Security Violation for Activity Group

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You may have tried to add a report or update a job recently in Lawson and received a “Security Violation for Activity Group <XXXXX>”

 

Your first solution may be to give the user full rights to the Activity Group form (AC00) and table, but you’ll find that this solution will heed the same results.

 

  1. Check the security class causing the error. It’s likely it was written as an ELM rule (element) based on the Company Element.
  2. If this is true, it’s checking the CompanyControl attribute on the user’s RM Admin setup.
  3. The AC system uses the Security Code as defined on the AC00 (Activity Group) setup and interprets that value as the Company for AC security. By default, the AC00 Security Code is 9999.
  4. Add Company 9999 on in the users attributes as a valid company in the CompanyControl settings.

 

Recap: Because the ELM rule checked the CompanyControl attribute values, this Security Code (Company) value of 9999 needs to be added to the CompanyControl values for the user.

5 Reasons your Business needs a CRM System

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technology has long been regarded as an essential tool for all businesses of various sizes and industries. With dedication to customer experience and growth, this took gives you a competitive edge. Dale Murray shares an article on Customer Think providing 5 reasons your beusiness should implement a CRM system right away.

  1. 1. Improves productivity by as much as 50%. A CRM system can perform many activities. One of the simplest yet most effective is its ability to automate time consuming, manual tasks by leveraging workflows.
  2. Increase sales by up to 29%. A well implemented CRM system makes pin-pointing existing opportunities and creating new ones easier. Sales and marketing teams can easily segment customers according a wide range of criteria such as spend, activity, market sector etc.
  3. Boosts customer satisfaction by 47%. CRM enables you to deliver business strategies designed to engage and empower your customers. Relationships with customers are easily managed and nurtured with a CRM in place and will help you to exceed customer expectations, creating loyal brand advocates in the process.
  4. Enables testing and refining of marketing to obtain 37% higher engagement. Without the use of a CRM solution, your marketing teams will find it difficult to determine the marketing campaigns that have brought the best engagement and ROI. By proactively and continuously enhancing your marketing content, you will engage your audience and enhance brand and customer loyalty.
  5. As much as 42% increase in forecasting accuracy. A well-designed and implemented CRM system acts as a single source of truth for all your customer and related business data, in real-time. With up-to-date data always at their fingertips, sales and marketing teams are in a strong position to prioritize and target customers that are demonstrating buying signals.

 

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Infor Launches New Fully Integrated Multi-Tenant Payroll Module

Infor recently announced the arrival of its new Payroll module for Infor Global Human Resources (Global HR). Per their website, Infor Payroll provides in-house payroll processing capabilities with multiple options for service partners to help manage back-end payroll processes, including employment tax filing, wage payments, wage garnishments, and other value-added services. Infor’s payroll solution offers flexibility to help organizations enable the desired balance of operational control. Updates to this new offering include benefits of being a module within Global HR as well as being included as part of industry-based CloudSuites. Payroll is now offered to all Infor CloudSuite HCM customers and is fully integrated with Infor CloudSuite Financials, with plans to make third-party financial integration available.

 

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Infor Cloudsuite How to Change Password

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Follow these 6 simple steps to change your password on Infor Cloudsuite.

  1. Login to your Cloudsuite url: https://selfservice.cloudsuite.infor.com/CloudSuitePortal/login.html
  2. Go to Service Requests:
  3. On the top-right select Create a Service Request:
  4. Request type is SQL Manage User and click Next:
  5. Fill in Action: Change Password | User: userID | Password: New_Password
  6. Request takes up to a minute to process.

What Is ERP’s Role in Supply Chain Management?

In recent years, supply chains have become more complex and more widespread. This has driven industrial businesses to integrate enterprise resource planning (ERP) within their supply chain management (SCM) systems, thus enhancing existing systems with more information and actionable data.

Here are five ways, according to Laura Ross at thomasnet.com, that ERP systems can be used to augment SCM processes.

