Re: ECM -- BPCS-L

Elsa,
We upgraded from 6.0.4 in August 2011.
Thankfully, we have access to Infor's source files, so we could get to
understand what the programs were doing, but they are written mainly in
standard RPGLE whilst we are a 'Freeformat' shop, but our experience (we
are dinosaurs !!) came in handy !
We previously had many customised programs that we found were covered by
8.3.4, so we didn't have to upgrade too many.
The main issues we encountered were the increase in field sizes for
facility, warehouse, PO number, SO number, planner codes, Item number and
item description which meant many of screens had to be folded ( item number
is 35 and description is 50 and therefore both cannot be displayed on the
same line) and therefore less data was shown.
At the same time, we also converted our remaining customisations to run in
Webtop, which after an intensive look at Infor's coding, we understood what
we had to do.
Apart from educating our users about the modified screen layouts, we found
the upgrade went very smoothly.
As an aside, we are roling out Webtop, IDF, Netlink (All Infor products
linked to ERP-LX) ) in the near future, so if our experience in using these
tools could be of help to you, feel free to drop me a line.
Kevin.

On 20 January 2014 16:45, Elsa Duran <ElsaD@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

** High Priority **

Hello Kevin,

We are about to start our V8.3.4. ERP LX conversion (from V6.01) do you
have any suggestions or lessons learned that you would care to share?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Elsa

Elsa Duran | MIS Project Manager | phone: 503-277-5618 |
ElsaD@xxxxxxxxxx

Steve Keller <shk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 1/17/2014 11:32 AM >>>

Kevin,

We just completed a conversion from PRMS to LX 8.3.4 and we implemented
ECM for orders and invoices. We built our own programs for ASN's though
as ECM was too cumbersome.

Once configured correctly it works really good.

You definitely need translation software for the communications and
mapping data to and from ECM.

Steve Keller
IT Director
Diversified Dynamics Corporation

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Kevin,

ECM is not too bad to work with. We converted from a custom EDI
interface in 4.04 to ECM in 8.33. We use a translator to do the
communications and mapping to load the ECM files. I don't believe ECM
will do communications, but I could be wrong. If you already have EDI
translation software, you can continue to use that to load your ECM
files.

From: "David Myers" <dmyers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'BPCS ERP System'" <bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 01/17/2014 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: [BPCS-L] ECM
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Kevin,

ECM is not an easy product to use. We have a range of adapters which
will post Inventory Transactions, Customer Orders and Purchase Orders to
BPCS quickly and easily. Please let me know if you would like details.

Best Regards

David Myers
AiDC Solutions Ltd.

t. +44 (0)1422 399530
m. +44 (0)7715 487011
w. www.aidc-solutions.co.uk

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Danson [mailto:kevin.danson@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 17 January 2014 08:41
To: BPCS-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [BPCS-L] ECM

Is anyone using ECM to send and receive EDI transactions.

If so, can you advise whether we would need any 3rd party software to
actually send the messages.

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Kevin Danson

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Mobile : 07774 813345
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