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Topics: BPCS 4.0.05CD to LX conversion from a finance point-of-view

  • Understand the benefits of LX 
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BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Inventory Period Balance Freeze

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This new feature provides the ability to freeze period-end balances at the end of a fiscal period.

This enhancement provides clients the ability to store the opening/ending on hand balance for each Inventory period at the Item (IIM), Warehouse/Item (IWI) and Lot/Location (ILI) levels.

This information can then be used for inventory tracking and valuation purposes, as well as other ad hoc financial and audit reporting requirements.

One key benefit is that tracking the opening/ending/period balance for each inventory period can give users insights into the levels of inventory for each item, item/warehouse and item/warehouse/lot/location combination.

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Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Make Your ERP Work FOR You - Streamline Your Processes

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Such lofty goals you had when you implemented your ERP system. It was going to be like pressing the “Easy Button”…  then it wasn’t.

What happened? In some cases, decisions were made to implement the system “just like we used to run our old system”. Great idea? Not so much. Your business changes, and your business software needs to change as well.

Are you using the ERP system, but everything seems cumbersome and takes more time than its worth? 

Ask yourself these questions:

  • Have you looked at streamlining your processes?
  • Can you automate a step or two and eliminate some manual keying?
  • Can you add barcoding to avoid keying in some information altogether?
  • How about automating the printing of some reports?

Now is the time to sit down and really review the steps required to complete the task and think out of the box a bit. Soon you can develop your own streamlined process to get the job done quickly and efficiently.

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BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Inventory Transactions

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You can define internal trade relationships between enterprise units or individual warehouses of the same logistic company for the transfer of material, labor, or other costs between warehouses, and to generate invoices for these without using sales orders and purchase orders. For example, you can use this to transfer goods between warehouses in different countries.

You can define warehouse surcharges, which are added to the actual costs of the goods either when the goods are issued from a warehouse or when the goods are received.

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Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Multi-Company Warehousing

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You can define internal trade relationships between enterprise units or individual warehouses of the same logistic company for the transfer of material, labor, or other costs between warehouses, and to generate invoices for these without using sales orders and purchase orders. For example, you can use this to transfer goods between warehouses in different countries.

You can define warehouse surcharges, which are added to the actual costs of the goods either when the goods are issued from a warehouse or when the goods are received.

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Crossroads RMC and Kardex Remstar Partner to Provide Solution for L3 Electron on Infor LN

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L3 Electron has selected Crossroads RMC to develop a connector from Kardex Remstar’s Power Pick Global software to Infor LN. Power Pick Global facilitates batch picking, allowing an operator to fill multiple orders at one time, increasing productivity significantly. Multi-user-picking provides the flexibility to easily add additional labor to further increase picking speeds when order volume is high. Optical indicators such as Pick-to-Light and Put-to-Light direct the operator to the exact location of the pick, increasing accuracy and reducing the number of picking errors. L3 Electron is a technology company specializing in the manufacture of microwave devices for ground-based, airborne and satellite communications and radar. Go live is scheduled for late Q3 of 2017.

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BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Operational Inefficiencies

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Two big sources of inefficiencies in manufacturing are paper and spreadsheets. I know that you love ‘em, but they are the cause of more problems than you probably realize. Think of how long it takes you to get paper based data into the hands of those who can do something valuable with the data.

  • Is the information captured correctly?
  • Can everyone access the information?
  • Is this an accurate representation of what’s going on across all operations?

Make your shop floor paperless and put systems in place that talk to one another and automatically pull and push data to and from your ERP so that you can look in one place for all the information you need to run your business effectively.

If you’re not doing this today, you might as well be burning money.
 
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Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Operational Inefficiencies

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Two big sources of inefficiencies in manufacturing are paper and spreadsheets. I know that you love ‘em, but they are the cause of more problems than you probably realize. Think of how long it takes you to get paper based data into the hands of those who can do something valuable with the data.
  • Is the information captured correctly?
  • Can everyone access the information?
  • Is this an accurate representation of what’s going on across all operations?

Make your shop floor paperless and put systems in place that talk to one another and automatically pull and push data to and from your ERP so that you can look in one place for all the information you need to run your business effectively.

If you’re not doing this today, you might as well be burning money.
 
Optimize Your Manufacturing Today!
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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

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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: Latest Porting Set – All Versions of Infor LN & Baan

Are you on the latest porting set for your version of Baan / Infor LN? Check here to be sure:

