When fixing a downtime issue, make one change at a time. Often, multiple changes are made at the same time, without individually checking their impact on the equipment. This makes it much harder to diagnose problems and evaluate the effectiveness of solutions. 85160 Rate this article: No rating […]
Read More… from Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Getting a Handle on Downtime – Part 2
It is essential to capture a reason and duration for each downtime incident to enable the team to effectively prioritize and focus. Start simple, and make sure every reason is clear (when compared with other reasons) and describes symptoms (as opposed to attempting to diagnose root causes). Remove reasons that aren’t regularly used and add… […]
Read More… from Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Getting a Handle on Downtime
From a recent article published by M4B Marketing : When analyzing your sales performance consider the following: Pricing changes eg. price increases or discounting Competitors – competitors entering or exiting the market New product or service launch growing sales New product or service cannibalizing existing product or service sales Customers moving between products or services… […]
Read More… from Baan/LN Tip of the Week: What Should I Consider When Analyzing My Sales?
Two big sources of inefficiencies in manufacturing are paper and spreadsheets. I know that you love ‘em, but they are the cause of more problems than you probably realize. Think of how long it takes you to get paper based data into the hands of those who can do something valuable with the data. Is… […]
Read More… from Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Operational Inefficiencies
I realize it was just Mother’s Day, but I don’t mean your mother. I mean… MOM- Manufacturing Operations Management , a suite of manufacturing applications designed to improve efficiencies, without the investment in a costly system. MOM provides manufacturers with the ability to extend their ERP system by offering specific applications that will streamline their… […]
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 with… […]
Earlier this year I wrote a blog about motivating employees to do more… to be more. Doing this helps your business grow. Here is a link to my article> https://www.crossroadsrmc.com/Resources/Infor-ERP-Tips-News/its-not-all-about-the-money-money-money-motivating-employees-in-the-new-year-2 And I would like to share a link to a recent article from Industry Week giving a different take on the same idea. https://www.industryweek.com/recruiting-retention/grow-employees-grow-your-business 89578… […]
Read More… from Baan/LN Tip of The Week: Grow Employees to Grow Your Business
1. Eliminate paper shop packet and distribution of the paperwork to the shop floor. 2. Eliminate manual (paper-based) recording activities and the need to key in the transactions. 3. Easy electronic scheduling by sequence and changing job priorities. 4. E valuate differences using actual times compared to standards. 5. Improve data accuracy and eliminate the… […]
Read More… from Baan/LN Tip of the Week: 6 Powerful Steps to Win With Automation
In Baan IV, if a link with Financials exists for commissions and rebates, invoices are created directly in the Commission Control System (CMS) module and posted to Financials. As a result, users must specify the ledger accounts that are used for posting commissions and rebates in the Maintain Commission/Rebate Transaction Accounts (tdcms2101m000) session. In LN,… […]
Read More… from Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Transaction Accounts – Commissions
Project templates are useful because you can specify all of the information that you would normally want to include when creating a new project such as project structure, budget and so on. In Baan IV/V, project templates do not exist, but you can set up a project template by creating a regular project, and setting… […]