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Crossroads RMC proudly announces the LX 8.3.5 go live for Trinity Industries.

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Trinity Industries is live on LX 8.3.5! This project was truly a team effort working in partnership with HCL America. Crossroads RMC’s involvement included John Kasper (Finance), David Campbell and Nick Olson (Operations), Jacob Hale (Supply Chain Management), and Tony Curtis (LX Administration). Trinity began providing industrial products and services to customers more than 85… […]

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Can you afford not to invest in MES?

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Given the environment today with growing global competition in terms of innovation, cost and time to market (given by short product cycles) as well as with increasing regulatory demands, the answer to the question “ Can you afford not to invest in MES? ” is turning into a clear “ NO ”. Click here to… […]

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Amerequip Goes Live With OTTO On-Time Orders

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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… […]

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Infor and Crossroads RMC Partner to Drive Success at Ridewell

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Earlier this year, Ridewell Corporation inked a deal with Infor to move their BPCS 4.05 CD system to Infor LX. As part of that deal, Crossroads RMC’s MES software was selected to provide shop floor automation. For the ERP upgrade, Infor reached out to Crossroads RMC to provide support for both Finance and Data Conversion… […]

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How to Improve Customer Shipments With OTTO – A Case Study

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Setting Industry Service Standards Shenandoah Manufacturing, a $20 million producer of poultry-raising equipment (heaters and brooders), had been having difficulty for some time shipping orders to customers in a timely manner. They had successfully implemented a popular ERP system and had been using it for more than 3 years, yet the situation didn’t improve. Customer… […]

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Steps to undo an IDF modification and restore to the default

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Changes are great, but if you want to undo an IDF modification and restore to the default, you need to follow these steps: Reset to an Infor shipped view (“un-modify” it) Open the public node of an object you would like to reset to the shipped status. Notice that all of the standard views (i.e.,… […]

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Tax Law Changes by the Numbers – Infor LX & BPCS Integration to Avalara

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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… […]

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IDF: Defining the Attributes for a New Object

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Attributes are the fields you define in your System i file. You can begin by building your attribute list in Integrator by synchronizing the object with the host. This process reads the file definition from the System i and builds your list of attributes. The synchronize process will automatically run and read the definitions for… […]

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If you can’t see everything that happens on your shop floor, you are at a competitive disadvantage

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If you’re not able to see everything that happens on your shop floor in real time, you’re at a HUGE competitive disadvantage! Your competitors are running MES. Crossroads MES software provides: A user-friendly interface and an easy exchange of information between the shop floor users and your ERP database. Planners the ability to schedule work… […]

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