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BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Inventory Transactions

You can define internal trade relationships between enterprise units or individual warehouses of the same logistic company for the transfer of material, labor, or other costs between warehouses, and to generate invoices for these without using sales orders and purchase orders. For example, you can use this to transfer goods between warehouses in different countries.… […]

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Operational Inefficiencies

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… […]

BPCS/LX TIP OF THE WEEK: REGULATORY ENHANCEMENTS

In LX 8.3.5, a new report has been added that meets the regulatory reporting requirement for purchase and sales transactions (invoices, debit notes, credit notes) of a company. The report refers to transactions from the previous year (January – December). The report is available in an eFile layout. The enhancement provides a new display and… […]

BPCS/LX TIP OF THE WEEK: INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

Establishing the Quantity On-Hand and the Quantity Available. LX maintains buckets for information associated with the following inventory transactions for each item: Opening Balance Issues Receipts Adjustments Allocations for the Customer Allocations for Manufacturing The on hand quantity does not include any allocations. To arrive at the on hand quantity, start with the opening balance,… […]

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Efficiency– The What & How

Efficiency is something we all strive for in our personal lives and at work. How can manufacturers increase their efficiency? Take a hard look at the 4 key areas: Planning Bill of Material and Job Accuracy Inventory Planning Real Time Reporting / Processing Need help figuring out how to become more efficient in each of… […]

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Actual Versus Standard

Job costing based on standards is great, but what if reality doesn’t match up to that? What if jobs are really taking twice as long, and you don’t know that? What if jobs are taking ½ as long as you think, but you’re scheduling based on how much time they “should” take? Either way, you’re… […]

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: LX 8.3.5 Facility Period Close

The Facility Period Close process was introduced in Infor LX 8.3.4 and has been enhanced in 8.3.5. This feature allows continuous or 24-hour worldwide operations in multiple facilities to submit Period End Close jobs for each facility as daily operations cease, or shifts end. This enhancement provides a batch mode for the Facility Period Close… […]

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Revisit The Last Brilliant Idea

Sometimes the best ideas have to be tabled due to competing priorities. That doesn’t mean that the idea was bad. Revisit previously suggested cost savings ideas, or ideas to make a manual process more efficient. Now could be the right time to do something great! Optimize Your Manufacturing Today! 53801 Rate this article: No rating […]

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Purchase Order “In Use” Reset Feature 8.3.5

This new feature provides the ability to resolve or reset a purchase order or requisition that is no longer being processed, but the system still indicates it is ‘in use’. We all remember those situations where we could never figure out how the order got hung up. What we previously had to do was run… […]

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Summarize Transactions by Account or Journal Source

When you elect to summarize transactions, either by account or journal source, you must remember to turn ‘Journal Grouping’ on in the event. Without this ‘Journal Grouping’ flag set to ‘On’, each transaction creates a separate journal, negating the effort and impact of summarization. 45740 Rate this article: No rating […]