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Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – facilitating your customers to order anytime, anywhere.

How to solve the ‘broken order journey’? The broken order process is often manual, fragmented, and error-prone. Customers email or call customer service to check prices, confirm availability, or place orders and sales and support teams spend time on data entry, confirmation calls, and status updates instead of selling.

The wealth of product and order information in LNCE remains locked, making it difficult for customers to self-serve and each manual step increases the risk of errors, delays, and customer frustration. There is, however, a simple solution to this problem: with the ZUMConnect portal, you now have:

• Self-service ordering: Customers enter accurate orders without re-keying
• Automated approvals: Infor workflows speed up internal processing
• End-to-end visibility: Real-time tracking from submission to delivery
• ERP LN integration: Automatic sync eliminates duplicate entries and errors
• Actionable analytics: Monitor order accuracy, speed, and sales productivity
• Personalised recommendations: Suggest items and streamline repeat orders

Curious how Infor LNCE and the ZUMConnect portal can optimize your customer process? Shayma Mejri and Mariem Jallouli created a document which has answers, connect now.

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Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – Customer Furnished Material (CFM)
Customer Furnished Material (CFM) in Infor LNCE manages materials supplied by customers for their specific projects. Quantities and delivery details are agreed upon with the customer, and defined order management settings ensure these materials are properly controlled and tracked throughout the process.

The most common benefits of these functions are:

• Full Traceability: Track customer-supplied materials across the entire supply chain.
• Seamless Integration: Manage and segregate customer materials within internal production and procurement processes.
• Accurate Consumption Tracking: Automatically record material usage and update customer asset reports.
• Financial Simplicity: Ensure no impact on the financial reconciliation process.

Key Functionality of CFM in Infor LNCE:

• Define and manage customer-supplied materials directly in order management.
• Maintain clear separation between internal and customer-owned inventory.
• Track consumption during production and reflect it in customer reports.
• Support industries with strict compliance and material tracking requirements, such as aerospace, defense, and electronics.

Curious how Infor LNCE’s CFM process can optimize your logistic process? Amit Agrawal () created a document with answers. Connect now.

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – Service Calls

Service Calls in Infor LNCE provide a structured and centralized way to manage customer service requests, whether related to claims, malfunctions, or technical inquiries. This ensures every customer interaction is tracked and resolved efficiently. The most common benefits of these functions are:

• Centrally Manage: Capture and manage all customer requests in one structured system.
• Full Traceability: Track every step of the service flow for complete transparency.
• Better Responsiveness: Enhance SLA control and customer satisfaction through faster issue resolution.
• Continuous Improvement: Use historical data to identify trends and improve service processes.

Key Functionality of Service Calls in Infor LNCE:

• Record and classify all service requests, from initial report to closure.
• Enable seamless coordination across service, logistics, and finance functions.
• Support SLA tracking, escalation handling, and performance monitoring.
• Provide analytical insights to measure service efficiency and customer experience.

Curious how Infor LNCE’s Service call process can optimize your customer service process? Sara Maciel created a document with answers, connect now.

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – Use-up Material

Use-Up Materials in Infor LNCE ensure systematic consumption of older or outdated inventory before newer or revised materials are used in production. This approach helps prevent stock obsolescence, minimize waste, and maintain operational efficiency during material or design transitions. The most common benefits of these functions are:

• Prevent Obsolete Inventory: Ensure older materials are consumed first, reducing the risk of stock write-offs.
• Reduce Storage and Carrying Costs: Lower overhead by optimizing existing inventory before introducing new stock.
• Streamline Production Transitions: Simplify the switch between material revisions or design updates without production disruption.
• Enhance Inventory Control: Gain better visibility and control across the supply chain to support lean operations.

Key Functionality of Use-up Material in Infor LNCE:

• Automatically prioritize older material lots or revisions in production planning and consumption.
• Support smooth transitions between item revisions and engineering changes.
• Integrate with MRP to align material consumption with current and upcoming demand.
• Provide analytics to monitor usage patterns and identify potential obsolescence risks early.

Curious how Infor LNCE’s use-up material process can optimize your outdate stock consumption process? Francisco Neves created document which has answers, connect now 🚀

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – Project Progress Billing

Project Progress Billing in Infor LNCE enables flexible, progress-aligned invoicing by linking billing with actual project progress or milestone completion. Using this function, invoices can be generated as work is performed, based on completion percentage, achieved milestones, or measurable deliverables. The most common benefits of these functions are:

• Real-Time Progress-Based Billing: Automatically calculates invoice amounts based on actual project progress and activity rates.
• Improved Cash Flow: Enables regular progress-based invoicing across the project lifecycle.
• Enhanced Billing Accuracy: Reflects true project completion percentages to ensure precise invoicing.
• Simplified Project Closure: Final invoicing automatically reconciles total contract value with completed work.

Key Functionality of Progress Billing in Infor LNCE:

• Aligns invoicing with project milestones, completion percentages, or deliverables.
• Automates progress tracking and invoice generation, reducing manual effort.
• Integrates with Project Management for improved control and monitoring.
• Supports long-term or capital projects where phased invoicing is more practical.

Curious how Infor LNCE’s Project progress billing can optimize your billing process? Maria Cristea created a document with answers; connect now.

