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Partner News: Are you up to date on all of the sales tax changes that have gone into effect this year?

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Like it or not, requirements for collecting sales tax change monthly and keeping up with those changes requires someone to be “on it” full time. Fortunately, Avalara handles all of that. Learn How >

Contact us to learn how we can take this burden off your plate and ensure that you are 100% in compliance, 100% of the time.

IDF News: Multi-Language Support

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IDF capabilities have been enhanced to provide support for many description elements to be displayed in the user’s language. MLS address and description information has been added to Vendor/Customer/Item business objects. Users can add/remove information as needed. Those display icons that do not have MLS fields on them may have MLS objects already created that can be used to add MLS field to those display icons.

Scope: The following multi language description fields are now available in IDF. To show them, select the multi-language field for the desired IDF panel.

• Item Description

• Warehouse Description

• Customer Name

• Vendor Name

• Vendor Accounting Type

• Company Name

• Currency Description

• Country Description

• General Ledger Account Description

• General Ledger Segment Value Description

 

Impact: These IDF programs are new or were updated to support multi language functionality:

• Account Segment Value MLS Extension

• Bank Branch MLS Override

• Bank MLS Override

• Company MLS Override

• Country Extension MLS Override

• Country MLS Override

• Currency Extension MLS Override

• Currency MLS Override

• Customer MLS Address Override

• Customer MLS Note

• Customer Order Class MLS Override

• Customer Terms MLS Override

• Enterprise Item MLS Note

• Enterprise Item MLS Override

• Freight Term MLS Extension

• Note MLS Line

• Sales Representative MLS Address Override

• Vendor MLS Address Override

• Vendor MLS Note

• Warehouse MLS Address

What problem is OTTO addressing?

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Most manufacturers are being pressured to reduce delivery lead-times and rely on their planning systems to meet their commitments. This works very well if everything happens as planned. But planning by itself doesn’t make things happen, people and processes make things happen. This acceleration is putting tremendous pressure on key users like planners, schedulers, buyers and production supervisors. Not only are they struggling to meet daily commitments and relying on “brute force” solutions to get the job done but they can actually become unrecognized production constraints. Planning is more important than ever but is no longer sufficient to meet current challenges because the real challenge in meeting commitments isn't planning but in making plans happen.

This is where OTTO comes in - Learn More>

Analytics Dashboard: "The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." – Marcel Proust

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What have you discovered about your business recently? What benefits could “new eyes” bring to your business? Crossroads RMC's Analytics Dashboard could be the “new eyes” your business needs. Identify trends, problem areas, and more – all without touching your ERP system. 

Learn More about Dashboards for LN & Baan>
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RMClabel offers significant advantages over other third-party label printing software

Infor LN & Baan

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Since label information can be unique to a business, item, customer or functional area, RMClabel allows for an easy method to configure exactly what is needed on any type of label, including 1-D barcode, 2-D barcode and RFID labels. 

Built in label logic allows for automatic switching of label formats. RMClabel is built for Infor LN and Baan. It natively understands the table structures and easily integrates with any data collection application or Infor LN/Baan session

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Tips:  LX | BPCS | M3

Item Facility Master has a new attribute to define the override inspection days lead time CICP.ICINSD.

  • When an item facility has a defined override inspection days lead time, that value will be used instead of the system parameter inspection days lead time.

MRP exception report, MRP200B
Purchase planning report, PUR285B
Purchase order / Requisition maintenance, PUR500D3
Purchase order consolidation / release, PUR640B1
Vendor splits, PUR653B

This enhancement improved the subfile utilized in MRP320D Master Schedule Detail Inquiry -SCR001 by expanding the subfile with data rather than clearing the subfile as user pages. This change provides full support for the WebTop 4.8 Grid decorator.

This enhancement updated the approach used to populate the subfile to allow a deployed Webtop Grid to function correctly. There is no visible or user-impacted change to the way the program functions.

This enhancement provides improved functionality and full support of a Webtop grid applied to the subfile.

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Tips: LN | Baan

Don't laugh - the average lifespan of an ERP system is 7-10 years

Don't laugh - the average lifespan of an ERP system is 7-10 years

Don’t laugh! I know, I know…many of our customers say that after 7-10 years they are finally settling in after the implementation! We have seen many a customer stretch out the lifespan of their ERP system to 20+ years. That sounds great for the company’s bank account, but is it good for the business?

An outdated ERP system hurts your business in many ways, not just with slow performance. The best-of-breed functionality is now 2 decades old, and obsolete technology can't leverage newer technology. Lack of integration leads to siloed data that hurts communication and your internal teams feel the pain, and your customers are noticing. Poor visibility into your operations makes it nearly impossible to achieve industry-based regulatory compliance and meet financial auditing requirements. Not to mention the sheer size of Big Data that is being collected today vs. 2 decades ago or the fact that your vendor is no longer supporting your ERP version.

Let’s scrap it all and start over!

Is it that black and white though? There is an ocean between “do nothing” and “replace everything”. Taking incremental steps can give your organization a tremendous amount of benefit without the tremendous price tag that often goes with ERP replacement, but you need to be willing to take the first step. Maybe there is a manufacturing ERP add-on that you know would provide tremendous benefit and improve overall efficiency, or a web portal that you log in to that allows you to communicate with your suppliers, but it has no tie to your purchase orders, or maybe your team would benefit from a review of industry best practices and how that compares to how your ERP system is currently being used. Or at the very least you need to know if your ERP system is still meeting the organization’s needs.

Success will never be a big step in the future. Success is a small step taken just now.” – Jonatan Martensson

Crossroads RMC specializes in helping manufacturers maximize the benefit of “the small step”.  Not sure how Crossroads RMC can optimize your business?

Our Infor ERP Services can optimize your business with the following initiatives and many more:

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It's time to take the first step today!
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