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AVALARA ISN'T ONLY TAX CALCULATION AND RETURNS FILING....

BPCS & Infor LX

Anthony Etzel 0 30923 Article rating: 5.0

Did you know that in addition to tax calculation and returns filing, Avalara can also help with:

  • Business license and tax registration
  • Streamlined Sales Tax qualification
  • Nexus analysis and compliance
  • Tax document management including exemption certificates
  • Audit preparation

Contact us today! We partner closely with Avalara to provide you with solutions on ALL version of BPCS and Infor LX!

Did you know that when you move to LX 8.4, the 100 series maintenance programs will be performed using ...

Anthony Etzel 0 19821 Article rating: 5.0

Did you know that when you move to LX 8.4, 100 series maintenance will be performed using the IDF maintenance programs, and the green screens go away? However, if you have the IDF integrator with 8.3.4 or 8.3.5, you have the ability to create business objects over your own data files along with creating maintenance programs. This would be a great way modernize any old green screen file maintenance that you currently have.

OTTO: How to get started? It’s easy!

Anthony Etzel 0 28054 Article rating: 5.0

The evaluation process for business operations improvements and related software is normally fairly long because it takes time to first understand the software and then to analyze how it will be used. However, how the software works won't truly be understood until it is actually functioning in either a live environment or a simulation of that environment using a reasonably complete test database. 

In order to overcome this challenge we use the following process:

  • Telephone meeting to discuss needs.
  • Webinar to determine common understanding.
  • Load data into OTTO for a live demo.
  • No-obligation trial of the software.

Your only obligation is to supply resources to evaluate OTTO's capabilities. This approach allows you to see exactly how OTTO operates in your specific environment and what benefits you can gain. Several of our customers have actually realized sufficient benefits during the trial-period to justify their purchase of OTTO. Best of all, this evaluation approach offers you extremely low cost and low risk with the potential for high payback in a short period of time.

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Purchase Order Receive All Processing

Anthony Etzel 0 46885 Article rating: 5.0

With this enhancement the Purchase Receipts screens are optionally shown with the quantity and weight fields populated with the open value on the purchase order. The screens are now populated with the open value and if the open value is the same as the value received, the user can simply accept the line. The Receive All field on the PUR550D1-01 screen determines whether the receipt lines are populated with the open value. A system parameter controls the Receive All default value but the default value can be overridden.  

If this option is selected, the user does not have to enter the open quantity or weight. If the purchase order receipt has many lines, this option saves time and prevents errors.

Data Collection: Are you able to perform a full cycle count of your inventory in one day?

Kathy Barthelt 0 53954 Article rating: 5.0

Cycle Counting Potential Benefits: 

  • Overall increased inventory accuracy
  • Increased accuracy of count
  • Ability to review and approve count before direct update of Baan / Infor LN tables
  • Elimination of unnecessary re-orders of items with current inventory Greater ability to satisfy customer orders due to greater visibility to (accurate) inventory levels
  • Direct labor cost savings – less staff required for count Increased productivity during count – with some of our customers, counts used to take weeks. They can now complete a count of their entire inventory in one day.
Contact us today to learn more

BPCS / LX Tip of the Week: Purchase Order Print Security Validation

Anthony Etzel 0 46585 Article rating: 5.0

This enhancement allows users to restrict access to purchase order print programs. The purchase order print programs were updated to provide security validation for the user who selects the purchase orders to print. The security validation is controlled by the PO Print Security Validation flag on the Purchasing System Parameters screen, PUR820D-04. This enhancement gives users the option to restrict access to purchase order print programs, providing additional security at the company and warehouse levels.

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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

Infor LN & Baan Tip of the Week: Reports to Analyze Company Performance

You know what data you need to analyze your company’s financial and production health, but sometimes it's a struggle to get that data in a format that is meaningful. Here are some reports in Baan IV, Baan V, and Infor LN which you may find useful.

As is the case with most ERP reports, with each version progression from Baan IV, to Baan V, to LN, there are improvements in selection criteria and report content. Some may require some setup and others may require some formatting if you would like to export them to Excel.  Contact me if you have questions or need assistance.

BAAN & LN FINANCE:

Baan IV –

Customer Statistics Module

  • Print Customer Statistics by Customer/Credit Analyst (tfcmg3400m000)
    • Prints Average Days Payment, Amount Paid, Average Days Outstanding, Amount Open, Discounts Allowed and Discounts Taken.  
       
  • Print Average Days Outstanding (tfcmg3401m000)
    • Prints Open Amount and Average Days Outstanding.
  • Print Average Receipt Days (tfcmg3402m000)
    • Prints Amount Paid and Average Number of Days for a Payment.


Cash Forecasting Module

  • Print Cash Forecast Summary by Period/Currency (tfcmg3410m000)
    • Prints Total Cash coming in from Sales Invoices, Sales Orders, Sales Quotes, Project Orders, and Budgets. Prints Total Cash going out from Purchase Invoices, Purchase Orders, Standing Orders, and Budgets.
       
  • Print Cash Forecast Summary by Date/Currency (tfcmg3411m000)
    • Prints the same as above but by a specific date.
       
  • Print Cash Forecast Details by Period/Currency (tfcmg3412m000)
    • Prints the same as above but by each period across in columns.
       
  • Prints Detailed Cash Forecast in Home Currency (tfcmg3413m000)
    • Prints each item, purchase order, sales order, etc, with forecast in home currency.


Baan V –

  • Print Finalized Transactions Ledger Account – tfgld1406m000
    • Output can be run to show transactions (debit/credit) by ledger account, transaction type, and time periods. This can be run by range of ledger account and/or range of periods.
  • Print Integration Transactions -tfgld4410m000
    • This has 3 options: a short version of the report, a standard version, and a version by company/ledger account.

Infor LN -

  • Print Finalized Transactions Ledger Account – tfgld1406m000
    • Output can be run to show transactions (debit/credit) by ledger account, transaction type, and time periods. This can be run by range of ledger account and/or range of periods.
  • Print Integration Transactions by Business Flow – tfgld4482m100
    • Output can be run to show all transactions (debit/credit) by business object (production/purchasing/sales)


BAAN & LN MANUFACTURING:

Baan IV

  • Print Actual Cost by Production Order ticst0401m000
    • This report can be run at any time in the production order’s life to show how hours-spent and material-used compare between estimated and actual usage.
       
  • Print Work Center Utilization By Week tiscf1402m000
    • This report shows capacity issues at work centers/machines which help identify production bottlenecks.


Baan V

  • Print Estimated vs Actual Material Costs ticst0401m000
    • This report can be run at any time in the production order’s life to show how actual material-used compares to estimated usage.
       
  • Print Estimated vs Actual Hour Costs ticst0402m000
    • This report can be run at any time in the production order’s life to show how actual hours-spent compares estimated hours.
       
  • Print Work Center Utilization By Week tiscf1402m000
    • This report shows capacity issues at work centers/machines which help identify production bottlenecks.


Infor LN

  • Print Estimated vs Actual Material Costs ticst0401m000
    • This report can be run at any time in the production order’s life to show how actual material-used compares to estimated usage.
       
  • Print Estimated vs Actual Hour Costs ticst0402m000
    • This report can be run at any time in the production order’s life to show how actual hours-spent compares estimated hours.
       
  • Utilization report from– Print Resource Order Plan cprrp0430m000
    • This report from Enterprise Planning will show all orders from planning and production. By incorporating both order types, capacity issues can be seen short range where planning has determined that new orders are needed, as well as long range where planners may find opportunities to shift work or even to plan machine maintenance.

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