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.

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.

Business leaders are asking themselves, “Why automation and why now?” Automation brings on a relentless drive towards more productivity. IT releases the mind from routine thinking and encourages creativity. Recently, technology has become mature enough for real-world application, and computing power has increased exponentially. Our ability to apply science to more areas and the increase of access to data has led to a perfect environment for automation.

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.

As you start to consider moving your JD Edwards system to the Oracle Cloud, it’s important to understand the different services that Oracle offers. You can choose to optimize your system with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), extend it with Platform as a Service (PaaS), or complement it with Software as a Service (SaaS). To give you a better understanding of each option, check out this breakdown of what each service looks like.

Mark Hurd, the CEO at Oracle, wrote an article about two business opportunities with blockchain that are worth considering. Blockchain is the distributed ledger for sharing information securely across different organizations. This emerging technology is becoming increasingly popular, and CEOs are starting to ask how it can help boost revenue, increase productivity, streamline cost and create a better customer experience. Mark outlined two ways that blockchain can make an impact within organizations.

Quest had the chance to speak with Matthew Stronczek, the Application Administrator at Port of Portland, about the new features they are implementing with JD Edwards 9.2.