5 Ways To Give (Thoughtful) Thanks To Your Team

When employees feel valued, they’re efforts and productivity increase. As a team member and leader, it’s important to take the time to recognize efforts and show your appreciation. Janet at Trello wrote a great article about how gratitude makes a positive impact on a person’s moral cognition, value judgement, and theory of mind and how this culture makes for a great work environment. Research show that a culture of gratitude is extremely important to motivate employees to do their best work and have a high level of job satisfaction. According to Janet, here are a few ways to show appreciation to your team.

  1. Provide Sincere And Consistent Recognition – Understanding how your team members like to accept gratitude can go a long way in showing that you truly care about their preferences.
  2. Give A Thoughtful Gift – If you can’t find the words, then give a great gift for that person on your team who deserves that recognition. Wrap that thanks with a bow and show them how grateful you are for their efforts at work.
  3. Get Your Team Involved – Employees feel valued when they can participate in decision-making and their skills are actually being used to the benefit of the company.
  4. Listen With Intent – The best leaders are the ones who take the time to really listen to their employees and colleagues.
  5. Create A Kudos Culture – At the end of the day, your team wants to feel appreciated and valued. This collective approach to expressing gratitude will help the practice become second nature to everyone on your team.

If you’re looking for ways to motivate your team, a simple “thank you” goes a long way.

 

Original Post by Janet Mesh at Trello

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Optimize Component Did Mount in React.js

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When using Reactjs, there are often times when you make a change to a database and need the updated data to be shown on the front-end. If you are taking advantage of the component did mount method to grab data once the page is mounted, you should move all of the code inside the component did mount to a new method so you can call the method once you make an update to your database. This will optimize your code since you wont be writing more code to grab the data once you make an update.

Fransen Gerrits Increases Efficiency and Optimizes Business Processes with Industry-Specific ERP

Dutch animal feed producer Fransen Gerrits recently completed a successful upgrade of Infor M3 to help automate processes and streamline efficiency. Users of the M3 enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution since 2007, Fransen Gerrits has continually expanded its capabilities to meet the evolving needs of the food and beverage industry and its customers. By upgrading M3, with the support of Infor Alfa-Beta, Fransen Gerrits will benefit from new ways to optimize business processes and increase efficiency. The press release shared Fransen Gerrits’ financial director Jori Teuwen’s statement on their company’s commitment to Infor: “I keep up-to-date with suppliers like SAP and Microsoft to see what’s available in the market, but Infor M3 is the absolute winner for us thanks to the multi-country, multi-company, intra-company and multi-currency capabilities it provides, which I have not yet seen in other solutions. This is very important to us because we often deal with inter-company cashflows. In addition, the way the database is structured is better and makes it easy to facilitate any expansion abroad.” With Infor M3, Fransen Gerrits is able to record purchasing, production, sales and financial process and is surrounded by several third-party applications that either help save costs and/or improve productivity.

 

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AWS Lambda Sql Connection

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If you are creating a web app that uses lambda and a mysql database, there will be many times where you need to have sql information passing to and from lambda functions. A way to connect a lambda functions to a mysql database is using npm mysql. To set up the connection, there must be a connection variable defined. This variable must contain the mysql host name, user, password, and database. Once these are defined, the lambda function can connect to the mysql database with the code “connection.connect()”. Once this is ran, your lambda function can now run queries. These queries are written just like a regular sql query. Once you are done running your query make sure to declare your connection closed by stating “connection.end()”.

The process.env variables would be were you put your sql information.

 

**Note: You might need to configure your lambda function to be set up on the mysql database’s VPC.

Pataya Food Group Drives Expansion in Global Markets with Infor

Thai seafood manufacturer and distributor Pataya Food Group has partnered with Infor to leverage Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage (F&B), Infor OS and Infor Birst across its subsidiary companies and help accelerate business growth. This digitization plan allows Pataya Food Group’s expansion into global markets. The solution will be implemented by channel partner Lawson Software. Pataya Food Group is the leading shelf-stable seafood manufacturer and distributor in Thailand. Their commitment to quality has become recognized internationally. Apart from brands such as Nautilus, Sea Crown, Mongkut Talay and Regalos, its original equipment manufacturing (OEM) business has also established itself as supplying best-quality products. With this implementation, Pataya Food Group will be able to streamline operations in production and distribution, optimizing inventory management and supply chains with next-generation intelligent analytics. They will have the infrastructure to effectively manage product life cycle from factory to shelf for all brands across multiple regions with a centralized solution.

 

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Compiling Form Generates INVOKE Error

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If you are compiling a form that generates an error “Program X Does Not Allow INVOKE”, that means that the invoked program needs to be set to allow invoke. To do that, from a LID session, go to the form in pgmdef (pgmdef <prodline> <system code>). Select Define (F6) > Program (A).  Set the property “Can Be Accessed Via INVOKE” to Yes. Compile the invoked form and then compile the custom form that does the invoking.

Define (F6) > Program (A)

The Top 10 Technology Trends In Retail: How Tech Will Transform Shopping In 2020

Technology is making its mark in just about every industry we know of. It helps create efficiencies, save money and provide better products and services. In retail for example, not only is technology making it easier for consumers to shop in store, online and on their mobile devices, but the softwares and processes are helping retail companies do business better. Strategic business & technology advisor Bernard Marr shared an article on Forbes predicting the top trends we might see in retail in 2020.

