This chapter contains the following topics:
Section 1.1, "Understanding JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Address Book"
Section 1.3, "Implementing the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Address Book"
The Address Book system is the foundation for other JD Edwards EnterpriseOne systems. The Address Book system contains name, address, and phone numbers for customers, suppliers, companies, and so on. This information is stored in several database tables to create a central repository of information. Other JD Edwards EnterpriseOne systems retrieve up-to-date name and address information from the Address Book system. For example, the Accounts Payable system uses address book information for supplier payments and the Accounts Receivable system uses address book information to generate customer invoices and statements.
With a central repository of information that integrates with other JD Edwards EnterpriseOne systems, you can effectively manage your address book information. The Address Book system includes:
Maintenance of complete information for employees, customers, suppliers, and so on.
Notification of authorized users about special situations, such as credit warnings, hold messages, and other critical account information.
Classification of entries by search type for inquiry and reporting purposes.
Ability to retrieve information by name, address, phone number, and search type.
Management of tax information.
Ability to associate multiple addresses with a single address book record.
Effective dates for address changes.
Supplemental data for organizing and tracking information that is not included in standard master table.
For reporting, the Address Book system enables you to define how you sort and classify information. You can customize reports to meet your needs by creating and organizing user-defined information and then attaching that information to address book records. With user-defined information, you can define:
Up to 30 address book category codes for tracking and reporting information about addresses. For example, you can sort suppliers by salesperson for one report and by region for another report.
Up to 10 who's who category codes to identify individuals, such as billing contacts, executives, and sales contacts, who are associated with specific company address book records.
Up to 10 contact information category codes that you can use to further categorize who's who entries.
Up to five related person category codes to group entries for related persons.
You can also customize reports to produce mailing lists, labels, and so on
The following JD Edwards EnterpriseOne systems from Oracle integrate with the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Address Book system and allow you to do the tasks described:
This section provides an overview of the steps that are required to implement the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Address Book system.
In the planning phase of your implementation, take advantage of all JD Edwards EnterpriseOne sources of information, including the installation guides and troubleshooting information.
When determining which electronic software updates (ESUs) to install for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Address Book, use the EnterpriseOne and World Change Assistant. EnterpriseOne and World Change Assistant, a Java-based tool, reduces the time that is required to search for and download ESUs by 75 percent or more and enables you to install multiple ESUs at one time.
See JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Software Updates Guide.
The following are the suggested application-specific implementation steps for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Address Book:
Set up user-defined codes, category codes, constants, next numbers, postal codes, self-service, supplemental data, and the audit log.
See Setting Up the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Address Book System.
Set up user-defined codes for Foundation Calendar
Set up parent/child relationships and organizational structures.
See Setting Up Parent/Child Relationships and Organizational Structures.
A business interface is a set of components that implementation teams can use to create an integration between JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and an external system. Business interfaces can include one or more of these business interface components:
Business Services
Real-Time Events
Batch Import and Export Programs
For additional information about business interfaces, and the business objects available for this product area, see these topics in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Applications Business Interface Reference Guide: