J.D.

Edwards:
What is J.D Edwards?
J.D. Edwards World Solution Company or JD Edwards, abbreviated JDE, JD Edwards
EnterpriseOne is a suite of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software that is
developed and sold by Oracle Corporation.

Oracle has developed this ERP-solution especially designed for the demand-driven
environment. With JDE organizations can integrate different aspects of their
business in one system. Hence, this allows all different business units to improve
their cooperation but also helps to detect potential problems before they cause
damage. Either before or after the ERP-system has been implemented, it can be
adapted to fit to the way your business works and according to your organization’s
structure.
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne contains more than 80 separate application modules
designed to support a wide range of business processes. The suite includes supply
chain management (SCM) software as well as applications for financial
management, project management, enterprise asset management, order,
manufacturing and operational reporting. The software suite also features mobile
applications that support both iOS and Android and can be used on smartphones
and tablets.

History
EnterpriseOne was originally developed by J.D. Edwards, an ERP vendor that
released the first version of the suite in 1997 under the name JD Edwards
OneWorld. The name was changed to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne after J.D. Edwards
was acquired by PeopleSoft Inc. in 2003. In 2005, Oracle acquired PeopleSoft, and
with it the JD Edwards technology. The following year, Oracle announced that it
would continue to develop and support JD Edwards EnterpriseOne indefinitely.
The company name was derived from the initials of its founders’ names, “J” for Jack
Thompson, “D” for Dan Gregory, and “Edwards” for “Ed” Edward Mc Vaney.
JD Edwards was the very first ERP solution company and they got their name by
building accounting ERP software for IBM(International Business Machine)
minicomputers in the late 1970s.
Today, JD Edwards offers a holistic enterprise solution, helping organizations
manage every asset of their business, including financials, sales, inventory,
manufacturing, human resources, customer relations and much more.

Features of JDE
Following are the features of JDE:
• Financial Management
• Project Management
• Asset Life Cycle Management
• Order Management
• Manufacturing Management
• Reporting
• Mobility

Financial Management
Financial management is designed to help stream line finance department
processes and improve financial reporting accuracy.

Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and General Ledger accounting can all
benefit from this flexible and collaborative tool that links seamlessly with all other
JD Edwards Enterprise One Software solutions.
Project Management
You can actively manage projects from start to finish with Enterprise One Project
Management.

This module helps improve the way complex contracts are managed, streamline
repetitive billing processes for sales and purchasing, and integrate projects
throughout the extended enterprise, to increase financial control and gain better
project performance.

Asset Lifecycle Management

Asset Lifecycle Management can drive greater Value from your assets helping with
planning, budgeting, procurement and more.

Harnessing the power of Capital Asset Management, Condition-Based Asset

Management, Equipment Cost Analysis and Resource Assignment, businesses can
keep assets running at maximum availability, while having the ability to tie costs
and revenue generated to individual key assets.

Order Management

Order Management enables order processing to be streamlined and helps

businesses control their order tracking systems for the lifecycle of the order,
including ordering, fulfillment and tracking.

Manufacturing Management
The manufacturing module can help businesses optimize and develop efficient
processes to achieve superior customer satisfaction.

Enterprise One Manufacturing Management can assist with the complete

manufacturing process, including pricing and delivery.
Reporting
JD Edwards Enterprise One’s reporting solution, One View Reporting, provides end
users with data that can be easily converted into lists, graphs, tables and charts.

It is very flexible to accommodate users’ needs throughout your organization.

Mobility
Workforce mobility has become a requirement to remain competitive in today’s
fast-paced business environment. Mobile devices are being used in all aspects of
business not only as a source of real-time information but also as a way to improve
efficiency and performance.

Increased mobility is transforming industries Enterprise One Mobile Solutions

deliver personalized solutions that can be accessed from anywhere at any time.
 Microsoft Dynamics AX:
What is Microsoft Dynamics AX ?
Microsoft Dynamics AX (AXAPTA) is the former name of Dynamics 365 for Finance
and Operations.
This is a high-class business management software solution designed to facilitate
companies, large organizations, and holding structures in their daily activities. As
the most powerful Microsoft ERP, Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
possesses an extensive functionality for managing resources and processes
connected to manufacturing, planning, supply chain, sales, financials and more.

History
Microsoft Dynamics AX was originally developed as a collaboration
between IBM and Danish Damgaard Data as IBM Axapta. Axapta was initially
released in March 1998 in the Danish and U.S. markets. In September 2011,
Microsoft released version AX 2012. It was made available and supported in more
than 30 countries and 25 languages. Dynamics AX is used in over 20,000
organizations of all sizes, worldwide. The newest version, released in February
2016,[7] dropped the nomenclature of year and version and was simply called AX.