  1. Extended Reality – “Virtual and augmented reality offer retailers several ways to enhance the customer experience. From browsing products to virtually “trying them on,” extended reality is already in use by many retailers today such as Tilly’s, Ikea and Treasury Wines Estates. In the future, extended reality will eventually enable consumers to be able to share their virtual reality shopping experience with others.”
  2. Predictive Analytics (Big Data) – “Retail organizations have never had an issue collecting lots of data, but analyzing it and using the data to solve problems or create new solutions has been a struggle. Predictive analytics changes that. Now retailers can be proactive about the future by analyzing consumer behavior and trends from the past. Predictive analytics helps retailers be smarter, more efficient, and reduce costs.”
  3. Micro Moments – “Retailers who can meet customers “in the moment” have a powerful advantage. Thanks to direct digital access to consumers and powerful analytics capabilities, businesses can capture moments and help customers during their moment of need and even anticipate what a customer might need before they even know it.”
  4. Recommendation Engines – Another powerful tech tool for retailers is recommendation engines that help customers find things they never knew they needed and to help funnel options to a consumer at relevant times in their shopping journey. Retailers get to benefit from higher cart sales and improved customer satisfaction thanks to the ease of use. Amazon, Netflix, and Spotify are the recommendation engines you might be most familiar with, but many other retailers such as Best Buy use them too.
  5. Order Fulfilment Automation – “By the end of 2025, more than 580,000 autonomous mobile robots (AMR) will be deployed to help warehouses fulfill customer orders. Many retailers are scrambling to adjust to the “Amazon Effect” and are exploring order fulfillment automation to try to increase the speed and flexibility of operations in order to compete with Amazon. This automation can significantly reduce order processing times.”
  6. Face Recognition – “Many of the most successful retailers have online and offline presences. Facial recognition technology helps retailers proactively battle shoplifting and retail crime. In addition, it can bring the personalized online shopping experience to the brick-and-mortar location. When a customer is identified through facial recognition technology, the store staff can better respond to that customer’s unique needs.”
  7. Stock Management – “Automated warehouses help improve inventory control. Rather than wait for manual inventories, smart robotics and computer systems keep reliable stock data in real-time. This accurate data helps retailers manage stock flow, make solid predictions, smart decisions, and forecasting that help improve the store’s bottom line.”
  8. Robotic Store Assistants – “Another tech trend that’s changing shopping is robotic store assistants. Robots can help shoppers find the merchandise they are looking for and answer questions. They can even email special offers or coupons. Lowe’s has the LoweBot that helps with in-store customer service.”
  9. Customer Chat Bots – “There has been rapid adoption of messaging-based customer service bots across retail. Messaging has become the preferred customer service channel, so call volume will be reduced. Artificial intelligence bots will be able to improve the customer journey pre- and post-sales by lowering cart abandonment and help customers solve problems after the sale without human intervention.”
  10. Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Equipment – “The Internet of Things and smart equipment will transform the shopping experience. Thanks to the volumes of data we have available and the ability to process it, consumers can receive a personalized shopping experience that wasn’t possible before. Today’s consumers want experiences that include personalization and information to help them make decisions.”

 

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Impresa Pizzarotti & C. Spa Embraces Digital Transformation with Infor

Italian civil engineering and construction leader Impresa Pizzarotti & C. Spa has selected an Infor enterprise software suite based around Infor LN. Set up for 700 users, the suite incorporates enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise asset management (EAM) and analytics (Birst) capabilities, and will support Impresa Pizzarotti & C. Spa’s digital transformation strategy. The company will focus on process consolidation to increase visibility and better forecasting. The strategy will support expansion into new emerging markets and cement Impresa Pizzarotti & C. Spa’s position in existing territories. Impresa Pizzarotti & C. Spa chose Infor because of the capabilities of the software and its ability to scale for future growth. Additionally, Infor’s ability to facilitate best practices in corporate governance, risk management and reporting, as well as tight cost control across every customer project to support reporting and planning was exactly what the company was looking for.

 

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Append to XML Node in IP Designer

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To append XML elements to a parent element in IPA, use the “Append output to” property on the XML node.  First, create a root XML element in the start node.  In your XML builder node, check the “Append output to” property, and set the root element to the variable that you created in the start node and the element that contains the list.  So <root>.<listelement>.

What SMBs Should Consider When Choosing An ERP Solution

Arun Upadhyay, CEO and Founder of LionO360 shares an article on Forbes regarding what small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) should consider when choosing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Upadhyay stresses that implementing the right technology makes a world of a difference and can impact your business.  ERPs are designed to connect the different areas and processes of a company that’s needed to run the business.  Deciding what ERP to implement is half the battle. Below are Upadhyay’s tips to consider before seeking an ERP solution.

  • Figure Out Your Requirements – Start by identifying shortfalls, challenges, inconsistencies, processes or systems that are inefficient, waste money or slow productivity. Seek input from senior management, IT teams, end users and others who are engaged in specific areas of your business.
  • Compare Offerings -After you’ve sorted out your requirements, look to see what features, functionalities and technologies different ERPs offer. Most have a dizzying array of options. To avoid being overwhelmed, take a big-picture approach.
  • Appoint An Integration Manager – Many vendors will assign you a project manager. However, you should appoint an internal person or team that understands the ERP you’ve selected as well as your company’s systems. Ideally, this person will be involved in the ERP onboarding process from day one: They will help gather requirements and will become fully acclimated to the new ERP. They will work alongside the vendor on any data conversions, coding customization and application migration. They will coordinate all necessary training and will liaise between the vendor and internal staff.
  • Decide On An Option – As with most technologies, it’s important to think long-term when you’re selecting ERP software and a vendor. By doing so, you’ll better position your company and the vendor as partners for mutual success.

 

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