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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… […]

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Additional Electronic Signature Controls

Electronic Signature Controls have been expanded to include additional programs, files and fields. When manufacturing work centers are updated through Work Center Maintenance (CAP100), the system can now require Electronic Signature processing to complete the process. This enhancement allows for broader Electronic Signature controls. Optimize Your Manufacturing Today! 45194 Rate this article: No rating […]

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Facility Security Ranges

Previously, a user was able to complete the Cost Transfer (CST920) process for any range of facilities regardless of their security settings established in SYS600. This enhancement verifies the user security settings that were set up in SYS600 before processing cost transfers for a range of facilities in CST920. If the user has authority for… […]

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… […]

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Inventory Transaction Post to G/L by Cost Type

This enhancement provides a method to post material, labor and overhead values on inventory postings to the general ledger to meet financial reporting requirements. The solution provides an optional further breakdown of cost by cost bucket using the new G/L Cost Type. The benefit this program provides is the ability to post detailed material, labor,… […]

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… […]

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Understanding What Goes On – Out on the Factory Floor

Ok… so you want to know the status of a specific shop order that was released two days ago. What do you do? It’s a sure bet that you have a manager, supervisor, or planner who can walk the floor and find the order at whatever work center it happens to be at. He/she can… […]

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?… […]

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… […]

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Role-Based Security

Role-Based Security introduces role type profiles and allows combining the use of role profiles with the traditional LX user type security profile functionality. The new role type profile can be defined to allow or deny access to All Products, Attention Key, Programs, and Transaction Effects. Facility, Warehouse, and Company securities are still defined solely by… […]