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Cremer S.A. partners with Infor Consulting Services

Customer Innovation Study

Frank Petrasio 0 43996 Article rating: 5.0

Cremer S.A. partners with Infor Consulting Services to replace incumbent ERPs in acquired businesses with Infor LX.

"Infor LX provides meticulous detail into the real costs of our business and can be implemented rapidly with no investment in customizations. In short, Infor LX fits our business and provides us with the highest return on investment.” Marcelo Jorge Fernandez Operations Director & CIO, Cremer S.A.

Want to learn more about this LX success story? Click Here to Read Full Customer Innovation Study 

Contact Frank Petrasio at Crossroads RMC to find out how your company could be the next LX success story!

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Infor LX & BPCS Tip of the Week: 6 Powerful Steps to Win with Automation

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  1. Eliminate paper shop packet and distribution of the paperwork to the shop floor.     
  2. Eliminate manual (paper-based) recording activities and the need to key in the transactions.
  3. Easy electronic scheduling by sequence and changing job priorities.
  4. Evaluate differences using actual times compared to standards.
  5. Improve data accuracy and eliminate the need to chase and fix errors.
  6. Practice Real-Time data reporting to monitor efficiencies and identify problems as they occur.

Optimize Your Manufacturing Today!

Amerequip Goes Live With OTTO On-Time Orders

Anthony Etzel 0 30985 Article rating: 5.0

Crossroads RMC welcomes Amerequip as our newest client after successfully going live with OTTO, On-Time Orders.

Amerequip, with corporate headquarters in Kiel, Wisconsin, is a leading designer and manufacturer of accessories and attachments for the construction, utility, and industrial equipment, lawn and turf-care equipment, and related products sold in global markets served by their OEM partner customers.

Amerequip’s objective was to improve on time customer order shipments, reduce expediting, and cut down on the time their knowledge workers were spending digging for information. After carefully conducting their due diligence they chose OTTO to address these challenges.

OTTO helps manufacturing plants consistently meet customer commitments by performing predictive analysis to help prevent surprises and allow for early detection and resolution of potential issues. OTTO improves effectiveness of knowledge workers by reducing “data mining” required to answer customer order status questions, and improves the flow of material through the plant, as a result, reduce shortages and improve on-time customer order shipments. OTTO previously won the prestigious APICS Innovation Award of Excellence”.

We are proud to have Amerequip as our client and look forward to being a strategic partner and support their company growth and success.

Infor LN & Baan: Need real time information for Finance, Production, Inventory, Sales and more?

Kathy Barthelt 0 34077 Article rating: 5.0

Did you know Analytics Dashboard serves as the perfect complement to extend your Infor LN / Baan ERP system AND your data collection software?

Want to display all of this data in easy to understand graphs and charts with drill-down capability?

Contact Kathy Barthelt today to find out how our Analytics Dashboard can provide all of the information you need in real-time. 

Pre-Configured Dashboards INCLUDED with Crossroads RMC's Analytics Dashboard:

  • Accounts Payable
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Journal
  • Booked Sales
  • Invoiced Sales
  • Production
  • Receipts
  • Purchase Orders
  • Inventory

Infor LN & Baan Tip of the Week: The RFQ Comparison Workbench in LN 10.7

Kathy Barthelt 0 83842 Article rating: 5.0

The RFQ Comparison Workbench (tdpur8366m000) session has been introduced to compare bidder responses and select the best deal from the existing combinations. The bidder combinations are displayed based on the total amounts or the criteria set defined on the selected request for quotation (RFQ). Users can use the session to:

• Filter the best response from the suppliers or bidders

• Determine the best responses based on Total Amount

• Determine the best responses based on Criteria Set

This session can be started from a specific RFQ or from the RFQ tab in the RFQ (tdpur8310m000) session. Initially, the session is not available on the menu, but users can add it to the menu.

Infor LX / BPCS Tip of the Week: Pre-assigned lot numbers for multi-level SO release

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In addition to assigning lot numbers in Shop Order Entry/Maintenance (SFC500) after the shop orders have been released, users can now pre-assign lot numbers during the Multi-level Shop Order Release process (SFC530) and the Multi-Level Back-flush process (LMP600) for sub-assemblies that are lot controlled items. The user has the choice of using the parent lot ID, using the next sequential generated lot ID, or not pre-assigning lot IDs. Multiple items per lot must be installed to use the parent lot number option.

How Are Your 2019 Goals? Get More Out of Your ERP!

Crossroads RMC 0 44919 Article rating: 5.0

We’re ½ way through the 3rd Quarter of 2019 already! How are you doing with your 2019 goals?

Maybe it's time to get more out of your ERP system:
  • Need assistance implementing new functionality in your ERP?
  • Looking to train new employees, or retrain existing employees?
  • Time to automate your most time-consuming processes?
  • Interested in a web-based application for your users or external customers/suppliers?
     

Learn How Crossroads RMC Can Help!

Tax Law Changes by the Numbers - Infor LN & Baan Integration to Avalara

Kathy Barthelt 0 73845 Article rating: 5.0

Are you up to speed on all of the sale tax changes that could affect your business?

Tax Law Changes by the Numbers
A look at what's changed in 2018-2019

  • 21 states adopted economic nexus as of December 31, 2018, requiring out-of-state businesses with a certain amount of economic activity in the state to collect and remit sales tax
  • 33 states have enforced economic nexus as of June 30, 2019
  • 43 states will enforce economic nexus as of December 31, 2019
  • 7 states had marketplace facilitator sales tax laws as of December 31, 2018, requiring marketplaces to collect sales tax on behalf of their sellers
  • 15 states have marketplace facilitator sales tax laws as of June 30, 2019
  • 28 states will have marketplace facilitator sales tax laws as of January 1, 2020

The trend to tax remote sales is certain to continue, and there will be the normal slew of rate, regulation, and product taxability changes. 

Sales Tax is complicated! Crossroads RMC provides the integration from Infor LN & Baan to Avalara to make it easy. Click Here to Learn More

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Infor LX & BPCS Tip of the Week: LX 8.4 Database

The database in LX 8.4 has undergone a significant change from previous versions. The database has been created using SQL DDL language instead of the old DDS language. The newer format allows for LX to take better advantage of advances in IBM database technologies as they move forward. Additionally, LX will be better able to make changes to tables (aka files) in the future without causing very large MR explosions to replace all programs that use a specific table. To ease the impact of this significant change, the LX tables (aka physical files) have new names that are the same as the previous version file names but with a “P” at the end, for example IIM is now IIMP. The old file names now belong to SQL views that looks just like the tables. This change made it easier to upgrade all the LX programs without changing every reference to every file. Many of the logical files remain although some have been replaced by SQL indexes to improve performance.
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You can move monthly periods to a different parent period. For example, if you have a monthly calendar, you can create quarter periods and move months to the quarters.

  1. Select Financials > Global Ledger > Setup > Finance Enterprise Group > Maintenance.
  2. Open the finance enterprise group.
  3. Click the Calendar tab.
  4. Open the calendar for which you want to move periods.
  5. Click the Hierarchy tab.
  6. Select the periods to move.
  7. Select Actions > Move.
  8. Select the new parent period under which you want to move the periods.
  9. Click OK.

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