October 9, 2000

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J.D. Edwards Unveils Collaborative Supply-Chain Software

Advanced planning links supply-chain planning and production scheduling

By Steve Konicki

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D. Edwards & Co. this week will ship OneWorld Xe Advanced Planning, a collaborative supply-chain product that lets manufacturers or their suppliers determine a promise-to-deliver date in real time after an automated check of finished-goods inventory, production schedules, and logistics.

J.D. Edwards CEO and president Edward McVaney unveiled the software last week at an event in New York to officially kick off a new version of its enterprise resource planning offering, OneWorld Xe, which lets business partners exchange business processes and data over the Internet, and manage collaboration with buyers and sellers in multiple trading exchanges. ("Opening Up The E-Markets," Aug. 21, p. 22, informationweek.com/800/marketplace.htm).

Advanced Planning, which is integrated into J.D. Edwards' Order Entry software, also includes an integrated production scheduling module for discrete manufacturers, those who assemble numerous, often highly engineered parts, into a finished product. Advanced Planning can be used to give suppliers a look at production schedules so they can manage their own inventory within a manufacturer's operation and determine the manufacturer's actual demand for their products, rather than having to work from projections and estimates, says Edward Sitarski, J.D. Edwards' VP of supply-chain planning. Manufacturers should then be able to reduce their on-hand inventory of raw materials and component parts, he says.

"There's real value in linking production scheduling and supply chain this closely," says Bruce Bond, Gartner Group's VP and research director. "It enables a manufacturer to tightly control inventory based on actual production scheduling."

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