Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne  is a complex of the modular, integrated business applications. It is focused on the companies from different sectors of economy, is not difficult in implementation and allows to automate key business processes of modern medium-sized enterprise.

For trade enterprises specialized solutions on the basis of Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne allow to automate a goods motion cycle, including processes of drawing up stocks, purchases of necessary goods quantity, transportation, inventory accounting and, of course, implementation to the end consumer. Use of a system allows not only to optimize warehouse transactions, but also to improve satisfaction of customer needs.

As for the industrial companies, the JD Edwards system represents means on increase in efficiency of any kind of production: continuous, project, serial, discrete and mixed. Application of a system allows to reduce required inventory quantities of raw materials, to accelerate promotion of products on the market, to improve interaction between separate production divisions and to increase the general profitability of the enterprise.

Functionality

The Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne software product provides the tools allowing the companies to manage and develop the enterprise in the following spheres of activity:

• Logistics: WMS, MRO, SCM (supply chain management: purchases, warehouses, sales; management of trade inventories; pricing; management of transportation and transport; management of agreements and contracts;)
• Production (management continuous, discrete and mixed by production types; quality control; configurator; the organization of productive activity on the principles of lean production)
• Business intelligence (demand forecasting; forecasting of sales; production planning; requirements planning and capacities; supply chain planning)
• Financial accounting and budgeting (introduction of financial accounting on the enterprises, accounting and international standards; fixed asset accounting; conducting budgeting and traffic control of money; expenditure management; financial statements)
• PLM. Asset management and lifecycle (management of fixed assets; service and service; project management; real estate administration)
• CRM. Management of vzaimotnosheniye with partners (management of a vzaimotnosheniye with clients; self-service of buyers; self-service of suppliers; management of service and warranty service)

2017

Localization of version 9.2 for Ukraine

On August 9 the RBC Group company announced Kazakhstan project completion on development of localization of the ERP system of Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.2 for Ukraine. The packet of localization provides a set of objects for conducting accounting and tax accounting in a system according to requirements of the Ukrainian legislation.

Existence of the developed Ukrainian localization of Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne allows consultants of RBC Group to execute implementation of financial system modules in more short time more qualitatively to approach implementation of problems of accounting and tax accounting, consolidation of data and integration into international standards of accounting. The packet of localization of Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne for Ukraine includes more than 35 primary document forms, reports and applications.

Within the localization project the full integration of the solution with standard system modules of Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is executed that is confirmed with multilevel test procedures of a system.

During an implementation project of RBC Group renders consultations on ensuring compliance of settings of the software package Oracle JD Edwards Enterprise One to the legislation of Ukraine and adaptation of settings and reports of a system to the existing business processes of the customer.

Localization of version 9.2 for the Republic of Kazakhstan

On July 11, 2017 RBC Group announced Kazakhstan localization of Oracle JD Edwards Enterprise One 9.2 for the Republic of Kazakhstan. The packet of localization of Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.2 provides a set of objects for conducting accounting and tax accounting according to requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Localization of Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne helps consultants of RBC Group to execute implementation of financial system modules of Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne quicker and more qualitatively. As a part of a packet of localization of Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne thirty gest primary document forms, reports and applications.

Within the localization project integration with system modules of Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is executed.

2015: Oracle JD Edwards 9.2

On December 9, 2015 the Oracle corporation announced release of the version of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.2.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.2 supports business realities, including mobility, real-time operation, industry requirements, etc.

The built-in support of IoT technology – Internet of Things works. As a part of Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne there was a module by means of which it is possible to collect, to filter, analyze and work according to the data arriving in the online mode from different devices.

These opportunities are demanded in the capital-intensive, manufacturing and agricultural industries, in their structure:

• the preconfigured or own models of processes of hardware maintenance depending on its technical condition (according to notifications);
• automatic update of data on indications of counters/sensors of the equipment;
• automatic update of data on location of the equipment on the basis of data of a geolocation (GPS);
• hands-off processing of acceptance/release Kanban cards.

Work of functionality of Internet of Things (IoT) is JD Edwards EnterpriseOne IoT Orchestrations:

Demonstrating JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Internet of Things Orchestrator (2015)

Mobile applications for employees

More than 80 mobile applications are available to clients in App Store to Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and in Google Play, their number constantly grows. At the same time the technology platform and development tools of Oracle give the chance to change the existing preconfigured mobile applications and to create own.

