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Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Use of Calendars in LN

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Enterprise Modeling Management module in Common: define the calendar of companies (company calendar) and enterprise units.

In the People module, you can link calendars to teams of employees. The Hours and Expenses module in the People package uses this information to get the default number of hours from the calendar lines.

In Common, you can link calendars to business partners and addresses; Procurement and Sales use this information when planning goods transfers.

Manufacturing: link calendars to work centers. The work centers' working times determine the available production capacity.

 

Warehousing: link calendars to warehouses.

Service: use calendars to specify when a cluster is available for servicing.

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Save the Date: LX Communities WebEx- Shop Floor Application hosted by Crossroads RMC - March 14, 2017 - 10:00 AM CST

Tuesday, March 14, 2017 - 10:00 a.m. Central

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Register Today!

Infor LX Communities Virtual WebEx on Shop Floor Applications
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
10:00 am | Central Standard Time | 1 hr

Attend this conference to discuss: 

  • Problems and concerns with the Shop Floor Application
  • Routing file and Work Center file reviews showing how specific settings can determine the expected outcome for shop floor information
  • Is downtime a big concern? How is downtime captured today? Is downtime considered when setting up capacity parameters?

Crossroads will have a team of seasoned consultants on the call.  This team has been working with the BPCS/LX ERP since the mid 1990’s.

Crossroads RMC has been an Infor partner for 10 years and offers a complete and comprehensive set of software solutions to support manufacturing optimization for companies running on the IBM i platform. Our solutions focus on delivering real-time visibility and control over your entire operation. With over 30 years of experience, Crossroads RMC has become a trusted advisor and technology partner for manufacturers across the globe. 

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Use of Calendars in LN

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  • In the Enterprise Modeling Management module in Common, you can define the calendar of companies (company calendar) and enterprise units.
  • In the People module, you can link calendars to teams of employees. The Hours and Expenses module in the People package uses this information to get the default number of hours from the calendar lines.
  • In Common, you can link calendars to business partners and addresses; Procurement and Sales use this information when planning goods transfers.
  • In Manufacturing, you can link calendars to work centers. The work centers' working times determine the available production capacity.
  • In Warehousing, you can link calendars to warehouses.
  • In Service, you use calendars to specify when a cluster is available for servicing.

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BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: At a Loss?

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Loss of Key Experienced Personnel– More and more of the original “super users” have changed jobs, or retired. In their place are skilled individuals who may have been trained to execute specific tasks, but lack the experience required to respond to new and unplanned business needs and opportunities. As a result, decisions are made that may cause unintended problems. 

What is the best way to deal with this BEFORE the problem occurs? Read our blog to find out:

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Baan/LN Tip of the Week: At a Loss?

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Loss of Key Experienced Personnel– More and more of the original “super users” have changed jobs or retired. In their place are skilled individuals who may have been trained to execute specific tasks, but lack the experience required to respond to new and unplanned business needs and opportunities. As a result, decisions are made that may cause unintended problems. 

What is the best way to deal with this BEFORE the problem occurs? Read our blog to find out:

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BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Why Would You Buy a BMW, But Use a Scooter?

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Congratulations! You bought that shiny, new car! It has all the features you can possibly want and goes a million miles an hour. It can take you anywhere your heart desires…….but you rely on a manual scooter to get you around. You know, the kind you had when you were a kid…BEFORE you could drive…before you could afford the BMW. Make sense? Uh... no.

You’d never do this, right? So, why are you doing this with the ERP system that runs your business? Why are you relying on spreadsheets and separate little Access databases to record and store the information that is the most critical to your business when you have an ERP system that is meant for this? Why continue to plod along at a snail's pace when you have the tools to take your business to the next level?

Your ERP system is your BMW. Use it. See what it can do for you. Think you’ve used it to its potential? Unlikely. We’ve helped customers breathe new life into their EXISTING ERP version all by unlocking functionality for them that was already there and ready to use! We’ve also helped by offering add-ons to the ERP that can make your productivity skyrocket.

Ask us how. We’ve got an extra set of keys to the BMW in case you lost yours.

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Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Why Would You Buy a BMW, But Use a Scooter?

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Congratulations! You bought that shiny, new car! It has all the features you can possibly want and goes a million miles an hour. It can take you anywhere your heart desires…….but you rely on a manual scooter to get you around. You know, the kind you had when you were a kid…BEFORE you could drive…before you could afford the BMW. Make sense? Uh... no.

