The two new products are aimed squarely at JD Edwards’ core customer base as they are specifically designed to help industrial manufacturers maximize factory throughput, minimize inventory, and dynamically detect and adapt to changes in supply chains. The Production Scheduling module is available today, while the PDP functionality is scheduled for release in the third quarter.
JD Edwards said PDP will bring optimized, constraint-based planning to the whole operation, overcoming historic restraints whereby manufacturers planned most of their material supply with unconstrained, outdated material requirements planning (MRP) tools. This release aims to synchronize the entire in-bound materials flow with company resources, production capacity, and process requirements, using intelligent material forecasts to minimize inventory and improve profitability.
The Production Scheduling module uses Constraint Directed Search (CDS) finite scheduling technology designed to help industrial manufacturers quickly produce high-quality production schedules that maintain a high-degree of integrity over time.
The modules add to the Supply Chain Business Modeler (SCBM) that was announced last month, a supply chain-specific data warehouse designed to act as a consolidated information hub to manage supply chain information from multiple applications, that forms a core piece of the JD Edwards supply chain initiative. They also join forces with the Business Modeling Tool for manufacturers and distributors that was announced last month, and the Demand Forecasting application announced in February.
The Denver, Colorado-based company is drip-feeding the market with supply chain announcements in advance of its June user conference where it will outline its supply chain strategy and announce a major release of JD Edwards 5 supply chain functionality.
Source: Computerwire
