SanMar Digitizes its Financial Supply Chain with Infor to Drive Growth

SanMar Corporation, the largest supplier of apparel and other soft goods to the imprinted sportswear and promotional products industries, has selected cloud-based Infor Nexus Financial Supply Chain Management solutions as part of their plans to streamline collaboration with trading partners for greater visibility and control of orders, statuses and payments.  This partnership will support SanMar’s efforts to improve scalability and better serve customers. SanMar Corporation is a family-owned national supplier of 21 retail, private label and mill brands, and supplies apparel and accessories to screen printers, embroiderers, promotional products distributors, athletic dealers, industrial launderers and more. Per the press release, Infor will provide a single cloud network to connect internal and external parties and systems. Document automation and digitization of surrounding processes will remove friction from the supplier transaction process, and factory management and quality assurance automation will deliver efficiency and data integrity to improve compliance and performance.

 

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How to Change Lawson Portal TEST Banner

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When having users test new patches, it’s a good practice to distinguish TEST from PROD visually. This helps users know what environment they’re in as they may be testing after a long day and may think they are testing in TEST when in fact they are changing production data.

 

This can simply be done by changing a banner color in Lawson Portal.

  1. Login to your TEST environment and locate your index.htm file found here: “D:\<lsf_folder>\web\lawson\portal”
  2. Assuming your index.htm file is unmodified locate header id=“topBanner”

  3. Use an online HTML Color Picker tool to choose the hex color you want to appear and replace background-color:#ff8787 to your preferred color hex color code.

Example of how it will appear:

  1. Save the changes, clear IOS cache, clear your browser cache, logout and back in to see the change. Enjoy!

4 Ways That Technology Has Improved Medical Care

Technology has transformed every industry, including healthcare. In fact, the digital age’s impact in the medical field has proven a game changer and has advanced the way we provide medical services to an abundance of patients in a variety of ways. Healthcare business writer Carol Trehearn wrote an article on HealthTechZone.com sharing 4 ways that technology has vastly improved medical care and the healthcare industry as we know it.

1. Safer medical procedures -New technology has made medical procedures safer and more efficient.

2. Revolutionary medical treatments – Technology has revolutionized a wide selection of healthcare settings, including hospitals, physician’s surgeries, physiotherapy offices, and recovery centers.

3. Health & fitness apps – Health and fitness apps are extremely popular and have seen significant improvements over the years. You can use a health app to monitor your diet, exercise, heart rate, sleep, and much more.

4. Patient portals – Electronic records enable medical professionals to access patient information quicker and more efficiently. This improves patient care and saves valuable resources within healthcare settings.

Trehearn concludes by pointing out that technology has transformed medical care and improved the efficiency of healthcare services and treatment facilities. As medical technology continues to advance, we will continue to discover more ways to improve the quality of medical care and health services for everyone.

 

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Botanique Hotel Prague Blooms with Infor

Infor recently announced that Botanique Hotel Prague, a newly independent lifestyle hotel in central Prague, has implemented Infor EzRMS for its capacity for artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to recognize patterns and help ensure optimized rate and pricing recommendations. Per the press release, Infor EzRMS provides a centralized revenue management software solution that delivers an intelligent, dynamic, and consistent view of optimal potential revenue for the hotel’s 214 rooms and will help maximize the hotel’s yield and profit. Tomas Nesvorny, general manager of Botanique Hotel Prague, comments, “With a centralized view that enables us to track all of our segments, we are now positioned superbly to capitalize on market improvements as we move beyond the current restrictions of COVID.”

 

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LBI Auditing Part 3c – Overview of Service Now Admin Audit Reports

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In LBI Auditing Part 3b we went over Reporting Service Admin Audit Reports. In this article we will go over the Service Now (SN) portion of reports.

 

SN01.List of Alerts:

This report allows you to view what user(s) and or group(s) have access to what SN alert/report.

Column Name Description
Alert ID Assigned alert ID number.
Alert Name Alert name created by owner.
Owner Owner who published alert.
Creation Date Date in which the alert was created.
Last Modified/Rendered Date when the alert was last modified.
Shared To Alert shared access.
Roles Roles that grant access to the alert.
Security Specify Type of access (public, user, or group).

 

SN02. User/Group Access on SN Alerts:

This is a security report showing user/group access to specific alerts.