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – Multi-sourcing in Purchasing

In electronics manufacturing, ensuring a smooth and continuous supply of components is critical. To achieve this, companies often source the same parts from multiple suppliers, using strategies like predefined share splits or assigning a preferred supplier with backups to maintain efficiency. Buying from multiple vendors has several benefits such as:

• Reduces risk: Reduces dependency on one supplier, ensures supply chain continuity due to low disruption risk.
• Operational flexibility and adaptability: Ensure continuity of supply, in case one supplier is facing capacity problems or other issues.
• Pricing & delivery benefits: Leverage to negotiate better prices and/or faster delivery.
• Quality: Companies can compare their suppliers’ performance, helping them with future selection. Also, competition between suppliers can have a good impact on product quality.

Key Functionality of Multi-Sourcing in Infor LNCE:

• Dividing demand among suppliers based on set percentages.
• Prioritizing a main supplier, while keeping approved backups.
• Manage different MPNs across vendors.
• System suggests correct suppliers and eliminates manual effort in purchasing.

Curious how Infor LNCE’s multi-source purchasing can optimize your procurement process? ">Timeea Sime created document which has answers, connect now.

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – Purchase Schedule

Purchase Schedules in Infor LNCE provide a single, structured plan defining how and when materials are to be delivered by suppliers across a set period, eliminating the need to manage hundreds of separate purchase orders.

• Automate the Flow: Eliminate the need for repeated purchase orders by aligning procurement directly with material planning.
• Enhance Supplier Visibility: Share long-term delivery forecasts and firm release advice, giving suppliers the clarity to plan production and logistics efficiently.
• Streamline Delivery Tracking: Track what’s planned, released, and received in one place for total transparency.Cut Down admin time: Reduce manual effort, paperwork, and errors through automated schedule management.

Key Functionality of Purchase Schedule in Infor LNCE:

• Define a structured schedule with supplier, item, and validity details under one agreement.
• Include planned delivery dates, quantities, and firmed release advice lines shared via EDI.
• Integrate with MRP and demand planning to ensure production needs are met on time.
• Monitor receipts against planned lines to measure supplier performance and reliability.

Curious how Infor LNCE’s purchase schedules can optimize your JIT procurement process? ">Christian Kamcev created a document which has answers, connect now.

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – Installment Plans

Installment plans in Infor LNCE provide financial flexibility by allowing customers and suppliers to manage large invoices in smaller, structured portions, supporting healthier cash flow. The Installment plan system of LNCE offers.

• Enable Flexible Payments: Split a single large amount into multiple invoices across agreed milestones or timeframes.
• Support Multiple Processes: Apply installments in Sales, Purchasing, and Project workstreams.
• Strengthen Financial Control: Record each installment directly into Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and Cash Management.

Key Functionality of Installment Plans in Infor LNCE:

• Align payment plans with customer creditworthiness for improved financial governance.
• Automate financial postings with dedicated transaction lines for each installment.
• Provide better insight of cash out/inflows.

Curious how Infor LNCE’s Installment plan process can optimize your invoicing process? Tom Quigley has the details—connect now.

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – Sourcing Strategy & Forecasting

Infor LNCE empowers manufacturers with intelligent sourcing and forecasting strategies that optimize supply reliability and cost-efficiency by ensuring your supply chain is ready to manage unforeseen delays. The sourcing and forecasting system of LNCE offers

• Balance Capacity & Demand: Implement sourcing strategies that split demand between internal procurement to ensure stability and responsiveness.
• Mitigate Supply Risk: Apply a multi-vendor supply model to reduce dependency and secure critical components.
• Forecast with Precision: Use advanced forecasting to align planning for finished goods and dependent components, optimizing availability without overstocking.
• Drive Strategic Growth: Combine forecasting, CRP, and order planning to synchronize operations and support scalable expansion.

Key Functionality of Sourcing & Forecasting in Infor LNCE:

• Define and automate sourcing strategies to fulfill demand via in-house production, purchasing, or hybrid models.
• Enable policy-driven order splitting to support dual sourcing, risk mitigation, and supplier competitiveness.
• Leverage forecast-driven planning across all levels—from master planning to dependent demand for long lead-time parts.
• Build a resilient supply chain with synchronized supply, order, and capacity planning that protects resources and meets commitments.

Curious how Infor LNCE’s sourcing and forecasting process can strengthen your supply chain? ">Robert Klingiert has the details—connect now 🚀

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – Inventory Inspections

Inventory inspections in Infor LNCE safeguard product quality by enabling structured checks once goods have reached the warehouse, ensuring only approved material flows forward in the supply chain.

• Assure Product Quality: Perform standardized tests to validate compliance before release.
• Protect Customer Trust: Prevent defective or unsafe items from reaching customers.
• Enhance Operational Control: Trigger inspections independently of inbound or outbound transactions.
• Minimize Risk: Integrate with quarantine handling to manage rejected goods seamlessly.

Key Functionality of Inventory Inspections in Infor LNCE:

• Create inspection orders automatically or on-demand, tailored to warehouse, location, lot, or serial criteria.
• Apply ad hoc checks or periodic quality cycles to meet industry or customer standards.
• Fully integrate inspection outcomes with quarantine management and material disposition.
• Support compliance-heavy sectors with traceable, auditable processes.

Curious how Infor LNCE’s inspection process can strengthen your quality management? @Francisco Neves has the details—connect now

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – Sales Schedule

Sales schedules in Infor LNCE streamline long-term customer relationships by providing a structured timetable of planned material supplies, supporting frequent and repetitive deliveries with accuracy and efficiency.

