Norsk Kylling to Develop World’s Best Chicken Production with Infor and Columbus

Norsk Kylling recently deployed Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage with the goal to create the world’s best value chain for chicken production, where good animal welfare is at the forefront. Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage, with Columbus as partner and supplier, will help provide even better control, quality and efficiency through the value chain. Per the press release, with better information management, Norsk Kylling has reduced waste, gained better control over inventory and can plan production better in relation to market needs. The contract for Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage was won in tough competition from over 20 other suppliers of ERP systems. It was important for Norsk Kylling to be completely confident that Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage solution, which contains a number of preconfigured settings adapted to the food industry, covered the customer’s wishes, requirements and needs.

 

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One of World’s Largest Pepsi Bottling Plants Goes Live with Infor WMS in Saudi Arabia

MenaBev, a multinational franchise organization of PepsiCo, has implemented Infor WMS warehouse management solution at its more than 300,000-square-meter bottling facility in Jeddah. With this partnership, Infor WMS will increase automation across the organization, optimizing business processes to boost capacity and support continued growth. The project was managed by Infor alliance partner SNS. MenaBev’s facility is the largest operation of its kind in the world with eight production linees and thousands of daily transactions between different systems. Per the press release, the warehouse management solution integrates with seven other systems, including enterprise resource planning (ERP – including Infor LN), manufacturing execution system (MES), laboratory information management system (LIMS) and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) systems, providing real-time integration and featuring monitoring screens to identify any integration issues.

 

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Combining multiple Lawson reports into one with one line of code

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You’re running an audit for Lawson security and are generating user, object, profile, security class/role reports left and right. It can be tiresome to review each individual one. With a simple batch command, you can save lots of time combining multiple Lawson reports that are in CSV format.

  1. Place all similarly generated reports into the same directory
  2. Open windows command line and change directory where Lawson CSV reports exist
  3. Type command: copy *.csv Lawson_reports_combined.csv
  4. Open your newly combined report and send away!

 

TIP: Reports may contain header info that will have to be removed via excel or text editor

Apex Hotels Goes on Point with Infor

Luxury hotel operator Apex Hotels has invested in Infor technology to create a standard platform across its entire property portfolio. Operating in 10 sites throughout the United Kingdom and spanning 1,476 rooms in both three-star and four-star hotels, Infor has already delivered the first two of 10 implementations at the flagship Apex City of London. Per the press release, the first site went live on time and to budget, delivered completely remotely and whilst being accelerated to beat deadlines before the property had to close temporarily under UK government COVID19 guidelines. The platform, which comprises Infor Hospitality Management Solution (HMS) and Infor Sales & Catering, delivers a comprehensive, cloud-based architecture that replaces a legacy system that frustrated plans for growth. Apex Hotels has an accelerated deployment plan. The remaining properties will have Infor HMS and Sales and Catering deployed within a four-month window. Furthermore, Apex chose Infor based on the breadth of functionality and the commitment, stability and flexibility offered by the team.

 

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Lawson Server File Maintenance

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Between batch job files, temporary files, and core dumps, file storage can quickly get out of hand on your LSF server.  Here are some recommendations for cleaning up your server:

  1. Download a tool like windirstat to scan your directories and quickly find “problem” areas.
  2. Run a perl script to list out all the files recursively in a directory, and save to CSV. Here is a sample script that traverses the print directory and gets all the file stats within.  This will help you make a more informed decision on what to delete.
  3. Run the deljobhst command with the “r” and “c” parameters to delete completed jobs up to a specific date, including the print files. Make sure you supply a date that meets your company’s archive policy, and/or back up the directory to a separate location.  For more on the deljobhst command, click here.

Why organizations should upgrade their ERP systems

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are a part of the day-to-day operations of most every business. More and more enterprises each day are finding out the benefits ERP can bring. Even current ERP users know their legacy systems may need an upgrade and now is the best time than any to upgrade your ERP systems. Mark Vivian, CEO of independent Oracle Managed Services provider Claremont, shares an article on IT Pro Portal a number of elements to consider when enterprises upgrade their ERP systems.

