Oracle unveils JD Edwards EnterpriseOne extensions

Lyle Ekdahl, Oracle group vice president of the JD Edwards team, says that EnterpriseOne Fulfilment Management is aimed at providing configurable rules to enable organisations to prioritise sales orders for items where demand exceeds on hand supply. By integrating service-level rule compliance and monitoring within order fulfilment, the system provides additional flexibility to define customer and product processing, he explains. And that also means the potential to cut costs incurred as penalties, often created by poor fulfilment processes. Essentially, the new software helps manufacturers to manage complex order processes by improving the allocation of constrained finished goods inventory to highest priority orders – so also improving customer service and reducing administrative costs. It also allows the user to assign partial order quantities, based on customer service level agreements, and automatically cancel remaining open balance quantities, based on user defined fill rate rules. Oracle reckons that users will be able to enforce targeted service levels prior to orders being released to the warehouse, while also reducing late orders for priority customers, by managing how inventory is filled to orders. "Fulfilment processes are extremely important to an organisation's profitability," comments Ekdahl. "We are able to help our customers optimally allocate their products to their most important orders, reduce fulfilment costs and improve customer service."