Benefits

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Fulfillment Management system drives operational improvements that help you manage supply, improve customer service, and decrease administrative costs.

The following table categorizes the benefits of using the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Fulfillment Management system by operational area:

Operational Area

Benefit

Supply Management

  • Prioritize sales order lines. Prioritization criteria for sales orders lines determines how inventory is assigned which improves the ability to manage the supply of items.

  • Assign inventory based on priority and service level rules.

  • Assign partial quantities based on inventory levels.

  • Cancel open balance quantities.

  • Each sales order line can follow a different path through the sales order fulfillment cycle.

  • Fulfillment rules enable inventory assignments based on score of the sales order line and safety stock levels of items.

  • Increase flexibility for inventory assignments enables more effective management of limited supply items.

Customer Service

  • Improve order and line fill rates for priority customers. Scoring creates the ability to priority rank customer sales order lines based on five factors.

  • Enforce targeted service levels.

  • Reduce late orders for priority customers.

  • Reduce back orders and lost sales.

  • Track reasons for overriding standard service level rules.

  • Increase customer satisfaction by decreasing backorders and lost sales due to inventory availability.

  • Increase customer satisfaction with flexibility to interactively revise inventory assignments to sales order lines for stock items and kit parents.

  • Enforce service level agreement information during the sales order fulfillment cycle.

  • Increase customer satisfaction due to proactive discussion of order fulfillment status.

Administrative Costs

  • Enforce fill rates automatically.

  • Reduce costly penalty fees and fines.

  • Cancel open balances automatically based on rules.

  • Reduce transportation costs by enforcing number of releases (shipments).

  • Streamline administrative tasks by maintaining central control over service level information and integrating the rules into the sales order fulfillment cycle reduces the amount paid in penalty fees for noncompliance.