Key Modules

Drive greater value from your plant, facilities and equipment with this preconfigured asset management methodology and software solution that uses proven best-practice techniques to help maximize equipment availability and reduce maintenance costs. This family of applications includes;

• Capital Asset Management - providing a complete view of your assets, from deployment through operations, maintenance, and retirement. The enhanced visibility into financial and operational performance allows you to maximize ROI in physical assets so they perform better, last longer, and cost less to maintain.
• Condition Based Maintenance - Uses real-time data from equipment monitoring devices to assess the real time condition of your equipment against predefined, normal operating parameters providing alerts for when equipment is operating outside of normal bounds so appropriate maintenance action can be taken and automatically initiates appropriate maintenance action, including investigation, creation of a work order, and condition-based maintenance schedule updates.
• Equipment Cost Analysis - allows you to track and manage operating and maintenance costs by equipment type and/or parent/child relationship, while summarising costs over time and displaying costs by either equipment or account code, filtering out irrelevant information. It also allows you to drill down into work orders to identify and correct root causes of escalating equipment costs.
• Resource Assignments - provides an intuitive and integrated workbench that simplifies the action of assigning crews, employees, or equipment (based on availability, skills, and location) to work orders or specific work order instructions. With JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Resource Assignments, you can also effectively manage workloads through preparing schedules by maintenance crew or work shift and monitoring how well the assigned crew performs to schedule.

Capital Asset Management

Condition Based Maintenance

Equipment Cost Analysis

Resource Assignment

JD Edwards financials are integrated across all other JD Edwards EnterpriseOne modules and have the flexibility to handle substantial organisational changes, including reorganizations, new distribution centers, and new product lines - which can be folded into your existing financial operations, without compromising the integrity of historical data. The collaborative capabilities and interoperability mean that you can easily extend your business processes to interact with your business partners.

Core modules include;

• Accounts Payable
• Accounts Receivable - provides detailed account visibility allowing you to see when and how customers are paying, and the discounts they are taking advantage of. Multinational functionality, including multi currency processing and international tax management; user-definable collections criteria from a combination of variables and simplified handling of nonstandard customer deductions.

• Advanced Cost Accounting
• Expense Management
• Fixed Asset Accounting
• General Ledger

A recent addition to this suite is the Financial Management & Compliance Console - this is a highly intuitive dashboard that delivers individualised views of financial metrics, including governance and compliance.

Accounts Payable

Advanced Cost Accounting

Expense Management

Fixed Asset Accounting

General Ledger

Financial Management & Compliance Console

The Food and Beverage family of applications for Agirculture enable producers to manage all aspects of the production process from crop management right through to the finished product (eg a bottle of orange juice).

• Grower Management - enables better harvest esitmation and analysis, as well as record keeping. Streamlines issues around compliance, record keeping, and reporting, as well as tracking operational costs and handling supply planning.
• Grower Pricing and Payments - create and manage contracts with growers, monitoring compliance to agreed terms while allowing for complex pricing agreements.
• Blend Management - provides end-to-end traceability, including the tracking of solid details from every part of your blending operations. Blend management is web based, and, integrated with your accounting, human resources, and distribution systems.

Grower Management

Grower Pricing

Blend Management

If you operate a mixed mode manufacturing environment you can now manage everything with a single enterprise-wide system where all manufacturing processes share common inventory, material, planning, purchasing, and financial databases.

JD Edwards enables quick transitions to different modes as you add or change product lines or tactics and simultaneously integrates with all of your facilities regardless of which mode or modes they use.

Some of the applications included in the Manufacturing family of applications include

• Configurator - integrates sales and quotes from the front-end to fulfillment operations and manufacturing production lines at the back end. This application provides rules-based configuration for multi level product structures, supporting diverse configurations ranging from in-house work orders to external drop-ship suppliers working across your supply chain.
• Demand Flow Manufacturing - creates mixed-model process maps to group product families, the flow production line will operate from the same database, and is integrated across all other JDE applications.
• ETO Foundation - (Engineering to order) helps you manage project-based engineer-to-order processes throughout all phases of the project lifecycle, allowing you to capture costs in a complex, mixed-mode production environment.
• Lean Execution - eliminates multiple data entry by providing a single-user interface to a multilevel backflush engine. By setting up a pull production environment based on customer demand, you are able to implement lean manufacturing practices to operate your plant more efficiently, with less waste and increased flexibility.
• Plant Managers Dashboard - near-real-time performance metrics, enabling you to monitor plant operations at a glance. These user-selected metrics let you drill down into supporting enterprise data to quickly understand manufacturing and operational activities throughout your plant.
• Agile Product Life Cycle Management

Configurator

Demand Flow Manufacturing

Engineer to Order

Lean Execution

Plant Managers Dashboard

The JD Edwards Order Management family of applications allows you to streamline order management from across multiple channels, including online and partner channels - coordinating orders and sharing relevant information with your customer service teams and distribution centers.

