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Infor LN & Baan Manufacturing Tip: Performance Problems in Generate Order Planning (cprrp1210m000)

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When the Generate Order Planning (cprrp1210m000) session is run it can take minutes to days to finish the process.

The performance of this session depends on many settings, like the number of plan items, the number of orders, but it also depends on hardware and database setup.

Here are some guidelines on how performance can be improved...

Infor LX & BPCS Manufacturing Tip: Shop Calendar Maintenance – SFC140D1

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This program features multiple-level shop calendar maintenance. You can maintain a shop calendar at the global, facility, or work center level. Global level entries override default values found in Work Center Maintenance, CAP100D1, for any program that uses the shop calendar.

Facility overrides affect all work centers in a Facility and are exceptions to the global level. Exceptions defined at the Facility level apply to all work centers for the facility. Work Center calendar entries are the most specific. These entries apply....

Infor LX & BPCS Materials Tip: Over-Receipts

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If Infor LX is set up to prevent over-receipts, you cannot post a receipt quantity that is more than the remaining PO line quantity with the over-tolerance % added to it.

As an alternative, you can:

  • Receive the maximum, remaining line quantity plus over-tolerance percentage quantity, and reject the balance to quarantine or
  • Receive the full quantity into quarantine.


Note: Over-receipt checking applies only to receipts to stock.

Infor LN & Baan Tip of the Week: Limitations of Customer Defined Fields (CDFs)

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Customer Defined fields are fields that can be added to tables, screens, reports, and BODs. Validation and calculation logic can be defined around those fields. This gives you great added capability and flexibility… however, are you aware of the limitations of using CDFs?

  • You cannot define customer-defined fields for tables within Tools (the tl and tt packages).
  • External integrations.....

Infor LX & BPCS Tip of the Week: Credit Card Processing Within LX

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The Credit Card Data Area program, SYS045D, enables you to create and maintain a configuration file that provides a gateway to a third-party payment application. The information you set up with this program is required to allow Infor LX to communicate with the credit card processing application that passes credit card payment information between Infor LX and the credit card providers.

Access: SYS menu

  • Use the Credit Card Data Area screen, SYS045D-01, to...

Infor LX & BPCS Manufacturing Tip of the Week: Backward Scheduling

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Operations are automatically backward scheduled at shop order release time. The backward scheduling algorithm starts with the shop order due date and schedules each operation based upon the standard move and queue times in the routings and the number of days the job is expected to run at standard. The system calculates and stores the operation scheduled start date. The dates may be modified by the shop order maintenance program. The number of days that a job is expected to run an operation is dependent upon the available capacity for that work center and the total hours scheduled for that operation.

The backward scheduling algorithm also considers...

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Baan / LN Tip of the Week: Analyzing Inventory Adjustments – 10.6

Want to understand the financial ramifications of inventory changes in LN? 

Analyze Inventory Adjustments in-LN 10.6

Several display and print sessions are available.  In these examples, the item number used is 020000.

1--Adjustment Orders Session

Double click on the order line to get to the Lines detail.

In the Lines session, double click on the item to see the details.
 

The “Adjustment” tab provides the quantities.

The “Price” tab provides the amounts.

Qty of 7 x $398.00 = $2,786.00

You can also get a printout of this session.  Highlight the line and select the print icon.

Select “All.”

Select “Adjustment Orders” and “OK” to continue.

Financial data is on page 2 of report

2--Inventory Integration Transactions

Enter the item, Entity Type From—warehouse, Entity Code From—EQ, and transaction date

The “From” tab displays the quantity and transaction amount

Highlight the line and select “References/Show Integration Transaction”

This will take you to the integration transaction

This session (inventory integration transactions) can also be printed—Highlight the line and select the print icon.

Print selection:

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