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Infor LX & BPCS: Waste in Manufacturing

What if you could eliminate waste and optimize your business for $5/day?

Crossroads MES (Manufacturing Execution System) captures all of your ERP production data and harnesses the power of that data to increase your team’s efficiency by providing the right information at the right time to the right people. 

Reducing waste enables manufacturers to save money and increase productivity.
Where is the waste happening in your processes? How often is your department spending time and resources on the following tasks?

Manufacturing:

  • Correcting repeated problems with production quality
  • Juggling manual production schedules
  • Holding up production due to delayed component deliveries
  • Constantly evaluating labor and material resource needs


Materials:

  • Correcting deliveries with missing or wrong items
  • Sending overstocked inventory back to a warehouse or other location
  • Searching for raw materials, tools, or other equipment
  • Waiting on a late delivery from a supplier


Finance:

  • Managing increasing carrying costs of inventory
  • Dealing with budget overruns on projects
  • Managing cash flow due to unnecessarily long lead times and shipment times
  • Constantly evaluating labor and material costs to get overall production costs down


Company-wide:

  • Correcting repeated problems with production quality
  • Correcting deliveries with missing or wrong items
  • Holding up production due to delayed component deliveries
  • Constantly evaluating labor and material costs to get overall production costs down

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Infor LX & BPCS Tip: PowerLink

PowerLink is a Windows-based client for end-users within the Infor Development Framework (IDF). PowerLink allows exports/imports from/to the ERP database, but how much do you really know about it? Here is some helpful information about PowerLink.​

Why does PowerLink sometimes fail to export all records?...

Infor LX provides a tightly integrated drop shipment processing capability. The product supports the creation, tracking, and management of customer drop shipment orders via the Order Management, Purchasing, and Billing applications.

The order processing professional initiates drop shipments during customer order creation. You can designate any order line for drop shipment if it meets user-defined drop-ship controls. If you designate a line as a drop-ship line, the system automatically creates a drop-ship request in purchase order processing.

When a buyer responds to a drop-ship request and creates a purchase order, Infor LX

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All actions required for converting, validating, matching, and posting electronically received bank statements can be performed within a single session:

  • Bank Statement Workbench (tfcmg5610m100)
  • Bank Statement (tfcmg5610m000)

Alternatively, you can use the sequence of electronic bank statement sessions outlined below.

Steps to Process Electronic Bank Statements:

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