• Reduce Administrative Burden: Eliminate repeated manual sales order creation and paperwork.
• Enable Real-Time Collaboration: Simplify EDI integration to update schedules directly from trading partners.
• Stay Aligned with Customers: Keep both supplier and customer on the same page with shared schedules.
• Improve Delivery Performance: Track planned vs. actual deliveries to identify gaps and boost reliability.

Key Functionality of Sales Schedule in Infor LNCE:
– Consolidate requirements for the same item, customer, and delivery parameters into one structured schedule.
– Automate updates through EDI/AE, ensuring seamless communication with trading partners.
– Support long-term or blanket orders with rolling visibility into material needs.
– Provide analytical insights into schedule adherence for better decision-making.

Curious how Infor LNCE’s sales schedules can optimize your customer delivery process? @Roser Aguilar created document which has answers, connect now 🚀

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – Automated CAD & PLM Integration
Bring Engineering and Manufacturing processes together by seamlessly integrating CAD, PLM, and ERP. No more manual handovers, scattered files, or version mix-ups. Just a connected, automated flows from design to delivery.

• Save Time: Engineers spend less time generating and maintaining files, and more time creating innovative products. Faster processes mean shorter lead times for customers.
• Control of Versions: The system automatically tracks revisions and clearly identifies the latest release. No more complex spreadsheets or manual tracking.
• Collaborate Without Limits: Cloud-based access allows teams to work on the same data from anywhere. Built-in locks ensure no one overwrites another’s work.
• Streamline Every Process: Activities follow consistent, predefined rules and sequences, making execution, monitoring, and forecasting easier.
• Increase Quality: With fewer manual steps, mistakes are minimized, and reliability is improved across all departments.

Key Functionality of Automated Integration:
• CAD-to-ERP Flow: Transfer designs directly into ERP for procurement, production, and costing without manual effort.
• PLM Management: Keep product lifecycle data organized, accessible, and aligned with version control and compliance needs.

Ideal for companies where product design drives business. By connecting CAD, PLM, and ERP, you empower engineers to focus on innovation while ensuring downstream teams always have the right data at the right time.

Ready to unlock the benefits of automation in your LNCE environment? @Lukasz Szczepanski overview sessions are a great starting point, connect today!

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover by partners 2 innovate – List Items (Kit)

Take control of complexity with List Items in Infor LNCE designed to handle products made up of multiple components that can be selected, packaged, and delivered together with ease.

• Boost Inventory Efficiency: Manage multiple components as a single package or selection group, reducing waste and bring stock accuracy.
• Streamline Sales and Purchasing: Support flexible order handling by letting customers or suppliers choose from pre-defined kits, menus, options, or accessories, all within one streamlined transaction.
• Adapt with Agility: Easily update the grouping of components within List Groups to meet changing order needs, without disrupting your entire item setup.

Key Functionality of List Items in Infor LNCE:
• Kit Items: Define and deliver a set of physical items packaged together, great for bundled products, service kits, or shipment-ready groups.
• List Group Management: Organise and manage related components efficiently for use across sales and purchase orders, by customer or supplier.

Ideal for businesses where multiple components are often grouped and shipped as a single package. Whether it’s kits, optional items, or accessories, List Items in Infor LNCE make it simple to manage complex combinations, keeping your operations lean and responsive.

Do you want to unlock the power of List Items in your LNCE environment? Luís Afonso Assumpção (Solution Architect) basic training sessions are the place to start, connect today!

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – Floor Stock

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Floor Stock in Infor LNCE empowers lean manufacturing by ensuring high-usage, low-cost materials are always available where they’re needed on the shop floor without the burden of excessive tracking or administrative overhead.

• Reduce Administrative Load: Eliminate the need to track every small part individually.
• Increase Production Flow: Operators have immediate access to frequently used items, which minimises the delays and avoids back and forth communication with the warehouse.
• Prevent Line Stoppages: Ensure continuous availability of critical small parts with simple and visual replenishment methods like kanban.
• Easy Replenishment: Maintain optimal inventory levels with streamlined floor stock processes—no more overstocking or shortages.

Key Functionality of Floor Stock in Infor LNCE:
• Manage low-cost, high-volume items as non-tracked materials directly on the shop floor.
• Enable visual control systems (kanban, bins) to trigger replenishment as needed.
• Reduce procurement overhead by grouping frequently used items for batch purchasing.
• Ensure availability without strict inventory controls or complex MRP handling.

Floor stock is ideal for industries dealing with thousands of small parts where speed, efficiency, and simplicity are essential. It helps eliminate waste, reduce downtime, and keep your production lines moving.

Curious how Infor LNCE’s floor stock capabilities can help you streamline your operations? Miguel Leite basic training has the answers—connect right now!

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – Vendor Rating

In today’s dynamic supply chain landscape, ensuring consistent quality and reliability from your suppliers is more critical than ever. Implementing a robust vendor rating system in Infor LNCE empowers organizations to:

• Enhance Supplier Performance: Monitor and improve delivery times, quality, and service levels.
• Mitigate Risks: Identify underperforming vendors before they impact your operations.
• Drive Strategic Decisions: Leverage data-driven insights for supplier selection and development.​

Key Functionality of Vendor Ratings:
• Comprehensive Evaluation Criteria: Combine objective metrics with subjective assessments for a holistic view.
• Transparent Scoring Mechanisms: Ensure fairness and clarity in evaluations.
• Continuous Improvement Framework: Foster ongoing supplier development and collaboration.​

By systematically assessing and collaborating with your suppliers, you not only enhance operational efficiency but also build stronger, more resilient partnerships.

