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Crossroads RMC is proud to announce the release of the following dashboard views that come STANDARD with the LX Analytics Dashboard

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Standard Analytics Dashboard Views: 

  • Sales Bookings (ECH)
  • Accounts Receivable (RAR)
  • Accounts Payable (APH)
  • Planned Orders (KFP)
  • Purchasing (HPH)
  • Shop Order Material (FMA)
  • Shop Order Operations (FOD)
  • CEA
  • Order Booking (ECS)
  • Labor History (FLT)
  • Sales History (SIH)
  • Material Status (IIM/ILI)

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If you can't see everything that happens on your shop floor, you are at a competitive disadvantage

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If you’re not able to see everything that happens on your shop floor in real-time, you’re at a HUGE competitive disadvantage! Your competitors are running MES. 

Crossroads MES software provides:

  • A user-friendly interface and an easy exchange of information between the shop floor users and your ERP database. 
  • Planners the ability to schedule work to a specific machine or work area. In addition, it allows for work to be re-sequenced and split for better flexibility in scheduling shop floor activities.
  • Factory workers with the ability to receive the work schedule electronically as well as interacting with it by reporting transactional activity.
  • The ability to electronically display Drawing, Process Instructions, and Quality Instructions so you can eliminate, or minimize, the need for some of the paper on the shop floor.
  • The ability to pass shop floor transactional activity to dashboard displays as well as the ERP system. 

Click here to learn more about Crossroads MES 

or Contact Anthony Etzel today to learn more.

Infor LN & Baan Tip of the Week: Job Groups in LN

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In a scenario where performing job A depends on the result of job B, it is hard to decide at what time job A must be scheduled, and how long job B runs. To handle dependent jobs, you can now create a job group. Use the Job Groups (ttaad5140m000) session to create a job group. A job group has a name, with the same characteristics as a job name, and a description. The Status and User of the job group are handled automatically.

After creating the job group, the jobs are added to the group, approximately in the order the jobs must be performed. The first job in the group (with the lowest Group Number) determines the handling of the whole job group, such as execution date and whether the job group is being repeated. If the job group is not repeating, the job group and all non-repeating jobs in the job group are deleted when the job group has run.

The dependencies of the jobs in the job group are also determined. A job in the job group can only depend on a job in the same job group with a lower job number.

You can use the specific options in the Job Groups (ttaad5140m000 andttams5640m000) sessions to change the status of the job group. The job group statuses have the same meaning as the status of the jobs and the same status changes are allowed.

Note: Job groups are only handled by the BSE service Job Scheduler Service.

A/P Payment Update in LX 8.3.4

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A/P Payment Update in LX 8.3.4. ACP660B creates a file using a layout required by the bank; the file informs the bank to pay invoices. These conditions must be met to create the file:

  • FIM is an installed product in SYS821  ­
  • The user is authorized to FIM in SYS600 ­
  • The company is active in FIMCOMIT in SYS105  ­
  • The payment type is in BONPAYTP (SYS105)

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

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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.

Crossroads RMC is Proud to Announce Product Certification for Baan IV to Avalara!

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Crossroads RMC is pleased to announce that our Baan IV integration to AvaTax has officially been certified by Avalara! This means that all Baan IV, Baan V and Infor LN customers now have an automated solution for sales and use tax!

AvaTax provides sales and use tax calculations in real time including rate determination, returning filing, remittance and exemption certificate management. 


Want to learn more? Please contact Kathy Barthelt for more details

1st Infor LN 10.7 Implementation for Crossroads RMC!

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We are proud to announce our first Infor LN 10.7 implementation in partnership with Infor Consulting Services for LOOP, Inc. (Louisiana Offshore Oil Port Services). As part of this project, Crossroads RMC will be providing Finance and Data Migration as well as Infor OS / Ming.le consulting services.

Learn More about Crossroads RMC Consulting Services and our knowledgeable Consultants!

Infor LN & Baan Tip of the Week: Credit Checks for Business Partners

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Did you know that you have several options for credit checks for your business partners?

Action-several options are available:

  • Always Hold (Credit)—the order will always be held until released
  • Never Hold (Credit)-the order will never be held
  • Check Credit—a credit check is performed at time of sales order entry, release to invoicing or at confirm shipment.  When this status is used, the check can be performed at one or all three steps.  The steps are only visible with this status.
  • Always Hold (Overdue Invoices)—the order will be held for overdue invoices until released.

Link the credit rating to the invoice to a business partner in the credit control session. You may also enter a credit limit. A credit limit of zero means unlimited credit.

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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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Infor LN & Baan Tip: Cost Component Setup

To break down an item’s standard cost, sales price, or valuation price, use cost components. With cost components, you can compare estimated and actual costs, calculate production variances, and analyze costs in Standard Cost Calculation.

If cost components are set up in a detailed way, detailed records exist in the Item - Calculated Valuation Prices (ticpr2540m000) session and the Item - Standard Valuation Prices (ticpr3540m000) session. Additional financial integration transactions are created because integration transactions are logged by cost component. A detailed cost component setup also causes additional cost details in domains such as Sales and Warehousing. This increases database growth and makes performance worse, especially during production completion and the item receipt process.

Reduce the number of cost components in the effective cost component structure, which is displayed in the Effective Cost Component Structure (ticpr0112m000) session, as much as possible. The minimum number is three aggregated cost components: one for material, one for operation, and one for surcharges. From a performance point of view, the following is advised:

Reduce the number of cost components

  • One operation cost component for all operation rates.
  • One cost component for all subcontracting rates.
  • One cost component for item and warehouse surcharges.
  • One cost component for actual labor rates (in People). Ensure you only use cost components that are required.

Use aggregated cost components
The standard cost is calculated by (detailed) cost component for a multilevel BOM. A similar calculation of valuation prices (actual prices) would result in a price structure with many cost components, especially for manufactured items. In case of a warehouse transfer, issue to WIP, and so on, postings are made for every cost component. However, this detailed cost information does not add functional value in Warehousing. If you aggregate cost components, the number of cost components in financial transactions is reduced. Therefore, aggregate operation cost, material cost, and surcharges to the three cost components that are defined in the Item - Costing (ticpr0107m000) session

If you do not enter a Standard Cost Component Scheme in the Item - Costing (ticpr0107m000) session, production order costs, production order variances, and surcharges are posted by aggregated cost component. This improves performance and decreases database growth.

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