JD Edwards customers are renowned for maintaining highly competitive enterprises and operating efficiently in markets of every size in every geographic location. Operating efficiently entails keeping operational costs low while still driving innovation. It can be difficult, but it can be done.

The Anschutz Corporation, a privately held holding company headquartered in Denver, Colorado, underwent a major Address Book project within their JD Edwards system. The company was facing 17 years of incomplete and inaccurate data that led to inactive and duplicate records that were overflowing the system. To combat the problem, the Anschutz Corporation decided to clean up and standardize the data, inactive old or duplicate records, and automate their validation process.

Senior Business Analyst at Innocor Inc., Michael C. Johnson, shared how Innocor implemented JD Edwards Requisition Self-Service and utilizes it within the organization. Innocor is a leader in consumer specialty foam products and polyurethane foam for their commercial customers. Their customers include major bedding retailers, furniture, auto, and other manufacturers. They have 22 plants in the United States and an annual revenue of roughly $1 billion.

One way for you to establish User Defined Object View Security of individual UDOs or groups of shared UDOs is by using the UDO Management Application (P98220U). It’s important to ensure that the permission to set up user View Security via the UDO Management Applications is only granted to power users or administrators specifically tasked with setting up UDO View Security.

As part of Quest Experience Week—JD Edwards Day, AJ Schifano, Product Manager for Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, spoke about the basics of the JD Edwards Orchestrator and how users can begin leveraging it in their organizations.

Do you have industry or regional data requirements to store additional information on your JD Edwards forms? Do you want to minimize your dependence on your limited IT resources to meet those requirements? Have you ever wished you could add additional columns to forms on the Glass? With Form Extension, you can! Form Extension is where personalization meets extensibility to create a better user experience.

As part of Quest Experience Week—JD Edwards Day, Lisa Tran from Stoner, Inc. presented on the built-programming that JD Edwards has to do automated voucher matching. The presentation covered how the voucher automation works, what the limitations are, and how Stoner, Inc. leverages a third-party tool to enhance the process in their own organization.

Oracle released a tutorial video on the Oracle JD Edwards YouTube page that walks users through how to orchestrate a quick start deployment plan using the JD Edwards One-Click Provisioning Console.