Inforln.com Baan 4 to LN Differences Training - Warehousing & Inventory Control

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Baan-to-LN Differences Training
“Warehousing and Inventory”
December 2014

Common Data and Topics

Baan  Infor LN
• Architecture - table and module adjustments
• Functionality enhancements
• Usability advancements
• More flexibility
• Change the way work is done
• Lower total cost of ownership

First Free Numbers
• Order entities are 9 digit numbers
• Order numbers (sales, purchase, cycle count, etc.)
• Receipts, shipments, inventory transaction IDs
• Number group (New Concept) defines series length
• Optional for series numbering
• Business partners
• Addresses (address codes)
• Contacts

Item Data Table Structure
• A single item code repository
• Customized and standard items together
• Standard to order logic – lean
• Item segmentation 47 characters in tc
• Project 9 - item – 38
• Item description – 30 characters

Item data structure
Warehousing data
Costing data
Purchase data
Project data
Production dataService data
Sales data
Ordering data
Planning data
General item data
Service
Sales
Purchase
Warehouse
Costing
Project
roduction
Orders
Planning
General data
Specific data by
Department
(sub entities)
Item type
Item group
Item Classifications
Revision control
Serial Control
Lot Control
Default warehouse

Cost Price Calculation
• Cost and valuation calculation multiple times daily
• One Standard Cost per item / company
• Inventory valuation defined by item / warehouse / warehouse valuation
groups

Internal and Affiliated Business Partners
• Represents internal entities
• Via enterprise units (finance company link-Single Logistic)
• Warehouse, sales office, purchase office
• Service office, shipping office, accounting office
• Project
• Via Site (Multi-Logistic)
• Enables invoicing of inventory movements across logistics companies
without internal EDI
• Warehouse transfers
• Multi-site customer delivery

Internal Invoice Relations
Warehouse 100
Fin Co 100
Log Co 100
Warehouse 200
Fin Co 200
Log Co 100
Inventory (Goods)Transfer
Bilateral Invoice
Warehouse 100
Fin Co 100
Log Co 100
Warehouse 200
Fin Co 200
Log Co 100
Business
Part
ABC
Triangular Invoice
Sales order

Inventory Tables
• Decoupled from item master
• Various drill downs / views
• All in one area
• Warehouse management

Inventory Tables

Warehouse Management
• Centralized inventory movement
• Centralized inventory reporting
• Warehousing Order numbers reflect origin order numbers
Warehouse Management
Receipts/Issues/Transfers
Valuations
Cycle Counting
Packaging and Storage
Order Generation
Planning SFC
Purchase
Sales
Service
Finance Assembly Control Freight Management
QM
EDI
Project

Distribution Package
• Sales and Purchasing are broken out into different packages
• Pricing is part of the Common Data
• Customer dashboard 360
• Supplier dashboard 360

Warehousing Decoupled from Sales and
Manufacturing
• Warehouse is an independent package removed from distribution (td)
package
• Inventory Valuation tied to Item and warehouse
• Default valuation methods are very flexible and can be defined by
• Item valuation group
• Warehouse valuation group
• Additional functionality
• Flexible transaction processing with automatic activity settings

Restructure Benefits
• Centralized control / separation of duties
• Flexibility with control
• Ease of modeling
• Multi-site / multi-company

Functionality Enhancements
• Improvements for flexibility
• Updates for efficiency
• Streamlined business processes
• Elimination of customizations

Available/Capable to Promise
• Normal ATP
• On hand and projected
• Capacity CTP
• Component CTP
• Product Family CTP
• Channel ATP

Order Promising Status
• ATP/CTP for all origins
• CRM, manual, EDI, quotations
• Saving sales orders
• Fails ‘CTP Check for Sales’
• No planned inventory transaction
• Batch inventory check
• Order promising status
Pending Accepted Not accepted
1.
2.
3.
inventory
check
inventory
shortage
handling

Cluster Planning
Warehouse
SLS100
Warehouse
SLS303
Warehouse
CSW100
Item A
3 units of Inventory
Item RS1 ___ A
Cluster RS1
Item LS1 ___ A
Cluster LS1
 Three separate planning items
 Individual supply and demand
Company 100
Company 200
Multi company enabled
2 units of item A 4 units of item A

Supplying Relationships

Allocation and Hard Pegging
• Multi Level ‘specification’ association
• Specification travels throughout the process
• Sales order
• SFC production order
• Planning
• Purchasing