Want to explore how Infor LNCE can enhance your Vendor Rating process? Maciej Stawski has created a basic training—connect now!

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – Unit Effectivity

Unit Effectivity in Infor LNCE empowers you to manage product variability without the complexity of endless item codes, making your operations leaner, faster, and more accurate.

• Simplify Item Master: Manage multiple configurations under one item code, reducing data clutter and maintenance.
• Interchangeability Control: Seamlessly define where UE can be substituted, offering flexibility without compromising control.
• Full Traceability: Multi-level pegging ensures every unique UE is tracked across sales, purchase, and manufacturing processes.
• MRP Optimization: Combine ideal BOM with UE into a single, optimized production order for better planning and reduced overhead.

Key Functionality of Unit Effectivity:
• Manage configurations directly via your item master.
• Proactive control over BOM, routing, and inventory across your entire product structure.
• Accurate demand and supply planning with enhanced MRP precision.
• Full visibility across the product lifecycle, from purchase to manufacturing to sales.

These features help eliminate master data overload, optimize planning accuracy, and maintain flexibility, all while fitting seamlessly into your existing end-to-end processes.

Want to explore how Infor LNCE can enhance the Unit Effectivity can simplify your manufacturing and supply chain process? Amit Kumar Agrawal has created a basic training—connect now!

INFOR ERP LNCE Uncover – Project Budgeting

In complex, project-driven businesses, controlling cost, scope, and delivery is always a challenge, especially with tight deadlines, budgets, and cross-functional teams. Gaps between planned and actual costs often drive profit losses, and when engineering, procurement, manufacturing, and finance are not aligned, small delays can cause major disruptions. Disconnected tools like spreadsheets no longer work. That’s where (TP) Projects in Infor LN comes in a fully integrated solution to manage the entire project lifecycle within your ERP. By using Projects, companies can:

• Full Integration: Manage projects across all dimensions (activities, elements, structures) with everything linked to operations and finance for complete visibility.
• Budget and Variance control: Set budgets, track actuals, and monitor variances live throughout the project lifecycle.
• Operation and Finance alignment: Connect projects with procurement, production, inventory, time tracking, and finance — reducing manual work and gaps.
• Forecast and Risk Management: Use real-time forecasts, cost-to-complete tools, and earned value analysis to stay ahead of risks and keep projects on track.

Key benefits of (TP) Projects in Infor LN:
• Structured Project Control
• Advanced Budgeting & Forecasting
• Real-Time Progress Tracking
• Seamless Integration Across Modules

Whether you’re delivering capital projects, customer contracts, or internal initiatives — Projects in Infor LN helps you execute with confidence, clarity, and control.”

💡 Want to explore how Infor LNCE can enhance the Project budgeting requirements of your company? Maria Cristea has created a basic training—connect now! 🚀

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – Shelf Life

In all industries where product quality and compliance are non-negotiable, effectively tracking product expiration is essential.

Manually monitoring the shelf life of materials or finished goods is not only time-consuming but also increases the risk of human error and potential compliance issues. To address this, Infor LNCE offers a Shelf Life feature that enables businesses to seamlessly calculate and control product expiration dates directly within their ERP processes.

By implementing Shelf Life tracking in Infor LNCE, organisations can:
• Automate Expiration Calculations: Expiration dates are automatically calculated based on the setup at the item level, taking into account the specific warehouse and site—reducing manual input and the risk of errors.
• Ensure Product Quality: The system enables periodic checks to verify whether products are still safe and suitable for use in manufacturing or for delivery to customers.
• Support Regulatory Compliance: Easily track and manage expiration dates to meet industry standards and specific customer requirements.
• Optimise Inventory Usage: Prioritise materials with shorter shelf life to reduce waste and improve inventory turnover.

Key Benefits of Shelf Life Management in Infor LNCE:
• Flexible Setup: Shelf life rules can be configured per item, warehouse, and site —providing a granular and accurate tracking system.
• Real-Time Alerts: Set up notifications to proactively manage materials approaching expiration.
• Traceability: Fully embedded in Infor LNCE processes, ensuring traceability across procurement, inventory, and production.
• Enhanced Customer Satisfaction: Deliver products within acceptable shelf life windows, meeting your customers’ expectations and quality standards.
• Report Non-Conformance: Anytime inventory is expired, you can comply with quality process and create NCR

By leveraging Shelf Life in Infor LNCE, companies can take control of product quality, reduce waste, and build trust with their customers through reliable, compliant operations.

Want to explore how Infor LNCE can help your organisation? Connect with Szymon Żuraw!

INFOR ERP LNCE Uncover – Scan to Book

In high-volume manufacturing environments, accuracy, and traceability from shop floor to inventory are critical. Infor LNCE Scan to Book functionality streamlines the line side labeling, tracking of the packages, and booking of production output using intelligent handling unit management.

