Another Outage. Another Warning. Are Your Systems Built for This Reality?

 

When you look at Cloudflare’s recent outage, AWS disruptions, and airline IT incidents like Alaska Airlines earlier this year, a pattern emerges. These aren’t random glitches. They reflect deeper, systemic issues in today’s hyper-connected infrastructure—where a single misconfiguration or service failure can ripple across the entire digital ecosystem.

As organizations rely more heavily on cloud platforms, global CDNs, and centralized systems, even small failures can lead to large operational shocks. The real question is no longer if an outage will affect your business, but whether your systems are prepared to withstand it.

 

ERP Systems: The First to Feel the Impact

ERP platforms sit at the center of finance, operations, supply chain, and HR. When external or internal infrastructure breaks, ERP users often experience:

  • Authentication failures
  • Stalled workflows or batch jobs
  • Broken integrations
  • Delayed purchasing, shipping, and approvals

A brief outage elsewhere can quickly become enterprise-wide downtime.

 

Data Access & Storage: Redundancy Isn’t Enough

This year’s outages made one point clear: Data that exists but can’t be accessed is effectively down.

DNS failures, routing issues, CDN disruptions, and cloud zone outages can suddenly block:

  • File repositories
  • Data lakes
  • ERP historical records
  • Cloud storage buckets

Organizations often have backups—but no guarantee that users can reach critical data during an outage.

 

Cybersecurity: Availability Is Part of Security

The Cloudflare incident showed that security systems themselves—identity, permissions, and zero-trust rules—can become failure points. A malformed security configuration can knock systems offline just as quickly as an attack. Strong cybersecurity must include validation, testing, and controlled configuration management.

 

Backup & Recovery: Strategy vs. Reality

Many companies have backup plans, but few have tested recovery plans. Unverified failovers and outdated procedures turn minor issues into major disruptions. True resilience requires:

  • Regular recovery testing
  • Independent, isolated data archives
  • Emergency read-only access modes
  • Clear, practiced procedures

Our consulting team specializes in ERP operational resilience. We offer Managed Services, with proactive ERP monitoring, maintenance, security hardening, and rapid-response support to reduce unexpected downtime, as wel las a cloud-secure ERP Application Archive solution – APIX – that ensures ERP data remains accessible—even during cloud outages or ERP failures. If recent outages have you rethinking your resilience strategy, let’s talk. Nogalis is here to help organizations build stability into their ERP, data, and infrastructure before the next disruption hits.

GL256 No report in Print Manager

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Problem:
If a GL256 was run but did not create a report in the Print Manager, but, there is a csv file, follow these simple and quick steps to change the csv output to a prt file.

 

Resolution:
First, you will need to create a GL55.1 for this report.

Navigate to the Basic Tab, then change the CSV Output parameter from Y (Yes) to N (No).

Next, Re-run the GL256 and it will produce a regular report in the Print Manager.

This should create a report in print manager with the proper output format.

That’s all there is to it!

Why 92% of Companies Lack AI-Ready Data

In her recent ERP Today article, Radhika Ojha highlights a surprising statistic: while 97% of organizations feel pressure to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) quickly, a whopping 92% aren’t ready. The reason isn’t lack of talent or infrastructure—it’s messy, siloed data. Finance, sales, HR, manufacturing, and supply chain systems often live in separate platforms that don’t communicate, making it nearly impossible for AI to deliver meaningful insights.

The Cisco AI Readiness Report shows that data is the weakest pillar for most companies. AI models need clean, unified data to work, but many organizations focus on hiring data scientists or investing in algorithms while ignoring the fragmented data in their ERP systems. Without consolidating and cleaning decades of historical records, AI initiatives can stall, and predictive insights—like customer churn or supply chain forecasting—remain out of reach.

The first step toward AI readiness, Ojha states, is aggregation. Platforms like JiVS IMP from Data Migration International can consolidate, clean, and structure data from across legacy systems, creating a single, AI-ready foundation. For ERP leaders, this means that any system migration—like SAP S/4HANA—should focus not just on moving data, but on making it usable for AI. In short, before AI can start providing real value, organizations must ensure their core ERP data is structured, accessible, and ready for intelligence.

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Process Server Administrator – How to access Channel Administrator

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File channels in Lawson Infor Process Automation (IPA) are very useful for picking up flat files and processing them.

 

In Infor’s older Rich Client tool, this can be easily found under the Start button drop down.

