As part of Quest’s 2019 JD Edwards Orchestrator Week, Tom Spoke from Trek Bikes presented on how Trek Bikes was able to leverage the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Orchestrator to help foster the company’s culture of employee health and wellness by helping employees track their personal bike and parts/accessory orders from the distribution center to Trek Bikes’ headquarters. This Orchestrator use case helped both promote wellness and improve efficiency within the workplace.

Reducing customization should be a major goal of all JD Edwards customers as they aim to become more effective across their entire sphere of operations. Bruce Bender, ERP System Administrator of Dutch Valley Foods, has applied several tools to do just that. At INFOCUS 19, he recently presented examples of how his team has utilized Personal Forms, Form Extensions, and CafeOne to enhance the JD Edwards experience for their distribution of bulk and branded foods in eastern Pennsylvania and reduce customization in their JD Edwards system.

At INFOCUS 2019, Sherri Harley from the Orlando Utilities Commission provided an update on new features delivered in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.1 and 9.2 that were helpful from an HCM perspective.

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Orchestrator is a gateway to digital transformation. It leverages your core JD Edwards applications and external technologies to automate tasks and the distribution of information. Join Quest for JD Edwards Orchestrator Week - a free online learning series that will help you progress from Orchestrator basics and strategy, to deep-dive usage, and finally to real-life use cases. Walk away with a solid foundation for harnessing the power of Orchestrator.

A recent JD Edwards tutorial video showed how to set up and process advanced variable numerator single tiered allocations for a joint venture. The objectives of the video were to help users:
-Understand the advanced variable numerator allocations for joint ventures
-Set up specifications to allocate the expense to joint venture business units
-Compute and review the allocated amounts

Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Mobile Enterprise Applications enable the mobile workforce to accelerate business execution on their device of choice. Users easily get up and running with a modern user interface and role-based, fit for purpose applications. It's important to know about the many benefits of Mobile Enterprise Applications playing a part in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. 

The Payroll Manager UX One role is available for JD Edwards users. This role brings several benefits to users, including access to the associated UX One pages and components, tools for receiving alerts, analyzing data, and easy access to related programs that enable users to take action if required.

The Collection Manager UX One role is available for JD Edwards users. This role brings several benefits to users, including access to the associated UX One pages and components, tools for receiving alerts, analyzing data, and easy access to related programs that enable users to take action if required. The Collection Manager role and the associated pages and components enable Collection Managers to quickly view important information about invoice trends, overdue receipts, delinquency notices, and customer payments.

There are 52 roles delivered in UX One for rapid deployment. You can leverage this out-of-the-box content, configure the roles, or create your own material from scratch. With UX One, users can also enjoy UDOs like role-based landing pages, Watchlists, analytic components and a springboard filled with related actions. This Alert, Analyze, Act paradigm design within UX One makes users more proactive and efficient in their day-to-day work.

As Lyle Ekdahl, JD Edwards General Manager, puts it, citizen developers are the business analysts and other non-developers who leverage JD Edwards configuration, extensibility, and personalization platforms to configure solutions that enable their business processes, and the end-users who personalize it to meet their individual needs. To empower these citizen developers, there are several citizen developer frameworks within JD Edwards EnterpriseOne to help them configure, extend, and personalize their environments.

A.J. Schifano, Product Manager for Oracle JD Edwards, presented an overview of the recent enhancements to notifications made within the last year.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Notifications were designed as a way to keep JD Edwards users in tune and up to date with what is going on within their business without having to be chained to their desk and logged into JD Edwards. Users can receive notifications through email, the JD Edwards user interface, or SMS text messages when issues come up, thresholds are met, etc.