You’d never do this, right? So, why are you doing this with the ERP system that runs your business? Why are you relying on spreadsheets and separate little Access databases to record and store the information that is the most critical to your business when you have an ERP system that is meant for this? Why continue to plod along at a snail's pace when you have the tools to take your business to the next level?

Your ERP system is your BMW. Use it. See what it can do for you. Think you’ve used it to its potential? Unlikely. We’ve helped customers breathe new life into their EXISTING ERP version all by unlocking functionality for them that was already there and ready to use! We’ve also helped by offering add-ons to the ERP that can make your productivity skyrocket.

Ask us how. We’ve got an extra set of keys to the BMW in case you lost yours.

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Tip of the Week: The 3 Secrets to Improving Your MO (Manufacturing Optimization)

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  1. Identify the key metrics. You need benchmark data so you know what realistic goals are, then track them and publish your performance along with a brief comment from time to time on how things are trending and how you compare with others, particularly your primary competitors. The best thing about this is that it is a system that develops a life of its own.
     
  2. Measure it. Automatically, people start to think about improving things. Then the fun part, stuff begins to improve by itself. Once in place, the system just hums along and the benefits appear, because it has motivated people to think about it, and figure out what they can do to make it better.
     
  3. Communicate it. Publish your numbers, and explain to people how what they do affects the company as a whole and its success/failure. Once they see the numbers, employees quite often start to modify their behavior for the better.

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Tips:  LX | BPCS | M3

This enhancement provides additional views, additional order and line details, improved navigation, and additional capabilities to the IDF Customer Order Inquiry cards and to customer order-related business objects such as Allocations, Customer Invoices, Inventory Transaction History, Promotions, Drop Shipments.

Enhanced Order views based on user roles such as customer service, warehouse/logistics, salesperson/commission, data analysis/management reporting

  • Improved sort, select and filter capabilities
  • Enhanced navigation, data organization and data display
  • Improved customer service access to all transactions throughout the entire customer order life cycle – from quote to order, related invoices, and any RMAs, return orders, related credit memos
  • Improved grouping of related fields
  • New cards to present additional order and order line details
  • Consolidation of cards and card details when appropriate
  • Enhanced Display and Maintain capabilities for drillback to related customer, ship-to, item, carrier, terms, and other master file details
  • Improved display of dates, times and applicable time zones when Region Code time zone support is implemented
  • Multi language Description, Name and Address fields displayed in user’s language, if defined, else in base language

This enhancement provides search capabilities on segment value description in Segment Value List window (WINGSVD).

Segment Value List (WINGSVD):

  • Converted to a standard subfile
  • New action code 10=Search

This makes it easier to locate segment values when defining segment values in Model Account Builder or Alias definition. In addition, WINGSVD has been redesigned as a subfile to enable WebTop grid capabilities.

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Tips: LN | Baan

Infor LN & Baan: BIG DATA - Keeping Track of Key Metrics

In order to communicate effectively as a team, everyone needs to speak the same language and operate off the same playbook. If decisions are made based on the data or the view of data that individuals are maintaining through their own spreadsheets or other data silos, then communication is negatively impacted.

Manufacturers need to review large amounts of data every day, making it difficult to keep track of key metrics within your department.

That’s where Crossroads RMC’s Analytics Dashboard solution comes in. Our Analytics Dashboard was developed to make tasks easier by putting all of the key information in one convenient location so you can view all of your crucial data in real-time.
 

With powerful dashboards, you can:

  • Create pie charts, graphs, interactive maps, and more with just a few clicks.
  • Build a dashboard once and make it instantly available on any device.
  • Tell a story with your data with your own custom layouts, colors, and commentary—all with no coding.
  • Confidently provide reports with real-time data updates.
  • Access your dashboards from anywhere–computer, tablet, or phone.

Check out the sample of our dashboards by department below. Then, to get started, request a demo for a complete walkthrough of our Analytics Dashboard.
 

Manufacturing

OEE, time usage, downtime, quantities, cycle times, and more...

Enlarge Production Summary Dashboard Enlarge Work Center Job Step Status
Production Summary Dashboard Machine / Labor Performance Dashboard Work Center Job Step Status Dashboard



Finance

Revenue, income, working capital, assets, and more...

Enlarge Accounts Receivable Dashboard
Accounts Receivable
Summary Dashboard
Accounts Receivable
Dashboard
Enterprise Accounting
Dashboard


Materials

Planning, sourcing, procuring, transporting, storing, controlling materials, and more...

Enlarge Inventory Dashboard Enlarge Sales History Dashboard
Inventory Dashboard Purchasing Dashboard Sales History Dashboard

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