For example, the Manage Customer Equipment application (Control of the client's equipment) allows service engineers to find the equipment nearby and to display results on the card. And mobile application of Manage My Work Orders (Management of the works orders) is available also in a standalone mode - if the Internet is disconnected.

In the version of JD Edwards Tools Release 9.2 management of personalisation (User Defined Objects) is simplified and now it is not required to attract IT specialists. To the staff of financial divisions will facilitate life new functionality of One View Financial Statements (Financial statements) which allows to create independently financial statements, such as Balance and Profit and loss statement. The simple and user-friendly interface for creation of qualitative reports with data visualization in different formats helps to perform work quickly.

Industry solutions for creation of competitive advantages

Distinctive feature of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is the broad spectrum of industry solutions among which there is real estate administration, construction, crop production, etc. In the new version there were modules for the enterprises which are engaged in project activity, production, distribution and TNP.

The module Advanced Job Forecasting (Expanded forecasting of works) allows to control expenses on projects with use of detailed forecasts of cash flow throughout project lifecycle. Project managers can collect and check the expected detailed project costs, and to a takzhetakzha to compare several forecasts ("that-if" the analysis), saving an auditor trace according to versions. Besides, there were new methods of forecast calculation and an opportunity to create the user calculation procedures.

The module Outbound Inventory Management (External control by stocks) is intended for optimization and simplification of process of management of a warehouse from the supplier in the industries connected with production and distribution and includes:

• support of complete lifecycle of external control by stocks (from the agreement to the order, delivery, billing and replenishment action)
• increase in forecast accuracy of stocks
• the optimized process "from the order before payment"
• integration into the module Sales Order Management (Order management of sales).

The module JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Rental Management (Management of lease of assets) gives the chance quickly and visually to see availability to leasing of stocks or the equipment and also to support the high level of customer service, to manage effectively income and expenses under each agreement of lease/leasing.

The module Work Center Load Review Calendar (The calendar of loading of work center) allows to browse calendars of planned works on work centers in real time at production resource planning and offers:

• flexible (day, week, month) viewing the calendar of planned loading of work center and free power in graphical representation
• convenient viewing from mobile application with a possibility of adjustment of the calendar of works orders and other works orders on service and routine maintenance.

In addition the version of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Release 9.2 supports the standards of accounting of revenue recognition ordered to Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board (IASB).

2014

Updating of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

On October 14, 2014 the Oracle corporation announced release of the updated line of business applications of Oracle JD Edwards.

As a part of the updated JD Edwards portfolio:

• 57 new mobile applications of a corporate class, - applications for maintenance and repair, supply chains, exit service, project management and incident management, connected with labor safety and health protection, etc. These applications for smartphones and tablets allow clients to accelerate business processes and help to find new opportunities for increase in operational efficiency.

Advantages of updating

• Usability and personalisation — mobile business applications of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne for tablets Apple iPad are improved for updating of an otbrazheniye and ensuring access to the built-in functions and services for watching video, input of the digital signature and management of notes. Along with it, tablets support the module JD Edwards EnterpriseOne One View Reporting, in particular, function of detailing of information on transactions (transaction drill-back) and the "active task list" function (proactive watchlists) now.

• The updating of the popular EnterpriseOne Cafe One function allowing end users to create own working spaces which include content from the different external URL addresses and several JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications with ease. Besides, processes of receiving and order processing on delivery (PO receipt), reconciliations of payment documents (voucher matching) and data on inventory stocks with the general ledger (inventory to general ledger reconciliation) are optimized.

• Industry ERP modules. JD Edwards continues to expand and improve possibilities of industry solutions. Among recent examples – the new and improved JD Edwards EnterpriseOne One View Reporting functions for clients who manage warehouses, real estate or a good product line. Some other industry opportunities, such as purpose of additional attributes to a real estate, distribution of batches (load) and determination of the country of origin (where the goods were made or underwent considerable processing) – is improved that is important, in particular, for management of the transactions in nefteazovy business connected with processing, transportation and implementation of oil and gas products and also products of chemical industry.

