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Streamline Your Audit Process: How Crossroads RMC and Avalara Ensure Compliance and Confidence

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Be Audit Ready with Crossroads RMC and Avalara

Managing reports and preparing for audits can be incredibly time-consuming and laborious. It involves extracting data from multiple sources, consolidating information, and rectifying any discrepancies. These tasks often drain resources away from revenue-generating activities.

Fortunately, Avalara offers a comprehensive solution with robust reporting capabilities, drastically reducing the time required for these processes from weeks or months to mere minutes...

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Infor LX & BPCS Tip: Mastering the Latest Infor LX Innovations for Manufacturing Excellence

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Are you keeping up with all things LX?

Get updates on product bulletins, alerts, and announcements regarding the Infor LX product line and related products and technologies such as Infor OS, System i Workspace Anywhere, WebTop, IDF, Operating Systems, and Java support as it relates to Infor LX, please follow this knowledge base article: KB 1397381.

This was updated as recently as February 23, 2024!

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DON'T MISS - 8 Ways to Modernize your IBM i product– Topic #1: Best practices for improving security

Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 10am EST | 9am CST

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From internal controls to data protection, elevate your company’s security standards by exploring best practices that enhance both data protection and segregation of duty issues. Risk Management, Audit, IT, and Finance Officers are all invited to hear strategies that are used by fellow IBM i (LX, XA, System21) customers for modernizing and strengthening their prior vulnerabilities. 

Hosted by Peg Tuttle from the IBM i podcast, “The Incredible i Show,” join us to hear insights from both Infor leadership and your industry peers on:

  • How version upgrades have tightened internal control loopholes.
  • Structural IBM i advancements designed to safeguard your organization.
  • IBM i ecosystem solutions that strengthen both data and access vulnerabilities.

Don’t miss this first fireside chat, Eight Ways to Modernize your IBM i product – Topic #1 of 8: Best practices for improving security.

Register today!

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By 2026, 75% of organizations will base their digital transformation model on the CLOUD!

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Gartner forecasts that by 2026, 75% of organizations will anchor their digital transformation strategies in cloud computing.

Public cloud investment is expected to hit $724 billion by 2024, highlighting the sector's rapid expansion. Yet, selecting the appropriate infrastructure is critical, necessitating carefully evaluating various factors.

A detailed TechTarget article examines the advantages and disadvantages of on-premise and cloud solutions...

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Infor LN & Baan Tip: Is it possible to upload accounts receivable invoices into LN using Excel?

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Yes, this is possible, by following the steps below:

1. Maintain a batch

2. Maintain an invoice header, export it, add an additional invoice header to the Excel file, and import it

3. Maintain an invoice line for the first invoice, export it, add additional invoice lines to the Excel file and import it
 

Below the above steps are described in detail...

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Did you know that you can set up one-time vendors in LX? One Time Vendor (1,A): Specify Y to indicate that this vendor is a one-time vendor. Otherwise, could you specify N. The system removes a one-time vendor's information from the Vendor Master file after all transactions are reconciled. If this vendor already exists as a one-time vendor, you can specify N to change the vendor to a regular vendor.

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Determining whether to use Master Production Schedule (MPS) planning or Material Requirements Planning (MRP) planning for items in Infor LX and BPCS involves understanding the nature of the items and their demand characteristics.

Master Scheduled Items typically encompass finished goods or service items. These items receive their requirements either from Independent demand, Dependent demand, or a combination of both...

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Infor LX & BPCS Year-End Close Checklist

As the year draws to a close, the hustle and bustle of year-end activities can sometimes lead to overlooking critical tasks within your Infor ERP system. Ensuring a proper year-end close is essential for setting the stage for success in the coming year. Here is a comprehensive checklist to guide you through the process:

Year-End Close Process Objectives:

  • Remove discontinued items.
  • Remove sold purchase receipts.
  • Remove lot attributes for sold lots.
  • Update standard cost based on the current cost field (only for environments without Manufacturing).

Preparing for Year-End Close:

  • Conduct a full physical inventory and update quantities before the actual year-end or establish a robust cycle-counting program.
  • Close out all purchase contracts and PO’s, ensuring no receipts are allowed against any contract line items.
  • Prepare users for a year-end push to complete all year-to-date inventory adjustments, receipts, and invoicing.
  • Determine how to handle new year transactions without posting.
  • Decide on new standard costs for the upcoming year (Manufacturing).
  • Discuss cutoff dates for removing Archived BOMS and Closed/Canceled Mfg Orders (Manufacturing).
  • Run PRF900 to update performance measurements and purge closed shop orders.

Finance Specific Items:

  • Set up financial periods for 2024 before the new year begins.
  • Open the January period in 2024.
  • Finalize any outstanding transactions from the current year (2023).
  • Copy the CEA Book for the new year, ensuring all Journal Sources are set up. Copying ensures that every needed record is in place.

General LX & BPCS Items:

  • Run ACP920 (1099 Report) before ACP910 (Year End Close), as the Close Program clears the 1099 Payments History.
  • Address any old sales invoices.
  • Rectify outstanding financial integration errors.
  • Set up new integration mapping for 2024 as needed.
  • Test the mapping in a test environment before the new year.
  • Review and update jobs as needed to ensure they will process in 2024.
  • Determine, for cash-flow purposes, which purchase invoices won't be paid until 2024.

For additional insights and details about each program's functionalities and the files they update during the LX and BPCS Period End and Fiscal Year-End Processing, please refer to the attached document: LX & BPCS Period End & Fiscal Year End Processing Document

If you require assistance, please don't hesitate to contact us. We are here to guide you through the process to ensure everything is completed correctly and comprehensively. Reach us at 1.800.762.2077 or solutions@crossroadsrmc.com.

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