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Infor and Crossroads RMC are proud to offer a joint webinar on Taking Your Shop Floor Paperless – August 28th, 2014.

Taking Your Shop Floor Paperless – Webinar, August 28th, 2014. During this webinar, you will learn about the Crossroads MES Shop Floor Solution which gives you the ability to do all the following and more: Collect production data Provide real time feedback to your workers and your management team Integrate to machines on your shop… […]

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: SFC600 & SFC650

These programs are used to capture and post shop floor information. Labor reporting, machine time, etc. can be captured by either program. The key difference is that one will also capture the production receipt and backflush components. Based on your company information / transaction process, one of these programs will most likely be used daily… […]

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Company Calendar

Baan uses the company calendar in the following modules to determine the start and end dates for planned orders: Master Production Scheduling Material Requirements Planning Capacity Requirements Planning (All three combined in a single planning module for Baan V and LN) Shop Floor Control The calendar provides the valid working days, number of shifts per… […]

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: What is the bubble number and how do I maintain it?

The bubble number is maintained at the component level for each component defined on the Bill of Material. It is an extra user-defined reference number that you can use to re-sequence the maintenance screen display or bills of material listings. In Infor LX, the system displays the bubble number for the existing child items. Engineering… […]

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Setting Up New Employees in LN

In LN, the People package is used to register the employee’s hours and expenses. To support the People package, the Employees – General (tccom0101m000) session only contains the general employee data. The title of the Employees – General (tccom0101m000) session was changed to Employees – General (tccom0101m000). From the Employees – General (tccom0101m000) session, users… […]

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Why Define Location Fields in the Work Center File

If you setup the “From” and “To” Location fields in the Work Center file, this will determine the locations for material issue transactions and production reporting transactions. The reporting of the transactions happen through production reporting, JIT600, or using the Shop Floor labor posting, SFC600, or Shop Floor Posting from SFC650. Remember, any location used… […]

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Month End – Miscellaneous To-Do’s

Print Sales Order History Information all invoices processed through sales Check Inventory Valuation this should tie out to your inventory accounts Print Integration Information see all postings from WIP to finished goods Print G/L Transaction Information print specific transaction types for any GL account Print Lot Control Information will show where serial numbers were used… […]

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: The Product Configurator

What is it? The configurator consists of a set of features (questions). The options (answers) to these questions are used to generate the custom bill of material and routing. These questions may be answered at the time of order entry, prior to order entry (in a project or quote) or after order entry (in the… […]

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Optionally Include Tax Amounts In Order Balance

In Baan IV, the order balance amount always includes the tax amount. Consequently, the tax amount must be recalculated every time an order line is modified in order to update the balance correctly. If the tax provider is activated, this requires an API call for every re-calculation of tax. In Infor LN, users can select… […]

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Changing the Master Schedule

You can change your master schedule by specifying the type of master schedule update to perform. You can run a Net Change or Regenerative Schedule. You also have the ability to clear the lower level requirements out of the Planned and Firm-Planned Order file. 81670 Rate this article: 4.5 […]