OMB Valves Chooses Infor for Digitization of Processes in the Cloud

OMB Valves, the Italian manufacturer of valves for the oil & gas, power, shipbuilding, and aerospace sectors, has announced that they will implement Infor CloudSuite Industrial Enterprise as its core technology platform. Founded by Roberto Brevi in ​​1973 and based in Cenate Sotto, Bergamo, OMB’s vision to digitize its complex business processes and unify its management strategy will be managed by Infor partner Lutech CDM. Per the press release, Infor CloudSuite Industrial Enterprise and the multi-tenant cloud solution AWS (Amazon Web Services) will help OMB extend to the production, logistics, finance, and project management departments, involving more than 200 users around the world, in addition to 100 users of Infor Factory Track to push on the digitization of its production processes. The company new ERP solution will allow it to deploy a unified strategy in the logistical and financial management of its plants. The go-live is scheduled for 2022 at all plants in Italy, North America, and Singapore. Following this implementation will be the future plant in Saudi Arabia.

 

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How to set a distribution group to a Lawson job within Lawson portal

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Before we get started, you’ll need to have distribution groups setup already. See our article on how to do that if you haven’t. You’ll likely need higher privileged access to perform these tasks.

Assuming you already have distribution groups setup, follow the steps below.

  1. Login to Lawson portal.
  2. Go to a Lawson job that you want to set a distribution group for.
  3. Once the job is created, click on the “Reports” button above the Job Name.
  4. In Report Properties, select Distribution Group and then select one of your created distribution groups from the Group Name drop down box and press OK when done.
  5. Click “Change” to save the report properties. Now Inquire on the job and click Reports again to verify the changes were made.

That is, your reports will now show up in the users print manager that are in the selected distribution group. All without having to go to LID.

Five Reasons Cloud Manufacturing ERP Adoption Is Increasing In 2021

The 2020 global pandemic tested businesses big and small of their capability to adapt to the economic situation. Physical businesses closed down and many offices went online/remote. The shift toward cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) was noticable particulary among small-and-medium-sized (SMB) manufacture businesses. Robert Jolliffe, manufacturing ERP expert and owner of Sabre Limited, shares an article on Forbes about how cloud manufacturing ERP adoption is on the rise. According to Jolliffe, he sees five major reasons for this adoption:

  • Covid-19 has demonstrated that hybrid work is both effective and sometimes necessary.
  • Cloud technology platforms have matured, especially in the SMB space.
  • As baby boomers exit the workforce, it’s accelerating the path for Gen Xers and millennials to management positions.
  • Advances in broadband are making it more practical to adopt cloud solutions.
  • New techniques to deploy this technology reduce the fear and risk associated with the change it implies.

While cloud ERP in the SMB manufacturing space is relatively new, it’s without a doubt expanding. Jolliffe concludes, “I expect this trend to accelerate. As this market increases, it benefits everyone. Technology gets better. Businesses gain more experience, and more skills enter the market. Implementors become better at deploying the software.”

 

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Atria Finds the Perfect Recipe with Infor

Atria, one of Estonia and Russia’s leading meat and food companies in the Nordic countries, has chosen Infor PLM for Process (Optiva) as a standardized platform for product development across the group. The application, which will be deployed via a multi-tenant cloud, will create a standard set of processes and a master system for recipes, holding all documentation related to product development and production and approval processes. Per the press release, Infor PLM for Process was chosen because of its industry-specific functionality and excellent integration with its existing enterprise resource planning (Infor M3) system, and third-party applications. Infor PLM for Process (Optiva) replaces Atria’s legacy solution with several separate applications. Now, the company will use industry-specific Infor Implementation Accelerators to help decrease time to value, lower cost and reduce risk.

 

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How to resend an LBI confirmation code for a newly created email device

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You’ve setup a user’s email in LBI Smart Notes and contacted them to send you a confirmation code. Time has passed and the user lost the email. To resend the code follow the steps below.

  1. Login to LBI go to Tools Dashboard >> Select Smart Notifications
  2. Go to Personal Settings and select Delivery Devices

  1. Located the user awaiting confirmation and click Edit

  1. In the Edit Delivery Device screen, click Resent Confirmation:

That’s it! No need to delete and recreate a new user.

John Soules Foods Consolidates Core HR and Payroll with Infor

Infor recently announced that John Soules Foods’ had a successful go-live and consolidation of its payroll and human resources systems. Working alongside Infor partner Bails, John Soules Foods has implemented key cloud-based Infor Global Human Resources (HR) applications, which migrated more than 1,200 employees with facilities in multiple states, and successfully paid them with the first paycheck of 2021.  Per the press release, Infor’s new multi-tenant payroll solution will help provide in-house payroll processing capabilities to help manage back-end payroll processes, including employment tax filing, wage payments, wage garnishments, and other value-added services. John Soules Foods was looking to consolidate multiple HR and payroll systems and chose Infor to consolidate applications across multiple states with the goals of better and faster reporting. It would also help reduce bottom-line expenses associated with maintaining a large support architecture. Infor HR applications can help nurture top talent, engage employees, and foster a community aligned to an organization’s mission. The app suite also offers complete in-house payroll processing capabilities, with multiple options for service partners to help manage value-added and compliance payroll processes, including employment tax filing, wage payments, wage garnishments, and more. With Infor HR successfully implemented, John Soules Foods can increase communication between HR systems and have more operational control across their entire business.

 

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How to get the Thick Client Identity name in Lawson

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With Lawsons ever growing list of identity types, it may be difficult to identify the Thick Client identity field.

