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Amerequip Goes Live With OTTO On-Time Orders

Anthony Etzel 0 28766 Article rating: 5.0

Crossroads RMC welcomes Amerequip as our newest client after successfully going live with OTTO, On-Time Orders.

Amerequip, with corporate headquarters in Kiel, Wisconsin, is a leading designer and manufacturer of accessories and attachments for the construction, utility, and industrial equipment, lawn and turf-care equipment, and related products sold in global markets served by their OEM partner customers.

Amerequip’s objective was to improve on time customer order shipments, reduce expediting, and cut down on the time their knowledge workers were spending digging for information. After carefully conducting their due diligence they chose OTTO to address these challenges.

OTTO helps manufacturing plants consistently meet customer commitments by performing predictive analysis to help prevent surprises and allow for early detection and resolution of potential issues. OTTO improves effectiveness of knowledge workers by reducing “data mining” required to answer customer order status questions, and improves the flow of material through the plant, as a result, reduce shortages and improve on-time customer order shipments. OTTO previously won the prestigious APICS Innovation Award of Excellence”.

We are proud to have Amerequip as our client and look forward to being a strategic partner and support their company growth and success.

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Infor LN & Baan: Need real time information for Finance, Production, Inventory, Sales and more?

Kathy Barthelt 0 27308 Article rating: 5.0

Did you know Analytics Dashboard serves as the perfect complement to extend your Infor LN / Baan ERP system AND your data collection software?

Want to display all of this data in easy to understand graphs and charts with drill-down capability?

Contact Kathy Barthelt today to find out how our Analytics Dashboard can provide all of the information you need in real-time. 

Pre-Configured Dashboards INCLUDED with Crossroads RMC's Analytics Dashboard:

  • Accounts Payable
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Journal
  • Booked Sales
  • Invoiced Sales
  • Production
  • Receipts
  • Purchase Orders
  • Inventory
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Infor LN & Baan Tip of the Week: The RFQ Comparison Workbench in LN 10.7

Kathy Barthelt 0 46484 Article rating: 5.0

The RFQ Comparison Workbench (tdpur8366m000) session has been introduced to compare bidder responses and select the best deal from the existing combinations. The bidder combinations are displayed based on the total amounts or the criteria set defined on the selected request for quotation (RFQ). Users can use the session to:

• Filter the best response from the suppliers or bidders

• Determine the best responses based on Total Amount

• Determine the best responses based on Criteria Set

This session can be started from a specific RFQ or from the RFQ tab in the RFQ (tdpur8310m000) session. Initially, the session is not available on the menu, but users can add it to the menu.

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Infor LX / BPCS Tip of the Week: Pre-assigned lot numbers for multi-level SO release

Anthony Etzel 0 30780 Article rating: 5.0

In addition to assigning lot numbers in Shop Order Entry/Maintenance (SFC500) after the shop orders have been released, users can now pre-assign lot numbers during the Multi-level Shop Order Release process (SFC530) and the Multi-Level Back-flush process (LMP600) for sub-assemblies that are lot controlled items. The user has the choice of using the parent lot ID, using the next sequential generated lot ID, or not pre-assigning lot IDs. Multiple items per lot must be installed to use the parent lot number option.

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How Are Your 2019 Goals? Get More Out of Your ERP!

Crossroads RMC 0 42326 Article rating: 5.0

We’re ½ way through the 3rd Quarter of 2019 already! How are you doing with your 2019 goals?

Maybe it's time to get more out of your ERP system:
  • Need assistance implementing new functionality in your ERP?
  • Looking to train new employees, or retrain existing employees?
  • Time to automate your most time-consuming processes?
  • Interested in a web-based application for your users or external customers/suppliers?
     

Learn How Crossroads RMC Can Help!

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Tax Law Changes by the Numbers - Infor LN & Baan Integration to Avalara

Kathy Barthelt 0 35331 Article rating: 5.0

Are you up to speed on all of the sale tax changes that could affect your business?

Tax Law Changes by the Numbers
A look at what's changed in 2018-2019

  • 21 states adopted economic nexus as of December 31, 2018, requiring out-of-state businesses with a certain amount of economic activity in the state to collect and remit sales tax
  • 33 states have enforced economic nexus as of June 30, 2019
  • 43 states will enforce economic nexus as of December 31, 2019
  • 7 states had marketplace facilitator sales tax laws as of December 31, 2018, requiring marketplaces to collect sales tax on behalf of their sellers
  • 15 states have marketplace facilitator sales tax laws as of June 30, 2019
  • 28 states will have marketplace facilitator sales tax laws as of January 1, 2020

The trend to tax remote sales is certain to continue, and there will be the normal slew of rate, regulation, and product taxability changes. 