Allocation and Hard Pegging
LAC

Location Control (ILC)
• Location control and lot control separated
• No longer dependent
• Location control at item & warehouse
• Item – yes
• Warehouse 1 – no
• Warehouse 2 - yes

Location Control

Warehouses and Locations

Rejection Location/Rejection Handling
• Parts rejected in Purchase receiving await disposition in the rejection
location
• Options for disposition:
• Return to Vendor with Reason code
• Accept as is with Reason code
• Scrap from Rejection with Reason code
• Reason code is required in each disposition option

Lots & Serials
• Lot and serialization (lot by unit)
• Both can apply to the item
• High volume Serial Scenario
• Lots and/or serials not in inventory
• Allows for tracking with specified transactions using the Lot and Serial Registration
Template
• Low Volume Serial Scenario
• Requires Serial entry with all transactions

Lots & Serials-Not in Inventory settings

Multi Company Inventory Transfer
• Multi company inventory transfer
• Transfer
• Transfer(Manual)
• EP Distribution
Warehouse 100
Fin Co 100
Log Co 100
Warehouse 300
Fin Co 300
Log Co 300
Inventory Transfer
Invoice

Supply and Demand Matching
• Direct material supply (DMS)
• Demand and supply matching
• User specified grouping of warehouses
• Dynamic cross docking
• Receipts link to open demands
• Can Generate the Cross docking requirements or manually enter
• Purchase receipt to waiting sales order or Production order

Cross Dock Orders

Consignment
• Inventory ownership
• Company, consigned, customer
• Consignment – pay on use
• Sales and purchase
• Can be defined by BP, item, item group and other classifications available in Terms and
Conditions. This is user defined.
• Order types
• Warehouse types
• Consignment (owned)
• Consignment (not-owned)

Vendor Managed Inventory
• Supplier manages your inventory
• Viewed from both perspectives
• Customer
• Supplier
• Answers questions related to
• Warehouse management
• Supply planning
• Financial owner of the goods

Packaging and Storage
• Package definitions
• Pre-defined
• Fixed, variable, mixed
• Handling units
• Identifiable structure
• Packaging and contents

Inventory Valuations•
At item/warehouse level
Can be setup to automatically assign
Valuation Methods using a combination
Item Valuation Groups and Warehouse
Valuation Groups.

Usability Advancements
• Fewer business process steps
• Flexible order processing (activities)
• Dynamic forms
• Allows easy personalization of screens
• Improved navigation, search and filter capabilities
• WebUI and ION workspace allow for Greater accessibility.

Easy Session Access
• Detail session access from other sessions
• Material issue from production orders
• Session access controlled via tools
• User roles and templates
• Company, package, module, session,
table, field

Sessions and Dynamic Forms
Object BaanIV Infor LN
Sessions and Forms Static look and feel Dynamic. Built on run time
and only valid fields show
Display, Maintain & Print Separate print, display. and
maintain sessions
Combined into one with
print icon
Overview and Detail
sessions
Separate sessions
-m000 and –s000
One dynamic form
Multi main table logic
New suffixes
Form tabs A separate form for every
tab
One dynamic form can
have several tabs

Dynamic Forms

Dynamic Forms
Highlight the line

Dynamic Forms
Applicable options appear – can personalize the tool bar

User Personalizations – Toolbar Icons
Toolbar Icons Static User modified
Fields on Grid Static User modified
Session Column Width Static User modified

No Queue Time field

User Personalizations – Column Width
Hover the mouse and left click.
Drag and drop the column width

User Personalizations – Column Width

Usability
Dynamic Index Switching ‘Order’ option Expanded
Find and Sort Not supported Sort within find search
Filtering Query by form.
Query can not be saved.
Multiple filter support.
Filters can be saved and reused later

Dynamic Index Switching

Find and Sort

Easy Filtering

Dashboards

Dashboards
• Greater visibility
• Central session for navigation
• Items
• Work centers
• Customer 360-CRM
• Project
• Inventory
• Many more

Dashboards

Dashboards-Customer 360 (CRM & Sales )
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For more information go to:
http://inforln.com
www.performaapps.com
Contact: Dan Aldridge, CEO Performa Apps – Infor Services Partners
703.251.4504 or dan.aldridge@i-app.com

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