JD Edwards offers a comprehensive suite of enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions designed to meet the diverse needs of businesses across industries. Its modular architecture and applications within its World and EnterpriseOne environments allow organizations to choose the functionalities that best suit their unique requirements and business processes over time.
From improving financial visibility to optimizing supply chain operations and enhancing workforce management, each module is pivotal in driving operational efficiency and supporting business growth.
This article highlights the critical capabilities of the top JD Edwards modules, including Financial Management, Manufacturing, Warehouse Management and Human Capital Management, and a few other key tools that support the broader JD Edwards landscape.
Understanding the JD Edwards Landscape
JD Edwards provides a comprehensive suite of enterprise-grade applications that support various functional business areas and seamless integrations to achieve streamlined workflows, improve data management, and maximize overall business value.
JD Edwards World
The World platform is the initial ERP software system within the JD Edwards landscape. Originally designed for IBM’s AS/400 architecture, JD Edwards World provides the stability, scalability, and robust functionality to optimize critical business processes, including manufacturing, distribution, and financial management.
JDE World offers key modules for finance, procurement, supply chain management, and human resources, empowering organizations across industry sectors to streamline operations, facilitate data-driven decisions, and drive greater value for business users.
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is a fully integrated ERP software suite that offers a wide range of applications, including financial management, human capital management, supply chain management, manufacturing, and project management, to manage and optimize critical business processes.
Unlike JD Edwards World, which was originally developed for IBM AS/400, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is a web-based, platform-independent solution that runs on multiple operating systems and databases, offering greater flexibility for organizations in various phases of their enterprise technology journey.
Its unique approach to comprehensive organizational management allows organizations to select the applications they need, enabling the scalability and adaptability to align with evolving business requirements. Designed for both medium and large enterprises, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne improves operational efficiency, reduces operational costs, and enhances decision-making across business units.
List of JD Edwards Modules
Here’s a closer look at the main JD Edwards modules and their key capabilities:
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Financial Management
JDE Financial Management offers advanced tools to collect, track, manage, and share financial data, optimize critical financial operations, and improve the accuracy and efficiency of financial reporting across the entire organization. Here are a few key products included in the Financial Management suite:
- Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable
- General Ledger
- Lease Accounting
- Advanced Cost Accounting
- Expense Management
- Joint Venture Management
- Asset Tracking
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Capital Asset Management
Part of the broader Asset Lifecycle Management solution, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne offers an intelligent Capital Asset Management product to help improve visibility into critical assets, improve decision-making, optimize asset performance, and maximize return on investment for capital assets.
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Job Cost
JDE EnterpriseOne Job Cost provides intuitive tools that help organizations manage projects and their associated costs and revenues. With the Job Cost module, users can complete tasks like creating and maintaining job code structures, establishing budgets, generating cost and revenue reports, calculating job progress, and more, to ensure projects and jobs are completed on time and within budget.
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Contract and Service Billing
The JDE Contract and Service Billing platform makes it easier to bill customers for goods and services rendered, offering built-in support for both interdivisional and customer billing operations. With intelligent billing support tools, customers can create invoices based on their specific contractual agreements, support concurrent billing processes, and ensure timely customer payments.
JD Edwards World Manufacturing and Distribution
JDE World Manufacturing and Distribution empowers users to coordinate inventory management processes, streamline the production of raw materials and labor resources, and deliver finished products according to managed production schedules.
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Warehouse Management
JDE Warehouse Management integrates with both the Inventory Management and Shop Floor Management platforms to streamline critical manufacturing and distribution processes, ensure accurate financial records for warehouse transactions, and maintain a continuous flow of goods across the supply chain.
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Transportation Management
The JDE Transportation Management system is responsible for moving materials and finished goods throughout each step of the supply chain, including key steps from supplier to manufacturer, distribution center, and customer. This improves overall quality management and reduces costs for product manufacturing and distribution organizations.
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Configurator
The JDE EnterpriseOne Configurator automates the selection, configuration, and management of highly complex products and the relationships between the features and options of their subassemblies.
The Configurator provides built-in integrations with JDE Inventory Management, Manufacturing Management, Product Data Management, Sales Order Management, Procurement, and more, to ensure effective operations across the entire JDE ecosystem.
JD Edwards World Plant and Equipment Maintenance
JDE World Plant and Equipment Maintenance leverages preventive maintenance, asset acquisition, and service tracking features to maintain employee safety across the shop floor and improve overall asset productivity and performance. With this product, users can gain comprehensive insights into equipment usage history, maintenance costs, repair history, billing rates, and more.
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Human Resources Management
The JDE EnterpriseOne Human Resources Management platform offers a comprehensive platform for managing the end-to-end employee lifecycle, including key features for time and labor management, payroll, and self-service human resource management. This helps organizations streamline daily activities, improve the consistency of HR operations, and facilitate a better employee experience.
Additional JD Edwards Software Support Tools
Here’s a closer look at a few additional software additions and capabilities to support JDE functionality:
Orchestrations
The JD Edwards Orchestrator is part of your foundation license, meaning you don’t have to pay a separate license fee to access its capabilities. By leveraging a web-based client, Orchestrator empowers users to generate and input JSON messages into their existing JDE system, test the functionality of related orchestrations, and avoid costly business disruptions.
Orchestrations can be configured to support the following critical use categories:
- Application integration
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Mobile applications
- Business Process Automation (BPA)
- Automated system testing
With Orchestrator functionality, organizations can support various integrations, including connections between JD Edwards and third-party applications and cloud services, reducing tedious manual tasks and workloads and simplifying activity management for system administrators.
Tools Releases
Effectively navigating new tools releases and upgrades is critical in not only ensuring your JD Edwards systems are up-to-date, but also improving application response times and overall efficiency.
Upgrading from the 32-bit to the 64-bit JD Edwards EnterpriseOne system offers greater memory for comprehensive data storage, improved security features, and better compatibility with third-party components, like Java and other database drivers.
The 64-bit system can also handle larger files and datasets, making it more apt to improve batch processing runtimes and align critical business processes with industry standards. With more convenient access to future technology improvements and innovative features, the 64-bit system avoids software and hardware obsolescence and enhances functionality for all JD Edwards customers.
Cloud Transformations
Oracle’s Premier Support for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne on-premise applications is set to transition to Sustaining Support in April 2025 and come to an end in 2035.
While Oracle has continued to support on-premise JDE modules and invest in new features, updates, and system administration tools, customers still running on-premise JDE software should start to consider other ERP solution options to ensure they’re prepared once the final support end date does arrive.
Whether it’s a switch to cloud-based JDE EnterpriseOne modules or other ERP modules like Oracle, SAP, Workday, or Infor CloudSuite, proactively planning for the support end date helps users create a cohesive plan of action and ensure their systems and employees are prepared for the switch.
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From assessing your current JD Edwards setup and identifying critical areas of improvement to helping your internal teams choose the right applications for your unique needs, facilitating better resource management across business units, and driving efficient integrations between solutions, Surety Systems is here to help.
Our senior-level JD Edwards consultants have the skills and experience to understand your JD Edwards landscape and ensure your internal teams are prepared for continuous improvement and innovation over time.
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