected systems and data into your ERP environment. Our expert consultants, with decades of experience, help you:

  • Eliminate redundant data entry

  • Enhance operational efficiency

  • Enable real-time updates to and from your ERP

  • Gain a unified view of your business for better, faster decision-making


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