• Demand Scheduling Execution - delivers complete information to give you an accurate picture of the flow of goods from your organization to your customer/OEM (Original Equipment Manyfacturer).
• Product Variants - allows you to set up and maintain multi-attribute items in the inventory tracking software as well as streamline product management throughout the ordering and supply chain fulfillment process
• Sales Order Management - efficiently manages the complexity of different types of orders from multiple channels in a way that minimizes order entry costs, exceeds customer expectations, and ensures order profitability.
• Fulfillment Management - optimize delivery by prioritizing orders according to rules and service level information. With it, you can rapidly access all information needed to assign inventory to customer sales orders, set service levels for one customer or group of customers, and generate fulfillment plans that you manage or modify as necessary.
• Advanced Pricing - easily manage any number of prices and special offers, based on any hierarchical combination of product, product group, customer, or customer group, allowing you to maximize revenue and profits through individualized pricing.
• Agreement Management - set up, change, and easily manage business partner agreements. With complete information on agreements, quick online access, and the ability to associate agreements with each transaction, you can easily monitor variance and ensure compliance.
• Apparel Management - delivers complete management of complex product assortments across your entire product line and supply chain so that you can respond quickly to consumer demands. Detailed product attributes—such as style, size, color—are easily handled using allocations to support dynamic order priority definitions.

Demand Scheduling Execution

Product Variants

Sales Order Management

Advanced Pricing

Agreement Management

The Project Management suite of applications allows you to view project budgets, forecasts, and actual amounts, in real-time so you can proactively manage project costs, with built-in integration to drill down to the source transaction. Applications enable automation of the change-order approval process to expedite billing and document variations from the original project plan, while billing accurately in accordance with the terms of contracts and service agreements to optimize cash flow.

• Contract and Service Billing - calculates invoices accurately according to business rules you define, giving you the flexibility to meet the diverse terms and billing methods of contracts and service agreements.
• Project and Government Contract Accounting - manage both commercial and government contracts to accommodate a wide variety of contract terms. This application enables you to set up simple-to-complex fees, retention methods, contract-specific labor categories, and burdening according to the terms and conditions of each contract.
• Project Costing - provides real-time, in-depth visibility to all project costs and billing. There is an extensive range of reporting functionality, including tailored project cost reports, historic and ad hoc profit analysis, field progress reports, productivity and labor analysis, commitment reporting, and financing/bonding reporting

Project & Govt Contract Accounting

Project Costing

Oracle's Real Estate and Home Construction suite enables you to proactively manage your commercial and industrial real estate properties across the entire real estate lifecycle; select new store locations, streamline current store operations, minimize real estate operating costs, maximize revenue per square foot, manage site selection, and facilitate lease negotiations and property management.

This is a scalable solution that integrates virtually all of the information you have about your properties, allowing you to streamline your financial and operations processes.

• Advanced Real Estate Forecasting - A web-based solution that integrates transactional, budgeting, and forecasting processes so real estate managers can quickly and efficiently create accurate, up-to-date forecasts and budgets at the unit, property, and portfolio levels.
• Homebuilder Management - coordinate and communicate throughout the home-building cycle, with an easy to use interface accessible on the job site or in the office. Manage all your product offerings, including communities or subdivisions, phases, lots, plans, elevations, and options, and view lot status at a glance.
• Real Estate Management - enables you to optimize your real estate assets. From selecting new-store locations and streamlining operations of current stores, to minimizing the time required to open a store, this solution helps you minimize costs and maximize revenue per square foot. This application is designed to give you support for the entire real estate lifecycle - from site selection and lease negotiation to facilities management. It is a scalable solution that integrates virtually all of the information you have about your properties, allowing you to streamline your financial and operations processes.

