Watch for Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Release 25 Customer Go-Lives in H1

Oracle JD Edwards (JDE) announced the availability of EnterpriseOne Release 25 in Q4 2024, bringing to market enhancements that automate, optimize, and transform business processes across areas such as finance, sales and warehouse management and represents Oracle’s continued investment in the JDE solution portfolio. So we will see the first wave of customers deploying Release 25 in the first half of 2025.

Oracle acquired JD Edwards as part of its acquisition of PeopleSoft in January 2005, and the JDE suite serves a diverse customer base of over 17,000 companies across various industries and regions. The customer base includes organizations of varying sizes, from mid-sized enterprises to large corporations. Notable companies using JD Edwards include Chevron, Charter Communications, and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation. Industries such as manufacturing, distribution, construction, and consumer goods frequently adopt JD Edwards to manage complex operational needs. The software’s modular architecture and comprehensive functionalities make it a preferred choice for organizations seeking integrated solutions for finance, human resources, supply chain, and customer relationship management.

Key feature updates in Release 25 include the following:

• Ability to Assign Delinquency Fees to the Business Unit of Invoice: The Credit Analysis Refresh program has been enhanced with a new processing option. This enhancement enables users to choose a business unit (BU) either invoice BU or the BU specified in the customer’s Address Book record for accounting delinquency fees.

• Increased Range of Account IDs: This feature increases the range of Account IDs by allowing alphanumeric account IDs. This feature enables large businesses to maintain longer history and accounts from acquisitions and mergers can be included with ease.

• Enterprise Automation: Order to Cash Integrated with Warehouse (EnterpriseOne Page): This new functionality enables you to create a process flow that uses your organization’s real-time data to provide guidance for controlling and coordinating the flow and sequence of tasks that help to achieve overall goals and objectives as efficiently as possible. This enhancement also enables visibility to orders at key stages of the order to cash process to help you maximize on-time and accurate order fulfillment and make better use of data to help reveal trouble spots that adversely impact your key performance indicators (KPIs).

• Enterprise Automation: Order to Cash Process Model Template: This new functionality enables you to generate a process flow that uses your organization’s real-time data to provide guidance for controlling and coordinating the flow and sequence of tasks that help to achieve overall goals and objectives as efficiently as possible. This enhancement also enables visibility to orders at key stages of the order to cash process to help customers maximize on-time and accurate inventory, and make better use of data to help reveal trouble spots that adversely impact your KPIs.

• Enterprise Automation: Procure to Pay Integrated with Warehouse (EnterpriseOne Page): This functionality helps customers to improve procure to pay operations through integrated automation and data it generates. This enhancement provides visibility to warehouse putaway process integrated with the procure to pay process to help customers maximize efficiency and maintain accurate inventory. Three critical KPIs – Putaway cycle time, putaway accuracy and location utilization are provided as new charts.

• License Plate Workbench Usability Enhancements: The current updates are aimed at improving the overall user experience and enriching functionality for the License Plate Workbench. New usability capabilities include visibility to date and time information along with the ability to search and filter records by date. The License Plate Workbench application is enhanced by providing access to new applications that enable you to efficiently manage license plate information for loose items.

• Sustainability Foundation and Scope 1 Stationary Emissions: The JD Edwards Sustainability Framework simplifies and streamlines the collection of environmental data. This feature provides the ability to collect the fuel usage from stationary combustion sources (Scope 1), directly from JD Edwards transactions, including Voucher Match and Standard Voucher applications. Additionally, this framework enables customers to directly input the stationary combustion data into a centralized repository known as the Sustainability Activity Ledger. The JD Edwards Sustainability Framework, by offering an optimized solution to collect the data and with the option of leveraging external carbon calculation and reporting tools, helps organizations with their environmental goals and provides a roadmap for more sustainable business practices.

What this means for ERP Insiders

Why should JDE customers move to Release 25? As of January 2025, the majority of JD Edwards customers are utilizing EnterpriseOne Release 9.2, which was initially launched in October 2015. Oracle has continued to enhance this release with subsequent updates, including Release 23, Release 24, and the most recent Release 25. Approximately 86% of the JD Edwards customer base has adopted version 9.2, and Oracle has announced support for JD Edwards products through at least 2035, providing customers with a clear roadmap for future planning and upgrades. JDE customers stand to gain the following from Release 25:

• Enhanced Orchestrator Capabilities: The Orchestrator tool has been improved to automate complex business processes more effectively, featuring better error handling and data validation to reduce manual intervention.

• Industry-Specific Functionality: Release 25 offers tailored features for sectors such as manufacturing, construction, and distribution, addressing unique industry challenges. For example, the new Project Status Inquiry (PSI) feature aids construction project managers in tracking progress and improving delivery timelines.

• User Experience (UX) Enhancements: The update provides a more intuitive and efficient interface, simplifying daily tasks for users.

• Integration with Hybrid Cloud: Release 25 strengthens integration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and other cloud services, facilitating hybrid deployment models that combine on-premise stability with cloud flexibility and scalability.

• Enterprise Process Modeler: This new tool offers a graphical representation of business processes, enabling organizations to visualize and optimize workflows effectively.

• Optimized Full Package Build Performance: Enhancements in this area reduce build times by identifying and compiling only necessary components, improving efficiency during system updates.

Learn from other JDE customers that have taken recent releases. A leading manufacturing firm collaborated with IT Convergence to upgrade to the latest JD Edwards EnterpriseOne release. The project involved eliminating outdated customizations, implementing a disaster recovery plan with a 24-hour turnaround, and enhancing the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) order process. Post-upgrade, 50% of EDI orders were processed without manual intervention, significantly improving operational efficiency. Granite Properties, a real estate investment and management company, upgraded to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Release 23/24 to streamline and automate business processes using Orchestrator and other tools. The upgrade facilitated improved efficiency and better results, aligning with their business growth objectives. And Koos Manufacturing, a denim apparel manufacturer, undertook an upgrade to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Release 23/24 to enhance their business processes. The implementation of Orchestrator and other features enabled them to automate workflows, resulting in increased operational efficiency and a move towards continuous innovation.

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