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Extending its commitment to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications, Oracle is announcing the availability of new UX One features, customer-driven ERP enhancements adding to deep industry functionality and modern solutions, and legislative and localization updates. We are also announcing Tools release 9.2 Update 2, which includes Notifications, Orchestrator enhancements to drive digital process transformation, operational simplification, and updated platform certifications.
Oracle JD Edwards today announces significant customer-driven product updates to empower companies on their journey to becoming digital enterprises. These enhancements provide companies transformative solutions to innovate in the digital economy and to run their business their way.
Extending its commitment to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications, Oracle is announcing the availability of new UX One features, customer-driven ERP enhancements adding to deep industry functionality and modern solutions, and legislative and localization updates.
We are also announcing Tools release 9.2 Update 2, which includes Notifications, Orchestrator enhancements to drive digital process transformation, operational simplification, and updated platform certifications.
JD Edwards continues to enhance the user experience through UX One with additional navigation capabilities within Analytic Components. In addition to the drill-down navigation recently added to Analytic Components, users are now provided a context menu with a selection of applications that can be launched. This gives users access to additional master data or transaction information related to the information in the chart.
UX One Analytic Components provide real-time, transactional information to JD Edwards end users. Users are able to visually analyze current business conditions and more easily identify problems that need attention. Navigation from the Analytic Components allows users to quickly take action.
A Mobile Employee Time Entry tablet application is now available for employees to easily capture, review, and submit their time whether they are in the office or at the job site. This application can be configured to meet the specific data collection requirements of each role in an organization, providing users a simple user interface limited to the time card information relevant to their role. A graphical representation presents users with a view of the time card status and hours entered for the period.
Mobile Inventory Transfer Tablet and Mobile Cycle Count Tablet applications allow organizations to increase the accuracy of their JD Edwards Inventory Management information. Providing material handlers with barcode-enabled mobile applications removes delays and errors associated with paper-based processes.
Customers and partners can now leverage Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF) 2.4 when building new mobile applications integrated with JD Edwards. This provides the latest features and fixes when using the JD Edwards Mobile Framework with MAF
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne has been enhanced to allow customers to easily add, edit, and view Content and Experience Cloud documents that are not specifically related to JD Edwards transactions. The integration already supports working with cloud documents in-context with a JD Edwards transaction or master data. This enhancement adds a cloud documents icon link in the JD Edwards ‘Chrome’ allowing access to collaborate on documents that are not directly associated with a transaction or master data in JD Edwards.
Paperclip indicators have also been enhanced so that a paperclip on a JD Edwards transaction or master data record now serves as an indicator of the existence of cloud documents in addition to traditional media objects. Users can tell at a glance whether documents exist without having to go into the cloud.
The production process can include many manual touchpoints and communication between many roles before an item is produced. New tools have been provided that can be used to simplify and streamline the execution of the production process.
This includes:
Basket Pricing for Procurement
Procurement and Advanced Pricing have been enhanced to support Basket Pricing. Basket Pricing is a strategy where discounts, adjustments, and offers apply when defined groups of items are purchased together. Basket Pricing has been available within Advanced Pricing for Sales Orders and is now available for Procurement.
Discounts that have been negotiated with suppliers will now be automatically applied to Purchase Order Entry and Purchase Order Receipts. This ensures that organizations are taking advantage of all of the discounts and offers available to them without having to manually audit every purchase order.
A solution blueprint white paper is now available that guides JD Edwards customers on how to automate their procure-to-pay business process by leveraging Oracle PaaS services, Content and Experience Cloud Service, and Process Cloud Service. From the issuance of the purchase order to the acknowledgment by the supplier all the way to the supplier invoice submission and voucher creation, this guide describes how to turn a series of detached manual steps into a document-driven digital automated process that saves time, and simplifies supplier collaboration. The blueprint guides customers on how to create a supplier portal using Content and Experience Cloud; how to automate the issuance of the PO to the supplier, status updates, and the generation of the voucher using Process Cloud Service; and how to drive the transactions into and out of JD Edwards using orchestrations.
Inventory Commitments
Grower and Blend operations that use additives, sprays, or consumables now validate the availability of that inventory. Because an inventory commitment is created at the time the operation is created, buyers now have visibility into inventory that is running low, and users are assured the inventory and lot are available at the time they are executing the operation. When the operation is closed, inventory is relieved ensuring that on-hand inventory remains accurate. If the items used are non-stocked items or for Grower Spray operations that are not internally supplied, availability checking, updating commitments, and updating on-hand inventory will be disabled.
Barrel Import
During the time of year when winemakers transfer wine from tanks to barrels, there is a large quantity of data to manage. A tank of wine could be broken down into thousands of barrels, for which the records are commonly stored in a spreadsheet or CSV file.
With the Barrel Import enhancement, users can now take the thousands of barrels stored in a file, and import or copy and paste them into a Blend Management operation. This saves users valuable time and improves the accuracy of the data imported.
Customers who use Oracle’s Value Chain Planning Global Order Promising (GOP) to provide real-time promise dates during JD Edwards Sales Order Entry can now take advantage of enhancements related to sourcing logic. These new enhancements enable JD Edwards customers to improve customer satisfaction while also improving operational efficiency.
Now, JD Edwards’s customers can use GOP logic to determine not just the promise date but also the best branch from which to ship the goods. Because companies will have some types of items or customers that should leverage existing JD Edwards logic to determine the branch, a new preference is available to define which system determines the shipping branch.