MDCC or Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen was once the primary

development center for Dynamics AX.[8] MDCC is now located in Kongens Lyngby.
In addition to MDCC, Microsoft carries out AX development in Bellevue,
Washington, Fargo, North Dakota, USA; Moscow, Russia; Shanghai, China;
and Pakistan.
Modules
Microsoft Dynamics AX contains 19 core modules:

Traditional core (since Axapta 2.5)

 General Ledger – ledger, sales tax, currency, and fixed assets features
 Bank Management – receives and pays cash
 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) – business relations contact and
maintenance (customers, vendors, and leads)
 Accounts Receivable – order entry, shipping, and invoicing
 Accounts Payable – purchase orders, goods received into inventory
 Inventory Management – inventory management and valuation
 Master Planning (resources) – purchase and production planning
 Production – bills of materials, manufacturing tracking
 Product Builder – product mode creation and maintenance
 Human Resources – employee information
 Project Accounting – projects creation and tracking (primarily from an
accounting perspective)
 Basic – data configuration
 Administration Module – system configuration
 Procurement and Sourcing
 Sales and Marketing
 Store, manage, and interpret data.

AX 2012 R3

 Call Center - employees take orders over the phone and are able to create sales
orders
 General Ledger - the ability to transfer opening balances in balance sheet
accounts to a new fiscal year
 Inventory and Warehouse Management - compare item prices, enhanced
posting routine and a new Inventory aging report
 Master Planning - estimate future demand and create demand forecasts based
on transaction history
 Procurement and Sourcing - create your own solicitation request for RFQs, and
more
 Production Control - a new option to automate material reservations
 Project Management and Accounting - new on-account billing rules and fee
transactions that modify invoice proposal sales prices
 Public Sector - now able to publish a request for quotation (RFQ) to the Vendor
portal and now have the ability to view details of closed RFQs
 Retail - commerce Data Exchange, updated retail server, new retail hardware
station, and more
 Sales and Marketing - register serial numbers during sales processes when
preparing the packing slip or the sales order invoice
 Transportation Management - plan transportation for inbound and outbound
shipments, configure rating structures and view driver check-in and check-out
history
 Trade Allowance Management - define merchandising events, manage trade
fund budgets, process customer payments (including deductions, and more
 Warehouse Management - configure inbound and outbound intelligent
workflows, use scanners/mobile devices to optimize precision in the picking and
put-away processes, and more

Extended core
The following modules are part of the core of AX 2009 (AX 5.0) and available on a
per-license basis in AX 4.0:

 Shop Floor Control

 Cost Accounting
 Balanced Scorecards
 Service Management
 Expense Management
 Payroll Management
 Environmental Management
External components
Several external components are also available:

 Enterprise Portal for Dynamics AX (built on Sharepoint Services)

 Microsoft SQL Reporting Services integration
 Microsoft SQL Analysis services (KPIs)
 Project Server Integration
 WorkFlow
 Application Integration Framework (Webservices + Biztalk adapter)
 A .Net Business Connector for third-party software (A COM adapter is also
available)
 Microsoft Dynamics Mobile 1.5 development tools
 Microsoft Project Client
 Microsoft Excel
 Microsoft Word
 Office 365

Architecture
The Microsoft Dynamics AX software comprises four major components:
The Database Server, a database that stores the Microsoft Dynamics AX data
The File Server, a folder containing the Microsoft Dynamics AX application files (in
AX2012 application files are stored in the database)
The Application Object Server(s) (AOS), a service that controls all aspects of
Microsoft Dynamics AX's operation
The Client(s), the actual user interface into Microsoft Dynamics AX
 Microsoft Dynamics GP:
What is Microsoft Dynamics GP?
Microsoft dynamics GP (Great Plains) is full featured financial management/ERP
software built on the affordable and highly-scalable platform of Microsoft
technologies. It is designed to meet the needs of growing companies at a price you
can afford. More than just accounting software, Dynamics GP is an ERP solution
that helps small and medium-sized businesses gain greater control over your
financials, inventory, and operations. Get up and running quickly with a solution
that is flexible, configurable, and designed to grow with you.
Microsoft Dynamics GP is a mid-market business accounting software or ERP
Software package for managing multi user accounts, financial management, and
supply chain management of mid size to large business organizations. It uses either
Microsoft SQL Server 2005, 2008, or 2012 to store data. Microsoft Dynamics GP is
written in a language called Dexterity.

History
The Dynamics GP product was originally developed by Great Plains Software, an
independent company located in Fargo, North Dakota, which was run by Doug Bur
gum.