Advanced Real Estate Forecasting

Homebuilder Management

Real Estate Management

Oracle provides and extensive Supply Chain Suite of applications that cover every aspect of the Value Chain. Oracle allows you to move beyond basic MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning) to profitably balance supply and demand, optimize operations to minimize costs, and manage supply chain risk for resiliency and maximum performance.

This comprehensive suite allows you to build a consensus plan that aligns sales, marketing, finance and operations - with unique capabilities to shape demand, simulate alternative business scenarios and manage risk.

• Advanced Planning Command Center - provides decision makers with a comprehensive solution that delivers powerful analysis of operational, tactical, and strategic supply chain plans, robust scenario modeling and management, and automated business process execution capabilities.
• Advanced Supply Chain Planning - perform simultaneous material and capacity planning across multiple distribution and manufacturing facilities and time horizons in a single planning run, while at the same time accounting for the latest consensus forecast, sales orders, production status, purchase orders, and inventory policy recommendations.
• Collaborative Planning - enables you to increase forecast accuracy, implement vendor managed and consigned inventory processes, increase global supply visibility, reduce supply shortages, and lower expediting cost.
• Demand Management (Demantra) - sense, shape, and respond to demand with automated analytics that ensure that your plans are based on the most accurate, forward forecasts without the need of statistical knowledge.
• Demand Signal Repository - enables you to share store-level point of sale (POS) and inventory data directly with your suppliers, and allows you to manage downstream demand data sources so you can become a true demand driven organisation.
• Global Order Promising - robust support for distributed global order promising and multi-level supply-chain Available to Promise (ATP), Capable to Promise (CTP), and Capable to Deliver (CTD). You can consolidate supply and demand information from multiple transaction systems to provide a consolidated global picture of demand and supply.
• Inventory Optimization - enables you to cost effectively balance revenue, cost, customer service levels, and inventory budgets while determining your inventory postponement strategy.
• Predictive Trade Planning and Optimization (Demantra) - provides consumer goods organizations with robust trade promotion and account planning, sales forecasting, and promotion optimization capabilities. Architected from the ground up on an analytics platform that addresses both transactional and strategic trade challenges, such as promotion effectiveness, on-shelf availability, baseline forecasting, and incremental lift calculations, and customer profitability.
• Production Scheduling - maximize shop floor throughput while optimizing resource investment. You can optimize the usage of your critical resources, calculate realistic and feasible schedules that the shop floor can execute, and easily determine the schedule that best meets your objectives.
• Rapid Planning - fast, incremental planning engine combined with easy mass editing of data to instantly assess the impacts of changes without having to wait for daily tactical planning runs to complete and your ERP to catch up. Embedded analytics, robust exception management, and a spreadsheet-style user interface provide predictive and actionable insight to identify the most profitable decision. Your decisions can be translated directly into action with seamless integration to execution.
• Real-Time Sales and Operations Planning - extend demand-driven adaptive planning across your company.
• Service Parts Planning - allows you to effectively manage the challenges of a multi-echelon service supply chain. Using a single Service Planner Workbench, you can simultaneously analyze forecast and replenishment decisions, and release execution plans. Oracle Service Parts Planning also provides the statistics and optimization that service planners need to improve forecast accuracy and calculate optimal replenishment and redistribution for all service parts.
• Strategic Network Optimisation - considers all of the complex costs and constraints that drive your network design and enables you to decide on the most optimal network configuration to run your business. You can model all nodes of your supply chain network and include all costs such as transportation, operating, sourcing, storage, and labor. In addition, you can rationalize your capital assets, optimize your product and customer mix, and identify the best sourcing strategy.

Advanced Supply Chain Planning

Demantra - Demand Management

Demand Signal Repository

Real Time Sales and Operations Planning

Strategic Network Optimisation

The JD Edwards family of Supply Chain Execution applications ensure you get the right product to the right place at the right time at the right price in the right condition. And in today's move toward demand-driven manufacturing, logistics solutions can play a key role in identifying the postponement point and positioning inventory in the supply chain both before and after that point to maximize profits.

