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For Any Assistance on Registration Please Contact: Claire Florin

Email: claire.florin@workoutloud.com  Phone: 612-940-7014

MWLUG Fall 2016 Meeting

HealthPartners in Bloomington on Friday, November 11th!

Join the Midwest Lawson User Group for our 2016 Fall Meeting

There will be Special Interest Group (SIG) breakouts by functional area in the morning, then Technical, Human Capital Management, Enterprise Financial Management and Supply Chain Management breakout sessions in the afternoon.  Elections will also he held for Adminstrative Officer and User Collaboration/Focus Group Coordinator.  Please contact a board member if you are interested in running for one of those positions.  Check out the Elections tab for candidates.

Plenty of great prizes to award at the conclusion of the meeting!

AND

Cap off your day by joining us for a networking reception following the meeting at HealthPartners. Join your peers, vendors and Infor Lawson employees as we continue discussion on Lawson in a relaxed, fun atmosphere.

Thank you to our Vendor booth sponsors:

  • ROI Healthcare 
  • RPI Consultants
  • TEAMabsolute
  • iTK Technologies
  • Basware
  • MHC Software, Inc.
  • Velocity Technology Solutions
  • Bails & Associates, LLC
  • Ciber
  • Analysts International
  • Lexmark Enterprise Software, Inc.
  • Dashboard Gear
  • Avaap USA, Inc.

Thank you to our Vendor food/beverage co-sponsors:

  • RPI Consultants 
  • MHC Software, Inc.
  • Velocity Technology Solutions
  • Bails & Associates, LLC

Special Thank You to:

  • Digital Concourse and Infor for supporting MWLUG

Note: Five people from each member company can attend at no charge.

Each additional person from member companies $30 per attendee, and the registration cost for attendees from non-member companies is $50.

2016 Membership dues need to be paid in order for "member" pricing to be available for your company.

Upcoming Meetings - save the dates:

  • February 17, 2017 Winter Meeting at HealthPartners
  • Infor Winter Showcase, March 8-10th, Saint Paul
  • Inforum July 10-12th, 2017, New York City
  • August 23-24th, Summer Conference at Saint Olaf College
Registration for this event is closed

When & Where

Friday, November 11th, 2016 → Saturday, November 12th, 2016
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HealthPartners
8170 33rd Avenue South
Bloomington,MN55425
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Organizer

Ron Maskal
Wendy Woitalla
Sherri Binger
Shannon Mulligan
Becky Pries
Yvonne Cheslog
Amanda Ellenbaum

Attachments

Attached Files
MWLUGFall2016MeetingAgenda.pdf

Sessions

 
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Friday - November 11th, 2016

Check In
9:00 AM
8:15 AM
11/11/2016
Check in at the top of stairs, collect your meeting materials (including voucher for lunch) and head in to visit with vendors while enjoying beverages and breakfast snacks.
Announcements and Elections
9:15 AM
9:00 AM
11/11/2016
Room: Superior Presenters: Wendy Woitalla, MWLUG Chair and Global User Group Representative
See the Elections tab for candidate profiles. One vote per customer member company. Please drop your completed ballot into the M&M man near the registration desk.
Infor Update - What's New?
10:00 AM
9:15 AM
11/11/2016
Room: Superior Presenters: Carolyn Bench, Senior Product Manager, Infor
Come find out the latest update on Infor Lawson from their Product Management Team. Learn 5 ways CloudSuite Financials & Supply Management delivers unprecedented value.
Morning Break
10:15 AM
10:00 AM
11/11/2016
Room: Lake of the Woods
Grab a beverage and visit with our vendor sponsors

Special Interest Group (SIG) Breakout Sessions

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SIG: Accounts Payable
11:45 AM
10:15 AM
11/11/2016
Room: St. Croix Presenters: Volunteers that lead this group receive a $25 gift card!
Network with other users and share your questions, best practices, and business cards. A list of the new/active Lawson enhancement requests submitted by MWLUG member companies will be provided for discussion. Members could vote during the SIG or when they return to their respective offices.
SIG: Enterprise Financial Mgmt. (GL, AM, AC, AR)
11:45 AM
10:15 AM
11/11/2016
Room: Pine Presenters: Volunteers that lead this group receive a $25 gift card!
Network with other users and share your questions, best practices, and business cards. A list of the new/active Lawson enhancement requests submitted by MWLUG member companies will be provided for discussion. Members could vote during the SIG or when they return to their respective offices.
SIG: Human Capital Management
11:45 AM
10:15 AM
11/11/2016
Room: Superior Presenters: Volunteers that lead this group receive a $25 gift card!
Network with other users and share your questions, best practices, and business cards. A list of the new/active Lawson enhancement requests submitted by MWLUG member companies will be provided for discussion. Members could vote during the SIG or when they return to their respective offices.
SIG: Supply Chain Management
11:45 AM
10:15 AM
11/11/2016
Room: Cedar Presenters: Volunteers that lead this group receive a $25 gift card!
Network with other users and share your questions, best practices, and business cards. A list of the new/active Lawson enhancement requests submitted by MWLUG member companies will be provided for discussion. Members could vote during the SIG or when they return to their respective offices.
SIG: Technical (Incl. LBI, Process Automation and LSO)
11:45 AM
10:15 AM
11/11/2016
Room: Minnesota Presenters: Volunteers that lead this group receive a $25 gift card!
Network with other users and share your questions, best practices, and business cards. A list of the new/active Lawson enhancement requests submitted by MWLUG member companies will be provided for discussion. Members could vote during the SIG or when they return to their respective offices.
Lunch (voucher provided at check in)
12:30 PM
11:30 AM
11/11/2016
Room: Cafeteria or Breakout rooms.
A one time use voucher (valued up to $12) was provided at check in for food and beverages at the HealthPartners cafeteria.

