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Infor LN & Baan Tip: Job Management

You can use job management to schedule jobs based on your organizational requirements. For example, you can schedule jobs at non-peak hours to improve the overall system performance in a heavily loaded environment. A job consists of one or more sessions or shell commands, or both, that run without user interaction. The sessions and shell… […]

Infor LN & Baan Materials Tip: Sales Quotations

Sales quotations are used to supply a sold-to business partner with the required details to make a purchasing decision. You can create a sales quotation in response to a request for quotation (RFQ) from a business partner, or as a sales tool to initiate the sales process with potential business partners. A quotation includes the… […]

Infor LN & Baan Tip: Deleting Records

To improve performance and reduce database growth, deleting records is highly effective. The disadvantage of deleting records is that data is no longer available. Usually, however, not all records need to be saved. For example, line activities are stored by warehouse. Normally, you do not need to keep these records. Therefore, after closing a warehouse… […]

Infor LN & Baan Tip: Broadcast message to users

Did you know that you can send a broadcast message to users on the system? This is especially useful if you need users to exit their sessions, or in the event of system maintenance. For Baan IV users, see KB 22869250 For LN users, see KB 1830758 85369 Rate this article: 5.0 […]

Infor LN & Baan Manufacturing Tip: Performance Problems in Generate Order Planning (cprrp1210m000)

When the Generate Order Planning (cprrp1210m000) session is run it can take minutes to days to finish the process. The performance of this session depends on many settings, like the number of plan items, the number of orders, but it also depends on hardware and database setup. Here are some guidelines on how performance can… […]

Infor LN & Baan Tip of the Week: Limitations of Customer Defined Fields (CDFs)

Customer Defined fields are fields that can be added to tables, screens, reports, and BODs. Validation and calculation logic can be defined around those fields. This gives you great added capability and flexibility… however, are you aware of the limitations of using CDFs? You cannot define customer-defined fields for tables within Tools (the tl and… […]

Infor LN & Baan Finance Tip: How to clear balances on invoices that will be moved to a new company

To clear out the balances of outstanding invoices that will be added into new companies or moved into new companies, credit notes could be created for them and have them linked to all the invoices of one customer/supplier. Another option is to run the session to Write Off Payment Differences for all the invoices that… […]

Infor LN & Baan Tip: Did you know? PBOM – Effective Dates

Did you know? PBOM – Effective Dates Some customers have noticed that when a PBOM is pushed from Engineering to Production, the effective date of the PBOM component lines does not match the effective date of the revision of the PBOM component. Here is how it works: 1. The effective date on a PBOM line… […]

Infor LN & Baan Tip: Performance Standard Cost

Everything you ever wanted to know about Calculating Standard Cost and Actualizing Standard Cost / Revaluing Inventory (ticpr2210m000 | ticpr2220m000) Calculating standard cost and re-valuing inventory are important capabilities within your Infor ERP system for a variety of reasons. Sometimes these sessions experience performance issues. Here is a brand new PowerPoint released by Infor to… […]

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,… […]