The family of applications includes;

• Advanced Stock Valuation - account for your inventory value no matter where it is located within your supply chain, in accordance with corporate and governmental standards.
• Bulk Stock Inventory - designed in partnership with representatives of multinational energy and chemical companies to handle the full range of downstream bulk product supply and demand complexities. It allows you to pinpoint the location and amount of each product available for consumption, sale, or use in manufacturing, including exchanged, commingled, and consigned bulk stock
• Inventory Management - allows pinpoint, real-time item information at any inventory location throughout your global supply chain—whether in-house or at customer and supplier sites and no matter who owns it.
• JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Integration - Oracle Transportation Management
• Product Variants - for companies that offer multi-attribute products, such as consumer products, industrial manufacturing, paper products, and building materials firms. You can easily set up and maintain multi-attribute items in the inventory tracking software as well as streamline product management throughout the ordering and supply chain fulfillment process.
• RFID Processor - use wireless reading technology to meet your current customer RFID (radio frequency identification) mandates. In addition, you will see immediate improvements in fulfillment rates via better inventory accuracy; less inventory obsolescence; reductions in labor, handling. and manual errors; and shorter lead times.
• Transportation Management - determines the lowest-cost mode of transportation and finding, arranging, and tracking the lowest-cost carrier whose performance will ensure your customer will want to do more business with you.
• Warehouse Management - maximize space utilization while minimizing costly labor resources; this includes directed movements such as receiving, putaway (proximity), picking (batches and waves), replenishing, packing, and shipping.

Oracle Transportation Management

RFID Processor

EnterpriseOne Transportation Management

Warehouse Management

Supply Management (Procurement)

Reinforce procurement best practices, implement lean procurement processes, aggregate spend for improved purchasing power, and develop strategic relationships with your supply base. Oracle's Supply Chain Management (For Procurement) family of applications allows you to respond more efficiently to customer demand, reduce material costs by directing your spend to key suppliers and improve inventory turns while maintaining or increasing customer satisfaction.

• Advanced Pricing - manage any number of prices and special offers, based on any hierarchical combination of product, product group, customer, or customer group, allowing you to maximize revenue and profits through individualized pricing.
• Agreement Management - set up, change, and easily manage business partner agreements. With complete information on agreements, quick online access, and the ability to associate agreements with each transaction, you can easily monitor variance and ensure compliance.
• Buyer Workspace - provides your buyers and planners with one central location to effectively manage order, customer, supplier, and inventory from a single, intuitive source. It allows your buyers to tailor their information views, adopt lean procurement processes and manage processes, proactively by setting alert-based messages.
• Operational Sourcing - create, publish, analyze, and award requests for information (RFIs) and requests for proposal (RFPs), while ensuring the lowest price from suppliers.
• Procurement and Subcontract Management - maximize margins, optimize inventory levels, minimize supply chain disruptions, and effectively manage your subcontractors. This solution allows you to quickly and efficiently process requisitions, purchase orders, RFQs, quotations, and receipts. For companies that rely on subcontractors, the solution also helps with the selection of subcontractors, management of their work, management of changes, and subcontractor payment, as well as administrative compliance such as certificates of insurance.
• Product Variants - set up and maintain multi-attribute items in the inventory tracking software as well as streamline product management throughout the ordering and supply chain fulfillment process.
• Requisition Self Service - puts requisitioning tasks in the hands of employees, with an automated web shopping system. An intuitive interface enables employees to create, manage, and track their own orders, while ensuring that purchasing policies, preferred suppliers, and pricing agreements are followed. It streamlines the entire employee ordering process, reducing procurement costs and freeing up purchasing departments for more strategic tasks.
• Supplier Release Scheduling - enables you to maintain an ongoing dialog with key suppliers and be more proactive in defining optimum shipment schedules.

JDE Buyer Workspace

Procurement & Subcontracts Management

Requisition Self Service

Supplier Release Scheduling

Tools & Technology

JD Edwards customers have a long history of expanding the functionality of their software to cater for their often unique business needs, and Oracle provides a variety of infrastructure tools to help you easily install, update, manage, and get more from your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications, while maintaining the integrity of your systems.

HTML server and Web client - allow users to access applications via a Web browser and maintain a high level of interactivity in the user interface

Design tools - enable you to create, customize, and deploy JD Edwards EnterpriseOne interactive and batch applications, workflow, and reports

Integration and interoperability tools - enable you to develop integrations between JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications and third-party products and external processes, including native support for the production, consumption, and administration of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Web Services

Change management tools - enable you to apply electronic software updates and patches and to manage the changes against your custom modifications

Administration and monitoring tools - enable you to monitor the state of components within the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne architecture, such as availability and performance, and to administer processes, such as user security

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