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 […]
StreamServe Help: The Mysterious Multi-Page Invoice
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 […]
Infor M3 Consultant: The Gig-Based Model
Infor M3 is a powerful and complex ERP system, but sometimes you do need an Infor M3 consultant to help you quickly solve an immediate problem. Are your picklists not turning out as expected? Is the material plan for important items out of whack? Having trouble with forms coming out of StreamServe? Do you need […]
M3 Configurable XML Output: Better Late Than Never
Anybody who has worked with Infor M3 (or the older Movex versions) knows what a pain output management can be. The basic reports which come out of M3 look like they were created back in the old greenbar paper, dot-matrix printer days (because, well, chances are they were). Getting data out of the system in […]
Pie Charts Are Bad, OK?
Pie charts are one of the easiest tools to add to your business presentation. But for the love of humanity, don’t do it. Friends don’t let friends use pie charts Take a look at this example from a software conference (for Infor M3) I attended recently. The data isn’t all that important, but basically each […]