Column Name Description
User/Group Name of user or group.
Specify Access type (user or group).
Roles Roles that grant access to the alert.
Alert ID Assigned alert ID number.
Last Modified/Rendered Date when the alert was last modified.
Alert Alert name created by owner.
Last Rendered Date when the alert was last modified.

 

SN03.Top Rendered Alerts and their Top Viewers:

This report shows statistics on your most viewed alerts and top viewers.

Column Name Description
Top Alert Alerts with most views starting at the top
Alert Name Alert name created by owner.
No. of Views Total number of alert views.
Alert ID Assigned alert ID number.
Group Group being notified
Owner Owner who published alert.
Rank Top ranked viewers of the specific alert.
Viewer User viewing report.
Roles Roles that grant access to the alert.
User Views Total number of views per user.

 

For more details on these admin audit reports, check out Part 3a “Overview of Framework Service Admin Audit Reports” and Part 3b “Overview of Reporting Service Admin Audit Reports”.

A CRM Agency’s Secret Weapon: The Data Scientist

The life of a business relies on data. Collecting, analyzing and acting on data is how you stay in business. So how do you optimize your data to grow your business? The answer is data science. Data science is the art of transforming existing data into meaningful insights that businesses can use to make decisions.  Core to the data scientist’s toolkit is artificial intelligence (AI), which strives to enable machines to replicate human intelligence to execute reasoning. Many experts have motioned for the integration of AI into customer relationship management (CRM) systems, the data powerhouse of a strong business. With CRM and AI, one can apply predictive analytics to grow and scale a business. Rekha Gibbons, chief operating officer at Raare Solutions, shares an article on Destination CRM explaining how data science can leverage this even more. Data is all about understanding people and CRM systems do just that – understand and record customer behavior. Gibbons lists a few examples of how brands successfully utilize data science to leverage customer data to their advantage.

 

Predictive. What’s better than knowing your customer’s needs? with predictive analytics, you can go a long way with sending personalized emails and offers based on data found from customers’ spending habits.

Personalization. Amazon has set the standard for personalization based on Big Data. Consumers can buy anything on Amazon, but the choices can be staggering. To reduce churn and help the consumer get what they really want, Amazon adopted a collaborative filtering engine. The collaborative filtering engine analyzes the items previously purchased, online shopping cart or wish list, products reviewed and rated, and frequent searches. This personalized recommendation system offers products that people with similar profiles have purchased.

Innovation. Peloton was storming the fitness world well before COVID-19. Because of the pandemic, the cycling company had to change their sales model a bit to conform to customers’ new needs. Peloton showed how data innovation can succeed even during extreme crises: confined at home with your own sanitized bike, while you connect to people just like you.

Cleanliness. Part of the beauty of understanding the more technical portions of data science is the foundation of data hygiene. Data integrity is always a problem. It makes absolutely no sense to add AI or machine learning if the data itself isn’t clean. And what does that mean? No duplicate records. Unique customer ID. Continuously fresh data.

 

Gibbons concludes while data science is a science, the instrumental factor is humanization. This is why CRM’s secret weapon is data science. This discipline allows marketers to answer core questions: Who to target? When to target? How to predict behavior? How to retain? Which channel? The next time you use analyze your data, make use of your secret weapon—the data scientist.

 

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NSE Group Chooses Infor to Support Evolution of its Information System for its Activities Related to Services

Infor recently announced that NSE Group, a company specializing in the design, manufacture and maintenance of high-tech electronic equipment, has chosen Infor SyteLine as part of a project to rationalize and perpetuate its activities. The objective of the project at the beginning of the year was to replace the legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) system set up in 2007 in NSE Group’s services business unit, which coordinates and handles the interface with customers, the supply chain operations and the repairs of consumer electronics, aeronautics and defence equipment. Per the press release, the previous solution required too many specific developments, thereby taking up time and IT resources that the group wanted to allocate to higher-value tasks. “The objective for NSE with this migration to Infor SyteLine was to be able to quickly respond to the diversification of our group’s business sectors,” says NSE Group’s project manager Sylvain Séramy. NSE Group also opted for the Infor Factory Track solution, a complete production automation solution that promotes warehouse mobility and traceability, the Infor CPQ (Configure Price Quote) pricing and quotation software, and the Infor OS (Operating Service) platform.

