Customer Insights and Case Studies

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Security roles at Phibro Animal Health Corporation were over 10 years old and had not been strategically managed during this time. Like so many JDE implementations, security was completed quickly towards the end of the projects. As a result, there were many security elements that did not adhere to standard best practices. The situation was resulting in significant effort by the security team to manage records at a user level, business disruption, lost productivity, and compliance issues that surfaced in their audit findings.
 
This session will walk through how they were able to easily design the security roles they needed, complete a successful testing phase, and then implement that solution across 30 companies, reduce organizational risk and consequently was able to spend much less time managing security because of a much more effective security model!

Objectives:

1. Learn what indicators helped them conclude that it was time to invest in security
2. Understand what best practices they wanted to implement and why
3. Walk through the steps they took to effectively flip security in place without disrupting the business and the benefits they were able to quantify after the project

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Tools & Technology

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Tupperware has multiple JDE instances around the globe, making reporting in a consistent format using a common tool a challenge. Part of this opportunity is having the right tools, but a larger part is user adoption. This session will discuss the keys to Tupperware’s success in achieving a high rate of user adoption for a new, standard reporting tool across the organization.

Objectives:

1. Review software selection challenges including the need for multiple JDE instances and releases, to use data outside of JDE, and to create templates to be shared across our global markets
2. Discuss how to gain buy-in from each business unit to leverage a new tool including the benefits of a common tool and output, global shared knowledge globally and lower cost of ownership
3. Understand how to promote and sustain user adoption through training options for busy users, internal and external support options for implementation and on-going support

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Applicable to All

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While provisioning users in 18 countries, LHH learned how SOD matters. Discover how security information can support your auditors and help business managers make good access decisions. LHH needed to simplify both how they were providing information to auditors and how they were making information available to managers responsible for asking for E1 access. We will walk through how they were able to easily meet those needs.

Objectives:

1. Learn what your auditors may be asking for in the areas of SOD and critical access
2. See how that information need can be quickly met
3. Review how access information can simplify user provisioning and reduce risk

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Financials Management

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At the City of Prince George we are now automating all of our server windows patching. This necessitated that we create a method of nicely shutting down and restarting all of the servers.

Objectives:

1. Learn how to use powershell and Server Manager REST calls to shutdown and restart JDE Servers
2. Running SQL Server scripts remotely
3. Tying everything together with Task Scheduler

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Tools & Technology

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Every company allocates time and effort generating dashboards and reports on their business processes. These dashboards and reports can only provide the information they need with clean and correct master data. Our story travels from traditional master data management to a process which automatically validates and creates master data in JD Edwards. While travelling we come across tools like JD Edwards Orchestrations, Web APIs, and our low code/no code solution. Using these tools we can avoid duplicates, meet input requirements, and perform internal and external validations in our master data portal. Our associates are in control of their own request while the controlling department can approve and create records in JDE with the click of a button. Join us and see how “Master Data Management” can be fun again.

Objectives:

1. How to implement effective Master Data Management on JDE E1 including workflows, entry automation, validations.
2. How to gain governance and compliancy in reporting through cleansed data and effectively managing your E1 data.
3. Risks associated with poor data management, poor data accuracy and manual entry processes.

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Applicable to All

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With all of the pressure on today’s supply chain, Dayton Lamina was losing business due to fill rates. Dayton Lamina’s division (PCS) wanted to better utilize JD Edwards by removing their bolt-on WMS and Scanning infrastructure. They needed tighter integration of data and reduced costs. Their business objective was to reduce errors in shipping, increase the productivity of their material handlers and reduce the added cost of supporting multiple systems. Their success story was built around better utilization of JD Edwards native functionality and taking advantage of an Orchestration based scanning solution.

Objectives:

1. How to reduce bolt-on solutions and reduce complexity to maximize your investment in and the power of JD Edwards

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Manufacturing & Distribution

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Carr Properties is a privately held real estate investment trust that owns, manages, acquires, and develops high-quality properties in Washington, D.C., Boston, Massachusetts, and Austin, Texas. The company currently owns a portfolio of 16 commercial office properties totaling approximately 5.2 million square feet, one multifamily property totaling 456 units, and two development projects that will add a further 1.7 million square feet of trophy-quality office space to the company’s portfolio. The IT team at Carr has successfully leveraged AI and machine learning to decreased lease abstraction time while achieving clean and perfectly structured lease data. Carr Properties has notoriously been a CRE leader in automation; leveraging data analytics and machine learning to create efficiencies. The latest end to end integrated product, Orchai sets a new industry benchmark.

Objectives:

1. This initiative leverages a 3rd party lease abstraction service, Dealsumm, which runs AI/ML processes alongside of continuous human training (collaborative intelligence) to produce a clean delivery of Carr’s lease data through API.
2. Emphasis that the single source of truth does not need to be compromised and even if JDE can not satisfy a specific process it has the tool for integration and to maintain data integrity
3. Demonstrate how companies can scale through leveraging innovative solutions as an entity without risking shadow IT solutions

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Real Estate

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Learn how First Capital Realty is leveraging orchestrations automate receipt void batch, manual invoice billing, vendor creation and updating vendor data to a 3rd party system.

Objectives:

1. Hear directly from First Capital on how they have automated processes using orchestrations

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Real Estate, Tools & Technology

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Case study demonstration / review of the Digital Work Order Project. Trisha Muir, Michelman Dir. of ERP long realized status quo work order processes had to be improved. One primary reason was the need to improve visibility to the necessary PPE, hazards and process instructions before starting to manufacture a batch and capturing the acknowledgement from the operator. Michelman was able to add validations within the process to minimize waste and failed batches resulting in cost savings. Sustainability is one of Michelman’s core values; digitizing the paper work order helps them to achieve their goal of reducing the use of paper globally. Deployment is based on work center Zebra tablets with bar-coding OCR embedded.
 
Functionality includes full Work Order Edit of: Parts List, Process Instructions & Quality Tests with improved automation of Machine/Labor hours and Quality test data. Other functional elements include Audit, Inventory Look-up, Inventory Transfer, enhanced Media Object Integration and the ability to store “Comments” and “Versioning” of Media Object revisions.
 
Demo review will show User Role setup/permissions for Chemists, Quality, Operators, and Supervisor with dashboards associated to each role. Trisha will also review Michelman business case.

Objectives:

1. Learn how you can use the EASYProcess to create custom apps that can be used to replace traditional mobile scanning solutions, create custom desktop screens with embedded workflows to control master data or create Customer/Supplier Onboarding Portals that integrate directly with JDE.
2. Learn how Michelman automated several manual processes within Quality while giving more visibility into test results and creating several workflows based on the test results.
3. Michelman will share their journey towards automation which includes starting business processes with OCR and direct updates into JDE. Enhance your company’s UI without losing any JDE functionality!

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Manufacturing & Distribution

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Sagent Pharma had to integrate the Sales portal with JDE using the Orchestrator.

Objectives:

1. After the acquisition SterRX, Sagent implemented JDE across the company. The major challenge was to integrate their existing Sales portal with JDE. We had several options for integrations but decided on Orchestrator. Thie session explains the thought process, approach and challenges faced during the implementation.
2. How the interface is being used to maximize the functionally of the Portal and JDE.
3. See a complete and efficient fully integrated system.

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Applicable to All