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Related Infor Application:
Infor CloudSuite Industrial
Business Issue:
- Enabling Revision Control; Engineering Change Notices are required to update Current Bill of Manufacturing and Job Bill of Manufacturing, which is a cumbersome process.
- Item Revision Control removes functionality updating Bill of Manufacturing without Engineering Change Notices and removed mass updating utilizing replace functionality.
- Standard Change Item Revision is executed one Item at a time.
What It Does:
- From Current Operations or Current Material based on filtering criteria all Items displayed the revisions will be updated to the next sequential number based on the Item’s current revision.
- Change Item Revision Batch form displays all Manufactured Items to update Item Revision. From the Change Item Revision Batch, a user can select or deselect Items prior to updating the Item Revision level.
- After processing, the Manufactured Item Revision is updated on the Items form with the “new” revision and the Bill of Manufacturing is copied with the “old” revision.
Benefits:
- Time savings to utilize mass updating to multiple Bill of Manufacturing.
- Reduces the manual entry of Engineering Change Notices.
- Reduces manual entry of changing Item Revision one at a time.
- Allows for Bill of Manufacturing revisions to be archived with “old” revisions, but still allowing mass changes to Current Operations and Current Materials.
Related Infor Application:
Infor CloudSuite Industrial
Business Issue:
CSI’s Standard Related Items functionality is associated with Item, but does not have filtering, reporting and mass updating capabilities.
What It Does:
- GT Related Items allows the user to add multiple types per Item and associate another existing Item with the Related Item Type.
- Filtering capability for all fields associated with GT Related Items form.
- Mass add and replace functionality.
- Report Export functionality to Excel and DataViews.
Benefits:
- Provides one location to associated Items together with multiple types.
- Ease of use for filtering data based on all fields.
- Data can be used as a reference or for other reporting as required.
- Users can easily determine Related Items associated with Items.
Related Infor Application:
Infor CloudSuite Industrial
Business Issue:
- Standard Copy Routing BOM is transacted one Job Order at a time, which is time consuming.
- When Material Planner Workbench copy function is utilized not all sub Job Order levels are copied, which risks not having all sub Job Orders created.
What It Does:
- List any Job Order without a Bill of Manufacturing to Copy from Current BOM to Job Order including all Sub Job Order Level.
- Allows filtering of Job Order or Start Date Range.
- Copies Current Bill of Manufacturing for each Job Order including sub Job Orders selected.
Benefits:
- Reduces time by filtering all Job Orders in one location requiring a Bill of Manufacturing and not manually copying one Job Order at a time.
- Guarantees all Sub Jobs Orders are created at the time of Copy Routing BOM Batch.
Related Infor Application:
Infor CloudSuite Industrial
Business Issue:
- Standard Preassigned Serial numbers will expand to thirty characters in length with many zeros as place holders.
- Companies business requirements cannot have serial numbers thirty characters long.
- Companies serial number nomenclature require a Month to be defined by alphabet instead of numbers, the standard functionality does not allow to change the Month from a number to an alphabet letter.
- Standard Preassigned Serial number assignment needs to be setup per Item instead of a Serial number type nomenclature.
- Assigning Serial numbers to a Job Order is per Job Order.
What It Does:
- Allows user to define Serial number nomenclature by Serial number type with prefix and format, including length of serial number up to thirty characters in length.
- Allow Month to be converted to an alphabet letter instead of using the number designation.
- Allows Items to defined by Serial Number type and not setup Item serial number nomenclature each time a new Item is created.
- Stores the next sequential Serial Number based on the Serial Number Type for transactional use.
- Utility to mass generate preassigned Serial Numbers to Job Orders.
Benefits:
- Provides flexibility for Companies to define Serial Number nomenclature by Type, Format, and Length.
- Eliminates expanding Serial Numbers to thirty character in length and is generated with the length defined by the Company.
- Time Saving with Item setup by selecting Serial Number type and not setting up the preassigned serial number format each time.
- Eliminates the risk at Item Setup with the incorrect Preassigned Serial Number format.
Related Infor Application:
Infor CloudSuite Industrial
Business Issue:
Standard functionality does not track Vendor Heat Codes and an internal Customer Heat Code number.
What It Does:
- Vendor Heat Codes and Internal Customer Internal Heat Code number is tracked with Lots.
- Allows Vendor and Customer Internal Heat Code number to be generated at the time of Purchase Order Receiving or Miscellaneous Receipt.
- Generates next Customer Internal Heat Code number if required.
- Filtering of Vendor or Customer Internal Heat Code at Lots.
Benefits:
- Eliminates tracking Vendor and Customer Internal Heat Codes outside the ERP system.
- Track Heat Code information from time of receipt to Job Order material issue.
- Ability to report Vendor Heat Code information.
Related Infor Application:
Infor CloudSuite Industrial
Business Issue:
To close Job Orders utilizing standard functionality requires a user to add transactions for each control point Job Operation for every Job Order and sub-Job Order. When closing Job Orders the process can be very time consuming and risks data entry errors and missing steps.
What It Does:
- Closes multiple sub-jobs for a parent job number and issue the material to the parent in the correct sequence.
- Creates all Unposted Job Transactions required to close Job Order and any sub Job Orders associated.
- Checks for un-issued material at each sub-job.
- Checks for open job labor transactions in un-posted job transaction, pending job material/labor transactions, and data collection job transaction files.
Benefits:
- Closes Job Orders quicker; reducing data entry time and data errors.
- Inventory and Job Cost Accuracy by validating all material and labor transacted to Job Orders.