• Automated Labeling at Source: Instantly generate handling unit IDs and print labels as soon as production orders are released.
• Real-Time Visibility: Maintain full traceability of every Box, Pallet, or Packaging Unit using handling unit templates.
• Efficient Booking: Seamlessly report completion and book inventory using scanned handling unit labels—saving time and reducing errors.

Key Highlights of the Scan to Book Process in Infor LNCE:
• Handling Unit Intelligence: Labels are generated based on packaging definitions, with automatic calculations of required quantities.
• HU Generation at beginning: Trigger handling unit generation directly from production, and completion via HU ensure smooth operations.
• Reprinting: Easily reprint only modified labels for version-controlled units, maintaining accuracy throughout the lifecycle.

With Scan to Book, you bridge the gap between production and warehouse, unlocking speed, accuracy with full traceability within your Infor CloudSuite.

Want to learn how Infor LNCE can help your production floor operate with Scan function: Anna Paszko-Skowroński has put together a detailed training—connect now!

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – Sales Quotation Functionality & Setup

In today’s competitive market, customers expect fast and dynamic responses to their quotation requests. A quick, accurate, and flexible quoting process is crucial for winning deals and driving business growth.

Infor LNCE streamlines sales quotation management, ensuring efficiency and seamless integration with your sales cycle.

• Generate and manage quotations quickly, tailored to customer needs.
• Ensure pricing accuracy with real-time data and predefined rules.
• Enhance customer responsiveness with automated workflows and approvals.

Infor LNCE optimizes the quoting process by incorporating:
• Pricing & Discounts – Apply predefined rules and contract-based pricing effortlessly.
• Quotation-to-Order Conversion – Seamlessly transition approved quotes into sales orders.

With these capabilities, Infor LNCE empowers businesses to create winning proposals, minimize errors, and accelerate sales cycles—boosting profitability and customer satisfaction.

Want to see how Infor LNCE can optimize your sales process? Punindu Jayamanna created a basic training and invites you to connect!

INFOR ERP LNCE Uncover – Purchase Requisitions

In today’s procurement environment, speed and structure matter. The Purchase Requisition process in Infor LNCE helps organizations manage internal purchasing needs with more control, visibility, and efficiency.

Implementing a structured requisition process in Infor LNCE empowers organizations to:
• Empower Non-Purchasing Users: Allow departments like Engineering or R&D to initiate requests without needing procurement expertise.
• Enhance Approval Workflows: Build smart approval chains that ensure compliance without slowing things down.
• Facilitate Seamless Conversions: Turn approved requisitions into POs or RFQs while maintaining full traceability.

Key Features of a Smart Requisition Process:
• Intuitive Workbench Interface: Access and manage all requisitions from one place with ease.
• Flexible Item Requests: Create requests even without predefined suppliers or item codes.
• Robust Approval Mechanisms: Route approvals based on rules, roles, or departments using ION Workflow.
• Comprehensive Audit Trails: Keep track of every step—from request to approval to conversion.

By simplifying the requisition process, LNCE enables better control, faster action, and stronger compliance.

Want to see how Infor LNCE simplifies procurement? Christian Kamcev put together the whole process to showcase. Do you want more, connect now!

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – Purchase Contracts

Effective supplier collaboration starts with clearly defined agreements. Infor LNCE empowers procurement teams with robust Purchase Contract functionality, offering better control over pricing, planning, and compliance through structured Terms & Conditions.

• Strengthen vendor relationships with transparent agreements.
• Streamline procurement with predefined pricing and planning terms.
• Reduce manual errors and improve compliance.

Key Functionality of Purchase Contracts:
• Structured Terms & Conditions – Define detailed terms for orders, logistics, planning, scheduling, and invoicing at the contract line level.
• Contract-Driven Procurement – Automatically apply pricing and conditions when creating purchase orders, RFQs, or schedules.
• Centralized Control – Ensure all purchasing transactions adhere to predefined agreements, improving auditability and governance.

These features help reduce procurement cycle time, improve supplier compliance, and ensure consistent application of agreed terms across the supply chain.

Want to explore how Infor LNCE can enhance your procurement process? Punindu Jayamanna has created a basic training—connect now!

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – Project Contracts

In any project-based industry, projects are becoming increasingly complex, and customer demands are more dynamic.

Managing project contracts efficiently is a necessity. Infor LNCE elevates contract management by setting clear expectations and driving financial and operational efficiency. A project contract in LNCE captures the full customer agreement, covering deliverables, terms, pricing, billing, and invoicing, ensuring clarity, control, and alignment from start to finish.

• Full visibility into contract deliverables, milestones, and financials for better project monitoring.
• Streamlined processes with clear differentiation for different types of deliverables, suitable for various project scopes.
• Seamless integration with invoicing processes for precise billing and financial management

Key Functionality of Project Contracts:
• End-to-End Customer Alignment: Enhanced scope clarity, pricing, and delivery terms agreements.
• Financial and Operational Efficiency: Supports multiple billing and contract types.
• Streamlined Contract Supervision : Simplifies tracking and updates through centralized tools

These features help formalising every detail of a customer agreement, from deliverables and pricing to billing plans and payment terms, while ensuring internal project execution stays aligned with customer-facing commitments.

Want to explore how Infor LNCE can enhance your Project Contract process? Maria Cristea has created a basic training for civil projects (non-defense) —connect now!

