Purpose-built ETL platform for Infor LN to Oracle Fusion migration — Finance, Manufacturing, Projects, Supply Chain. Baan-table-aware extractors, multi-company crosswalks, ITAR/DFARS classification, aerospace and defense-ready. 40–60% faster than consultant programmes.
Most Infor LN to Fusion projects don't slip in the extract. They slip in multi-company structural mapping, Baan-script customization inventory, ITAR/DFARS handling and in-flight production-order cutover.
Infor LN, descended from Baan IV/V via Infor's 2003 acquisition of the Baan codebase, carries a multi-company architecture (Logistical Companies for operations, Financial Companies for accounting), a 4GL Baan-script extensibility model, and tens of thousands of tables organized by package prefix (tc for common, tf for finance, td for distribution, ti for industrial, tp for projects, ts for service). Consultant-led migrations spend the first three months just mapping the company structure and inventorying the customizations.
Syntra ETL inverts the sequence. Pre-built LN extractors that already understand the Baan-derived table convention mean week-one extraction. A discovery engine that crawls every Logistical Company, every Financial Company, every active session customization, every custom DLL and every printer/browser report produces a complete inventory in days. The infor ln to oracle fusion migration conversation that traditionally consumes a quarter now happens in week two with hard evidence on the table.
Whether you're moving a single-company LN tenant, a multi-national multi-company configuration with intercompany flows, or running a defense/aerospace footprint with ITAR-controlled records — the same engine handles the workflow with the same reconciliation rigor and the same audit-trail evidence pack.
And how the Syntra ETL platform addresses each one — before they consume your timeline.
LN's N:M Logistical-to-Financial Company architecture doesn't map 1:1 to Fusion. Syntra ETL walks every company, identifies operational vs accounting boundaries, and produces a Fusion target structure (Ledger/BU/Inv Org) with intercompany flows preserved.
Custom Baan-script sessions, DLLs, tables and reports inventoried via DD (Data Dictionary) crawl. 30–50% typically obsolete and retired; critical extensions get Fusion-native rebuild plans.
Controlled technical data classified at extract time via item-master export-control attributes, project ITAR flags and vendor country-of-origin. Encrypted pipeline never leaves customer cloud boundary.
Production orders mid-build, with operation status, material issues, labor postings — migrated with full state so shop floor resumes on Fusion at cutover instant without re-keying.
Aerospace customers carry maintenance records, configuration baselines and airworthiness directives traceable to part-level serial. Chain-of-custody preserved through migration for FAA audit.
German HGB 10-year, IFRS, SAF-T retention preserved with signed evidence. Original LN documents (invoices, journals, project bills) hash-signed at extract and indexed for tax-authority production.
A repeatable, governed workflow built for Infor LN's particular complexity. Typical full-scope timeline: 16–24 weeks.
Discovery engine catalogs every Logistical Company, Financial Company, item master record, customization, custom session, custom report and Infor ION integration. Output: complete company-structure map, customization inventory, ITAR/DFARS classification report, sized assessment with risk register.
Company-to-Ledger/BU mapping, COA segment design, item-class crosswalks, work-center to resource mapping, project-structure to PPM hierarchy. Reviewed and signed off by finance, manufacturing, projects and compliance leads.
LN extractors pull master data (tcibd, tccom), open transactional state, historical postings (tfgld, tfacp, tfacr, tdsls, tdpur, tisfc) via direct DB or Infor ION. Output staged as Parquet with hash-signed manifests, partitioned by company and fiscal year.
Crosswalks applied, multi-company intercompany flows reconstructed, FBDI payloads generated for Fusion GL/AP/AR/SCM/PPM, validated against Fusion 26x templates. Errors surfaced locally with row-level diagnostics before submission.
FBDI ZIPs submitted to Fusion ESS, monitored, reconciled at row, sum and hash level per company per period. In parallel, critical OTBI dashboards and BI Publisher reports rebuilt from LN browser-report inventory. Infor ION integrations re-pointed to Fusion APIs.
1–2 month-end cycles in parallel (LN + Fusion), deltas captured and replayed, reconciled to the penny per company per ledger, sign-off pack issued. LN moves to read-only archive mode; production cuts to Fusion.
No more bespoke Baan-table SQL or Infor ION configuration. Just configure scope, run, reconcile.
GL ledgers, journal headers and lines, AP/AR sub-ledger open items, cash management, fixed-asset register, multi-currency revaluation, intercompany flows — extracted with full company-segregation.
Production orders, operations, material issues, labor postings, routings, BOMs, work centers, shop-floor control — full operational state preserved for cutover.
Project structures (WBS), budgets, contracts, time and material, progress billing, earned-value (EVM), project actuals — routed to Fusion PPM with hierarchy intact.
Sales orders, purchase orders, inventory transactions, planning data, warehousing — open state and history routed to Fusion SCM with item-master crosswalk applied.
Service contracts (tssoc), service orders, quality inspections (qmptc), non-conformance records — preserved as analytical archive even when service stays on LN.
BOD subscriptions, ION Connect flows, OS Portal customizations inventoried. Integration endpoints re-pointed to Fusion REST/SOAP APIs during cutover.
