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Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Old Porting Set

Here are some issues that you might run into if you stay on an old porting set too long: Incompatibility because of operating system patches Printing issues because of out-of-date libraries Potential performance issues if binaries are not updated Updating third-party products may not be possible because of dependencies Limited support from Infor Issues with… […]

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Grow Employees to Grow Your Business

Earlier this year I wrote a blog about motivating employees to do more… to be more. Doing this helps your business grow. Here is a link to my article> https://www.crossroadsrmc.com/Resources/Infor-ERP-Tips-News/its-not-all-about-the-money-money-money-motivating-employees-in-the-new-year-2 And I would like to share a link to a recent article from Industry Week giving a different take on the same idea. https://www.industryweek.com/recruiting-retention/grow-employees-grow-your-business 54764… […]

Baan/LN Tip of The Week: Grow Employees to Grow Your Business

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: 6 Powerful Steps to Win With Automation

1. Eliminate paper shop packet and distribution of the paperwork to the shop floor. 2. Eliminate manual (paper-based) recording activities and the need to key in the transactions. 3. Easy electronic scheduling by sequence and changing job priorities. 4. E valuate differences using actual times compared to standards. 5. Improve data accuracy and eliminate the… […]

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: 6 powerful steps to win with automation

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Transaction Accounts – Commissions

In Baan IV, if a link with Financials exists for commissions and rebates, invoices are created directly in the Commission Control System (CMS) module and posted to Financials. As a result, users must specify the ledger accounts that are used for posting commissions and rebates in the Maintain Commission/Rebate Transaction Accounts (tdcms2101m000) session. In LN,… […]

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Receiving to Inspection

If the item being received needs to be inspected prior to being available for use, there are two schools of thought.The first is to receive the item to a QC hold location. The downside is the item will show up in on hand inventory. A better method would be to do a PO receipt to… […]

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Project Templates

Project templates are useful because you can specify all of the information that you would normally want to include when creating a new project such as project structure, budget and so on. In Baan IV/V, project templates do not exist, but you can set up a project template by creating a regular project, and setting… […]

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Inventory Control

In Infor LX you need to determine how inventory will be moved in and out of warehouse storage locations, and which of the following transactions to use for inventory control: A transfer transaction can be used to move inventory from one warehouse location to another warehouse location. A production receipt transaction is used to add… […]

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Operational Inefficiencies

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. Are… […]