JD Edwards Advanced Pricing Case Study: Select Harvests
Discover how Select Harvests used the JD Edwards Advanced Pricing module to streamline supply chains, reduce costs, and support business growth.
Background: Implementing JD Edwards Advanced Pricing
While Select Harvests will ultimately move all their operations to a single JD Edwards EnterpriseOne platform, as it has underpinned their global business for a few years, this project involved the implementation of an extensive list of modules across the supply chain. The big focus was on the Order to Cash Process of customer orders with the sales and JD Edwards Advanced Pricing modules used extensively in conjunction with advanced warehousing.
The sales module was able to handle even the most sophisticated scenario, such as the customer selling goods from one company but shipping them from another, using intercompany orders. It was also able to cater for a very specific requirement, not uncommon in the food industry, of enforcing minimum shelf life days at sales order entry.
The functionality is flexible enough to allow different minimums to be set up for different customer groups in line with their requirements. It was also possible to temporarily bypass the usual minimum in instances where stock was short dated and customers were willing to accept them.
Being able to enforce this requirement using standard functionality meant that customisations of advanced warehousing programs, which was initially anticipated, were not necessary. It also became easier to integrate EDI orders, which account for the bulk of the company’s retail sales, allowing them to know what could and could not be fulfilled before acknowledging the order with the customer. It implied that, in most instances, orders would be able to be fulfilled according to what has been acknowledged to the customer.
How JD Edwards Advanced Pricing Provided Growth & Flexibility
All their pricing needs, including pricing for transfer orders, are handled using the advanced pricing module. This includes any trade terms contracted individually with customers (for instance, as a discount off an invoice or as rebates). The solution is not only functional but was also designed so that, from an accounting perspective, it allows for future growth within that line of business. It also allows the customer to be able to attribute any promotional costs to the relevant brand for samples orders.
Reducing Supply Chain Costs with JD Edwards Advanced Pricing
One of the customer’s main warehouses is managed by a 3PL provider, where one of the cost components is determined by how picking is done, whether in full or partial pallets. Costs are reduced when partial pallets are avoided. The Advanced Warehousing module was able to achieve that, by prioritising picking in full pallets over partial pallets (provided the quantity ordered permitted this). Because Advanced Warehousing is fully integrated with the other distribution modules, it also ensures that the “minimum shelf life days” requirement is enforced while picking lots with the lowest expiry dates.
A Single Source Of Truth
With its entire supply chain migrated to Oracle JD Edwards, Select Harvests has successfully established a single source of truth. Business processes have been standardised, automated, and streamlined, freeing the internal IT team from the burden of supporting users across disparate, legacy software applications.
Furthermore, the robust “Effective Dates” functionality within the JD Edwards Advanced Pricing module allows management to orchestrate future price adjustments, promotional schedules, and discount updates well in advance – a proactive capability that was entirely impossible within their legacy systems.
As internal teams have grown familiar with the system’s architecture, they have unlocked data-driven insights that actively elevate customer service standards. Ultimately, the implementation provides Select Harvests with the perfect, data-rich foundation to scale their global reporting and operational analytics.
Optimise Your Revenue Strategy with JD Edwards Advanced Pricing
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About Select Harvests
Select Harvests is Australia’s largest vertically integrated nut and health food company with core capabilities across: Horticulture, Orchard Management, Processing, Sales and Marketing.
They are one of Australia’s largest almond growers and the country’s leading manufacturer, processor and marketer of nut products, health snacks and muesli to the Australian retail and industrial markets, in addition to exporting almonds globally.