A typical Infor LN to Oracle Fusion migration covering Finance, Manufacturing, Projects and Supply Chain with 10+ years of history runs 16–24 weeks with Syntra ETL versus 12–18 months on consultant-led programmes. Single-module scope (LN Finance → Fusion ERP only) completes in 10–14 weeks. The acceleration comes from pre-built LN extractors that already understand the Baan-derived table convention (tcorda###, tdsls###, tdpur###, tisfc### across multi-company package combinations), governed crosswalks between LN's Logistical Companies and Fusion Business Units, and aerospace/defense-aware data classifications for ITAR and DFARS-controlled records. Customers running multiple LN logical companies routinely add 2–4 weeks per additional company for parallel reconciliation.
Infor LN, evolved from Baan IV/V after Infor acquired the codebase, remains a capable ERP for European manufacturing, defense and aerospace — but the strategic direction has moved to Infor CloudSuite Industrial Enterprise, leaving on-prem LN customers facing escalating sustaining fees, a thin upgrade path and shrinking 4GL Baan-script skills in the market. Migrating Infor LN to Oracle Fusion consolidates onto a strategic SaaS platform with quarterly updates, eliminates the Oracle/SQL Server database licence, retires the OS Portal and ION Connect middleware, and gives finance, manufacturing and projects a single source of truth. Fusion ERP now matches LN on multi-company financials, project-based manufacturing, configure-to-order and complex supply-chain — and adds embedded AI for demand sensing and anomaly detection that LN doesn't ship natively.
Syntra ETL supports the full LN footprint. Finance (tfgld/tfacp/tfacr/tfcmg): GL ledgers, AP/AR sub-ledgers, cash management, fixed assets, multi-currency revaluation, intercompany. Manufacturing (tisfc/tirou/tibom/tcibd): production orders, routings, BOMs, work centers, item master, shop-floor control. Projects (tppdm/tpctm/tpptc/tppss): project structures, budgets, contracts, time and material, progress billing, EVM. Supply Chain (tdsls/tdpur/tdinv/tdsop): sales orders, purchase orders, inventory, planning, warehousing. Plus Service (tssoc), Quality (qmptc), Freight (fmfrc). All extracted via direct DB connection or Infor ION with manifest-signed audit trails ready for Fusion ERP/SCM/PPM/EPM.
Aerospace and defense customers running Infor LN typically carry ITAR-controlled technical data, DFARS-controlled unclassified information (CUI), and FAA 14 CFR Part 21/145 maintenance records — each with strict export-control and access-control rules. Syntra ETL's LN extractor classifies records at extract time using customer-supplied tagging rules (item-master export-control attributes, project-level ITAR flags, vendor-level country-of-origin), routes controlled records through a separate encrypted pipeline that never leaves the customer-controlled cloud boundary, and preserves the chain-of-custody evidence required for DCMA and DSS audits. The Fusion target gets the same classification metadata applied so access control continues end-to-end.
Yes. Infor LN's multi-company architecture (Logistical Companies for operations, Financial Companies for accounting, with N:M relationships between them) doesn't translate 1:1 to Fusion's Ledger/BU/Inventory Org hierarchy — but it maps cleanly when you do the structural mapping upfront. Syntra ETL's LN extractor walks every Logistical Company and Financial Company combination in the source tenant, identifies the operational and accounting boundary, and produces a Fusion target structure: Ledger per Financial Company, Business Unit per significant Logistical Company, Inventory Org per warehouse/plant. Customers commonly find 20–40% of LN companies are obsolete and get retired during the consolidation, simplifying the Fusion target.
Baan-script (4GL) customizations and LN-specific reports (printer reports, browser reports, Infor d/EPM dashboards) don't carry over to Fusion. Syntra ETL's assessment inventories every active customization in the LN tenant — script extensions, custom DLLs, custom tables, custom sessions, custom reports — and classifies by business value. Approximately 30–50% are typically obsolete or duplicate native Fusion behavior and get retired. Critical reports are rebuilt in Fusion OTBI for ad-hoc analytics, BI Publisher for pixel-perfect operational reports (project invoices, GR/IR, MRP exceptions) and Smart View for Excel-tethered analysis. The rebuild happens in parallel with data load so go-live includes the reporting layer.
Infor LN's transactional state — production orders mid-build, purchase orders awaiting receipt, sales orders awaiting ship, project lines awaiting billing — needs to migrate with full state context. Syntra ETL's LN cutover playbook captures the full operational state at the cutover instant: production order header + operation status + material issues + labor postings; purchase order header + line + schedule + receipt history; sales order header + line + reservation + pick status; project line + commitment + actuals + WIP. State is migrated to the equivalent Fusion entities so production resumes on Fusion without re-keying. Period-end timing is coordinated to minimize in-flight count.
No. Syntra ETL's LN extractors run as a read-only database client or read-only Infor ION subscriber, depending on customer preference. Direct-DB extracts use a dedicated read-only schema connection that respects LN's row-level locking and doesn't interfere with online transaction processing. ION-based extracts subscribe to BODs (Business Object Documents) as a passive consumer. Heavy extracts (10+ years of GL detail, full production-order history with operation detail) are scheduled to run during off-peak windows. No LN admin downtime is needed, no Infor ION configuration changes are required, and live operations continue uninterrupted throughout the project.
Book a 30-minute discovery call. We'll walk through your LN company structure, module footprint, customization profile, ITAR/DFARS exposure and historical depth — and give you a concrete timeline and budget before the call ends.