• Localization. According to requirements of the local legislation localization (adaptation to features of local market, including national language) the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and JD Edwards World applications for the markets in Europe, Asia and South America is executed.

• Improvements for decrease in total cost of ownership. The improvements in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools covering the user interface and functions of the reporting help clients to increase efficiency. The release of templates of Oracle VM Templates virtual machines for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne allows to reduce costs and installation time considerably. New business interfaces for support of integration of Oracle Sales Cloud and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne allow clients to increase sales and to increase their efficiency.

New mobile corporate applications

On November 12, 2014 the Oracle corporation announced updating of a line ^[1].

The purpose - to support customers in increase in profit and business process optimization. In innovation solutions for management of lease of products and assets, in the field of the industry, medicine, an oil and gas sector, a mining and construction equipment, eight new mobile JD Edwards EnterpriseOne corporate applications are available to clients.

According to the statement of corporation, as a part of the solution a full range of analytical opportunities for the accelerated report generation, the analysis of trends of use of resources and understanding of profitability of the equipment, for increase in efficiency of transactions, growth of satisfaction and a customer loyalty.

• JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Rental Management maintains all aspects of services in questions of lease, including contracts and agreements, operation and accounting of the equipment, reservation for future rent contracts and expense allocation on lease.

• The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne One View Reporting for Rental Management application helps the organizations to estimate precisely a business condition, analyzing data on lease from the different points of view for knowledge acquisition about key clients, lease agreements and profit.

New mobile applications of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne for smartphones and tablets promote acceleration of accomplishment of business challenges and give the chance to find new opportunities for optimization of transactions. Eight new applications help users to check to account transaction, delivery notes and other payment documents in a packet of payments and to approve wiring of a packet of payments from mobile devices. Mobile users can check the connected transactions in a packet before the adoption of wiring.

New mobile applications of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne are available in app stores of Apple App Store and Google Play.

In JD Edwards EnterpriseOne support of transition of the clients using the Java API for XPI Web Services interface (JAX-RPC) to the new version of Java technology — JAX-WS is implemented.

2013: In the ERP system of JD Edwards Enterprise One vulnerability later is closed 3 years from the moment of detection

The Digital Security company rendered assistance of Oracle corporation in elimination of dangerous vulnerability in the ERP system of JD Edwards Enterprise One — regarding use of the thick client at workstations. Vulnerability was closed in January updating from Oracle (CVE-2012-1678).

Details of vulnerability were partially disclosed in 2010 at the BlackHat conference in Washington where Polyakov Alexander, the technical director of Digital Security, considered architectural problems of different business applications. At the same time vulnerability was detected within one of projects on audit of security of the ERP system of JD Edwards still the previous year.

The problem is that the file of the JDE.INI configurations in which, among other things, authentication data of users for connection to DBMS are stored often is present at workstations of users that allows any legitimate user to get if desired full access to the ERP system, explained in the company.

"For the unclear reasons of Oracle underestimated the CVSS rating of danger of this vulnerability. While for standard vulnerabilities this rating shows adequate results, for some atypical vulnerabilities it is not absolutely exact. Considering that the developer can swindle, for example, having specified partial influence on KTsD instead of complete, score 3.5 is assigned to critical vulnerability in a result (low criticality) — Alexander Polyakov was indignant. — In fact it is difficult to call the vulnerability allowing any user of the ERP system to get access to all data and to appropriate any rights low".

According to Digital Security, authentication process in the JD Edwards system is implemented as follows: the user enters the name (for example, appuser) and the password (for example, appassword) in the client application then the application tries to be connected directly to JD Edwards DBMS, using a user name of JDE (by default) and the password for this user who is read from a configuration file of the client JDE.INI workstation (the password is stored in the Security field and by default JDE matters). Having got direct access to DBMS, the client application checks appuser user password in the table F98OWSEC and if the password approaches, then draws a user interface on the basis of its roles from the table appusers.

According to specialists of Digital Security, such authentication does not maintain any criticism as is implemented, in fact, on the client. "If the malefactor got access to user workstation, itself is the insider or can intercept traffic between the client and the server (for example, in old versions of MS SQL the password is elementary decrypted by means of the Cain & Abel utility), then it will obtain authentication data of the user of JDE who has the administrative rights in DBMS. Its further actions are limited only to imagination" — emphasized in the company.

