Our world has been thrown into chaos by the COVID-19 pandemic, as lives are being lost, hospitals become overwhelmed and surging demand causes household items like toilet paper and cleaning supplies to sell out. For businesses which need to maintain operations during this time of crisis, adapting your material planning and supply chain systems to…
While Infor has made tremendous progress over the last decade in making M3 more user-friendly and opening up access to interfaces and app development through the use of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), pretty much every M3 user ends up doing analytical work with data in Excel. Then, the challenge becomes how to get that data…
Infor M3 has made tremendous progress in recent years at allowing users to define custom lists to present information within the application itself, rather than rely upon outside reporting using tools like Crystal Reports or SQL Server Reporting Services. Giving users access to the views they need within M3 allows them to take immediate action…
You remember the First Commandment of M3 Reporting, right? “Thou Shalt Not Run External Reports Against The Production Database” – ReadyERPSolutions.com, Chapter 3 Verse 1 For those of you running M3 on-premise with SQL Server, creating your own mirrored database for reporting purposes is easier than you might think (sorry M3 Cloud users, you’ll have…
One of the more amusing points that comes up when talking about the features of Infor M3 is the number of reports that come with the system and are available “out of the box”. In my experience of many years and many M3 implementations I can say that very few customers use more than a…
Setting up new divisions in Infor M3 along with the associated forms and reports can be a bit of a job, and even under the best of circumstances, minor errors can occur. I recently went through that process and sure enough, when the first sales invoice was generated out of our new division, a user…
Developing Infor M3 customer order API-based systems can involve a lot of troubleshooting, because the documentation tends to be focused on individual transactions and it can be hard to get a sense of the overall process that runs from start to finish. I thought I’d share my experience here implementing interfaces to load customer orders…