  1. Customer Service. Integrated ERP solutions have the potential to transform an organization’s ability to deliver high-quality customer service.
  2. Efficiency. ERP software amasses all of an organization’s data into one, centralized database, enabling informed, intelligent decision-making and highlighting areas along the supply chain that are operating inefficiently, such as warehouse space wastage or production bottlenecks.
  3. Risk. In the face of such uncertainty and disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, organizations will be more eager than ever before to improve supply chain transparency and implement more effective resource planning. ERP systems can help organizations to mitigate the effects of disruptive, unanticipated events.
  4. Inventory Management. Inventory management is a top concern for organizations. One wrong calculation could disrupt the entire supply chain, causing delays, unhappy customers, and production bottlenecks. On the other hand, hoarding excess inventory wastes warehouse space and racks up unnecessary costs.
  5. Production and Shipping Tracking. ERP systems effectively log and track every step of the production and shipping journey. The software can also determine the most appropriate packaging method and specify the criteria for quality control.

 

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Infor and DBS Bank Partner to Integrate Digital Trade Financing into Global Supply Chains

Infor is partnering with DBS Bank, Southeast Asia’s largest bank, to integrate digital trade financing capabilities into the Infor Nexus global network of more than 68,000 businesses. Per the press release, the two companies’ first joint program recently went live with one of the world’s largest global apparel companies, providing faster and more cost-efficient digital trade financing to suppliers in the apparel company’s supply chain ecosystem, which comprises mostly small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).  Gary Schneider, VP of sales for Infor Financial Supply Chain Management, comments, “This is an important relationship for Infor, where a common vision of data-driven financing bonds us and presses us forward. DBS is a digital bank focused on supplier funding and liquidity. Its pursuit of digital innovation and delivering greater value to supply chains, combined with our cloud-based platform and local support team around the globe, makes for a powerful partnership at a time when liquidity is a top priority for everyone.” The two companies’ next joint program for pre-shipment finance, expected to launch in late 2020, will utilize supply chain data as the primary conduit to assess risk and credit worthiness, as opposed to traditional models that result in the majority of suppliers being underfunded or facing challenges to access necessary capital.

 

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Infor Landmark Security Classes (ST) explained

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This is a more in-depth look at the security classes assigned to Landmark Security Roles. To find a better overview of Landmark Security Roles, see our article on “Infor Landmark Security Roles (ST) explained”

 

Delivered Class Access Details
BasicProductLineAccess_ST In conjunction with ProductLineAccess_ST, provides general product line access that all Landmark actors need.
InbasketUser_ST Access to user’s own Inbasket for reviewing and taking action on work items.
Lpa_ST Access to the Infor Process Automation system, including menus in Infor Rich Client. All IPA users need this.
LpaAdmin_ST Access to Infor Process Automation administration menu options in Infor Rich Client.
JobQueueAccess_ST Access to the Landmark job queue.
ProcessAutomationProxy_ST Access to business classes related to proxy assignments
ProcessDesigner_ST Access to the business classes that the Infor Process Designer tool needs.
ProcessSchedulingAllAccess_ST Provides read, write access to IPA triggering features.
ProcessServerAllAccess_ST Provides read, write access to all IPA features.
ProcessServerReadAccess_ST Provides read access to all IPA features
ProductLineAccess_ST In conjunction with BasicProductLineAccess_ST, provides general product line access that all Landmark actors need.
ScheduledActionsAccess_ST Provides the ability to schedule Landmark actions.
ConfigConsoleSecurityAdmin_ST Provides all access to the Landmark Configuration Console.

 

 

10 cloud ERP implementation challenges during COVID-19

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) cloud systems can help your company create digital transformation and open the door for more opportunities. There are a few challenges that take place, however, when implementing a new system – especially in the current economic struggle. Eric St-Jean shares an article on TechTarget of 10 cloud ERP implementation challenges during the current COVID-19 pandemic.

