Upcoming Tuesday Education Event – Outside Operations in XA

05/12/2026
Please join CISTECH for our latest Tuesday Education Series webinar, Using XA Outside Operations.
Outside Operations in Infor XA is the native manufacturing capability that allows a manufacturer to plan, schedule, execute, and financially control subcontracted manufacturing steps—such as plating, heat treating, machining, painting, or inspection—as part of a standard routing rather than managing them as disconnected purchase orders or manual workarounds.
In this presentation, CISTECH Business Consultant Jim Boyer will explain the basics of XA Outside Operations and some primary considerations for utilizing the functionality.
When: Tue, May 12, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

We look forward to having you attend the event!

Resources

Improve Supplier Management & Communications with Procurement Plus

04/28/2026

Procurement Plus from CISTECH integrates and streamlines the entire procure to pay process in XA. Via a web portal, suppliers are able to view and accept (or propose changes to) purchase orders, access updated product specifications, engineering drawings and/or shipping instructions and send advanced shipment notifications. Procurement Plus helps companies reduce costs, increase efficiency, and improve control of material and other purchased items.

Protecting the Crown Jewels: Securing Your IBM i from Modern Cyberattacks

03/17/2026

Many organizations run their most critical applications and data on the IBM i. It’s stable, powerful, and trusted — which is exactly why it matters. Today’s attackers aren’t just targeting Windows systems. They’re looking for valuable data and core business systems, and for many companies, that means the IBM i.  In this session, Alex Humphrey, Director of Security at Solutions II, walks through how modern cyberattacks actually unfold: how someone gets in, what they do once they’re there, and how small issues can quietly turn into serious business impact.

XA Enterprise Finance Benefits and Keys to Project Success

02/24/2026

Spend an hour with CISTECH experts to learn about the features of EFIN that our clients find most valuable and keys to a successful migration.

Implementing Lot Control and Serialization in an XA Environment

11/04/2025

Considering improved traceability and validation in your XA inventory system. Lot Control and Serialization features in XA and Shop Floor Plus provide the capabilities you need to meet quality and audit requirements.

Requisition/Purchase Order Approvals

10/28/2025

Join CISTECH for a review of our procurement automation solutions built to streamline approval and provide visibility to everyone in the company.

Protect your Company’s Assets with Enhanced Security For XA

10/21/2025

CISTECH’s Enhanced Security Tool significantly improves your ability to implement, maintain and audit iSeries and MAPICS XA security compared to base Cross App and IFM Security. The powerful NetLink or PowerLink interface provides visibility and control of user authority to XA applications and data, as well as to iSeries objects.

Product Costing 101

10/14/2025

Product costing is at the core of manufacturing processes. This is an overview of cost calculations in XA so you can better track and manage material, labor and overhead.

Infor AI Services for XA Customers

10/07/2025

How does AI impact you as an XA customer? Join us for this insightful review of Infor AI Services and see how the power of AI can transform your business.

Working Efficiently with NetLink

09/30/2025

Review best practices for NetLink use.

Streamline Your 2025 Physical Inventory

09/16/2025

A Physical Inventory is difficult, time consuming and expensive. CISTECH has developed an optimized XA centric process for conducting a Physical Inventory. Customers have reduced days off of their count time using our tablet based system.

Tips to Shorten your Month End Close

09/09/2025

Feel like your Finance team is behind the curve when it comes to closing? These tips of the trade are not XA specific but are best practices for the industry. AM, IFM and eFin customers will all find value in this session.

Introduction to CADLink for XA

08/26/2025

QBuild’s CADLink connects your CAD, PDM, or PLM system directly to Infor XA. Engineers can automatically create, modify, and view Items, BOMs, and routings — all without ever having to leave their design environment.

Scheduling With Shop Floor Plus Global Requirements Planning

08/19/2025

Looking for an optimized process for analyzing and executing on MRP Data? Look no further than CISTECH’s Global Requirements Planning solution (GRP), which allows you to quickly identify material shortages, streamline PO and MO creation and get product out the door fast.

EFIN & EGL Migration for Accounting Management Users

08/12/2025

Are you thinking about utilizing the advanced functionality and powerful user interface available with EFIN? CISTECH will help you get there!

MRP Basics

11/05/2024

Materials Requirements Planning is the critical tool used by manufacturers to project future material and production requirements. We review the key components that drive MRP planning, and recommend a process to measure and update these on an ongoing basis.

