1. Wilbur-Ellis, Improving JDE Customer & Vendor Processes with a No-Code Visual Modeling Platform
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Prepared by: Doug Palaske, K-Rise Systems
Name: Ankur Goswami
Title: IT
Company: Wilbur-Ellis
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2. Wilbur-Ellis Company

3. Wilbur-Ellis Company is an international marketer and distributor of agricultural products, specialty chemicals, and animal feed ingredients.
Established and family owned since 1921
Annual sales of over $3 billion
Dun & Bradstreet 5A-1 Rated (Investment Grade)
Ranked 188 on Forbes ‘Top Private Companies in the U.S.’

4. JDE Footprint Application 9.0 Tools 9.1.4.6
IBM Power 770 (a.k.a. IBM i, a.k.a. AS/400)
1,800 Total Users, 640 Concurrent connecting via Citrix
North America and Asia – one instance and database, dual timezone
15,000 print jobs a day in peak season
2.5 TB database
Original implementation 2003

5. Customer Master Maintenance - CMM
Security model is scalable for use JDE existing role or setup.
Show performance for scalability – connectivity and calls to JDE.
Able to define approval hierarchy and notification.
Solution is easy to update and maintain.
Demonstrate ease of use, less errors and complexity for end users

6. WORKFLOW

7. Home Page

8. Approval Screen

9. Screenshot

10. Work With Users : Portal vs. JDE Users

11. Add New (JDE) User

12. Add New (Portal) User

13. Add / Find Users

14. Edit User Role / Credit

15. Manage User Hierarchy per Business Unit

16. Payment Terms

17. Bank Account Management - BMM
Vendor bank account management workflow is a small workflow with less complexity to update vendor bank account (routing number etc.) details within JDE.
Technically and structurally this one is very similar to CMM workflow and we are re-using parts and components that were developed for CMM.
Users hierarchies are same as CMM and forms are pretty similar to CMM.

18. Enquiry Screen

19. Request Entry Screen

20. Request Entry Screen Cont.

21. Journal Ledger Import
Real-Time integration to import Journal Ledger entries/batches from third party payroll system. G/L Batches are pushed to our SFTP server from cloud based HR/Payroll system(Ultimate), we have a K-Rise process that runs every few minutes to check SFTP location. K-Rise process moves file from SFTP location and FTP’s to our JDE Enterprise server and call JDE Batch program to process G/L batch, also based on the division/file name it sends the file to the respective accounting division.
As part of the process we are calling power-shell and batch scripts from K-Rise process.

22. About K-Rise Systems E-Commerce / Payments: EASYCommerce - EASYPay
Strategic Solutions for JD Edwards E1 & World: Real-Time Integration
13 Year History, USA & International Presence
E-Commerce / Payments: EASYCommerce - EASYPay
Zero-Code Cloud Platform, Custom / Pre-Build Apps: Records (Item / Customer) Automation / Warranty / Job Costing, MRO Portal
Vendor / Buyer: Vendor Self-Service, EASYBuyer (PO Requisitioning), AP Automation, Vendor Onboarding, Supplier Contract & Item Update
HR Employee/Manager Self-Service: Time Entry, Profile, Positions, Leave Request

23. K-Rise Systems JDE Customers

26. Family of Products

27. JDE New Item Create, Business Function Call

28. Workflow – Sales Order Approval

29. Environment Change / Promotions Not Copy & Paste

30. On-Prem or Cloud SaaS Deployment

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