Sales Tax is complicated! Crossroads RMC provides the integration from Infor LN & Baan to Avalara to make it easy. Click Here to Learn More

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Infor LN & Baan: Need Accurate Inventory? Automate & Streamline Your Current Processes Infor LN & Baan: Need Accurate Inventory? Automate & Streamline Your Current Processes

Infor LN & Baan: Need Accurate Inventory? Automate & Streamline Your Current Processes

Kathy Barthelt 0 29883 Article rating: 5.0

We know that efficiency is the name of the game and Crossroads RMC has helped manufacturers achieve real results:

  • Better inventory management
  • Increased visibility
  • Reduced operational costs
  • Increased accuracy and much more

Crossroads RMC has solutions to automate and streamline your current processes from receiving all the way through shipping. Work with Crossroads RMC and realize greater benefits from your CURRENT ERP version.

Learn More about Web Collect, formerly RMC3 >

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TECHNOLOGY: Facility Security Ranges

Previously, a user could complete the Cost Transfer (CST920) process for any range of facilities regardless of their security settings established in SYS600. This enhancement verifies the user security settings set up in SYS600 before processing cost transfers for a range of facilities in CST920. If the user has authority for a facility range, but there are facilities within that range that are not authorized, the program skips those facilities and completes the cost transfer process.

FINANCE: Expiration Date for Quotes and RMAs

A Cancel-by-Date has been added to the Quote Header and RMA Header panels. This optional field can limit how long a quote or authorization to return items for credit is valid.  

For quotes, this enhancement provides an optional end date for the quote. For RMAs, it provides an optional date by which the customer must return the items to receive the credit listed on the RMA.

The Cancel-By-Date prints on the Order Acknowledgement and RMA Acknowledgement to inform the customer of this important limitation to the quote or return authorization. 

An Order Entry user cannot copy the quote to create a new order if the Cancel By Date has caused the quote to expire.

OPERATIONS: Default Split Salesperson to Customer Orders

Sales commissions are based on combinations of the Primary, Split, and Line-Level salesperson and the commission codes defined for the customer and item. You can now define the Split Salesperson in the same master files as the Primary Salesperson. While the Primary Salesperson is mandatory, the Split Salesperson is optional. It defaults during Order Create using the identical hierarchy as Primary Salesperson. Using Split Salesperson provides more flexibility in the calculation of sales commissions. The ability to define a default Split Salesperson improves the accuracy of sales commission qualification and calculation and reduces maintenance and adjustments necessitated by corrections.

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Previously, a user could complete the Cost Transfer (CST920) process for any range of facilities regardless of their security settings established in SYS600. This enhancement verifies the user security settings set up in SYS600 before processing cost transfers for a range of facilities in CST920. If the user has authority for a facility range, but there are facilities within that range that are not authorized, the program skips those facilities and completes the cost transfer process.

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Kathy Barthelt
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Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Product Configurator - Part 2

Baan Tips

Who gets involved?
  1. Most commonly Engineering is involved in writing the rules, creating the bills and routings.
  2. Sales or Customer Service determines the questions and the order they are asked in.
  3. Sales or Customer Service determines the rules for the pricing.
  4. Sales, or Customer Service, and Engineering work together in determining the part number, description and text.

What are the steps?

  1. You must start by defining the features and options (questions and answers) and the order in which these are asked. We work this out first using sticky notes and large easel paper. Normally during the process we find that we want to move these questions around. Setting them down on paper makes the process of getting the data into Baan much more efficient. We also then have a record of what decisions were made prior to entering the data. This is normally a joint effort of Engineering and Sales. This is required and must be the first step.
  2. Constraints for features and options. These are the rules for determining what questions are asked and which options are allowed. This is generally done by Engineering or whoever is responsible for the configurator. This is required.
  3. Generic Bill of Material. All possible bill options are entered here and constraints are written to determine which options are selected based on the answers to the questions. This is generally done by Engineering or whoever is responsible for the configurator. This is a required step.
  4. Generic Routing. Similar to the bill of material, but used for generation of the routing steps. This is generally done by Engineering or whoever is responsible for the configurator. This is optional.
  5. Generic Item Data. This consists of creating custom item numbers, descriptions, text, material, size or standard fields in the custom item master. This is generally done by Engineering or whoever is responsible for the configurator though Sales may have some involvement. This is optional.
  6. Generic Pricing. This is used to calculate the selling price based on the answers to the questions. This is normally a responsibility of Sales or whoever determines the pricing. This group is also trained on writing the constraints for this section only. This is optional.

What other modules will be affected?
  1. Quotes, sales orders and projects.
  2. PRP planning for the configured items.
  3. Managing changes to the configuration. Who, what and when?
  4. Variant statistics.
  5. MPS and generic items.
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