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Update from Infor Community: inPOWER 2022 – When is it, What is it, Where is it, and Why attend?

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Join the LX User Group Board and Dave Rapacz, LX Product Manager, to learn more about the details of the first in-person event since 2019, inPower 2022.

July 12, 2022 11:00pm CT | 12:00pm ET 

They will discuss what to expect at inPower 2022 and the value to the attendees.

Register today via the community calendar...

Infor LX & BPCS Tip: Enterprise General Ledger (EGL)

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Enterprise General Ledger (EGL) provides audit attributes to track journal entry changes and approvals.

To implement this enhancement, you can request and apply MR 81026.

This enhancement provides audit attributes for the last maintained user, date, time, and approval user, and date, and time on the Financial Journal Entry and Financial Journal Entry Lines. This audit function provides visibility to who and when the journal was last maintained and to who and when the journal was approved.

The programs or areas impacted include:

  • Financial Event
  • Financial Journal Entry
  • Financial Journal Entry Line
  • Financial Journal Entry Detail Line
  • Post Multiple Events

Infor LN & Baan Tip: Company versus Site

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Watch this short video created by Infor which discusses the single/multi-logistic and finance concepts from Baan IV and Baan V and how that has changed in Infor LN with the introduction of Sites. With the Site concept and especially with the Job Shop by Site concept much more flexibility is provided.

Click to play Company versus Site Infor Video (16:19)

Infor Moves IBM i Products to New 'Compass' Group

IT Jungle: April 27, 2022 by Alex Woodie

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Infor is taking a new approach to managing many of its IBM i-based ERP systems and supporting the customers that rely on them to run their businesses. Called Compass, the new group is tasked with revitalizing Infor’s relationships with IBM i customers by catering to their unique needs, according to the company.

Infor created the Compass group about 10 months ago,...

Read full IT Jungle Article> https://www.itjungle.com/2022/04/27/infor-moves-ibm-i-products-to-new-compass-group/

Infor LX & BPCS Tip: Configurable Ledger (CLD) Benefits

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Did you know CLD provides you with the following benefits?

â–ª You can journalize and post-transaction data from any third-party application or Infor LX subsystem to the Configurable Ledger (CLD).

â–ª You can generate multiple journal entries across different charts of accounts, ledgers, and books within the CLD from one transaction line.

â–ª You can automatically post transaction amounts across different books using an appropriate exchange rate between the batch transaction currency and target book currency.

â–ª You can use validation reports to identify validation errors within the files that contain batch transaction data and then you can make any necessary corrections before resubmission.

â–ª You can use standard CEA grouping and summarization options for journals created during Batch Transaction Processing.

â–ª You can interface GLD journal entries into CEA for the BPCD version of Infor LX. This allows data to be interfaced into CEA without changing the way data is processed through Infor LX subsystems.

Digital Transformation & Your ERP

70% of global executives said the pandemic will accelerate their digital transformation pace

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Transformation: (definition)  A thorough and dramatic change.

We all dream about it….how can we transform ourselves into something better…something more desirable? Maybe it is our appearance that we want to improve, maybe it is our physical strength and stamina, or maybe it is our mental toughness.

Have we thought about transformation when it comes to our businesses? More specifically, our ERP systems that are the lifeblood of our businesses?

When it comes to this type of transformation, we’re talking about a digital transformation. This means taking...

What are your production orders telling you?

Infor LX | BPCS | Infor LN | Baan

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MEASURE WHAT YOU WANT TO IMPROVE!

Six simple words, but put together they convey a powerful concept that can transform manufacturing companies. It’s a basic concept that’s hard to argue with: Collect data, see where the data leads you, and make changes that have a positive impact on the data. Repeat often.

If your company is manufacturing a product, you’re...

Infor LX & BPCS Tip: MPS Planned vs. MRP Planned

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What items should be MPS planned, and what items should be MRP planned?
Master Scheduled Items are those items that are finished goods, or service items, that receive their requirements either specifically from Independent demand, or both Dependent and Independent demand.

  • Independent Demand is demand that cannot be calculated from higher-level demand in the product structure, and therefore must be either a forecast or an actual customer order (Finished Goods or Service parts sold to customers).
  • Dependent demand is derived from higher-level demand in the product structure. Dependent demand includes components, raw materials, and sub-assemblies. (these are not normally Master Scheduled Items).
  • Service Parts may have both independent demand from forecast and/or customer orders, as well as dependent demand from higher-level demand if that item is also used in other sub-assemblies or products.
  • Cumulative Lead Time is a concept used in Master Production Scheduling (MPS) that combines the “fixed” lead time, and the “variable” lead time needed to produce the product. It is the longest path through a given Bill-of-material. Based on the MPS setup options, Infor LX (ERP LX) will calculate the cumulative lead time (also called “the Critical Path”) for you (use the “indented BOM” display in BOM300 and find the item with the longest lead time “L/T”). Note: You may have to use Action 21, Line Detail, to see the “L/T” lead time for each item.
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Manufacturing vs. Operations vs. Finance: Who WINS?

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Manufacturing Goals: develop high-quality products and services in response to the demands of the market, improve efficiency and maximize capacity utilization.

Operations Goals: utilize resources, labor, material, and equipment effectively in order to match supply and demand.

Finance Goals: analyze revenue growth opportunities, control costs, and maximize profitability.

So, who WINS?

Production Order - Click to EnlargeWhose priorities take precedence when it comes down to it and what happens when the demands seem to compete? The answer to that question may be simpler than you think. Quite often, production, operations, and finance are operating based on their own sets of data which have been created within their respective group to serve the needs of the group alone. Finance likely does not have access to production or operations reports and production and operations hardly ever have access to financial reports. But why? What if all departments operated based on the same data, viewed in the same way? Would it not be easier to understand where the priorities should be and how the ship should be steered?

Production Order - Click to EnlargeDashboards provide real-time visualization of data through graphs, tables, and other visualization techniques. Through the use of dashboards, the complexity of large volumes of data gets stripped away and instead gets presented through manageable, digestible chunks of information so companies can focus their attention on the areas of the business that need it most. The dashboards then serve as a common ground for further dialogue and present information to everyone in a way that is mutually understandable.

Although the data represented in dashboards can be gathered through multiple reports and sometimes multiple reporting systems, consolidating the data into one unified source provides a highly effective tool to generate actionable insight.

Labor History Click to EnlargeCrossroads RMC's Analytics Dashboard provides a pre-built connection to Infor LX / BPCS and Infor LN / Baan and includes a full suite of ready-to-use, standard dashboards that can jump-start collaboration between your finance, operations, and production departments.

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