Dynamics Release 1.0 was released in February 1993. It was one of the first
accounting packages in the USA that was designed and written to be multi-user and
to run under Windows as 32 bit software. In late 2000, Microsoft announced the
purchase of Great Plains Software for $1.1 billion. This acquisition was completed
in April 2001.
Macros
Great Plains was one of the first accounting packages with capability to record and
play back macros. Macros are saved in .MAC files in the Dexterity programming
language.

The MAC files are editable text files. Macro files are very different from the VBA
files found in the Microsoft Office products.

Dynamics GP macros cannot make decisions, but merely play back keystrokes
recorded by a user. Microsoft Dynamics can also have VBA functionality attached
to forms and reports to carry out decisions.

Dynamic GP Includes
Financial management and accounting
Manage your cash, assets, and banking.

Inventory management and operations

Track and manage your production, inventory, orders, returns, and vendors.

Sales and service

Manage your contacts, sales opportunities, and service contract.

Human resources and payroll

Hire, train, and pay your team with the help of complete employee profiles and
evaluation tools.

Business intelligence and reporting

Get real-time visibility and analytics to track performance and act with insight.
Modules
Microsoft Dynamics GP is organized in Series, each of which contains several
modules. The typical Series are Financial, Sales, Purchasing, Inventory, Project,
Payroll, Manufacturing, Company and System. The latter two contain all the
necessary modules to configure various company wide and system wide options.
Each Series involves a full cycle of transactions for that particular Series.

Customization Tools
It includes customization tools to enable .NET developers to create real-time,
transactional connections between Microsoft Dynamics GP and other applications
and expand potential for new features and functionality.

Advantages
 Microsoft Dynamics GP enhances Productivity

 Microsoft Dynamics GP Integrate All Departments to one

another

 Microsoft Dynamics GP Increase Overall Performance of an

Enterprise

 Microsoft Dynamics GP Increase Quality

 Microsoft Dynamics GP Minimize Errors

Conclusion
Don’t Expect Revolution in your Enterprise It is a long term exercise for any positive
outcomes.
 People Soft:
Introduction
PeopleSoft was founded in 1987 by Kenn Morris Dave Duffield. PeopleSoft was
originally headquartered in Walnut Creek, California before moving to Pleasanton,
California. PeopleSoft became well known for its HR capabilities in managing a
company’s workforce. It was initially a client/server architecture, which was
popular in the 80’s and 90’s, but by the late 90’s they realized that the web was the
future.

In June 2000, PeopleSoft released version 8, which was web based and not client
application based. The underlying development architecture remained unchanged,
which surprisingly meant that very little new knowledge was required to deploy the
web version vs. the client application version.

At one point, PeopleSoft had an HR Application (HCM), a Financial Application

(FCM), a CRM application and Student application (Campus Solutions).

PeopleSoft now provides users with an integrated ERP software package that
assists in the day-to-day execution of various business operations. PeopleSoft
applications are used by human resource departments in large corporations. These
applications include human resource management systems (HRMS), customer
relationship management (CRM), financials and supply chain management (FSCM)
and enterprise performance management (EPM).

Evolution:
1987 : First PeopleSoft ERP launched
- Addressing Management of payroll, benefits, travel, expenses and vacation of
all employees was the key focus of the first product
 1997 : PeopleSoft 7 released
- They upgraded the supply chain and finance modules, and added the
functionality for analyzing business data

2000 : PeopleSoft 8 released

- Addition of a module for consumer relationship management through the
acquisition of Vantive corporation

2003 : PeopleSoft performed a friendly merger with JD Edwards

2005 : PeopleSoft acquired by Oracle Corporation

2013 : PeopleSoft 9.2 released

Products:
 Human Capital Management
 Financial Management
 Supplier Relationship Management
 Enterprise Services Automation
 Supply Chain Management
 PeopleTools – Tools and Technology

Human Capital Management

PeopleSoft Human Capital Management enables you to architect a global
foundation for HR data and improved business processes.
PeopleSoft Human Capital Management delivers a robust set of best-in-class
human resources functionality that enables you to increase productivity, accelerate
business performance, and lower your cost of ownership.
Financial Management
PeopleSoft Financial Management leverages best practices to achieve world-class
finance processes, meet financial and statutory requirements, and efficiently
delivers greater visibility into business-critical information.

Supplier Relationship Management

PeopleSoft Supplier Relationship Management is an integrated suite of

procurement applications that dramatically cut all supply management costs.
PeopleSoft Supplier Relationship Management reduces spend on goods and
services, streamlines procure-to-pay processes, and drives policy compliance.

Enterprise Services Automation

PeopleSoft Enterprise Services Automation applications enables projectcentric
organizations and departments to establish core operational processes that
support full project lifecycle management-across operations and finance-from
project selection, planning and staffing, through execution, cost control, and
analysis.
PeopleSoft Enterprise Services Automation applications provide a single, accurate
view of all project related activities so you can choose and prioritize the right
projects, assign the right resources, proactively streamline execution, and track
profitability via accurate budgeting, forecasting, and billings/charge backs.