Example of identities:

To find out what the Thick Client Identity is open up your browser and type this URL (you may need to login first):

Examples:

https://<lsf-organization-domain>:1447/ssoconfig/SSOCfgInfoServlet

With made up organization

https://lsfserver.someorg.com:1447/ssoconfig/SSOCfgInfoServlet

Look at the PRIMARYSERVICE name to get the thick client service identity.

3 ways AI improves CRM

Customer relationship management (CRM) systems have fast become invaluable tools in running business operations. However, manually updating CRMs can quickly add up work because of the always-connected, fast changing world we live in. This is where the collaboration of artificial intelligence (AI) with your CRM system thrives. Jody Glidden, founder and CEO of B2B relationship intelligence service and data management platform Introhive, shares an article on inforworld.com how the power of AI can liberate organizations from manual processes connected to their CRM system. Below are three key advantages AI brings to CRM systems based on Glidden’s experience at Introhive.

Better customer engagement – “AI technology greatly assists with customer service and support functions. Chat and email bots ensure that customers get quick answers and direction. New AI technologies analyze voice and text in real time to help agents most effectively serve prospective and existing clients. If an employee can be freed from the more time-consuming administrative responsibilities of their role, they can focus on the more meaningful aspects of their jobs: creative thinking, problem solving, and client support. Improved employee satisfaction and retention tends to follow.”

Keener sales insights – “Having a centralized record of clean customer sales data and communications means better sales forecasting and clearer insights into how deals were won or lost. AI integration ensures that your CRM captures customer data in the desired format using document, image, and speech recognition technologies. High-quality customer data and accurate, AI-driven predictions also have important implications for how teams are organized to manage various accounts. Utilizing an AI application is effectively like giving a data scientist to each staff member to make sense of disparate business data that would otherwise be lost or delayed in analysis.”

Smarter social networking – “While new technologies are often criticized for making social interactions less authentic, I’ve long championed the power that technology has to strengthen connections and relationships, especially in business,” says Glidden. “Introhive specializes in AI-driven relationship intelligence to better understand one’s client base and branching networks of prospective clients and referrals. AI integrations mine CRM platforms for transactional data, social contacts, and communication history. This information is then collected, grouped, analyzed, and distributed automatically so teams have insights about best engagement practices with customers, vendors, and other stakeholders.”

Glidden further notes that as companies emerge from the pandemic and try to capitalize on virtual networking, there will be a greater adoption of AI integrations across businesses, especially within the CRM market.

 

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The Foundation Of A Successful Digital Transformation Is In The Cloud

The global pandemic of 2020 was a wake up call for essentially everyone. Enterprises were challenged to adapt to sudden changes or risk becoming another “Covid casualty” as they say. Business continuity and sustainability was the key to staying afloat. Many companies took this as an opportunity to begin their digital transformation (DT) journey. Having the ability to digitize, automate and integrate processes enables a company to adapt to a changing market quicker. Enterprises who embrace DT would not have to worry about losing relevance or becoming obsolete from their competition. While launching a DT is no easy feat, the transition is a worthy investment. Jon Roskill, Forbes Councils Member and CEO at Acumatica, shares an article on Forbes explaining how the foundation of a successful digital transformation is in the Cloud. Migrating to a cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is a great place to begin.  Roskill shares the benefits of migrating to the cloud below:

Cost Savings
“One of the biggest benefits of a cloud-based ERP is that it saves money. Users don’t have to dedicate resources to maintaining or updating infrastructure such as hardware or data servers. Companies can reduce spending on IT support since the data center itself will handle maintenance. Users only pay for the services needed, so every dollar is serving their goals.”

No More Data Silos
“Typically, one of the ultimate goals of a DT journey is to eliminate company data redundancies and silos. Modern cloud-based ERP solutions can help gather, store and analyze data within a single platform. This way, company leaders get better and more accurate business insights from the data, while also increasing the speed and ease of data retrieval.”

Easy Access From Any Location
“With a cloud-based ERP solution, there’s no need for employees to be in the office to access the system. They can simply log in from wherever they are – on the road, at the office, or at home. The power of this flexibility is incredibly valuable and allows companies to manage critical operations from remote locations.”

Emergency And Disaster Protection
“A good cloud ERP comes with data preparedness and redundancy in case of an emergency. Emergencies resulting in setbacks can be complex regardless of the business climate. But after the challenging year-plus most companies just weathered, emergencies can be especially detrimental. Protecting your business from unforeseen disasters may be the push that many once-reluctant companies need to begin their DT journey.”

Adopting to a cloud-based ERP solution is just the first step in your DT journey, says Roskill. He notes that the best businesses understand that DT is an ongoing effort with companies continually fine-tuning their business processes to make them more efficient and drive growth.

 

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How to properly stop and start IPA Grid via console command

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Stopping IPA Grid from running scheduled flows ensures no users can run any jobs that could attempt to trigger IPA flows. Here is how to properly stop IPA Grid via console command:

  1. Open a command prompt window and navigate to the landmark install directory
  2. Type Enter.cmd and press Enter (Enter.cmd is the default batch filename, this will initialize Lawson environment commands)
  3. Type adminlaw and press Enter (this will stop everything and not allow it to restart)

 

Starting IPA Grid back up is simple:

  1. Complete steps 1 and 2 from above (if you previously closed the command window)
  2. Verify the LSF server, websphere, and security is on and running
  3. Type startlaw to start the IPA Grid

That’s all to it, good luck!