However, based on user permissions, this might not appear properly so I will tell you two ways to access the Channel Administrator.

 

First should be the obvious way which is Administrator >> Channel Administrator

 

However, based on your _ST roles, this might’ve not been granted properly. So, the second way to access it is in the top right search box. You can search Channel Administrator and access it there.

How To Reimagine ERP For The AI Era Of Business

For decades, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have served as the backbone of business operations—handling transactions, records, and process workflows. But as Manish Goyal explains in his Forbes article, we’re entering an AI-driven era where ERP transforms from a passive recordkeeper into a proactive strategic partner. With McKinsey estimating that AI could unlock up to $4.4 trillion in global productivity, organizations that embed intelligence into their ERP systems are best positioned to thrive.

So what’s changing?
Legacy ERP systems focused on tracking transactions. AI-enabled ERP thinks ahead—forecasting needs, identifying patterns, and informing strategic choices. Gartner predicts that by 2027, over 70% of ERP initiatives will fall short unless they integrate modern capabilities like AI, modular architectures, and business-outcome alignment. Across the enterprise, AI-infused ERP drives measurable results. McKinsey reports that companies using prescriptive analytics in supply chains can boost output by 10–15% and cut costs up to 10%. Finance teams see sharper forecasts and tighter alignment between budgets and strategy, while customer service evolves from reactive support to proactive engagement through sentiment and intent analytics. Still, Goyal stresses that technology alone isn’t enough. Success requires clarity of purpose, modular architecture, strong data governance, and investment in people. Only 1% of companies say they’ve fully embedded AI into workflows—yet nearly half of employees believe structured training and seamless integration would increase adoption.

AI-enabled ERP isn’t just about doing the same tasks faster—it’s about transforming how enterprises sense, decide, and act. Leaders who treat ERP as a transformation engine, not just a ledger, will define the next era of intelligent business.

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When AI Meets ERP: The Rise Of Hybrid Intelligence In Global Supply Chains

If you want to see the future of enterprise AI (artificial intelligence), forget chatbots—look at a cargo ship. In their Forbes article, Malini Leveque and Daniel Varab from SAP explore how “hybrid intelligence”—the blend of AI’s flexibility and ERP’s (enterprise resource planning) structure—is transforming global supply chains into living, responsive networks. Traditional ERP systems were built for predictability: steady flows of orders, invoices, and inventory. But today’s supply chains are stretched thin, dealing with disruptions from tariffs, logistics issues, and shifting regulations. This is where hybrid intelligence steps in. AI interprets unstructured data like supplier messages or weather alerts, while ERP systems validate, govern, and execute the resulting actions. The result? Agile decisions that remain compliant and accountable. Platforms such as SAP Business Network exemplify this shift, connecting buyers and suppliers through shared data and real-time visibility. When disruptions occur, AI models can anticipate impacts, simulate scenarios, and suggest alternatives—while ERP ensures that any change respects capacity, timing, and compliance rules. Leveque and Varab highlight that the real power of AI in 2025 isn’t about replacing ERP but enhancing it. Hybrid intelligence brings together generative insight and temporal precision—knowing what to do, when to do it, and how to make it stick. As SAP CEO Christian Klein puts it, “Digital technology is not an add-on to supply chains; it is the supply chain.” The winning enterprises of tomorrow won’t just react to disruption—they’ll anticipate and orchestrate around it, guided by the seamless collaboration between human insight, artificial intelligence, and enterprise systems.

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Empty AP160ACHTAPE File

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Description:
When running the AP160 the job did not create an AP160ACHTAPE to be sent to the bank, this file is empty.

Resolution:
AP160 runs the Lawson utility cnvtape to read the AP160ACHTAPE_SEQ file and to write out the AP160ACHTAPE file. To resolve this issue, you need to perform the following:

A. When using Lawson Security:

  1. Open Lawson Security Administrator
  2. Double Click on Profile Id “ENV”
  3. Double Click Security Class “DBAccess”
  4. Click “Add Rule” Button
  5. Select Securable Types “Executables”
  6. Expand Delivery Tokens
  7. Check box by cnvexp
  8. Click “Grant All Access” radio button
  9. Click Apply Button.
  10. Click on Profiles
  11. Double Click on Profile Id “ENV”
  12. Double Click Security Class “TranslTools”
  13. Double click on Rule Object “TRANSLATE”
  14. Right click Translation Tools and choose Select Next Level
  15. If cnvtape doesn’t exist under TRANSLATE then you must add it through Tokendef – Environment Form IDs – Category: TRANSLATE – Title: Convert Tape File
  16. Make sure radio button next to Grant All Access is checked
  17. Click Apply Button
  18. Double Click on Class Assignment>select the Role you want to assign the TranslTools Security Class to>Click Assign Security Classes Button>highlight TranslTools>click “>” Button>Click Close Button>Make sure that Role is assigned to user.

