P-053068: The Modern JDE Toolbox: Choosing the Right UDO for the Job

This session was presented at INFOCUS 2026.

If your manufacturing footprint spans multiple branch plants, you already know the standard cost roll can be one of the trickiest and most time consuming processes. When raw materials, work-in-process, and finished goods transfer between business units, costs have to be rolled in the right sequence — lowest-level branch first, then every branch that consumes those components downstream. Get the order wrong and your frozen standards are off, your variances are noise, and month-end gets painful. In this session, we’ll walk through how we automated our multi-branch cost roll end to end, including the inter-branch transfer relationships that make manual sequencing so error-prone. We’ll share the approach that lets us kick off a single UBE to update RM, WIP, and FG standard costs across all branch plants in the correct order — replacing what used to be a manual, branch-by-branch effort.

This session is eligible for the following CPE certification: NASBA

Speaker: John Howe, Dober Group