Getting Started with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management

This chapter discusses:

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management overview.
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management business processes.
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management integration.
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management implementation.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management Overview

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management system from Oracle facilitates the effective and efficient management of the repetitive building process. Although the system is referred to as JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management, it facilitates the management of any repetitive building process, including the construction of retail operations, repetitive specialties, and manufactured homes. The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management system helps builders manage and analyze the profitability of their business by area, community, plan, elevation, or option. The functions and features included in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management have been developed over several years using input from many national and regional builders. The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management system represents the collective suggestions of these home building and repetitive construction companies.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management is designed to be flexible and easy to use. JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management allows builders to manage in the same way that they build by closely paralleling the actual building and sales processes and allowing builders to easily manage building and sales activities.

The user interface of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management includes two workbenches, the lot workbench and the sales workbench. These workbenches provide easy navigation by graphically displaying pertinent information that is related to the home builder.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management provides flexibility in managing the construction process. The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management system allows each builder to accommodate regional purchasing and sales practices by area or community. The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management system also allows a builder to track information that is unique to the builder's construction and sales processes.

To help builders analyze financial information and profitability, the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management system:

Gathers, processes, and stores information about the profitability of specific communities, lots, and options.
Develops community pro forma analysis based on operational and financial assumptions.
Controls costs effectively and efficiently.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management Business Processes

This diagram illustrates the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management business process:

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management business process

This diagram illustrates how national purchasing is used in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management system:

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management National Purchasing

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management Integration

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management system integrates with these JD Edwards EnterpriseOne systems:

General Accounting
Accounts Payable
Procurement Management
Job Cost
Service Management

We discuss integration considerations in the implementation chapters in this implementation guide. Supplemental information about third-party application integrations is located on the Oracle | Peoplesoft Customer Connection website.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne General Accounting

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne General Accounting system from Oracle stores entries in general ledger accounts when the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management system closes a lot or processes a payment.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Accounts Payable

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Accounts Payable system from Oracle stores vouchers in the Accounts Payable Ledger table (F0411) when the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management system enters invoices for existing commitments.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Procurement Management

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Procurement Management system from Oracle stores commitments in the following tables when commitments are created in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management system:

Purchase Order Header (F4301)
Purchase Order Detail File (F4311)
P.O. Detail Ledger File - Flexible Version (F43199).

Depending on how the system constants are set, the system might also update the PA ledger type on the commitment balance records in the Account Balances table (F0902).

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Job Cost

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Job Cost system from Oracle stores jobs in the following tables when lots are created in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management system during the Lot Start process:

Business Unit Master (F0006)
Extended Job Master (F5108)
Cost codes for the lot are stored in Account Master (F0901).

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Job Cost system maintains cost and revenue information, using the standard ledger types, to manage budgets, commitments, actual costs, and projected final amounts.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Service Management

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Service Management system from Oracle can create install base records from the information that is associated with a house, such as homebuyer information, configuration components, and subcontractors when you close a sale.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management Implementation

This section provides an overview of the steps that are required to implement the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management system.

During the planning phase of the implementation, you should use all of the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne sources of information, including the installation guides and troubleshooting information. There is a complete list of these resources in the preface in About This Documentation with information about where to find the most current version of each.

When determining which electronic software updates (ESUs) to install for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management, use the EnterpriseOne and World Change Assistant. Change Assistant, a Java-based tool, reduces the time required to search and download ESUs by 75 percent or more and allows you to perform a multiple install update of ESUs.

See JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools 8.98 Software Update Guide.

Global Implementation Steps

This table lists the suggested global implementation steps for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management:

Step	Reference
1. Set up companies, fiscal date patterns, and business units.	See Setting Up Organizations.
2. Set up accounts, and the chart of accounts.	See Creating the Chart of Accounts.
3. Set up the General Accounting constants.	See Setting Up the General Accounting System.
4. Set up multicurrency processing, including currency codes and exchange rates.	Setting Up General Accounting for Multicurrency Processing Setting Up Exchange Rates
5. Set up ledger type rules.	See Setting Up Ledger Type Rules for General Accounting.
6. Enter address book records.	See Entering Address Book Records.

Implementation Steps

This table lists the application-specific implementation steps for the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management system:

Step	Reference
1. Set up the system.	See Setting Up JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Homebuilder Management.
2. Set up system constants.	See Setting Up Constants and Commitment Document Types.
3. Set up activity rules.	See Setting Up Activity Rules.
4. Set up extended data.	See Setting Up Extended Data.
5. Set up closing worksheets.	See Setting Up Closing Worksheets.
6. Interact with the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Job Cost system.	See Interacting with the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Job Cost System.
7. Interact with the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Procurement system.	See Interacting with the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Procurement System.
8. Interact with the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Service Management system.	See Interacting with the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Service Management System.
9. Set up extended data for interacting with the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Service Management system.	See Setting Up Extended Data to Interface with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Service Management.
10. Set up next numbers.	See Understanding Next Numbers.
11. Set up user defined codes.	See Understanding User-Defined Codes.
12. Set up areas.	See Setting Up Areas.
13. Set up communities.	See Setting Up Communities.
14. Set up phases.	See Setting Up Phases.
15. Set up plans.	See Setting Up Plans for Communities.
16. Set up lots.	See Setting Up Lots.
17. Enter bid contracts.	See Entering Bid Contracts.
18. Enter takeoffs.	See Entering Takeoffs.
19. Process the sale of a house.	See Processing the Sale of a House.