When there are two Cost Items, one with Release to Warehousing applied and the other with Release to Warehousing not applied, upon approval of the Sales Order, the Cost Item that is released to Warehousing will go straight to Staged status, pending Shipment confirmation, while the Cost Item that is not released to Warehousing will be up for Sales Deliveries.

Apart from this main difference in functionality between having and not having this option to release to Warehousing checked, there are other impacts to consider...

Document Sequencing (ACR160) is a feature that allows the BPCS/LX system to assign a unique document number to every document created through ACP, ACR, and BIL. It is required for use with ATP (the general ledger posting engine) for ACR and BIL and is strongly recommended for use with...

According to the World Economic Forum, half of all employees will require significant reskilling or upskilling by 2025.

For many of you, your Infor ERP system was implemented 5, 10, 15, or 20+ years ago, and now there are only a handful of people left from that implementation if any at all. Since most of your "how and why" walked out the door, how much longer can you get by on “tribal knowledge”? While many companies understand the importance of employee training, implementing that training remains a challenge. What’s the best way to proceed you ask?

Is there a procedure for changing an item’s inventory unit? What conditions must exist before it can be done?

Once inventory transactions (receipts or issues) have occurred for an item, the inventory unit cannot be changed. If only orders have been placed against the item (sales or purchase), the inventory unit can be changed if these...

How do I modify BPCS/LX to allow for the ease of upgrading in the future?

In BPCS and LX 8.3, many customizations were done by modifying the programs delivered by Infor. This practice resulted in constantly modifying those customized programs when new revisions were delivered by Infor. Today’s LX has many more options for you to consider that simplify and often enhance how customizations are done.

Approaches to Customizing LX

1. Exit Points...

As crazy as it sounds, we’re about to enter the 2^nd half of 2023. How are you doing on your 2023 goals? Planning for 2024 projects?
Maybe it's time to get more out of your Infor ERP system.

OFF SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE WITH INFOR AND FEEL STUCK?

⇒⇒ TIME TO UPGRADE?

⇒⇒ NOT UPGRADING?

Changing an item from serialized to not serialized can only be done by unchecking the Serialized flag in session Item - General (tcibd0101s000). 
The conditions for this are:

• On Hand inventory is...

On September 30, 2022, IBM^® announced the end of support of IBM i operating system 7.3 effective September 30, 2023. In line with IBM’s support policy, Infor will no longer support LX and related products on IBM i 7.3 after May 31, 2024.

All Infor LX releases, patches, and related solutions are...