  1. Resistance. Stakeholders may not want to move forward with an ERP implementation because of the pandemic. To mitigate this resistance, you need to show how the ERP project will save the company money, position your organization to increase revenues, or both. Explain that you can mitigate some of that uncertainty, however, by using the tools and strategies of past implementations for today’s reality.
  2. Employees distracted with personal responsibilities. With schools and day cares closed, many employees now have additional responsibilities, such as helping their children with schoolwork and caring for young children. It is best to work with your employees to understand their challenges and find options for them that allow the employees to continue contributing to the project.
  3. Data security. A successful cloud ERP implementation depends on good security, and that can be hard to come by right now. While you may not be able to provide a secure physical work environment for remote workers, you can take steps to mitigate the risk.
  4. Internet and cellphone access. For employees living in the city, getting fast internet access and good coverage on their cellphone can be pretty easy. For employees who live in remote areas, these can be challenging and costly
  5. Hardware needs. Depending on the functionality you are implementing, employees developing and testing the ERP system may need to have access to hardware, such as scanners.
  6. Sudden illness. Even under normal circumstances, there’s always the risk that a member of the team will fall ill. To prepare for the worst-case scenario, you should have employees document their work and update their status on a regular basis.
  7. Training. It will be important to have different training methods available to employees, such as live training over videoconferencing software, documentation, tip sheets and e-learning.
  8. Multiple time zones. Some of your ERP implementation team members may work in other countries and time zones, which presents challenges when scheduling meetings. Try to arrange core hours where everyone is available.
  9. Meetings without body language. Someone’s physical reaction to information they are receiving or sharing can often give clues about how the person feels on the topic. With so much information sharing now being done remotely, it’s not always possible to see a person’s physical reaction.
  10. Communication. With so many employees working remotely, it’s even more important to develop a good communication plan at the outset of the project.

 

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Infor Landmark Security Roles (ST) explained

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From time to time you may get inquiries from a client’s audit team about Landmark Security Roles. This overview table helps explain their uses assuming no modifications were made to them by the organization or Infor. To see a more in-depth understanding of Landmark classes, see our article: “Infor Landmark Security Classes (ST) explained”

 

Delivered role Intended for use by Contains these security classes
InbasketUser_ST Normal end-users who receive work items in the Inbasket BasicProductLineAccess_ST

ProductLineAccess_ST InbasketUser_ST

Lpa_ST ProcessSchedulingAllAccess_ ST
JobQueueServer_ST Users who must perform actions on the Landmark job queue. BasicProductLineAccess_ST

ProductLineAccess_ST JobQueueAccess_ST
ProcessDesigner_ST Process developers BasicProductLineAccess_ST ProductLineAccess_ST

Lpa_ST

ProcessDesigner_ST ProcessSchedulingAllAccess_ ST
ProcessServerAllAccess_ST IPA system administrators BasicProductLineAccess_ST ProductLineAccess_ST

Lpa_ST

LpaAdmin_ST ProcessServerAllAccess_ST ProcessSchedulingAllAccess_ ST ScheduledActionsAccess_ST
ProcessServerReadAccess_ST IPA assistant administrators, power users, developers (depending on policies at

your site)

 ProductLineAccess_ST

ProcessServerReadAccess_ST
Not delivered through a role. Assign the class to any role for users who need to assign proxies. Users who need to assign Tasks to other users to cover for them. ProcessAutomationProxy_ST
ConfigConsoleSecurityAdmin_ST Users who need full access to the Configuration Console. ConfigAdminAccess_ST

SecurityConfigAccess_ST

ConfigConsoleSecurityAdmin_ ST

 

Three Ways To Successfully Integrate New Technology Into Employee Workflow

The Forbes Council shares three ways to integrate new or different technology into your team’s workflow environments. If done well, your team can achieve success while taking advantage of new technologies.

  1. Empower your employees and make them ‘beta’ testers. Galvanize your employees into being a part of the process of enhancing this new tech. Give them the chance to feel as if they are making the product better — because they are.
  2.  Hold training sessions, and set aside time to make the learning curve less steep. It takes a team effort to make a new product work to the best of its ability. Understand there will be a learning curve, but it’s possible to successfully get your team on board and excited about something new and different.
  3. Don’t reinvent the wheel. No matter what change you’re introducing — whether it be new tech or switching up another aspect of your business process — don’t lose sight of what you and your employees do best.

 

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