SIWA Overview – Installation & Capabilities

10/29/2024

System i Workspace (SIWA) is a web-based user interface that provides a single environment to work with Infor XA. The workspace offers an updated, user-friendly experience for managing manufacturing, financial, and supply chain processes within Infor XA.

eGL Capabilities and Implementation Review

10/15/2024

eGL is a comprehensive general ledger application designed to meet the complex financial management needs of manufacturing companies, providing you with the flexibility, integration, and real-time capabilities required to manage your finances effectively. It is a highly configurable, event driven GL system that creates journal entries from XA transactions.

Excel GL Upload Enhancement (AM/IFM/eFIN)

10/08/2024

Automating journal entries is essential to minimizing your time to close and maximizing your financial department’s productivity. CISTECH’s GL Upload tool allows for uploads into the AM or IFM General Ledger via spreadsheets. We also review the upload capabilities available to eGL customers at R10.

R10 Netlink Introduction

10/01/2024

NetLink is the thin client user interface for XA. Net-Link supports commonly used web-browsers on Windows, Apple & Android devices and provides easy access for Infor XA users across the globe. NetLink is Infor’s strategic interface for XA, and will deliver additional enhancements in future releases.

Quoting Management

09/17/2024

CISTECH’s Quote Management for XA is designed to streamline the process of generating and managing quotes. It allows users to streamline creation, customization, and sending of quotes to clients, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in pricing and sales operations.

Setting Up Purchasing Contracts in XA

09/10/2024

Infor XA’s purchasing contracts help organizations manage supplier relationships more effectively, reduce procurement costs, and improve supply chain efficiency.

Procurement Plus for XA

09/03/2024

Procurement PLUS from CISTECH integrates and streamlines the entire procure to pay process in XA. From requisition approvals and web-based supplier communications, through to receiving and payment, Procurement PLUS helps you reduce costs, increase efficiency, and improve control of material and other purchased items.

XA Standard Costs Basics

08/27/2024

Product costing capabilities reach across the entirety of the XA solution. In order to generate accurate costs your organization must ensure Items, BOMS, routings, purchased material and overhead parameters are optimized and maintained. This session reviews baseline standard cost features and highlights methods to measure costs against standards.

Introduction to XA Operator

08/21/2024

CISTECH’s XA Operator is an automated operations solution designed specifically for XA that directly impacts some of the most critical requirements IT executives face today. Because XA Operator was designed specifically for XA, implementation is fast and straightforward and you will achieve benefits immediately.

Engineering Change Management

07/11/2024

This web-based application simplifies, facilitates, and shortens the complex process of creating and managing ECs. It helps to lower costs by streamlining EC management and providing impact analysis to see the effect of a change on your XA system BEFORE the actual change occurs.

Warehouse Management Part 1

08/24/2023

CISTECH’s Warehouse Solution for XA delivers next level, real time, tablet based warehouse transaction management. Our solution enables smart and predictive based XA transaction processing from receiving, to put away, to MO picking, to material pick-up and delivery.

Warehouse Management Part 2

08/24/2023

We continue CISTECH’s enhancements for the warehouse with an overview of our tablet based XA pick/pack/ship solution. The demonstration will cover smart pick list generation, picking, packing into containers and shipping. Also, we review WM4XA’s Cycle Counting and Physical Inventory capabilities.

Tuning Up MRP in XA

06/28/2023

A review of how to tune and optimize MRP in your XA environment for better planning performance.

Introduction to Global Requirements Planning

06/09/2023

Introduction to CISTECH’s Global Requirements Planning — a Supply Chain Planning Enhancement for XA.

Introduction to Infor OS

05/03/2023

An introduction to Infor Operating Services (Infor OS), the technology platform that powers Infor’s cloud applications.

Clients Successes

“Working in partnership with CISTECH, we have transformed our company using advanced technology available with MAPICS XA. We have integrated and streamlined our entire supply chain, from customer forecasts and orders through to planning, production, and shipping.”

Clients Successes

“We’ve virtually eliminated transaction errors by using the Supplier Portal. With the suppliers on the system, our accuracy is 99% and our on-time delivery has improved to about 97% while reducing inventory.”

Clients Successes

“Leveraging MAPICS applications with CISTECH’s product and industry knowledge, we’ve been able to consistently improve efficiencies in inventory control, delivery, and collections.”