Afternoon Breakout Sessions 1

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Customer Story: UnityPoint Health - Lawson Contract Management (version 10)
1:30 PM
12:30 PM
11/11/2016
Room: Pine Presenters: Lynn Hamrick and Deb Van Der Molen, UnityPoint
UnityPoint Health will present guidelines for building contracts, quotes and service agreements in Contract Management. We will also review tips and tricks for uploading data into Contract Management using Infor Spreadsheet Designer.
Customer Story: Mayo Clinic - Demo of Mayo Clinic’s File Copy and Staging Tool
1:30 PM
12:30 PM
11/11/2016
Room: Cedar Presenters: Amanda Ellenbaum, Mayo Clinic
IT can have numerous resource constraints during an upgrade. To allow ease of testing for both the business and IT, Lawson IT at Mayo Clinic created a custom program to allow business users to stage their own testing files, as well as request file copies from archive directories. Please join Amanda for a short demo of this program.
History Correction - Managing the Time/Data Continuum!
1:30 PM
12:30 PM
11/11/2016
Room: Superior Presenters: Diana Van Blaricom, Ciber
Join us for tips and tricks and need to know info for making corrections to historical data in the system. You'll learn the best way to correct errors, Global HR versus HR11, and when to process a correcting action versus updating the historical record.
IPA: Developer's Walkthrough of Infor Process Automation
1:30 PM
12:30 PM
11/11/2016
Room: Minnesota Presenters: Del Dehn, Infor
Learn how to build and automate business processes, and watch a technical walkthrough of Infor Process Automation and Infor Process Designer.
Smart Reports
1:30 PM
12:30 PM
11/11/2016
Room: St. Croix Presenters: Carolyn Bench, Infor
Infor Lawson Smart Reports makes it easy for you to provide a complete makeover to all standard reports. Learn how you can enhance format and layout to improve readability, usability, as well as improve user adoption and acceptance of standard Infor Lawson reports.
Afternoon Break
1:45 PM
1:30 PM
11/11/2016
Room: Lake of the Woods
Grab a beverage and visit with our vendor sponsors

Afternoon Breakout Sessions 2

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Exploring the GHR Modules (remote)
2:45 PM
1:45 PM
11/11/2016
Room: Superior Presenters: Kerri Mencel, Infor
Ever wonder about the differences between GHR modules and their HRM counterparts? Come get an overview of what the 6 new GHR modules can do to optimize your business practices in the areas of Employee Relations, Position Budget Management, Occupational Health, Employee Safety, Absence Management and Benefits. This is a remote session.
Close & Reconciliation Management Overview
2:45 PM
1:45 PM
11/11/2016
Room: St. Croix Presenters: Colleen Holm, Infor
Come to this session to hear how your organization can improve efficiency of tracking month-end close tasks by standardization of close processes and reporting.
Differences between Infor Lawson System Foundation and Infor Landmark Technology Runtime Platforms
2:45 PM
1:45 PM
11/11/2016
Room: Cedar Presenters: Del Dehn, Infor
Learn about the technology differences between Infor Lawson System Foundation and Infor Landmark Technology Runtime. You'll hear about what's replacing what and how you should prepare for the transition.
LSF: Tuning for Maximum Performance
2:45 PM
1:45 PM
11/11/2016
Room: Pine Presenters: Rajan Shanmugavelu, Infor
Learn how to tune Lawson System Foundation (LSF) for maximum performance. Both local as well as server side changes are covered.
Mobile Supply Chain Management, Point of Use, and Surgical Instrument Management Overview (remote)
2:45 PM
1:45 PM
11/11/2016
Room: Minnesota Presenters: Jon Anderson, Infor
Attend this session to learn about what is new and next for Mobile Supply Chain Management, Point of Use, and Surgical Instrument Management. This is a remote session.
Wrap-up, Election Results, Prize Drawings
3:00 PM
2:45 PM
11/11/2016
Room: Superior
Prizes awarded by the vendors at the conclusion of the meeting are limited to one per person and you must be present to win. Prizes awarded by MWLUG at the conclusion of the meeting are also limited to one per person and you must be present to win. If your name is called a second time during the vendor drawings or a second time during MWLUG drawings, thank you for understanding MWLUG'Â’s and our vendorÂ’s' goals of rewarding as many attendees as possible for their participation in the meeting, the value of the prizes notwithstanding.
Networking Reception/Social Hour
5:00 PM
3:00 PM
11/11/2016
Room: RedRossa Italian Grille
An open bar with light appetizers provided when you join us at RedRossa's spacious and lively bar, less than a mile away from HealthPartners.

About Infor Midwest User Group

The Infor Midwest User Group (IMUG) is an organization dedicated to provide opportunities for Infor/Lawson Software clients to exchange ideas, strategies and experiences; to enhance user understanding of Infor/Lawson products, services, future direction and third party business partners; to consolidate and communicate priorities and enhancements and software fixes to Infor/Lawson; and to partner with Infor/Lawson in developing a vision for the software.

The Infor Midwest User Group (IMUG) is an independently run organization, not managed by Infor/Lawson Software. Geographically, the IMUG represents the states of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri.
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