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

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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

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

Learn how MES can benefit your company in 2020 by simply doing all of these things...

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Do your users have an easy way to do all of these things? If not, you should learn how MES could benefit your company in 2020!

  • Schedule work from a work center to a specific machine or work area.
  • Re-sequence work and split for better flexibility in scheduling shop floor activities.
  • Receive work schedules electronically as well as interacting with it by reporting transactional activity.
  • Electronically display drawings, process instructions, and quality instructions to eliminate (or minimize) the need for paper on the shop floor.
  • Pass shop floor transactional activity to dashboard displays as well as your ERP system.

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Infor LX & BPCS Tip of the Week: What is EGLi?

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EGLi provides Infor LX Configurable Enterprise Accounting (CEA) functionality including Advanced Transaction Processing (ATP), a configurable ledger, and batch transaction processing in the IDF architecture.

EGLi is a complete replacement for CEA. Infor LX applications integrate with EGLi, and subsystem transactions generated in Infor LX are used to create journal entries in EGLi. The Infor LX integration system parameters allow you to specify whether CEA or EGLi is your primary financial product.

We recommend that you select CEA while you test the integration. The primary financial product flag and the CEA migration programs are designed to assist existing CEA clients with their implementation of EGLi. Journals are produced in both GL systems so you can verify that the data in both GL systems are the same. This integration includes migration programs that copy your existing CEA files to corresponding EGLi files. After you run the migration programs, EGLi should be configured and ready to use. If you are already running IDF via Ming.le or SiW, before you install EGLi, you will need to see the Ming.le integration guide for instructions on how to export EGLi tasks from IDF to SiW/Ming.le.

Learn More > Infor LX Integration Guide for Enterprise General Ledger

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Tips:  LX | BPCS | M3

Improves control over PO costing changes during invoice entry by replacing passive warnings with an intentional override action.

  • In ACP500D3 (Invoice Entry PO Costing), users previously could unintentionally accept changes by pressing ENTER, even when quantity to cost or amount to cost values had changed.

  • A new “F14 to Override” warning message replaces the old message:
    “Details have changed. Press enter again to accept data.”
    This ensures users acknowledge and confirm significant changes explicitly.

New System Parameter:

  • “Apply GRN Costing Tolerance for PO Costing” (optional):

    • Within tolerance: Displays the original message —
      “Details have changed. Press enter again to accept data.”

    • Outside tolerance: Triggers the new override requirement —
      “F14 to Override”

Benefits:

  • Enhances oversight and reduces unintentional cost acceptance.

  • Enables better control of PO costs when invoice details differ from expectations.

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Infor LN & Baan: BIG DATA - Keeping Track of Key Metrics

In order to communicate effectively as a team, everyone needs to speak the same language and operate off the same playbook. If decisions are made based on the data or the view of data that individuals are maintaining through their own spreadsheets or other data silos, then communication is negatively impacted.

Manufacturers need to review large amounts of data every day, making it difficult to keep track of key metrics within your department.

That’s where Crossroads RMC’s Analytics Dashboard solution comes in. Our Analytics Dashboard was developed to make tasks easier by putting all of the key information in one convenient location so you can view all of your crucial data in real-time.
 

With powerful dashboards, you can:

  • Create pie charts, graphs, interactive maps, and more with just a few clicks.
  • Build a dashboard once and make it instantly available on any device.
  • Tell a story with your data with your own custom layouts, colors, and commentary—all with no coding.
  • Confidently provide reports with real-time data updates.
  • Access your dashboards from anywhere–computer, tablet, or phone.

Check out the sample of our dashboards by department below. Then, to get started, request a demo for a complete walkthrough of our Analytics Dashboard.
 

Manufacturing

OEE, time usage, downtime, quantities, cycle times, and more...

Enlarge Production Summary Dashboard Enlarge Work Center Job Step Status
Production Summary Dashboard Machine / Labor Performance Dashboard Work Center Job Step Status Dashboard



Finance

Revenue, income, working capital, assets, and more...

Enlarge Accounts Receivable Dashboard
Accounts Receivable
Summary Dashboard
Accounts Receivable
Dashboard
Enterprise Accounting
Dashboard


Materials

Planning, sourcing, procuring, transporting, storing, controlling materials, and more...

Enlarge Inventory Dashboard Enlarge Sales History Dashboard
Inventory Dashboard Purchasing Dashboard Sales History Dashboard

Learn more>
 

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