Getting Started with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Support Applications

This chapter discusses:

Click to jump to parent topicJD Edwards EnterpriseOne CRM Support Applications Overview

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne CRM Support Applications provide a company with a central point-of-contact to capture and manage service processes. JD Edwards EnterpriseOne CRM Support Applications include these products:

Use the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Case Management system from Oracle to capture customer issues, track issues from creation to resolution, and set up rules to automatically assign cases to the appropriate people. The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Case Management system enables companies to determine if and how they escalate cases. You can determine to escalate cases using the notification method and set up provider group distribution lists to send assignment and escalation notification to all provider group members when cases are assigned to the provider group. You can determine to escalate cases using skill levels and set up provider groups and assign skill levels to group members to systematically escalate cases to the next highest level provider group member during the escalation routine.

Through the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Case Management system, you can assign tasks and activities to cases, associate objects such as service work orders, equipment work orders, sales orders, quotes, leads, scripts and returned material authorization (RMA) to cases, and review and assign solutions to cases.

If you are using JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Customer Self Service, you can set up the system to enable customers to enter and review their case information.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Solution Advisor is a knowledge base application that assembles and classifies customer-specific information. Use the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Solution Advisor application to store and organize case and service work order resolutions. This information is accessible by customers (if you are using JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Customer Self Service) and support agents to assist them in finding resolutions for cases and service work orders.

See Using Service and Support Portal Applications.

If you are not using JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Solution Advisor, you can set up and use the failure analysis module, a database that enables you to associate failures, analyses, and resolutions with cases and service work orders.

See Working with Failure Analysis.

Use the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Branch Scripting application to define and set up question structures to assist you with gathering information to help you find case and service work order resolutions.

Click to jump to parent topicJD Edwards EnterpriseOne CRM Support Applications Integrations

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne CRM Support Applications system integrates with these JD Edwards EnterpriseOne systems from Oracle:

We discuss integration considerations in the implementation chapters in this implementation guide.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne General Accounting

If you work in a multicurrency environment, you can access the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne General Accounting system from Oracle to review and edit currency information as necessary.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Accounts Receivable

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Accounts Receivable system from Oracle records the information used by JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Service Management to manage invoicing for case billing.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Address Book

All customers and service providers, including provider groups, technicians, provider group members, and call center agents, are set up in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Address Book system from Oracle. When activities are attached to cases, the assignee's calendar, located in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Address Book system, is updated with the activity information.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Advanced Pricing

You can define advanced pricing adjustments and adjustment schedules and attach them to cases to determine case billing.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Sales Order Management

Through the Case Related Actions program (P90CG503), you can associate quotes, sales orders, leads, and RMA to cases.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Service Management

When you enter a case, the system calculates commitments according to the service contract, if one exists. To help you resolve a case, you can issue a service work order and associate it to the case. When searching for solutions, you can search for service work orders. The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Service Management system from Oracle manages invoicing for case billing.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Capital Asset Management

To help you resolve a case, you can issue an equipment work order and associate it to the case. When searching for solutions, you can search for equipment work orders

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Inventory Management

If you are billing for cases, you set up distribution automatic accounting instructions (AAIs) to direct how case transactions are applied to accounts. You can associate solutions to items using the Frequently Used Solutions form in Solution Advisor.

Click to jump to parent topicJD Edwards EnterpriseOne CRM Support Applications Business Processes

This process flow illustrates the Request to Resolve business process, which is supported by JD Edwards EnterpriseOne CRM Support applications:

Request to resolve business process

We discuss this business process in the business process chapters in this implementation guide.

Click to jump to parent topicJD Edwards EnterpriseOne CRM Support Applications Implementation

This section provides an overview of the steps that are required to implement the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne CRM Support Applications system.

In the planning phase of the implementation, take advantage of all JD Edwards EnterpriseOne sources of information, including the installation guides and troubleshooting information. A complete list of these resources appears in the preface in About This Documentation with all the information about where to find the most current version of each.

When determining which electronic software updates (ESUs) to install for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne CRM Support Applications, 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 8.98 Software Update Guide

For information about the Oracle Business Accelerator solution for implementation of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne CRM Support applications, review the documentation available.

See http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/iou/implement/rapid_start/rapid_start_prtr_notes.jsp

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicGlobal Implementation Steps

This table lists the suggested global implementation steps for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne CRM products:

Step

Reference

1. Set up global UDC tables.

See JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools 8.98 Foundation Guide

2. Set up companies, fiscal date patterns, and business units.

See Setting Up Organizations.

3. (Optional) Set up accounts, and the chart of accounts.

See Understanding the Chart of Accounts.

4. (Optional) Set up the General Accounting constants.

See Setting Up the General Accounting System.

5. (Optional) Set up multicurrency processing, including currency codes and exchange rates.

6. (Optional) Set up ledger type rules.

See Setting Up Constants for General Accounting.

7. Set up branch/plant constants.

See Setting Up the Inventory Management System.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicCase Management-Specific Implementation Steps

This table lists the implementation steps for the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Case Management system:

Step

Reference

1. Set up Case Management constants.

See Setting Up Case Management Fundamentals.

2. Set up Case Management user defined codes (UDCs).

See Setting Up Case Management Fundamentals.

3. Set up processing options for Case Management programs.

See Setting Up Case Management Fundamentals.

4. Set up case activity rules.

See Setting Up Case Management Fundamentals.

5. (Optional) Set up business object reservation.

See Setting Up Case Management Fundamentals.

6. (Optional) Set up required fields.

See Setting Up Case Management Fundamentals.

7. (Optional) Set up advanced pricing information for cases.

See Setting Up Case Management Fundamentals.

8. Set up provider group UDCs and provider groups.

See Setting Up Provider Groups.

9. Set up users as service providers.

See Setting Up Service Management.

10. Set up customers.

See Managing Customer Information.

11. (Optional) Set up queue security and queue properties.

See Setting Up Provider Groups.

12. (Optional) Set up routing information.

See Setting Up Provider Groups.

13. Set up case types and case priorities.

See Setting Up Provider Groups.

14. Set processing options for Work With Provider Groups program (P17506).

See Setting Up Provider Groups.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicCase Management Billing-Specific Implementation Steps

This table lists the required implementation steps for billing in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Case Management system:

Step

Reference

1. Set up distribution AAIs.

See Setting Up the Inventory Management System.

2. Set up accounts receivable AAIs.

See Setting Up the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Accounts Receivable System.

3. Define the pricing method.

See Setting Up Case Management Fundamentals.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicSolution Advisor-Specific Implementation Steps

This table lists the required implementations step for the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Solution Advisor system:

Step

Reference

1. Set up Solution Advisor UDCs.

See Setting Up Solution Advisor.