Supply Chain Management

PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management (SCM) provides a cohesive yet flexible
solution for the synchronized supply chain, driving efficiencies in cost savings over
your entire supply chain—including your plan-to-produce and order-to-cash
business processes.
PeopleTools – Tools and Technology
PeopleSoft PeopleTools provides a comprehensive development toolset that
supports the development and runtime of PeopleSoft applications. By leveraging
metadata and other efficiencies within the toolset, application developers build
and customize the PeopleSoft applications quickly and easily. Also, through the use
of the delivered, robust, middleware options and the PeopleSoft Integration
Broker, PeopleSoft PeopleTools is uniquely positioned to support the Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA), the new development standard.
 SAP (System Applications
& Products):
What is Sap ?
SAP represents Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing.

SAP by definition is likewise named of the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)

programming also the name of the organization.

SAP Software was Founded in 1972 by Wellenreuther, Hopp, Hector, Plattner and
Tschira.

SAP framework comprises of various completely incorporated modules, which

covers basically every part of the business the executives.

SAP is number one in the ERP advertise. Starting at 2010, SAP has in excess of
140,000 establishments around the world, more than 25 industry-explicit business
arrangements and in excess of 75,000 clients in 120 nations.

Other Competitive results of SAP Software in the market are Oracle, Microsoft
Dynamics and so forth.
Why SAP ERP is Required?
Suppose a client approaches sales team asking for a particular product. The sales
team contacts to inventory department to check the availability of the product.
To their surprise, sales team found out that the product is out of stock. So next
time this don’t happen, they have to introduce a SAP ERP tool.

How it Work?
Different departments are engaged with the entire business process, directly from
the requesting of the crude material – to assembling products – to conveying last
merchandise to the client.

Here is the whole process that is followed by any business unit.

1. Client contacts the sales team to check the availability of the product
2. Sales team approaches the Inventory department to check for the
availability of the product
3. In case the product is out of stock, the sales team approaches the Production
Planning Department to manufacture the product
4. The production planning team checks with inventory department for
availability of raw material
5. If raw material is not available with inventory, the Production Planning
team buys the raw material from the Vendors
6. Then Production Planning forwards the raw materials to the Shop Floor
Execution for actual production
7. Once ready, the Shop Floor Team forwards the goods to the Sales Team
8. Sales Team who in turn deliver it to the client
9. The sales team updates the finance with revenue generated by the sale of
the product. Production planning team update the finance with payments to
be made to different vendors for raw materials.
10. All departments approach the HR for any Human Resource related issue.
Classification of Enterprise
Systems
Based on the manner in which communication and data exchanged is managed.
Enterprise systems can be broadly classified as

1) Decentralized System

2) Centralized System which are also called as ERP.

Decentralized System
In a decentralized system, raw material information is separately stored by
Production Planning as well as Inventory Department. Thus, data maintenance cost
(in this case Raw Material) goes up.

The raw material information is available in two different departments Inventory

as well as Production Planning. When sales team check a particular raw material
required to manufacture the product, it shows the raw material is available as per
the inventory, but as per the database of the production planning team, the raw
material is out of stock.

So, they go ahead and buy the raw material. Thus, material as well inventory cost
goes up.

Once the raw material is available, the shop floor department suddenly realizes
they are short of workers they approach the HR, who in turn hire temporary
employees at higher than market rates. Thus Labor cost Increases.

These are some drawbacks in decentralized system for which we need a solution.
Well the Solution lies in Centralized Systems i.e. ERP.
Centralized System
In this Case, all departments update a Central Information System.

 When Customer approaches the sales team to buy a product on an urgent

basis. The Sales Team has real-time information access to the products in
inventory which is updated by the Inventory Department in the Centralized
System
 Sales Team respond to customer request on time leading to Increased
Revenue and Customer Delight.
 In case, manufacturing is required the Sales Team update the Centralized
Database, so that all the department remain informed about the product
status.
 Production Planning Department is auto updated by the Centralized
Database for requirements. Production Planning Team checks the
availability of the raw materials required via Central Database, which is
updated by the Inventory Department.
 Thus, Data Duplication is avoided, and accurate data is made available. The
Shop Floor Team update their Man Power Status regularly in the Central
Database, which can be accessed by the HR department.
 In case of shortage of workforce, HR team starts recruitment process with
considerable lead time to hire a suitable candidate at market price. Thus
labor cost goes down.
 While vendors can directly submit their invoices to the Central Enterprise
System, which can be accessed by the finance department. Thus, payments
are made on time, and possible legal actions are avoided
 SAP software is a type of Centralized System. SAP System is most popularly
used ERP software.