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Consulting News: It's Time for the Crossroads RMC Utilization Review

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If your business requirements and resources have undergone a major change since your original implementation, it is time to take a look at your ERP system to see if it is being utilized properly.

The Crossroads RMC Utilization Review is designed to work with your people to identify the best way to apply the powerful capabilities within the Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Financial modules within the Infor LX and BPCS software to best suit the needs of your business, not only today, but in years to come.

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Contact Frank Petrasio today to schedule your review so that you can get 2020 started on the right foot!
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Crossroads RMC Tip of the Week: How to Prevent Your Company From Being a Victim of Ransomware

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This is unfortunately becoming a common occurrence in today’s digital society and we are hearing about these sort of attacks quite frequently.

There are a few dos and don’ts when it comes to ransomware as recommended by Norton 360:   

  1. Do not pay the ransom. It only encourages and funds these attackers. Even if the ransom is paid, there is no guarantee that you will be able to regain access to your files.
  2. Restore any impacted files from a known good backup. Restoration of your files from a backup is the fastest way to regain access to your data.
  3. Do not provide personal information when answering an email, unsolicited phone call, text message or instant message. Phishers will try to trick employees into installing malware, or gain intelligence for attacks by claiming to be from IT. Be sure to contact your IT department if you or your coworkers receive suspicious calls.
  4. Use reputable antivirus software and a firewall. Maintaining a strong firewall and keeping your security software up to date are critical. It’s important to use antivirus software from a reputable company because of all the fake software out there.
  5. Do employ content scanning and filtering on your mail servers. Inbound e-mails should be scanned for known threats and should block any attachment types that could pose a threat.
  6. Do make sure that all systems and software are up-to-date with relevant patches. Exploit kits hosted on compromised websites are commonly used to spread malware. Regular patching of vulnerable software is necessary to help prevent infection.
  7. If traveling, alert your IT department beforehand, especially if you’re going to be using public wireless Internet. Make sure you use a trustworthy Virtual Private Network (VPN) when accessing public Wi-Fi like Norton Secure VPN.

Motivate Your Infor LN & Baan Team with Dashboards

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"Using real-time dashboards, you can hold everyone accountable to KPIs on a weekly basis so nothing falls through the cracks. Customers stay happy and you know what's going on at all times while keeping your whole team on the same page." (BrightGauge blog, February, 2018)

Leverage dashboards to help ensure all aspects of your business are covered.Crossroads RMC provides real-time dashboards to display virtually any aspect of your ERP data. Use the standard dashboards, or create your own! 

Learn more about Analytics Dashboard>

Contact Kathy Barthelt to discuss how dashboards can immediately benefit your company this year!

Infor LN & Baan Tip of the Week: Customer Requested Delivery Date – 10.7

Kathy Barthelt 0 66443 Article rating: 5.0

The Use Customer Requested Delivery Date parameter has been introduced in the Sales Order Parameter (tdsls0100s400) session, which is used to track the customer’s requested delivery date.

If this parameter check box is selected, various additional date fields become available to track the customer Initial Requested Delivery Date and the Original Promised Planned Delivery Date.

Why should you consider Crossroads RMC’s data collection solution for Infor LN & Baan?

Let our customers tell you:

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“Improving the efficiency of all our operations is key to our ongoing success. Crossroads RMC’s Data collection solution clearly can help us on an ongoing basis, and it offers immediate improvement and a foundation we can continue to build on." IT Manager, Magnesita

Learn More About Crossroads RMC's Data Collection - WebCollect, formerly RMC3

IDF News: Making modifications to IDF programs or files

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If you are making modifications to IDF programs or files, it is a good idea to create your modified objects in a test library that you create for this purpose.

The test library should be added to the top of the library list just after the temporary library QTEMP so your modified objects are found instead of the standard IDF objects. This test library allows you to make changes and test them, or to continue running in this mode permanently without actually replacing the original objects. This test library also helps you to isolate and control your modifications when applying patches from Infor.

Motivate Your Infor LX & BPCS Team with Dashboards

BrightGauge blog

George Moroses 0 32063 Article rating: 5.0

"Using real-time dashboards, you can hold everyone accountable to KPIs on a weekly basis so nothing falls through the cracks. Customers stay happy and you know what's going on at all times while keeping your whole team on the same page." (BrightGauge blog, February, 2018)

Leverage dashboards to help ensure all aspects of your business are covered.Crossroads RMC provides real-time dashboards to display virtually any aspect of your ERP data. Use the standard dashboards, or create your own! 

