Melody Bivona has worked with JD Edwards for 23 years and has been a part of 18 implementations.  Melody uses JDE at Penn Engineering & Manufacturing Corporation, and she believes you can make JDE work for anything you want to achieve.  One of the things her team wanted to do was to create their own shop floor data entry application using Orchestrations and a VBCS. Previously, this was achieved by a third-party application, but that application was no longer supported.

To begin, Melody’s team met with key business leaders to understand their current state and limitations. They then worked together to develop a more powerful solution with time-saving automations.

The new solution is a custom shop floor data entry application created by Orchestrations and VCBS. They were able to create a global solution for all divisions, eliminating the third-party application and several manual processes used by smaller divisions.

Melody accomplished this goal in less than three months, and it went live seamlessly. She says agile methodology was critical to their success. They broke big work down into smaller tasks, testing and signing off on each task before moving on to the next. Additionally, their initial go-live was with a small group of users who they knew would adapt well to change.

Using orchestrations the tool evolved to accomplish even more than they had originally planned, including the following:

• Control the process on the shop floor
• Integrate with the Quality Module to change a header on a work order status, send a notification to the tooling department, and send notifications to supervisors or maintenance
• Send labor records
• Validates open work orders and operation sequences
• Returns the part number for the work order
• Create a composed page with a one view report that allows team leaders and site monitors to review active machines and logins

The takeaway is that Melody’s team didn’t customize anything—they’re calling JDE business functions to write records—but they added control on the shop floor and increased validation for the operators so they can ensure data integrity is correct.

To hear more from Melody on the shop floor data entry application, check out part three (beginning at 12:35) of this INFOCUS presentation: Orchestrator Ignite Sessions.

In addition to sessions like this one, INFOCUS features in-depth education sessions from Oracle, JD Edwards partners, and JD Edwards customers.  You can check out the Top Ten Sessions from INFOCUS 2023 or view all of the sessions from the event in the Quest INFOCUS 2023 Event Hub.

Of course, the best way to stay up to date on all things JD Edwards is to be a part of INFOCUS 2024, which is October 1^st – 3^rd, 2024 in Denver, CO.  At this event, look updates and enhancements from the Oracle product team, JD Edwards partners and customers as well as hear from Oracle about what’s coming in Release 25.  This three-day event will include about 250 JD Edwards education and networking sessions.  Attendees can expect to walk away with the knowledge and meaningful connections to optimize JD Edwards for their organization.