I am surprised by the comment that PM was overkill for someone who wanted to replace FRx. Apparently there was some overselling here.
PM Business Edition - Financial Reporting is the exact replacement for FRx, designed to offer the 30+ regular reports without all the high end financial tools like consolidation and forecasting.
PM BEFR (pardon the awkward acronym) is the standard replacement for FRx. You can get it in multiple ways:
- If you exercise your FLEX Upgrade option, it comes with the package
- If you wait a couple of months, we will offer it with a SOA integration for all current FRx customers. There is a license fee, but it is relatively low.
- You can buy it today with a PSO field integration
PM BEFR is the standard financial report writer for XA going forward from Release 9. Everyone will wind up with it unless they fight pretty hard to avoid it. You won't have to use it if it isn't your preferred solution, but it will ship to you anyways.
Best Regards,
Ross Freeman | Senior Product Manager | Infor | office: 678.319.8040 | mobile: 404.386.5684 | ross.freeman@xxxxxxxxx
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date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:17:56 -0700
from: "Kevin Fox" <kdfox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] Considering AVP
Mike
It looks like your question has been overlooked. I noticed it sitting out
here with no response.
AVP replaces MRP and CRP. Thus MPSP works just fine assuming it is the
driver of the plan. Unfortunately, many companies don't use MPSP to drive
the plan, but instead us it as a step in an ill defined process. As long as
you are using MPSP to drive demand OVER THE CMLT HORIZON of the demand
units, you will be fine using AVP and will in fact get faster feed back if
you are over capacity or under utilizing capacity. Both of which are very
nice things to have during your S&OP process.
Let me know how this is going for you.
Kevin Fox
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Subject: [MAPICS-L] Considering AVP
Hi Group,
We are on XAR7 and we are heavy users of Infor Forecasting, MPSP, MRP and
CRP.
Also have a fledgling S&OP process that depends on MPSP and the PFRELF file
to define product families.
We also use Infor MPA to measure our variances in making the plan.
I would appreciate hearing from anyone with similar experience that has
switched to AVP.
TIA
405-525-4270 Direct
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date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:01:05 -0400
from: "Vic Belebczuk" <vbelebczuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] Performance Management Financial Reporting
PM is a good fit for a company looking to implement a financial BI tool.
In our case there was no interest. Accounting was looking for the
equivalent of FRX that could be implemented with least cost and least
effort. PM is overkill if all management wants is an automated tool to
get the monthly book of 30+ financial reports.
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I'm curious. After looking at PM, what was the rational for not
selecting
and implementing?
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I especially agree with the statements " Just proceed with your eyes
wide-open.
Make certain your C-level executives are involved. It would be nearly
impossible to correctly implement and fully utilize the power of the
application without their involvement."
We did not have that commitment. Management was only looking for an EOM
financial report writer, so we went with another solution.
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subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] Performance Management Financial Reporting
Just for my two cents, my former company was in the same frame of mind as Vic's. They liked the concept of financial BI but wouldn't commit to what was required. All they really wanted was a better reporting tool that then old FA module. There sure are a lot of excellent tools available, but without top management commitment, it's just tossing your money out the window. They would have been satisfied with DB2/WebQuery and it's dashboard.
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Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 8:01 AM
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Subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] Performance Management Financial Reporting
PM is a good fit for a company looking to implement a financial BI tool.
In our case there was no interest. Accounting was looking for the
equivalent of FRX that could be implemented with least cost and least
effort. PM is overkill if all management wants is an automated tool to
get the monthly book of 30+ financial reports.
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Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 11:13 AM
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Subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] Performance Management Financial Reporting
I'm curious. After looking at PM, what was the rational for not
selecting
and implementing?
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Subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] Performance Management Financial Reporting
I especially agree with the statements " Just proceed with your eyes
wide-open.
Make certain your C-level executives are involved. It would be nearly
impossible to correctly implement and fully utilize the power of the
application without their involvement."
We did not have that commitment. Management was only looking for an EOM
financial report writer, so we went with another solution.
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subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] Performance Management Financial Reporting
You might want to take a look at F9. It is an infor package and don't think it is an overkill compared to PM. I've heard it is comparable to FRX and can be ran on different platforms of software.
Jeff Griffin
Rauland-Borg
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Subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] Performance Management Financial Reporting
PM is a good fit for a company looking to implement a financial BI tool.
In our case there was no interest. Accounting was looking for the
equivalent of FRX that could be implemented with least cost and least
effort. PM is overkill if all management wants is an automated tool to
get the monthly book of 30+ financial reports.
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Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 11:13 AM
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Subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] Performance Management Financial Reporting
I'm curious. After looking at PM, what was the rational for not
selecting
and implementing?
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On Behalf Of Vic Belebczuk
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 2:25 PM
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Subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] Performance Management Financial Reporting
I especially agree with the statements " Just proceed with your eyes
wide-open.
Make certain your C-level executives are involved. It would be nearly
impossible to correctly implement and fully utilize the power of the
application without their involvement."
We did not have that commitment. Management was only looking for an EOM
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date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:04:22 -0500
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subject: [MAPICS-L] GS1 Global Standards / License Plates
We are currently looking at ways to increase traceability and one way is to
make better use of license plates on pallets and products from the time they
come in to the plant until the time that they leave. As we look closer at
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date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:27:48 -0500
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subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] GS1 Global Standards / License Plates
Great way to use this user chatroom.
Thanks Ron,
Tom
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We are currently looking at ways to increase traceability and one way is to
make better use of license plates on pallets and products from the time they
come in to the plant until the time that they leave. As we look closer at
exactly what format we want to use for these license plates, we are
considering incorporating the GS1 standards for labeling and their use of
Application Identifiers in the bar code. I was wondering who else has
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date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:28:44 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
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subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] GS1 Global Standards / License Plates
Ron
You need to check out highjump software. (
http://www.highjump.com ) It will save you major code writing when trying to integrate with XA.
Full disclosure: I get nothing by recommending highjump. I'm just a user.
Kevin Fox
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We are currently looking at ways to increase traceability and one way is to
make better use of license plates on pallets and products from the time they
come in to the plant until the time that they leave. As we look closer at
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