Property managers can now leverage enhanced FASB 13 processing in Real Estate Management and Advanced Real Estate Forecasting for a complete set of straight line rent calculations and improved management oversight. Customers now have the ability to specify an unlimited number of bill codes as well as the ability to specify user-defined date ranges. They can also choose to append to previous FASB 13 runs, thus providing a single picture of straight-line rent as a lease changes over time.
Additional enhancements have been made to give management insight across a property portfolio related to the FASB 13 setup as well as to the status of any leases that need to have their straight-line rent recalculated.
Standard Receipts Entry has been enhanced to support the voiding of a billing line for a prepaid receipt.
Address Book has been enhanced to help customers increase the quality of their data. Enhancements include:
Alternate Language Support is now available for Address Book Alpha Name, Mailing Name, and Mailing Address. With this enhanced support, customers can now store and use these Address Book fields in the language of their users, customers, and suppliers, simplifying the experience for all users.
Address Book has been enhanced to give customers the ability to enter the full legal name for any person, company or other entity in the Address Book which, in some cases, can exceed the standard Address Book name field length.
JD Edwards Financials has been enhanced to provide customers, who act as the managing partner in one or more joint ventures, the key set of functionality required for joint venture management. This includes the ability to define joint ventures, specify date-effective percentages of ownership, and calculate each joint venture partner’s pro rata share of cost and revenue. This foundation provides customers important management oversight that includes traceability and audit performance into all transactions and distributed amounts related to each joint venture.
Payment Terms Alternate Language Support
Alternate Language Support has been extended to include Payment Terms Description to help customers communicate effectively with employees, customers, and suppliers by presenting payment terms in their preferred language.
Capital Asset Management and Service Management
Preventive maintenance schedules are often the same for similar equipment. A simplified means of copying a Preventive Maintenance Schedule from one piece of equipment to another is now available. This new functionality makes it easier for asset and maintenance managers to update Preventive Maintenance Schedules for their equipment.
Human Capital Management has been enhanced to simplify processes including:
Health and Safety Incident Management has been enhanced to increase usability and simplify entry and management of incidents.
Enhancements include:
This release delivers the following Legislative updates:
This release delivers the following Localization updates:
Tools Release 9.2.2 provides customers with additional enhancements benefiting all of our Applications, including Notification framework, new Orchestration extensibility features, operational simplification tools to simplify the adoption of new features, a whitepaper on optimizing performance and several updated platform certifications.
Announcing an exciting new enhancement and another building block to your Digital Transformation strategy: Notifications for JD Edwards. More than just a pop-up alert, the notification system enables workers to remain in touch with the critical conditions and events that happen continuously throughout the enterprise, and to quickly take action on those events even when they are not signed on to the JD Edwards system.
Using Orchestrator Studio, business users can design notifications specific to their organization's processes, rules, and required action. Notification can be a simple text message, information from Watchlists, or the full power of orchestrations. A scheduler allows the notifications to run periodically and automatically, thereby continuously monitoring the JD Edwards system for critical conditions and events. When a critical event or exception is detected, the notification system will notify the appropriate users via their preferred delivery: within the JD Edwards web client, in the JD Edwards Work Center, or via email or text message.
Enhancements to the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne user interface include a new notification list, represented by a bell icon, where a user can review and act on incoming notifications. A new “My Subscriptions” page allows users to subscribe to notifications, provide inputs, choose their preferred delivery methods, and control the receipt of their notifications.
This enhancement continues JD Edwards’ investment in Alert, Analyze, and Act to increase business process efficiencies and user productivity.
Oracle continues to expand the capabilities and significance of the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Orchestrator as a framework to enable Digital Transformation. Specifically, this latest release includes these major enhancements to Orchestrator:
Server Manager for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne remains the key Life Cycle Management tool for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne server components/products. In its continued pursuit to provide customers with low TCO, JD Edwards has extended the Server Manager capabilities to now perform automated Health Checks for its registered JD Edwards instances listed below:
These Health Checks can be performed either from the user interface of Server Manager Console or as REST APIs. There are also new additional REST API enhancements for provisioning, monitoring, and diagnostics. Refer to the REST API for Server
Manager Guide for the complete list of REST APIs available with Server Manager. Customers can leverage these REST APIs to build mobile apps and other automation for JD Edwards Server Manager functions.
The following Tools enhancements simplify the processes for customers to adopt and stay current with new application enhancements:
A performance characterization study was completed on the Object Usage Tracking feature. The results of the performance characterization conclude that Object Usage Tracking does not have a performance impact on interactive applications or batch processes and minimal impact on CPU and memory usage. The Object Usage Tracking performance characterization white paper details the testing results and best practice. Additionally, performance characterization was done for UX One. The results concluded that there is a beneficial impact of enabling AIS caching. This UX One performance white paper summarizes the performance results and tuning best practices for UX One.
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne deployments depend on a matrix of interdependent platform components from Oracle and third-party vendors. The product support lifecycle of these components is driven by their vendors, creating a continuous need to certify the latest versions of these products to give customers a complete technology stack that is functional, well-performing, and supported by the vendors. Tools 9.2.2 includes the following platform certifications:
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne certifications are posted on the Certifications tab in My Oracle Support.
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Platform Statement of Direction is published on My Oracle Support (Document ID 749393.1). Refer to this document for a summary of recent and planned certifications as well as important information about withdrawn certifications.
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