Inventory Control Manager homepage available

A pre-defined homepage for inventory managers is now available in Infor Ming.le. The widgets included on the Inventory Control Manager homepage are designed to improve inventory control procedures, analyze product levels, and monitor trends, margins, rankings, profits, and other KPIs.

The homepage includes these types of widgets:

  • Birst

    Shows role-based information from the Inventory Control Manager dashboard in the Homepage Widgets Collection in Distribution Analytics for Birst. Individual widgets represent a Birst report. Users can click Explore to view the report in Birst.

  • ION

    Shows alerts for workflows that are set up by your system administrator in ION. Users can assign alerts to themselves and then mark them as complete.

  • Distribution SX.e

    Shows data from Distribution SX.e without opening the application.

These widgets are included on the homepage:

  • Banner widget comprised of these widgets:
    • Inventory by Year/Month
    • Top 10 Warehouse by Average Inventory
  • Inventory Efficiency Ratio
  • New Product Onboarding
  • Top 10 warehouses by Short Term Surplus
  • Top 10 warehouses by Long Term Surplus
  • Product Availability
  • Inventory Adjustments
  • Inventory Stock Out
  • Menu

See the Infor Distribution SX.e User Guide for information about each widget.

Feature activation

The Inventory Control Manager homepage is available in the Page Catalog on the Homepage view in Infor Ming.le. To add the page to the Homepage view, the SX-InventoryManager security role must be assigned to a user's Infor Ming.le record.

To display content in the ION widgets, workflows and activation policies must be set up in ION Desk. The SXe_WarehouseSupervisor group must be included on the distribution list for the workflows and must be assigned to a user's Infor Ming.le record. To view the Birst widgets, the SX-BIRST-InventoryManager and SXBIRST-User roles must be assigned to a user's Infor Ming.le user records.

See the Infor CloudSuite Distribution Configuration Guide.