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Infor LX & BPCS Materials Tip: Did you know you can do all these things in Order Management?

DID YOU KNOW?

Did you know you can do all these things in Order Management?

  • Specify and maintain various order types from a single order entry and maintenance application.
  • Define required order processing events for each order.
  • Automatically generate various business documents at each order processing event.
  • Backorder automatically.
  • Establish customer and supplier item number cross references.
  • Optionally pre-allocate inventory online.
  • Consolidate orders online.
  • Check inventory availability and allocation by lot, location, or container.
  • Inquire on open orders by customer name, customer number, item, request date, order, or picker number.
  • Inquire about customers, customer quotes, ship-to locations, lot/location allocations, material status, and warehouses.
  • Check customer credit.
  • Review and release four order types: customer, credit, margin, and user.
  • Maintain multiple addresses, including Ship-to, Promotional Payment-to, Invoice-to, and Lock Box-to.
  • Perform special pricing by customer, salesperson, item, and discount classes.
  • Set up contract and discount pricing with nine quantity breaks.
  • Maintain multiple companies, profit centers, and locations.
  • Process made-to-order or one-time special items.
  • Perform optional batch detail allocations to orders.
  • Print pickable orders reports.
  • Maintain multiple customer terms per company.
  • View online shipment history.
  • Allocate to the location/lot/container level when you enter or pick orders.
  • Control and monitor customer requests for returned goods.
  • Accept and process customer orders for inventory items shipped directly from a vendor to the customer.

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Tips:  LX | BPCS | M3

The LMP module (Lean Manufacturing Process) uses work centers but refers to them as production cells.

A cell is one or more work centers that produces an end item. So when a company decides to adopt the lean manufacturing philosophy, the concept of work centers takes on a new meaning.

In lean terms, the work center, or group of work centers, becomes a production cell. In other words, a mini-factory producing end items with similar characteristics.
Understanding:

The Machine Master File

Do your machines have a fixed asset tag? The machine master file has a field called Fixed Asset.

BPCS does not use this field, so you can use this field for anything. You can record your fixed asset tag in this field and use the effective date. You can create a custom fixed asset list by using a DFU or Query program.

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Table Timestamp Definitions (ttadv4136m000)

Use this session to define timestamps for Infor LN tables. A timestamp is an additional column that stores the date and time of the last change for each record.

Timestamps are utilized by features like the extraction logic of CPM Enterprise Analytics. They enable CPM to perform incremental data extractions. For example, CPM can use the timestamps to extract records that were changed during the last week in a weekly extraction process.

To Create Timestamps...

Operations: To absorb the cost of cost items into specific projects, you'll need to handle them as customized items. However, cost items cannot directly be defined as customized items. Customized items must be physical, either manufactured or purchased.

That said, it's still possible to absorb cost items into a project, although indirectly. Here's how:

  1. Set Up Ledger Account: First, create a new ledger account in session tfgld0508m000 and set the type to "PCS" (project) in the operations management integrations. This account will be used for matching and approving purchase orders for cost items.

  2. Create and Activate Projects: Ensure that the necessary projects are created and set to active status.

  3. Purchasing Cost Items...

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