Once you have change users access, have the user run AP160 for Rerun Options – Recreate Tape=Y and the serial number of your tape to create the AP160ACHTAPE file which will be sent to the bank.

Cybersecurity In The Age Of AI: 3 Imperatives For Resilient ERP

Once upon a time, securing enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems meant locking the data center door. But as Supply Chain Management expert Richard Howells explains in a Forbes article, today’s ERPs span clouds, APIs, and AI tools that power global operations—and that connectivity brings new risks.

The challenge isn’t a shortage of tools; it’s that attackers evolve faster than our defenses. Traditional threats like phishing and ransomware remain, but now AI makes them faster and smarter. Generative AI can craft convincing phishing emails, while deepfakes give scams frightening credibility. IBM reports that ransomware breaches now average over $5 million, and insider misuse continues to climb.

Complexity and Shared Responsibility
ERP systems no longer live in a single, secure space. As IBM consultant Ryan Throop notes, “ERP used to be about roles and authorizations—now it’s about resilience.” Cloud providers protect infrastructure, vendors handle patches, and integrators manage connectivity, but the enterprise itself still owns data protection. That patchwork often leaves dangerous visibility gaps.

Three Keys to ERP Resilience

  1. Culture and Hygiene – Human error is still the biggest risk. Modern security awareness training now simulates real-world attacks, helping ERP users understand the stakes of careless actions.
  2. AI for Defense – AI can detect anomalies, flag suspicious access, and cut breach costs by millions, allowing teams to focus on strategic response.
  3. Governance and Trust – Leading companies demand transparency from partners, standardize third-party security assessments, and share threat intelligence across ecosystems.

Ultimately, ERP cybersecurity isn’t just about keeping threats out—it’s about building digital trust. By combining culture, AI-driven defense, and strong governance, organizations strengthen resilience and confidence across their entire value chain.

 

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File Not Found error in LID when adding a job

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After a fresh install of Lawson, you may receive a “file not found” error in LID when adding a batch job.  Or, inquiring on certain forms might time out.  The batch job itself may show an error message alluding to the LUU utilities (such as invalid fstab option).  The issue is potentially an incorrect LAW_COBRTS_PATH.

To resolve, open a command line utility with the Lawson environment variables set.  Type command “laconfig”.  The configuration window pops open.

Select your environment.

On the environment tab, check the LAW_COBRTS_PATH.  If it is incorrect, fix it.

 

Reboot the server, or restart the services, and try your batch job again.

 

The Great Cloud Recalculation

In today’s digital landscape, enterprise systems are indispensable for businesses to stay competitive. But as cloud infrastructure becomes increasingly vital, companies are rethinking their approach to cost management. As Craig Powers highlights in ERP Today, organizations are moving beyond traditional cost-cutting tactics to adopt more strategic “cost takeout” strategies—focused on improving efficiency and reducing waste without sacrificing performance.

Cost takeout involves right-sizing infrastructure, consolidating redundancies, and streamlining operations. Many companies have found that migrating to a new cloud provider, like Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), offers an opportunity for significant cost reductions. By analyzing their financial structure and leveraging cloud capabilities, companies can unlock savings while setting the stage for future business transformation—especially in areas like data and AI (artificial intelligence). For instance, a global education services company reduced monthly infrastructure costs by 30% and improved scalability, while a retail optimization provider cut labor costs by 40% after moving to OCI. While the potential benefits of cloud migration are clear, the process requires careful planning. Cost takeout isn’t just about finding a cheaper provider, Powers states, it’s about ensuring that the migration process itself is cost-effective. Companies should conduct proof-of-concept trials, analyze total cost of ownership (TCO), and collaborate across IT, finance, and business teams to maximize savings.

Powers concludes for ERP (enterprise resource planning) leaders, this means taking a closer look at your current infrastructure and considering migration to more cost-efficient solutions. As Powers advises, reexamining the financial side of enterprise systems could free up resources for innovation and growth—while optimizing both performance and costs.

 

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