Company Type
Briggs Corp, a medical supplies distributor and commercial printer, Des Moines; project manager, lead manufacturing consultant, and systems integrator (15 internal resources, one external consultant). The configurator interface is one of the four stated exceptions: designed by the principal, development outsourced under direction.
What Drove the Need
Migration had stalled on manual data conversions estimated at 3 FTE-years
Configured products had to become JDE sales and work orders without re-keying
Business Impact
First-cut conversion in under two weeks against a 3 FTE-year estimate; launch on time and on budget (Case 34)
Systems/Data Integration
Third-party product configurator ↔ OneWorld XE (real-time XML); DCS barcoding
Design
Conversion suite covering IM and PDM; BOM and routing conversion for 3,000+ products; time recording integrated with the DCS barcoding system
Full-scale implementation live in six months: Sales Orders for MTS/ATO/ETO, 5,000+ items across multiple branch/plants, Advanced Warehousing, PDM, purchasing, Shop Floor Control with backflushing, scheduling, product costing, manufacturing accounting, forecasting/MPS/MRP
Technology Stack
RPG; AS/400 CLP; DB2; MS SQL Server; MS Access; ODBC
JDE OneWorld XE business-function XPIs
DCS barcoding system
Legacy-to-JDE OneWorld XE Conversion Suite (200+ Programs) and Real-Time XML Configurator Interface
All Inventory Management and Product Data Management legacy conversions — 200+ programs — plus a bi-directional real-time XML interface between OneWorld XE and a third-party product configurator auto-creating Sales Orders and Work Orders through JDE business functions.
