Quest Oracle Community's INFOCUS 2025

Reimagining Financial Operations with Enterprise Process Manager in JD Edwards

Session description

The Enterprise Process Manager—a powerful capability that redefines how organizations manage and optimize financial operations. We have tailored the Enterprise Process Manager within the Financial Module, showcasing how finance teams can model, visualize, and streamline core processes such as General Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable.

By leveraging intuitive process modeling tools and real-time performance dashboards, the Enterprise Process Manager enables finance leaders to identify inefficiencies, enforce compliance, and drive continuous improvement. Attendees will gain insights into how this feature supports audit readiness, enhances data integrity, and aligns financial workflows with strategic business objectives. Real-world use cases and implementation strategies will be shared to illustrate how organizations are achieving greater agility, transparency, and control in their financial ecosystems.

Unlocking Business Agility: How Atkore Leverages JD Edwards Orchestrations

Session description

Ready to drive instant value from your JD Edwards investment? Join Grant Thornton for a fast-paced, insight-packed session focused on the powerful new Enterprise Process Modeler in Release 25. We'll explore how this game-changing tool can uncover hidden inefficiencies, streamline Procurement and Sales operations, and deliver measurable ROI—right out of the gate.

You’ll learn how to spot process breakdowns and bottlenecks in real time, gain visibility into end-to-end workflows, and act on data-driven insights. From setup and version essentials to expert tips, tricks, and real-world success stories from both clients and consultants—this session gives you everything you need to start making smarter, faster decisions with the Process Modeler.

Enhanced Operational Reporting Capabilities within your General Ledger

Session description

There are many situations when it is difficult to design your General Ledger to capture ALL necessary sales or operational detail (e.g. related sales person, item description, product line, original manufacturing location, etc.) in order to be able to further breakdown your financial transactions for reporting / analysis purposes. This can lead to problems due to a disconnect between your operational and financial results within your ERP.

In this session, we will discuss three types of functionality to consider: Flexible Accounting, Subledgers, and Advanced Cost Types. While they have their differences, these can each be used to drive additional detail into your G/L. We will explain each type of functionality, as well as how each can provide more benefit to your reporting/analysis needs.

Join us as we discuss how this functionality can be used to design more operational details into your G/L transactions, in order to better enhance reporting and inquiry functions.

Attendees will understand the various ways to add more detail to their General Ledger transactions.

As well, they will also understand the differences between each of these methods in order to help evaluate future reporting opportunities. This can be very helpful when wanting to generate reports from G/L transactions within JD Edwards, or other BI reporting/analytical solutions. This functionality is a MUST for all organizations to understand, in order to optimize the value of their JD Edward's solution.

Slashing Freight Costs & Eliminating Shipping Errors with Powerful Advanced Pricing

Session description

What if you could cut shipping costs and eliminate errors—without overhauling your entire supply chain? In this session, discover how powerful Advanced Inventory Commitment Preferences can revolutionize your logistics, saving hundreds (or even thousands) per shipment while boosting accuracy and customer satisfaction.We’ll walk through real-world scenarios where companies relying on basic preferences unknowingly racked up freight costs—especially with made-to-order items that took the long way around. Learn how switching to advanced preferences enabled them to bypass unnecessary plant transfers, ship directly from the manufacturing source, and accommodate even the most complex customer delivery needs.

From flexible configurations by item, customer, or group, to activating the right sales order versions, this session covers everything you need to get started. We’ll show you how to map your current setup to advanced preferences seamlessly—no disruptions, just results.
Join us to:

• Eliminate wasteful interplant shipments
• Tailor shipping logic to customer-specific needs
• Dramatically reduce freight spend
• Gain complete control over fulfillment strategy

If you’re still using basic preferences, this session is your roadmap to smarter, faster, and cheaper shipping.

Making Change Stick: How Atkore and Grant Thornton Integrated Change and Process Management

Session description

A successful JD Edwards (JDE) implementation isn't just about getting the technology right - it's about preparing your people every step of the way. Join Atkore and Grant Thornton to learn how we embedded change management into the core of our project management approach to drive a smooth, people-centered ERP transformation. In this session, we'll walk through Atkore's JDE journey, highlighting how change management wasn't a separate workstream—it was a fully integrated part of the implementation strategy. From planning through go-live and beyond, we aligned change and project activities to anticipate resistance, build readiness, improve adoption, and speed up sustainment. You'll gain real-world insights into:

• How we structured change management alongside project milestones
• Tactics for aligning communications, training, and leadership engagement with the project timeline
• Lessons learned—what worked, what didn't, and how we course-corrected in real time

Whether you're planning or in the middle of a JDE implementation, this session will show you how to make change management a strategic driver—not an afterthought—and ensure your ERP investment delivers lasting value.

Optimize your Supply Chain by Removing the Mystery from Material Planning

Session description

Material requirement planning has been around since the mid ‘70s when we all read Orlicky’s yellow MRP book. How come it hasn’t gotten easier? Are you asking yourselves “why do our teams continue to struggle unpacking the mystery of material planning?” Well, it’s not a surprise. Many companies struggle with their material planning process. It is simple. Maintain your MRP/DRP engine and you WILL get to the right destination. Afterall, how long has it been since you implemented material planning? What business changes have taken place since then? What new tools has JD Edwards provided to help “fine-tune” your material planning process. How can AI help? In this session you will discuss how to remove some of the mystery from material planning (MPS/MRP) and discuss some ways to unlock the potential of your supply chain.

Business Built Orchestrations and Seaboard’s Journey with JD Edwards Automation

Session description

This session will highlight Seaboard Corporation’s adoption of JD Edwards Orchestrations to empower their business. This session will explore specific use cases including, automating user setup, mass work order updates, and notifications for purchase orders. Seaboard resources worked closely with Grant Thornton on their journey to become self-sufficient in building their own Orchestrations. Grant Thornton worked with Seaboard to identify opportunities where they could train and transition Orchestration creation to Seaboard resources over the course of a project. Seaboard resources now successfully design, create, and maintain Orchestration solutions for their own business needs. Grant Thornton celebrates Seaboard’s journey as a success story worth sharing. They also believe others can benefit from the orchestrations Seaboard has built. This session will showcase Seaboard’s journey, share practical examples, and offer insights for organizations looking to empower their teams through automation.

An AI Future – JD Edwards Enterprise AI with Copilot

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This session will demonstrate JD Edwards fully integrated with Microsoft Copilot at the database level. See the true power of AI in JD Edwards. We will demonstrate the interactions and also dive into the details of how we accomplished this integration. We will explain the key factors that make this model successful including the integration, the SQL parser, and the JDE Agent aspect of our build. We will also discuss common roadblocks and lessons that can be applied to any Enterprise AI journey. Join us for a demo of the future!

Unlock Rapid Results with JD Edwards’ Enterprise Process Modeler: Transform Processes

Session description

Ready to drive instant value from your JD Edwards investment? Join Grant Thornton for a fast-paced, insight-packed session focused on the powerful new Enterprise Process Modeler in Release 25. We'll explore how this game-changing tool can uncover hidden inefficiencies, streamline Procurement and Sales operations, and deliver measurable ROI—right out of the gate.

You’ll learn how to spot process breakdowns and bottlenecks in real time, gain visibility into end-to-end workflows, and act on data-driven insights. From setup and version essentials to expert tips, tricks, and real-world success stories from both clients and consultants—this session gives you everything you need to start making smarter, faster decisions with the Process Modeler.