Friday - November 11th, 2016

Check In

9:00 AM

8:15 AM

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

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

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

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

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 Clinicâ€™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

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

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

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.

Sessions

Friday - November 11th, 2016

Special Interest Group (SIG) Breakout Sessions

Afternoon Breakout Sessions 1

Afternoon Breakout Sessions 2

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