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – Job Shop Production Using Production Order Groups

In a dynamic manufacturing environment, managing production orders one by one can quickly become inefficient. It’s time-consuming, error-prone, and slows down the entire shop floor. Infor LN’s Production Using Order Groups offers a smarter way to streamline and scale manufacturing execution by bundling similar production orders together for collective processing.

• Faster Execution: Perform actions like releasing, printing, issuing materials, and reporting completion across multiple orders in one go.
• Improved Shop Floor Efficiency: Minimize tool changeovers and redundant setups by grouping similar items with shared resources.
• Centralized Control: Gain better visibility and control over batches of work orders throughout the production lifecycle.

Key Highlights of Production Using Order Groups in Infor LN CE:
• Flexible Grouping: Group planned, or production orders based on warehouse, work centers, tools, item types, or routing.
• End-to-End Processing: Use a single group to execute warehousing activities, production tracking, and order closing, saving time and reducing clicks.
• Easy Setup & Scalability: Configure order grouping criteria in a few steps and apply across departments or product families.

By organizing your operations using order group-based production, you reduce friction, increase throughput, and enhance control over the production process.

Want to explore how Infor LNCE can enhance the Production order grouping requirement of your company? Punindu Jayamanna has created a basic training—connect now!

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – functionality and setup

In today’s fast-paced business environment, pricing accuracy and flexibility are critical to staying competitive. Infor LNCE offers a powerful and adaptive pricing engine that enables businesses to define and manage price structures with efficiency and precision.

• Support for complex pricing and discount configurations to align with diverse business models.
• Ensure accurate and consistent pricing across procurement and sales transactions.
• Adapt to business-specific pricing strategies, allowing for greater control and optimisation.

Intelligent Pricing Determination – Infor LNCE leverages a hierarchical pricing model, factoring in:
• Contracts – Negotiated terms for accurate pricing application.
• Price Matrices – Configurable rules for different customer segments and products.
• Item Price Data – Real-time insights to maintain competitiveness.

By integrating these elements, Infor LNCE delivers pricing transparency, accuracy, and flexibility, helping businesses maximise profitability and customer satisfaction.

Want to learn how Infor LN can optimize your pricing strategies? Let’s connect!

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – Preventive Maintenance

In industries that rely on heavy equipment, keeping machines running smoothly is key to ensuring safety and avoiding downtime. But often, maintenance is done only after something breaks.
This causes emergency repairs, high costs, and lost time. Spreadsheets and separate tools make it hard to spot problems early.

That is where Preventive Maintenance in Infor LN helps. It is a fully integrated maintenance solution within your ERP that lets you plan, perform, and track maintenance before issues happen.

• Reduced equipment downtime: Automated work orders reduce unexpected failures and boost availability.
• Lower maintenance costs: Better planning minimizes emergency repairs and resource waste.
• Prolonged equipment life: Regular maintenance delays degradation and reduces replacement needs.
• Improved planning and resource utilization: Infor LN improves scheduling by integrating with inventory and workforce planning.

Key benefits of Preventive Maintenance in Infor LN:
• Optimized use of spare parts.
• Increase equipment reliability and safety.
• Reduce downtime.

Whether you’re managing internal assets or servicing equipment, preventive maintenance in Infor LN helps you stay ahead of failure and lower costs.

Want to explore how Infor LNCE can enhance the Preventive Maintenance requirement of your company? Sara Maciel has created a basic training—connect now!

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – PLM for Discrete

In modern manufacturing with increasingly short lifecycles of products and the need to bring new models to market quickly integrated PLM software is essential. PLM for Discrete within Infor LNCE enables seamless collaboration across design, engineering, and production teams, ensuring data consistency and reducing costly errors. By centralizing product data and processes, PLM accelerates decision-making and supports faster innovation cycles. It ensures traceability throughout product’s life.

• Centralized product database: it’s always clear what current version is and where to access it.
• Efficient collaboration: different departments have visibility of the same data and from their usual workplace. No need to log into multiple applications.
• Everything’s in the cloud: Accessing data is now simple, no need to install local clients, doing servers maintenance or application upgrades.

Key Highlights of PLM Process in hashtag#Infor LNCE:
• Product Data Management: Manage all product related data in a secure environment, accessible anytime, anywhere by entire organization.
• Business Process Workflows: Drive any engineering process with tasks assignment, duration planning, approval process and checklists.
• Integration: PLM is part of one process, from designing in CAD, through product data management, procurement, manufacturing to sales. All is connected and using the same data without manual transfers at any point.

In a competitive landscape, PLM integrated with Infor CloudSuite helps manufacturers stay agile and responsive to changing customer demands.

Want to learn how Infor LNCE can help your engineering teams handle products with PLM for Discrete? Łukasz Szczepański has put together a quick overview — connect now!

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – MultiSite Planning with Supplying Relationships

Many companies manage their inter-company supply chain with planning tools. In Infor LNCE these capabilities are the core of the ERP system. The way LNCE manages multi-company operations, supply chains, finance and services is a differentiator and key to manufacturing companies.

This presentation introduces you to only a small part of the very rich and complete multi-site capabilities offered by LNCE. Learn how Infor LNCE supports multi-site planning with ‘Supplying Relationships’. Frank Manders has the details—connect now.

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – KANBAN

Kanban in Infor LNCE can significantly improve warehouse and inventory management by enhancing visibility, reducing waste, and enabling just-in-time replenishment.

