Penn Engineering & Manufacturing Corporation created their own shop floor data entry application using Orchestrations and a VBCS since the third-party application they previously used was no longer supported. They were successful in doing so without customizations.

Oracle JD Edwards recently announced the availability of EnterpriseOne Applications Release 9.2.5 (Release 9.2 Update 5). These significant customer-driven application product improvements to empower companies on their journey to becoming digital enterprises. These enhancements also provide companies broad solutions to maintain, improve, and future-proof their businesses.

David Greiner, Principal Product Manager for Oracle JD Edwards Manufacturing, recently spoke about manufacturing activity rules functionality and demonstrated the added capability to write and review history records in the new Work Order Master, Parts List, and Routing Ledger tables. New fields have been added to the recently delivered Work Order Activity Rules for manufacturing to trigger entries into ledger tables at selected statuses when work order records are added, changed, or deleted. This new Work Order Ledger feature simplifies tracking of work order changes (header, parts list, or routing) to satisfy auditing or regulatory requirements.

Lisa Tran from Stoner, Inc. presented a how-to guide for keeping track of costs in manufacturing. When manufacturing and selling products, keeping track of and accounting for all of your costs is extremely important. In her presentation, she covered important topics like:
-The steps of how costing of manufactured items is derived
-How to account for tricky costs
-Pieces that affect basic costing
-Other less-used cost methods
-Advantages and disadvantages of different costing methods