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Infor LX | Infor LN | BPCS | Baan | Infor M3

Anthony Etzel- Featured Speaker at inPower 2019

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Infor IDF is replacing green screens for inquiries and release LX 8.4 for file maintenance. This session will show you how to use IDF over your non-LX file. 
 

Many Companies have IDF and are not effectively using it. This session will cover:

  • Building a business object (Intergrator) 
    • How to create a logical expression
    • How to make a field a maintainable field with IDF
  • Views 
    • How to create custom views
    • How to navigate in IDF and create search subsets

Pushing Forward In the Face of Adversity. Soundview recently suffered a major loss when fire struck on January 30, 2019.

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Soundview Paper lost their main building when disaster struck. This building housed offices, their computer center and part of their manufacturing facility. The loss including hardware, networks, system data backups, etc. Crossroads RMC was contacted immediately to assist in the recovery of their BPCS V6 system. With limited backups and a full team effort, Crossroads RMC assisted in the acquisition of new hardware and are currently in the midst of helping to bring their system back to life. Soundview has secured support from various partners to make all this happen, and we are privileged to be part of the team. A lot of work has been done so far, but we have a long road ahead. Users will soon regain access by the end of this week,  and as required, Crossroads RMC will provide the necessary consulting support from our LX team to get Soundview back up and running. We are communicating with them daily, as we work thru this process.

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Facility Period Close

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The Facility Period Close process, as introduced in Infor LX 8.3.4, was designed to function interactively. 

The expectation was that clients with a continuous or 24-hour worldwide operation in multiple facilities would submit the Period End Close jobs for each facility as daily operations ceased or shifts ended for each facility. This process was designed to function interactively so that validations of users performing transactions that conflicted with period end processing, and resulting messages, were immediately sent to the period end user. 

This enhancement provides a batch mode for the Facility Period Close (INV930) process and allows the Update IIM Inventory from IWI (INV931) process to be submitted from the INV930B program. The enhancement also provides a batch mode for the INV931 process. For example, a user has a 24-hour operation in facilities around the world, but a centralized IT operation. With this enhancement the user can submit the individual facilities to be closed to a batch process that can be managed by a scheduler, automatically releasing each facility to be closed at a predetermined time.

Flexfab Expands Their Use of Crossroads RMC Data Collection for All LN Installations Globally

Data Collection News

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Flexfab Horizons International, Inc, a global leader in the manufacture of high performance silicone and other advanced polimer products, has made the decision to expand their use of Crossroads RMC’s Data Collection Solution, RMC3, to their China location. The initial implementations in Nottinghamshire, UK and the United States took place in 2018, and the China implementation is expected to be completed by Q2 of 2019. All installations focus on improvements in warehouse management in Infor LN. Applications implemented include Receiving, Inspections/Approvals, Putaway, Stock Transfers and Stock Inquiry.

Crossroads RMC partnered with Electrolux Corporation to Connect Baan IVc4 to Vertex 8.0 (O Series)

Vertex Q to Vertex O… the ABC’s of tying this to Baan IV

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Crossroads RMC partnered with Electrolux Corporation to Connect Baan IVc4 to Vertex 8.0 (O Series), and was able to successfully complete this project in under 3 months. This project was completed using Crossroads RMCconnector as a web service to read the Vertex tax data and pass the information back into Baan for further processing. Triggers were created to handle the following processes:

  • Sales Order Lines
  • Print/Reprint Order Acknowledgement
  • Print Sales Invoice (Both compose and final)
  • Purchase Order Lines
  • Purchase order Acknowledgement
  • Purchase Order invoice
  • Manual Finance Invoice (Compose, print and post)
  • Post Integration transactions
  • Finalize batch

Nazdaq has released Version 3.0 of B2Win Suite

Partner News

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New Release of B2Win Suite: Format customer reports, email documents to your suppliers and customers, and more! 