  • New features – “Inevitably there will be new features to improve functionality in the latest releases of ERP systems. Additionally, there are a whole host of new features in each application to consider.”
  • Customizations – “Nearly all ERP systems are customized. Businesses need to be sure they understand the purpose of each customization, whether they can be retired or replaced by new functionality and what the impact of moving them to new releases will entail.”
  • Infrastructure – “As part of ensuring that the path to the “to-be” upgraded technology stack is understood, organizations need to examine what infrastructure they need to support the new version of the software.  It could be a prime opportunity to move “on premise” ERP solutions to an infrastructure cloud, in line with a “cloud first” strategy. According to Claremont’s latest managed services survey, 69 percent of Oracle EBS users currently host on physical servers rather an infrastructure cloud, but around 40 percent are looking to move to cloud to enjoy the flexibility it offers.”
  • Database – “If you are running Oracle Linux prior to version 7 then an operating system upgrade will be required before upgrading the database. With Premier Support for Oracle Linux 6 finishing in March 2021, many organizations will be looking to upgrade soon or will risk running on another unsupported platform.”
With multiple ERP systems to consider, now is a good time to start planning for the future and consider upgrades to server, database, infrastructure and vendor partners.

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Infor Unveils New Cloud-Based Revenue Management Functionality for Hoteliers

Infor has made significant updates to Infor EzRMS, a leading revenue management application built specifically for the hospitality industry. As a part of the Infor Hospitality suite of cloud-based solutions, Infor EzRMS is designed to help hoteliers better optimize revenue by automatically calculating demand forecasts and recommending appropriate selling strategies based on data such as day-of-week patterns, booking lead-time and the number of guests per room. Per the press release, the newest iteration of Infor EzRMS has a responsive new forecast algorithm that helps hotels use their data to identify and optimize revenue opportunities. Infor EzRMS smartly incorporates competitor information, on top of hotel system data, to calculate the optimal price decisions. Furthermore, this release includes unique, smart, real-time optimization, ensuring a hotel pricing and selling strategy is always up to date, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This allows hotel teams to focus on other key tasks, trusting that Infor EzRMS will automatically detect and control new revenue opportunities as they happen.

 

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Using Lawson jobinteg Command to Clean up Batch Jobs

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The jobinteg command identifies orphaned jobs and allows you to delete them to clean up your job server.

The parameters for jobinteg are

  • v (Verbose) – prints the bad records
  • t (Terse) – prints totals only
  • P – validate parameters
  • U – print usage/syntax
  • d – deletes bad records

It is recommended that you run a jobinteg -v first to see how many (if any) jobs are orphaned or missing.  Then, run a jobinteg -d to delete the orphaned jobs.  Here is an example of the output:

Transdev Selects Infor to Advance Drive to the Cloud

Transdev Australasia has chosen a comprehensive Infor CloudSuite EAM solution to underpin its company-wide transition to cloud-based asset management. Partners since 2015, Transdev operates buses, ferries, light rail, and rail services across Australia and New Zealand. Per the press release, Infor will be key to Transdev’s plans to establish a centralized asset strategy, standardize and simplify group-wide processes, implement cloud technology around automation, Internet of Things and telemetry integrations, address customer expectations underpinning Transdev’s asset strategy, and manage audit trails. Deploying CloudSuite EAM is expected to streamline internal processes and benefit end users across Transdev’s businesses. As part of the agreement, Transdev will roll out a range of Infor cloud-based solutions including Infor CloudSuite EAM SaaS, Infor User Adoption Platform Bundle SaaS, Infor EAM Enterprise Edition Mobile SaaS, Customer Success+, and Infor EAM Enterprise Edition Fleet Management.

 

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IP Designer Series – Lawson Transaction Node

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The Lawson Transaction Node can be used to add/edit/delete records in Lawson forms using AGS calls.

After you drag the node to your process, you can enter the AGS call manually, import it, or select “Build” in the properties to open a wizard.  In the Wizard, select all your system values.  When you are selecting the fields to update, also be sure to include all the key fields so that Lawson can find your record.  The field values can be hard-coded, or you can use variables.  Once you’re done building your call, click Finish, and the AGS call will be displayed in the properties window.