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Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Product Families

In Baan IVC, plan items on the lowest plan level were automatically actual items (not product families). All plan items on higher plan levels were product families. The relationship between a product family and items on lower plan levels was defined in a planning bill of material. In Infor LN, every family item must be… […]

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Company Calendar

Baan uses the company calendar in the following modules to determine the start and end dates for planned orders: Master Production Scheduling Material Requirements Planning Capacity Requirements Planning (All three combined in a single planning module for Baan V and LN) Shop Floor Control The calendar provides the valid working days, number of shifts per… […]

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Setting Up New Employees in LN

In LN, the People package is used to register the employee’s hours and expenses. To support the People package, the Employees – General (tccom0101m000) session only contains the general employee data. The title of the Employees – General (tccom0101m000) session was changed to Employees – General (tccom0101m000). From the Employees – General (tccom0101m000) session, users… […]

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Month End – Miscellaneous To-Do’s

Print Sales Order History Information all invoices processed through sales Check Inventory Valuation this should tie out to your inventory accounts Print Integration Information see all postings from WIP to finished goods Print G/L Transaction Information print specific transaction types for any GL account Print Lot Control Information will show where serial numbers were used… […]

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: The Product Configurator

What is it? The configurator consists of a set of features (questions). The options (answers) to these questions are used to generate the custom bill of material and routing. These questions may be answered at the time of order entry, prior to order entry (in a project or quote) or after order entry (in the… […]

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Optionally Include Tax Amounts In Order Balance

In Baan IV, the order balance amount always includes the tax amount. Consequently, the tax amount must be recalculated every time an order line is modified in order to update the balance correctly. If the tax provider is activated, this requires an API call for every re-calculation of tax. In Infor LN, users can select… […]

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Default Order Frequency

In Baan IV, requirements for an MPS item with the order method lot-for-lot result in daily planned MPS orders. For example, if a plan period contains 10 working days and the net requirements for an item in that period is 2000 pieces, an MPS planning run generates one planned MPS order of 200 pieces for… […]

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Negative Inventory

If Location Control is turned on in Baan IV, then inventory should never be negative. If Location Control is not turned on in Baan IV, and the parameter “Negative Inventory Allowed” in INV Parameters is set to “NO”, then inventory should never be negative. In Baan V and LN, the parameters in Inventory Handling Parameters… […]