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Planning for Growth – What you need to do first to be successful

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As your business experiences growth or aims to do more with less, optimizing your resources becomes crucial. To achieve growth, it's essential to leverage your people, processes, and products effectively. You are the experts on your products, and we covered Reskilling and Upskilling Your Staff on June 21, so let's focus on the processes that drive your business forward.

  1. Analyze your ERP system and other software: Begin by understanding your current setup. Identify which modules of the ERP system you are using and how they are being utilized. Also, assess what activities are being performed outside the system and why. This analysis will provide insight into your existing operations.
     
  2. Review and identify pain points: Conduct a thorough operational assessment to review current processes. Identify areas of concern and define business process owners (BPOs) for each assessed area. BPOs should understand how job functions relate to each other, which sessions/modules are used in the ERP system, and where there are gaps between needs and capabilities.
     
  3. Envision the future needs: Visualize your ideal system and its capabilities. Consider how your people would use it and how processes would flow. Think about automation possibilities to streamline operations.
     
  4. Match needs with capabilities: Compare your list of needs, wants, and gaps with the capabilities of your current ERP version or the latest release. This may require the assistance of consultants who understand the software's features and functionality.


Once you've completed these steps, it's time to plan the implementation of the new features in a way that will have the most significant impact on your business. Remember, the implementation process doesn't have to be lengthy, time-consuming, or expensive. Sometimes, even small changes can lead to substantial improvements.

An ERP assessment can be a catalyst for growth. Avoid clinging to the status quo, as the future should not be governed by "the way it has always been." Taking that initial step away from old habits might be challenging, but it will set you on the path to true growth and progress.

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Tips:  LX | BPCS | M3

FINANCE: Default Billing Reason Code from User Order Class
This enhancement allows users to define a Default Billing Reason Code by User Order Class in addition to the Base Order Class. User Order Classes provide configurability for order processing events and the documents to be printed during those events. This enhancement allows users to configure different Billing Reason Codes for each User Order Class. If no specific code is defined, the system will default to the Billing Reason Code set up for the Base Order Class.

TECHNOLOGY:  Security Manager
New LX security type "M" for an LX Security Manager. Authority is similar to that of an LX Security Office (type "S"), but without the automatic authority to execute every LX program, and without the authority to change the authorizations of Security Officers and Security Managers. Users defined as LX security managers have authority to maintain security information for users other than themselves, but are only allowed to access regular LX programs if granted authority by an LX security officer.

OPERATIONS: Track all order holds added & released
Enhancement: Order Hold Audit Functionality
This enhancement introduces an audit file to track all holds added or released for customer orders. The audit file includes details for various types of holds: credit hold, margin hold, customer hold, user hold, and credit card hold. All applications that add or release a hold now write an audit record, capturing the user, date, time, and program associated with each hold action.

A new IDF Order Hold Audit Inquiry application allows users to review holds based on various criteria:

  • Hold type
  • User
  • Specific order
  • Transactions for a customer within a date range
  • Other combinations

Additionally, the selected data can be printed if desired.

New LX security type "M" for an LX Security Manager. Authority is similar to that of an LX Security Office (type "S"), but without the automatic authority to execute every LX program, and without the authority to change the authorizations of Security Officers and Security Managers. Users defined as LX security managers have authority to maintain security information for users other than themselves but are only allowed to access regular LX programs if granted authority by an LX security officer.

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Tips: LN | Baan

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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