Learn more about Analytics Dashboard>

Contact Anthony Etzel to discuss how dashboards can immediately benefit your company this year!

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Tips:  LX | BPCS | M3

This enhancement provides additional views, additional order and line details, improved navigation, and additional capabilities to the IDF Customer Order Inquiry cards and to customer order-related business objects such as Allocations, Customer Invoices, Inventory Transaction History, Promotions, Drop Shipments.

Enhanced Order views based on user roles such as customer service, warehouse/logistics, salesperson/commission, data analysis/management reporting

  • Improved sort, select and filter capabilities
  • Enhanced navigation, data organization and data display
  • Improved customer service access to all transactions throughout the entire customer order life cycle – from quote to order, related invoices, and any RMAs, return orders, related credit memos
  • Improved grouping of related fields
  • New cards to present additional order and order line details
  • Consolidation of cards and card details when appropriate
  • Enhanced Display and Maintain capabilities for drillback to related customer, ship-to, item, carrier, terms, and other master file details
  • Improved display of dates, times and applicable time zones when Region Code time zone support is implemented
  • Multi language Description, Name and Address fields displayed in user’s language, if defined, else in base language

This enhancement provides search capabilities on segment value description in Segment Value List window (WINGSVD).

Segment Value List (WINGSVD):

  • Converted to a standard subfile
  • New action code 10=Search

This makes it easier to locate segment values when defining segment values in Model Account Builder or Alias definition. In addition, WINGSVD has been redesigned as a subfile to enable WebTop grid capabilities.

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Infor LX & BPCS Tip: System i Workspace AnyWhere information and Important Support Dates for IBM and Microsoft Products

System i Workspace AnyWhere is a web application framework that provides a common user interface for Infor’s IBM i products.

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Latest Updates
System i Workspace AnyWhere - Feature Pack 22 is now available - see the Update History section below (as of January 4, 2024)

  • Tomcat 9.0.80 Upgrade Installer Released - see the Update History section below (October 9, 2023)
  • Installer Hotfixes - affects both Silver Copy and Tomcat Upgrade Installers (August 17, 2023)
  • Removed Support for Microsoft Windows 8.1 (January 11, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Silver Copy Build 220930 FP17 (Microsoft Windows 2016/2019/2022 Server - Tomcat 9) has been released (October 6, 2022)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Silver Copy Build 220930 FP17 (IBM i OS/400 - WebSphere Application Server 9) has been released (October 6, 2022)
  • Added support for IBM OS/400 V7R5 (October 6, 2022)
  • Removed Support for Internet Explorer (January 11, 2022)
  • Removed Support for the System i Emulator and Update Manager (January 11, 2022)
  • Removed support for IBM OS/400 V7R2 (July 16, 2021)
  • Removed support for Mozilla Firefox web browser (March 30, 2021)
  • Added support for Microsoft Windows Server 2019 (May 18, 2020)
  • Added support for IBM OS/400 V7R4 (November 28, 2019)

Documentation

  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Installation & Admin Guide (December 15, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - FAQ (December 4, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Feature Pack Release Summary (December 4, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Product Guide (August 30, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - InforOS Integration Guide for System21 (August 31, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Quick Install Guide (September 13, 2022)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere (IBM i) - Quick Install Guide (August 25, 2022)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Release Summary (March 3, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - SSO MustGather & Troubleshooting (March 3, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Load Balancing Guide (August 31, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - 5250 AnyWhere Emulator Designer Guide (December 4, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - 5250 AnyWhere Emulator Extensions Guide (June 6, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Drillback Guide (August 31, 2023)

 

Release Notes

Withdrawal of support for legacy Operating Systems and Products from IBM and Microsoft

Support for the following Operating Systems with System i Workspace AnyWhere has now been withdrawn...

  • IBM OS/400 V7R2 (support ended by IBM on 04/30/2021)
  • Microsoft Windows 8.1 (extended support ended by Microsoft on 10/01/2023)

The System i Workspace AnyWhere documentation has been updated to reflect the removal of support for these Operating Systems.

Advance Notice of 3rd party vendor end-of-life (EOL) dates:

  • Microsoft's retirement date for Windows 10 is 10/14/2025
  • Microsoft's extended support for Windows Server 2016 will end on 12/01/2027
  • IBM's standard program support for IBM i 7.3 ended on 09/30/2023 (extended support available until 09/30/2026)  

Note: An official statement from Infor in relation to our support will be made nearer the EOL date of each product.

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