New features – B2Win Suite - You are no longer limited to the data that comes from your canned reports! You can now add new columns to your already existing reports in Excel, based on SQL commands that bring additional data from any database (ERP or other), based on values from the report.

Existing Nazdaq customers should contact us to learn how we can convert your software to the latest and greatest Nazdaq product suite!

For more information: watch our webinar:

Webinar Recording: 48:18

Crossroads is proud to work with Johnson Crushers International on their LN re-implementation to 10.6

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Johnson Crushers International (JCI), a global leader in engineering and manufacturing full lines of cone crushers, horizontal and incline vibrating screens and track-mounted, portable and stationary crushing and screening plants, has selected Crossroads RMC to help them re-implement Infor LN on 10.6.  JCI’s main objectives with this project are to support their continued growth, align and standardize their business processes, and enable a continuous improvement effort to drive additional value to the business. Go live is expected to occur in early Q1 of 2020.

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Warehouse Material Movement / Problems With the Inventory Structure Table (whinr150)

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This has come up as an issue during various stages of warehouse material movements – transfers, outbounds, shipments. We have seen it right up to 10.4. The inventory structure table (whinr150) becomes a problem. The error points to that table, but users are lost as to how to fix it.

In the session Units by Unit Set many companies let the field Storage default to Yes. If the UOM is not intended to be used in inventory then that setting should be No. 

If an item is purchased in UOM different from the inventory unit and the setting is Yes then LN adds a record in that UOM to the inventory structure table. It is that record that causes problem later.

The session has an option to change the value of the storage field. Specific > Convert Use for Storage. This option works both ways and will correct all inventory in the UOM range. 

Should a user receive an error that references inventory structure table then the solution is to check that session to see if an odd UOM exists in it. If so use the Convert Use for Storage to correct the problem.

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Infor LN & Baan Tip: MPS planned vs. MRP planned

What items should be MPS planned, and what items should be MRP planned…

Master Scheduled Items are those items that are finished goods, or service items, that receive their requirements either specifically from Independent demand, or both Dependent and Independent demand.

  • Independent Demand is demand that cannot be calculated from higher-level demand in the product structure, and therefore must be either a forecast or an actual customer order (Finished Goods or Service parts sold to customers).
  • Dependent demand is derived from higher-level demand in the product structure. Dependent demand includes components, raw materials, and sub-assemblies. (these are not normally Master Scheduled Items).
  • Service Parts may have both independent demand from forecast and/or customer orders, as well as dependent demand from higher-level demand if that item is also used in other sub-assemblies or products.
  • Cumulative Lead Time is a concept used in Master Production Scheduling (MPS) that combines the “fixed” lead time, and the “variable” lead time needed to produce the product. It is the longest path through a given Bill-of-material. Based on the MPS setup options, your ERP will calculate cumulative lead time (also called “the Critical Path”) for you.

Infor LN does not differentiate between the two. Here, it is simply an enterprise planning EP with one set of planned orders. It is possible to set up items and generate orders at plan levels, but not necessary. In theory, you could make plan level 1 similar to MPS items.

Another way of defining independent demand in LN terms is that it is demand not related to other planned items. Dependent demand comes from related planned items above in the BOM structure.

COLT still exists both in purchase and manufactured planned items. It has both non-critical and critical lead times based on components set as critical. Once calculated it can be used to update the order and planning horizons of a plan item.

Relevant Sessions:

In Baan IV
Maintain Item Data tiitem0101m000
Generate MPS timps3201m000
Maintain Master Production Schedule timps3101m000
Display Planned Inventory Movements by Item timrp1510m000
Display Planned MRP Purchase Orders timrp1521m000

In Baan V
Plan Item Data cprpd1500m000
Item Master Plan cprmp2101m000
Time-Phased Overview cprrp0520m000

In Infor LN
Item – Planning cprpd1100m000
Item Master Plan cprmp2101m000 (same as Master MPS above if used)

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