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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...

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!

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.

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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...

6 Ways Disconnected Data is Harming Your Business

Yikes!

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Disconnected data – What is it?

no​ The spreadsheet that your warehouse manager has off to the side to track his inventory levels and expected shipments from your key suppliers.

no The email orders from your dealer portal waiting to be manually keyed into your ERP. 

Disconnected data is a set of information stored separately from the main system that is used to run your business (your ERP system). The data is valuable and lack of visibility to that data creates problems throughout the organization. Far more than you realize.

A 2023 study by enterprise automation provider Snaplogic and Vanson Bourne researchers showed the following:

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Infor LN & Baan Tips & Tricks for EXECUTIVES

FINANCE: Copy Received Purchase Invoices (tfacp1210m000)

When the invoice is copied, the status in the Invoice Status field in the Received Purchase Invoices (tfacp1500m000) session is set to Registered. The invoice cannot be copied again.

Note: If you have started this session using the browse arrow, you can only find and select a record.

Field Information

  • Invoice-from Business Partner: The invoice-from business partner
  • Document - The document number: The document number is a sequence number under which the invoice is temporarily recorded. When an invoice is registered officially, you must assign the invoice to a different number, in combination with a transaction type.
  • Business Partner Invoice Number: The invoice-from business partner's invoice number is the invoice identification used in LN: This number is printed as the payment reference when the invoice is paid.
  • Invoice Date: The date printed on the invoice. This date is used as a reference date for the term of credit allowed.
  • Currency: The invoice currency
  • Amount: The invoice amount

OPERATIONS: Production Order Parameters

To avoid having to report quantities also at the order level, set the Post to Inventory when Reporting on Last Operation parameter to Yes in these sessions:

  • Production Order Parameters (tisfc0100s000) > Planning tab
  • Production Settings by Site (timfc0180m000) > Production Order tab

With regard to as-built handling, because JobControl acts as a reporting tool similar to the Machine Work List (tisfc4600m000) session, we recommend these settings in the Production Order Parameters (tisfc0100s000) session (Miscellaneous tab) and Production Settings by Site (timfc0180m000) session (Production Order tab):

  • In the Serials section, set the Generate Serial Numbers parameter to On Printing Documents or On Release as the serial number that can be selected in JobControl to report completed or rejected products must have the Valid status in LN.
  • In the Serials section, we recommend setting the As-Built Status Handling parameter to Manual as the serial number assignment is performed in JobControl.

TECHNOLOGY: Audit Configuration Management

You use LN audit features to fully or partially log changes that users make to the LN database tables when they use LN sessions.

The audit functionality is based on the concept of audit profiles. In an audit profile, you define which tables and fields are audited and when, in the context of an audit profile. To bundle profiles in the same functional area, you can relate the profiles to audit categories. You can export and import audit profiles with various options to enable a quick configuration. The audit trail is stored in sequence files, which are generated for each combination of company and table.

Note: For some important parameter tables it is required that auditing is enabled.

You can view or print the history of modifications.

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