Oracle Press Release
April 7th 2016

Announcing JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Enhancements for Mobile Applications, JD Edwards in the Oracle Public Cloud, Outbound Inventory Management, and Legislative Updates

Extending its commitment to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications, Oracle is announcing JD Edwards EnterpriseOne availability of enhancements for Mobile, Oracle Public Cloud, Outbound Inventory Management, Upgrades, Certifications,and Legislative/Regulatory updates. These enhancements enable companies to innovate in the digital economy with enhanced platform choices and deployment 

Mobile Updates

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Mobile Enterprise Applications enable your mobile workforce to accelerate business execution on mobile devices. JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Mobile Enterprise Applications have been upgraded to Oracle's Mobile Application Framework 2.2.1 to provide access to new features in the tool  for building custom applications or extending out-of-the-box applications. Included with the updated mobile apps is the certification for iOS 9.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Applications Now Available on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace

Oracle recently announced the availability of two JD Edwards EnterpriseOne offerings on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace. The first offering, called JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Trial Edition Edition, is a single all-in-one image that can be provisioned in an hour without additional hardware capital cost. Trial Edition enables customers to explore new functionality in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Application Release 9.2, such as new industry modules, One View Financial Statements, Internet of Things Orchestrator, as well as mobile applications and user experience enhancements.

The second offering provides automated provisioning of a multi-tier environment for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Application Release 9.1. This offering includes a migration toolkit, which allows customers to easily move their business configuration, data, customizations,and patch level from their on-premise instance to Oracle Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

This offering also includes an instance of Server Manager and a deployment server for full manageability of the configuration. Furthermore, customers can optionally leverage the Oracle Database Cloud Service for the JD Edwards database layer.

Both offerings deploy into virtual compute environments that are provisioned on Oracle’s Compute Cloud Service. Oracle’s Compute Cloud Service offers self-service provisioning of network, compute, and storage resources, tested with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications. Subscription-based pricing for the Compute Cloud Service, predictable performance from an optimized hardware infrastructure, and highly secure data center operations provide JD Edwards customers with a trusted Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution. This IaaS solution eliminates capital expenditures for hardware, releases internal resources to focus on initiatives that provide competitive advantage, and enhances the operational agility which creates business transformation.

The combination of IaaS and Database Cloud Service enables customers to quickly provision new instances of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, resulting in reduced administration cost and increased agility.

Companies that rely on JD Edwards solutions for innovating in the digital economy benefit from an enhanced platform choice and operational control, including running JD Edwards with other Oracle solutions in a hybrid cloud model.

Oracle continues to lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) for customers with simple provisioning of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne in the Oracle Cloud. Customers continue to have full control of their JD Edwards EnterpriseOne deployment options to meet their unique business requirements, to adopt new product capabilities, and to do so on their terms and their timelines.

Outbound Inventory Management

Outbound Inventory Management improves the order-to-cash process for suppliers within the Consumer Goods, and Manufacturing and Distribution industries providing vendor managed inventory (VMI) or consignment inventory services for their customers. It supports the complete VMI/consignment lifecycle from defining agreements through ordering, shipments, invoicing, and replenishments, providing stronger customer collaboration, reduced customer stock-outs, and improved forecast accuracy resulting in increased customer loyalty—a combination that equals improved supplier profitability.

Outbound Inventory Management has been enhanced to include the following new capabilities:

• Enhanced return processing including the ability to create a Return Material Authorization (RMA), request a return, and approve a return request.
•  Expanded business interfaces including EDI support for reporting consumption and business services to facilitate collaboration between customers and suppliers.
• A new Consumption Audit process that allows cycle count information captured at the customer’s location to be reconciled with the on-hand balance information maintained by the supplier.
• Agreements for groups of items that are easier to set up and maintain.
• A new replenishment method based on a frequency schedule allowing the supplier to consolidate replenishment orders.
•  Additional One View reports enhancing the ability to make informed business decisions.

Health & Safety Incident Management

A new My Task Management application provides a comprehensive view of assigned tasks that helps the responsible task owner to keep abreast of required actions. Assignees can filter tasks by due date, type, priority, and status to ensure that they are completing tasks as needed. From My Task Management, task owners can also directly access the
incident to update their progress.

Upgrades

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne World Migration Path Support (A7.3 and A9.2.1) Migration support provides World customers with a matrix of previous releases from which migration paths will be supported. This migration support enables customers to efficiently plan their migration to EnterpriseOne 9.2. Migration paths from World releases A9.3.1 and
A9.4 to EnterpriseOne 9.2 were previously announced.

Please read the official announcement here to get full detail on the Legislative Updates