Configurable Network Computing
Running your business isn't about technology. It's about meeting business requirements. Currently, the compelling requirement is to synchronize supply chain activities for world-class service to profitable niche markets.
The J.D. Edwards integrated solution enables you to manage order fulfillment processes and workflows across departmental, geographic, and enterprise boundaries for value-added responsiveness throughout your supply network. No matter how large and widespread your enterprise becomes, you can easily personalize your responses to a diverse customer base by defining table-driven preference profiles for individual customers and items. Advanced pricing and promotion management capabilities deliver the flexibility to align prices with strategic customer, market, and product characteristics. And product customization features - from simple kits to rule-based configuration management - ensure accurate to-order processing for tailored customer solutions. For your trading partners who prefer or require direct business-to-business communications, you can slash replenishment lead times with a wide range of transactions, including exchange of advance ship notifications and time-phased requirements planning. What's more, you are positioned to extend electronic commerce to facilitate vendor-managed inventories with links to point-of-sale information. Smooth interoperation of process, discrete, and to-order manufacturing enables you to leverage investments in capital-intensive facilities across your business units. You can consolidate production of items that require expensive validation and certification processes, tracing and tracking, and/or packaging operations. All planning, scheduling, execution, and cost information resides in one management system for whatever combination of manufacturing strategies you use within and among your plants. In addition, since production and engineering change orders are managed from the same product database, you can readily support concurrent product design to shorten time to market. You are able to track expenditures at the level of detail necessary for cost containment, realistic product pricing, and negotiation of profitable alliances. All costs for ingredients, material, labor, equipment, overhead - even outside services - can be collected by order, job, customer, product, facility, or business unit. You have online access to actual-versus-budget comparisons with complete drill down for rapid analysis and corrective action.
As products and markets change, you can adapt your business structures and supply chain relationships with ease. By simply redefining business process parameters and workflows, your planning, execution, and financial data are summarized to the new business organization - without disrupting operations or compromising general ledger integrity and history.
Enterprise-wide Planning and Inventory Management You can build forecasts that make the most sense for the way you do business with demand scenarios by product, category, customer, or group. Approved forecasts flow directly into unique one-pass requirements planning that incorporates your worldwide enterprise facilities into a single DRP/MPS/MRP run. Requirements plans are automatically translated into advanced demand and shipping schedules for electronic transmission to your supplier partners.
You have immediate access to current item availability at every managed inventory location in the supply chain - whether in-house or at customer and supplier sites. If necessary, you can even fine-tune item tracking down to serial number within lots for multiple units of measure.
Integrated, Cost-Effective Logistics Sophisticated warehouse management provides the flexibility and scalability to optimize operations at any stage of automation. You can dramatically improve warehouse space utilization and employee productivity with rule-based movement instructions you define by item type and activity volume. Integration with bar code and wireless radio frequency data collection devices ensures accurate, efficient tracking of goods through your manufacturing and distribution facilities.
You further reduce costs by managing all transportation modes for both your inbound and outbound shipments. Online rating and routing enable selection of the most economical carrier based on service level and cost parameters you define. You can consolidate loads by destination and delivery date, build loads to serve trading partners in route order, and track shipments in transit with EDI-enabled carriers.
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OneWorld provides a unified toolset to handle all application and technical issues. So, instead of having to keep up with multiple programming languages, your business analysts and developers build and tailor applications with event-driven, business objects in a single, integrated environment. Additions and modifications are immediately available system-wide and are brought forward with future upgrades. The bottom line is that you can change your business strategies and processes without changing your information technology, and easily incorporate new technologies without having to change your business practices or systems.
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