• Improved Inventory Control
• Just-in-time replenishment
• Visual Workflow and Clarity
• Reduced Waste
• Enhanced Responsiveness
• Simplified Reordering Process
• Supports Continuous Improvement

Key Functionality of KANBAN
• Visualizes work for easy tracking.
• Limits work in progress to boost focus
• Improves workflow efficiency and speed
• Identifies and resolves bottlenecks quickly
• Flexible and easy to adapt

Want to explore how Infor LNCE KANBAN process can simplify your warehouse and supply chain process? Pombo Lurdes has created a basic training, connect now! 🚀

INFOR ERP LNCE Uncover – Infor Document Management (IDM)

Managing documents efficiently is a growing challenge as business processes become more digital and interconnected.

Manually tracking the exchange of documents between stakeholders is no longer practical or reliable. To streamline and ensure compliance in document management, Infor Document Management (IDM) offers a tightly integrated solution with your INFOR ERP system—enabling secure storage, tracking, and access to documents across the organisation.

Implementing IDM, as part of Infor LNCE, fosters organisations to:
• Streamline Document Handling: Centralises the process of storing and retrieving of all documents within the company, thus simplifying their management down the line.
• Manage Document Lifecycle: This solution ensures a proper tracking of each document, including its metadata and version history, from the moment it is uploaded up until the moment it is archived.
• Promote Business Collaboration: Having a common platform for document management improves the communication between teams with real-time document updates.​

Key Features of an Effective Document Management System:
• Cloud-based Solution: Access critical documents anytime and anywhere with secure cloud storage.
• Advanced Search Capabilities: Quickly locate files with powerful indexing and metadata tagging.
• Role-based Authorization: Set specific permissions for any user role and/or group defined in Infor Federation Services
• Integration with Infor CloudSuites DOM: DOM (Document Output Management) functionality in LNCE can generate and automatically archive internal business documents in IDM.

By leveraging Infor Document Management, organizations can transform their approach to document management —reducing risks, improving collaboration and ensuring long-term success.

Want to explore how Infor LNCE can enhance the document management of your company? Rui Quintã of partners 2 innovate has created a basic introduction training—connect now!

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – Flexible Reporting in Finance General Ledger

LNCE offers plenty of possibilities speaking about reporting by the standard.
However, if you are still seeking for something different, closer to your business requirements that allows you and your stakeholders to really stick and focus on the right information, Flexible Reporting could be the answer.

• Easy to set-up and user-friendly.
• No customisation or coding required.
• 3 different finance areas of application.

Infor LNCE reporting capabilities include:
• Wide list of information specific to each application area.
• Several file format options.

Want to see how Infor LNCE can help your finance reporting? We have created a basic training and invite you to connect!

ERP LNCE Uncover – Extended Consignment with T&C

Managing consigned inventory effectively is key to a smooth supply chain and strong vendor relationships. Infor LNCE simplifies this with Extended Consignment, ensuring accurate tracking, efficient operations, and seamless integration with procurement, sales, and invoicing.

• Better inventory control with structured ownership and usage tracking.
• Improved efficiency with well-defined Terms and Conditions.
• Simplify invoicing and payment process.

Key Functionality of Extended Consignment:
• Structured Terms & Conditions – Defined ownership, payment, and usage terms, based on the VMI settings agreed upon between business partners.
• Optimized Order and Warehouse Management – Synced and easy consignment Order, invoicing/payment process.
• Direct Payment & Invoicing Linkage – Consumption automatically linked to replenishment orders or schedules.

These features help reduce manual work, improve cash flow, and make consignment stock management more efficient.

Want to explore how Infor LNCE can enhance your consignment inventory management? Samuel López Escribano has created a basic training—connect now!

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – Document Output Management using E-Mail

In today’s digitally connected enterprise, delivering accurate, timely, and professional business documents is not just a back-office task—it’s a strategic necessity. Document Output Management in Infor LNCE enables organisations to:

• Streamline Communication: Automatically generate and distribute sales orders, invoices, shipping docs, and more.
• Ensure Compliance: Maintain consistency in formats and meet industry or regional documentation standards.
• Boost Efficiency: Reduce manual errors, save time, and cut down on paper-based processes.

Key Features of Document Output Management in Infor LNCE:
• Multi-Channel Distribution: Send documents via portals, ZUMConnect, email, print, or electronic data interchange (EDI).
• Customisable Templates: Align outputs with corporate branding and customer-specific requirements.
• Centralised Control & Tracking: Gain full visibility into document flows and delivery status.

By automating your document output process, you not only improve internal efficiency but also elevate customer satisfaction and brand trust.

Curious how Infor LNCE can modernize your document handling and delivery? Maciej Stawski has created a quick-start introduction — connect now!

INFOR ERP LNCE Uncover – Data Conversion

We are living in fast-paced digital transformation era, the accuracy and readiness of your data can make or break your ERP implementation.

A well-executed data conversion process in Infor LNCE ensures that your business is ready to starts strong from the day one after the implementation.

Data conversion process:
• Ensure Business Continuity: Seamlessly migrate critical data from legacy systems without disrupting operations.
• Improve Data Integrity: Cleanse and standardize data for better decision-making and compliance.
• Accelerate Go-Live Success: Load validated, structured data to avoid costly post-implementation fixes.