 

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LBI Auditing Part 3b – Overview of Reporting Service Admin Audit Reports

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In LBI Auditing Part 3a we went over Framework Service Admin Audit Reports. In this article we will go over the Reporting Service (RS) portion of reports.

 

RS01.RS Reports:

This report shows all your reports in LBI along with the below details.

Column Name Description
Report ID Assigned ID when report was created.
Report Name Report Name (may differ from given dashboard name).
Owner Owner who published report.
User User access to the report.
Date Created Report creation date.

 

RS02. User Access on Reports:

This is a security report showing user/group access to specific reports.

Column Name Description
User User with LBI access.
Report ID Assigned ID when report was created.
Report Name Report Name (may differ from given dashboard name).

 

RS03.Top Viewed Reports in RS:

This report shows statistics on your most viewed reports, what users viewing them the most and total views per user.

Column Name Description
Report ID Assigned ID when report was created.
Report Name Report Name (may differ from given dashboard name).
Access Viewer Top Viewer of a specific report
Number of Views Total number of views by a specific user

 

RS04.Top Scheduled/Exported Reports

This report shows statistics on your most scheduled and exported reports.

Column Name Description
Report ID Assigned ID when report was created.
Report Name Report Name (may differ from given dashboard name).
Frequency Total number of time a report has been scheduled/exported.

 

 

For more details on these admin audit reports, check out Part 3c “Overview of Service Now Admin Audit Reports” (coming soon) and/or Part 3a “Overview of Reporting Service Admin Audit Reports”.

 

 

Viewpoint Stays on Point with Infor

Edinburgh, Scotland’s elder home facilities in the Viewpoint Housing Association has extended its investment in Infor SunSystems. This partnership is part of an ongoing program to ensure the association delivers optimal value for money by achieving maximum efficiency. Infor partner Kick ICT will ensure Viewpoint is able to not only use the most up-to-date functionality but also benefit from faster, easier upgrades and integrations with existing third-party systems. As a hosted solution, it will also make fewer demands on Viewpoint’s IT staff, who can now be redeployed to higher value tasks. Per the press release, the upgrade will also help improve remote working by delivering tighter workflow approvals and stronger supplier security. Additionally, Mike Gibson, head of finance for Viewpoint, says of the partnership, “This upgrade has yielded an array of benefits. Not only can we be confident we are on the most up-to-date version of the software, but the new functionality has meant less time processing transactions and more time looking at what they tell us instead.”

 

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LBI Auditing Part 3a – Overview of Framework Service Admin Audit Reports

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In LBI Auditing Part 2, we went over setting up admin audit reports in LBI. In this article we will go over the Framework Service (FS) portion of reports.

 

FS01.FS Content:

This report may contain a lot of data and can take longer to generate. It displays dashboard, module, and content links. Couple with this type of data, you will be able to see user ownership, security type, shared/view access, create and modified date data.

 

Column Name Description
Dashboard-Module-Links Created content name, shared/not shared.
Item Specify Type of content (Dashboard, Module, Link).
Owner Owner of content
Shared to User or groups that have access, specific sharing rights.
Security Specify Shows whether shared access is public, from a user, or group.
View Access Viewing rights from users or groups (design rights or not).
Modified Date Last logged date the content has been changed/modified.
Creation Date Date in which the content was created.

 

FS02.User/Group Access on FS Content:

This report shows what content a user or group has access to.

Column Name Description
ID The ENPTREEENTRYID where the user belongs to.
User/Group User/Group Name and their access to certain content.
Security Specify Access Type: public, user, or group.
Access Items Content each user has access to.
Item Specify Type of content (Dashboard, Module, Link).
Creation Date Date in which the content was created.

 

FS03.Top Viewed Links in Framework Services:

Links that are captured and logged in the database if the Auditing feature is turned on. (See LBI Auditing Part 1 of how to set this up.)

Column Name Description
Names Names of the FS Links.
Access View User access.
Access Value Access level to a certain user or group (if public at all).
Views Count How many times a link was viewed

 

For more details on these admin audit reports, check out Part 3b “Overview of Reporting Service Admin Audit Reports” and Part 3c “Overview of Service Now Admin Audit Reports” (coming soon).