VERSIONS: Infor LN, Infor Baan ERP 5.0c, Infor Baan IVc4

LAST MODIFIED ON:
13th Jan, 2021: Updated with 9.3i porting set, see KB 2176336 for this version. Available from LN CE release 2021.01
9th Oct, 2020: Updated with 9.3h porting set, see KB 2158949 for this version. Available from LN CE release 2020.10
9th July, 2020: Updated with 9.3g porting set, see KB 2142625 for this version. Available from LN CE release 2020.07
10th April, 2020: Updated with 9.3f porting set, see KB 2125567 for this version. Available from LN CE release 2020.04
13th Jan, 2020: Updated with 9.3e porting set, see KB 2108810 for this version
11th Oct, 2019: Updated with 9.3d porting set, see KB 2093165 for this version
11th July, 2019: Updated with 9.3c porting set, see KB 2075437 for this version
13th March, 2019: Updated with 9.3b porting set, see KB 2051365 for this version
7th Dec, 2018: Updated with 9.3a porting set, see KB 2033165 for this version
6th Sept, 2018: Updated with 9.2b.01 porting set, see KB 2014729 for this version
8th June, 2018: Updated with 9.2b porting set, see KB 1997100 for this version
12th March, 2018: Updated with 9.2a.01 porting set, see KB 1972861 for this version
11th Dec, 2017: Updated with 9.2a porting set, see KB 1954406 for this version
8th Sept, 2017: Updated with 9.1c.01 porting set, see KB 1934704 for this version
10th June, 2017: Updated with 9.1c porting set, see KB 1915968 for this version
20th March, 2017: Updated with 9.1b.01 porting set, see KB 1897691 for this version
9th Dec, 2016: Updated with 9.1b porting set, see KB 1876613 for this version
22nd Sept, 2016: Updated with 9.1a.01 porting set, see KB 1856545 for this version
23rd June, 2016: Updated with 9.1a porting set, see KB 1836486 for this version
14th March, 2016: Updated with 9.0c.01 porting set, see KB 1700568 for this version
11th Dec, 2015: Updated with 9.0c porting set, see KB 1677286 for this version
17th Sept, 2015: Updated with 9.0b.01 porting set, see KB 1654371 for this version
19th June, 2015: Updated with 9.0b porting set, see KB 1630218 for this version
20th March, 2015: Updated with 9.0a.01 porting set, see KB 1605781 for this version
9th Jan, 2015: Updated with 8.9a.06 porting set, see KB 1586121 for this version, this is only 32 bit for windows and linux.
17th Nov, 2014: Updated with 9.0a porting set, see KB 1572748 for this version, 12 Dec 2014, new version for windows released.
26th Sept, 2014: Updated with 8.9a.05 porting set, see KB 1539050 for this version
11th July, 2014: Updated with 8.9a.04 porting set, see KB 1517147 for this version
5th April, 2014: Updated with 8.9a.03 porting set, see KB 1490061 for this version
10th Jan, 2014: Updated with 8.9a.02 porting set, see KB 1465391 for this version
4th Oct, 2013: Updated with 8.9a.01 porting set, see KB 1442188 for this version
19th July, 2013: Updated with 8.9a porting set, see KB 1422389 for this version
1st March, 2013: Updated with 8.8a.03 porting set, see KB 1381629 for this version
30th Nov, 2012: Updated with 8.8a.02 porting set, see KB 1356958 for this version
13th Sept, 2012: Updated with 8.8a.01 porting set, see KB 1181506 for this version
30th May, 2012: Updated with 8.8a porting set, see KB 1154144 for this version
19th Jan, 2012: Updated with 8.7b.01 porting set, see solution 1120445 for this version. This is the first version that can also be used for Infor BaanIV c
7th Oct, 2011: Updated with 8.7a.03 porting set, see solution 1062346 for this version
17th June, 2011: Updated with 8.7a.02 porting set, see solution 1025539 for this version
31st March, 2011: Updated with 8.7a.01 porting set, see solution 1007520 for this version
17th Jan, 2011: Updated with new version of 8.7a porting set
3rd Dec, 2010: Updated with 8.7a porting set, see solution 22945526 for this version
8th Oct, 2010: Updated with 8.6a.03 porting set, see solution 22899106 for this version
17th June, 2010: Updated with 8.6a.02 porting set, see solution 22899105 for this version
1st April, 2010: Updated with 8.6a.01 porting set, see solution 22899104 for this version
11th February, 2010: Updated with the 64-bit 8.6a porting set, see solution 22899103 for this version
1st Dec, 2009: Updated with new 8.6a porting set, see solution 22899103 for this version
1st Oct, 2009: Updated with new 8.5a.03 porting set, see solution 22899102 for this version
18th June, 2009: Updated with new 8.5a.02 porting set, see solution 22899101 for this version
19th March, 2009: Updated with new 8.5a.01 porting set, see solution 22899100 for this version
4th Dec, 2008: Updated with new 8.5a porting set, see solution 22899099 for this version
23th Oct, 2008: Updated with new 8.4c.02 porting set, see solution 22899098 for this version
23th July, 2008: Updated with new 8.4c.01 porting set, see solution 22899097 for this version
2nd July, 2008: Updated with new 8.4c porting set, see solution 22899096 for this version
13th March, 2008: Updated with new 8.4b porting set, see solution 22899095 for this version
24th Jan, 2008: Updated with new 8.4a.02 porting set, see solution 22899094 for this version
21st Dec, 2007: Updated with new 8.4a.01 porting set for Windows, see solution 22899093 for this version
31st Aug, 2007: Updated with new 8.4a.01 porting set, see solution 22899093 for this version
25th June, 2007: Updated with new 8.4a porting set, see solution 22899115 for this version
4th Jan, 2007: Updated with new 8.3a.01 porting set, see solution 22899114 for this version
20th Oct, 2006: Updated with new 8.3a porting set, see solution 22899113 for this version
23th Aug, 2006: Updated with new 8.2b porting set for windows, see solution 22899112 for this version
16th June, 2006: Updated with Porting set 8.2b: see solution 22899112 for this version
28th April, 2006: Updated with Porting set 7.6b_01: see solution 22899111 for this version
9th March, new version of 7.6b Porting set released, see solution below,(22899110)
6th Dec, 2005: Updated with Porting set 7.6b: see solution 22899110 for this version
15th June, 2005: Updated with Porting set 7.6a.02: see solution 22899109 for this version
27th April, 2005: Updated with Porting set 7.6a.01: see solution 22899108 for this version
4th Dec, 2004: Updated with Porting set 7.6a: see solution 22899107 for this version


SITUATION DESCRIPTION:
A porting set is a set of binaries, which are operating system dependent. It is the layer between the operating system and the application software. Infor regularly releases a new porting set. A bugfix number recognizes every modification made in the porting set.

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