Monday, June 10, 2013

M3 BE v15 / 13.1

Infor has recently released M3 v 13.1 / BE v 15.  The release notes are all up on the InforXtreme documentation site.  Over the next few months I'll be working on a BE 14 -> BE 15 upgrade so I've been trawling through the release notes.  There's some interesting stuff there.  Highlights on a first read from a technology perspective are mashup / custom list enhancements and lots more programs supporting customisable Browse panels.

From a functionality perspective the extensions to the advance invoicing functionality look interesting, especially with the ability to enforce this and extend this into cashflow planning.  Lab Inspection approval at a Balance ID level is critically needed for the F&B industry so it's good to see it there.  Inbound transportation management is a good addition filling a hole in the M3 solution.  The API for GLS850 is well overdue filling an area where most sites have built custom solutions to solve.

There's lots of other interesting changes there and I'll review areas as I get to them in the coming months.

4 comments:

  1. Hi! Good information, do you know if they have finally solved the issue with partly GR on the same Lot number without changing ref order cathegory to 0 in MMS235? They promised to solve that in 10.1 but nothing happened and we as a dairy company receives many trucks every day with same batch with several container ID (MMS470) but MMS470 is useless for us when we cant register many SSCC/Cont Ids on the same batch number.

    Best regards
    Daniel Johnsson

    ReplyDelete
  2. Hi Daniel, I do quite a bit of work with a Dairy company and the way we addressed this was to use system generated lot numbers for each receipt and put the supplier lot number in lot reference 1. The multiple receipts of the same lot then during the day are then aggregated by supplier lot number.

    In v 15 there's advanced functionality for lot blending that will help in this area, but I don't think that addresses your specific scenario.

    Regards,

    Al.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Hello!

    Yes, we have that set up aswell and that is the only solution working but is not good in combination with SSCC and M3WM. I feel that Infor has a hard time to keep up with the business needs in F&B.

    Best regards
    Daniel Johnsson

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Hi Daniel, it would be good to keep in touch so we can share / leverage solutions in the F&B space. My contact details are at http://www.jbc.co.nz/contact.html if you could drop me a line.

      Regards,

      Al.

      Delete