2012

Mobile business applications

The Oracle corporation announced at the beginning of 2012 mobile business applications for Oracle JD Edwards Enterprise One, again showing the aspiration to support exit employees. New solutions include Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Mobile Requisition Self Service Approval, Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Mobile Purchase Order Approval and Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Mobile Sales Inquiry.

New mobile applications provide the personalized services which expand possibilities of users of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and help to increase efficiency using the solutions for management available in any place at any time.

Thanks to new mobile applications users of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne will be able to obtain in real time information on orders, existence of goods items and the basic prices. Now at them an opportunity will quickly browse and approve purchasing requests and other documents on mobile devices.

Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne represents the complex of the integrated applications for resource management of the enterprise (ERP) combining cost efficiency, technologies based on standards and deep industry experience within uniform business solution with low total cost of ownership.

Mobile applications for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne include:

• MobileRequisitionSelfServiceApproval – allows to browse, approve and reject purchasing requests in real time.
• Mobile Purchase Order Approval – gives the chance regardless of location to browse and approve purchase orders.
• Mobile Sales Inquiry – helps with work to sales representatives, technical specialists of customer services and managers, providing access on demand to sales orders, information on existence and the basic prices of goods items.

Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.1

The Oracle corporation announced in May, 2012 release of the new version of the Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne enterprise management system designed to help the organizations with all industries and regions to conform to the changing requirements of business. An ERP system of version 9.1 allows clients to optimize business processes, offering the personalized user interfaces, new industry opportunities, functions increasing performance and also expanded support of conducting the international transactions and observance of legislative arrangements, says Oracle.

In the whole Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne represents the complex of the integrated business applications for resource management of the enterprise combining cost efficiency, technologies based on standards and industry experience within uniform business solution with low total cost of ownership.

Version 9.1 optimizes performance and increases cost efficiency of business due to expansion of the user opportunities the new features which are recently provided in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools release 9.1 tool kit. Among them: updates, the raising efficiency of users, updating more deeply considering industry specifics and also expanded support of conducting the international transactions and observance of legislative arrangements.

Updates of Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.1 of the user interface include: automatic refining of search key phrases; the advanced functionality allowing to browse on the selected available data the connected information without transition from the current page; the personalisation of applications allowing employees, clients and suppliers to interact with applications on the basis of own preferences; the mobile applications for smartphones expanding possibilities of users and increasing their performance thanks to access to working information at any time and in any place.

The updates increasing efficiency of end users include a number of opportunities. So, the module of the interactive reporting JD Edwards EnterpriseOne One View Reporting working with all modules ERP systems JD Edwards allows end users to receive necessary business information thanks to 178 preset reports answering most frequently asked questions of enterprise-wide business. Verifiabilities and approvals of the documents confirming payments increase performance and efficiency thanks to the automatic, based on statutory rules comparison of supplier invoices to purchase orders. Possibilities of self-service when processing requests increase flexibility, allowing heads or end users to delegate functions of registration and order taking to other employees.

Besides, a number of new features provides compliance to industry and international requirements. Enhanced capabilities of management of production projects provide transparency of project implementation and tracking of consumer demand for products in a production process by control of all purchase orders that helps to provide successful project implementation for all lifecycle.

Enhanced capabilities of maintaining electronic protocols of production of a product (device history record) and lot of products (batch record) help the biomedical and pharmaceutical companies to support production processes according to requirements of FDA (Food and Drug Administration is Management on control of quality of foodstuff and medicines), reporting reference records on the revealed incidents and results of corrective actions.

At the same time, new specific industry business processes and opportunities for the enterprises in the food industry, agrobusiness, real estate fields and professional services help to provide observance of legislative arrangements and increase business performance. Support of the global identification number (Global Locator Number, GLN) helps the organizations working in the field of consumer goods and other industries to facilitate observance of legislative arrangements. The possibility of tracking of the country of goods' origin at the level of job lot and serial (serial) number allows to optimize the reporting thanks to support of requirements to import and export documentation.

The version of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.1 available as a part of a standard packet of technical support, supports updates from versions of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Xe above and also migration with Oracle JD Edwards World A7.3 above.

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