Key Features of a Strategic Data Conversion Approach:
• End-to-End Process Visibility: From legacy extraction to ERP load, gain full control and traceability.
• Data Quality Management: Built-in cleansing and transformation tools to enhance accuracy.
• Structured Validation and Testing: Reduce risk through mock conversions, user signoffs, and reconciliation.

By prioritizing data conversion early in your ERP journey, you can lay the foundation for smoother implementation and long-term scalability.

Want to see how Infor LNCE streamlines your data conversion journey. Jesse Jongenelen has prepared a step-by-step walkthrough—connect now!

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – Data Action Lab & Its Role in Implementation

In any ERP implementation, the crucial and time-consuming part is to maintain and transform accurate and well-structured master data. In Infor LNCE methodology, Data Action Lab serves as a centralized repository for all master data, ensuring consistency, and validation of business processes link to the master data.

• Define master data to maintain data integrity.
• Enable process validation by using structured data needed.
• improve the time for ERP implementation with a streamlined approach to data management.

Key Functions of Data Action Lab:
• Data Definition – Establish a SOT for critical master data.
• Validation – Ensure business processes align with accurate and approved data.
• Support informed and timely decisions during ERP deployment.

Using Data Action Lab into the Infor Deployment Method, businesses can reduce errors and accelerate digital transformation.

Want to learn how Infor LNCE ensures data accuracy and process validation. Jesse Jongenelen created a basic training and invites you to connect!

ERP LNCE Uncover – functionality and setup.

In the ERP world, we often hear about challenges like project delays, incorrect use of methodology, or data migration issues. However, one of the most overlooked aspects is whether the consulting or client user teams have enough material available to practice or simulate. If they do, is it easily accessible and available for download when they need it?

To help address this challenge, we at partners 2 innovate are kicking off a new series as ‘ERP LNCE Uncover – functionality and setup’. With years of hands-on experience with Infor LNCE, we want to share our knowledge and provide practical insights that will help others.

This will not be another article talks about ERP theory or conceptual discussion. Instead, we’ll dive into the ERP LN application, showing how the functionality works, how we set it up, and result. We’ll break down one functionality at a time, explaining its use, setup, and final simulation results within LNCE. It won’t be a detailed, step-by-step manual with hundreds of pages, but rather a quick glimpse into how we use the function and what it looks like in action.

Our goal is simple, is to share knowledge about Infor LN and explain how it works practically.

In this first post we open with a simple example: Backflushing.

Improve your manufacturing efficiency with material backflushing in Infor LN. For cases where issuing materials for production does not need to be recorded manually by users, backflushing can be used to automate inventory consumptions once orders are completed.

Key Benefits:

• Reduction of errors through automated consumption tracking
• Faster and more efficient production
• Inventory optimization by keeping stock aligned with actual usage
• Save time by eliminating manual consumption of goods

Backflushing is ideal for high-volume and low-cost items, enhancing productivity and speeding up production processes.

Curious for more? Francisco Neves has the details—connect now

Infor ERP LNCE Uncover – Access Management Cloud SAML Federation with AzureAD

In today’s fast-paced digital world, user access needs to be seamless, secure, and scalable. For organizations leveraging Infor CloudSuite, integrating with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) through SAML Federation is a powerful step toward that goal.

With this setup, users no longer need to juggle multiple passwords or waste time navigating access hurdles. Instead, Single Sign-On (SSO)allows them to access all authorized Infor CloudSuite services with just one secure login—their corporate credentials.

Behind the scenes, SAML Federation ensures secure identity verification between your cloud environment and Azure AD, enabling:
• Frictionless User Access
• Stronger Security Posture
• Reduced IT Overhead
• Simplified User Provisioning and Deactivation

Whether you’re onboarding a new team member, tightening security controls, or scaling across regions, this integration streamlines it all. It’s not just a tech feature—it’s a foundation for operational trust and agility.

Curious how your organisation can benefit from federated access with Infor CloudSuite and Azure AD? Alexandre Cruz of partners 2 innovate put together the whole process to showcase. Do you want to learn more, connect now!

Order Planning in Infor LNCE is the heartbeat of precise manufacturing scheduling, ensuring that every component, raw material, and subassembly arrives when they are needed to keep production running smoothly without excess inventory or costly delays.

• Avoid Material Shortages: Prevent production stoppages and lost sales revenue by knowing exactly what to order and when.
• Optimize Inventory Levels:Eliminate overstocking or understocking with time-phased material requirements.
• Reduce Costs: Helps to plan to avoid last-minute unplanned overtime.
• Boost Customer Satisfaction:Deliver on time with materials available in sync with production schedules.

Key Functionality of Order Planning in Infor LNCE:
• Calculates net material requirements based on accurate Bills of Material (BOM), routings, and lead times.
• Generates time-phased plans for production, purchase, and distribution orders.
• Considers on-hand inventory, scrap factors, and existing orders for precise netting.
• Aligns supply with demand to avoid nervous rescheduling and unnecessary changes.

Order Planning in LNCE Enterprise Planning is crucial for complex manufacturing environments where the right material, in the right quantity, at the right time, is critical to meeting deadlines and controlling costs.

It transforms the risks of shortages, excess stock, and late deliveries into a smooth, predictable flow of materials from supplier to shop floor.

Curious how Infor LNCE’s Order Planning can strengthen your production schedule? Maciej Stawski basic training has the answers — connect now!