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Baan/LN Tip of the Week: How is Your Productivity?

Are your employees not as productive as you’d like them to be? Are jobs not getting completed on schedule? Without actual data, making decisions about how efficient your operation is will be difficult. Start tracking actual time to complete each operation. Compare different production lines running the same job. Is one line running more efficiently?… […]

Tip of the Week: Create a Repeatable Process

If you’ve been successful doing something in the past, you want to keep doing it that way. Are your procedures documented? Do you have workflows defined? Would creating video tutorials be helpful, especially for new employees? Giving employees the tools to be successful helps to ensure the success of the business as a whole. Optimize… […]

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: 6 Powerful Steps to Win With Automation

Eliminate paper shop packet and distribution of the paperwork to the shop floor. Eliminate manual (paper-based) recording activities and the need to key in the transactions. Easy electronic scheduling by sequence and changing job priorities. Evaluate differences using actual times compared to standards. Improve data accuracy and eliminate the need to chase and fix errors.… […]

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Purchase Inquiry

In Baan IV Purchase Control, the purchase inquiry procedure enables user to: Request a specific supplier to submit a quotation on the purchase inquiry for the delivery of an item. Compare the prices and discounts of the quotations that are submitted by different suppliers. Copy the inquiry data to a purchase order. In LN, you… […]

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Financial Year End – Have You Done All You Need To Do?

I’m reposting this checklist for things to consider in order to finish out the year, and plan for next year… Are your accounting records up to date so that you can make a projection of how the current year will turn out? Are all account reconciliations currently up to date to facilitate the closing of… […]

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Problems With Staying on an Old Porting Set

Here are some issues that you might run into if you stay on an old porting set too long: Incompatibility because of operating system patches Printing issues because of out-of-date libraries Potential performance issues if binaries are not updated Updating third party products may not be possible because of dependencies Limited support from Infor Issues… […]

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Inventory Tracking

Do you have a good handle on your inventory? Do you know when products need to be reordered and which are on their way? Are you able to find inventory easily within your facility, or are items getting misplaced and then unnecessarily reordered? Having a good inventory system in place will avoid unnecessary costs and… […]

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: How is Your Productivity?

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Strategies to Issue Materials – LN

LN offers you various levels of control for the issue of materials. You can specify a different method for each material. Available methods to control the quantity of the issue: Direct user control over the quantities to issue Quantities determined by the allocations Available methods to control the time of the issue. LN issues the… […]

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Are You Still Using Handwritten Tickets for Your Inventory?

This method of inventory tracking is slow, and prone to human error. Putting a simple barcode system in place speeds up the process of tracking inventory movements, reduces the likelihood of mistakes, and creates a recorded history of the who/what/where that can provide valuable insight to those who make critical business decisions for your business.… […]