The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Apparel Management System

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Apparel Management system supports style items in distribution and manufacturing industries. The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Apparel Management system integrates with other JD Edwards EnterpriseOne systems from Oracle to create a complete supply chain solution. Companies can use the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Apparel Management system to effectively manage complex product assortments and continuous product line innovation throughout their entire supply chain.

The business processes for style items can be more complex than those for standard manufactured items because of the multiple attributes associated with style items.

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Inventory Management system integrates with the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Apparel Management system to define and manage style items. The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Apparel Management system enables you to view, adjust, issue, and transfer groups of child style items based on their multi level hierarchical definitions.

A collection may be put together by a manufacturer or designer each season to showcase new trends for a particular market. A collection template is a subset of style items from one or more collections. These templates are used during sales order entry, as well as purchase order entry, to simplify the process of entering orders. A collection template contains frequently ordered style items.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Sales Order Management for Apparel Management provides a matrix entry form for supporting customer orders. For each style item or collection template, the system displays a matrix entry form on which you can enter item quantities by size, color, or any other attributes. JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Sales Order Management for Apparel Management integrates with Sales Price List, Allocations, Inventory Management, and Collection Management. You can also perform a mass update of sales order style items only.

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Apparel Management system facilitates the wholesale allocation and delivery of style items. You use allocation rules to facilitate the effective and efficient distribution of available style items to fill sales orders. You generate allocation and delivery proposals. Allocation proposals enable you to share the available stock among several sales orders in the case of product shortages. Delivery proposals ensure consistent deliveries to customers.

To perform allocations for style items you set up commitment rules, generate allocation proposals, generate delivery proposals, and validate allocation and delivery proposals.

After you set up the style item root level 0 and child style items in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Apparel Management system, you can use the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Product Data Management system to set up bills of material, create routings, and set up outsource operations for the manufacture of style items.

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Requirements Planning and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Apparel Management systems integrate to support material planning for style items. The systems facilitate message review and preserve data consistency by enabling a matrix view of the lowest level child style items. You can process messages, add quantities by size, split messages, group messages, calculate adjustments, and generate transfer orders for style items.

After you enter style items and collections, bills of material, and routings, you can use programs in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Shop Floor Management system to complete the manufacture of style items. The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Shop Floor Management system enables you to manage and track manufacturing work orders. A master work order is a collection of individual standard manufacturing work orders that correspond to the child style items.

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Procurement Management system integrates with the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Apparel Management system to enable you to create purchase prices, enter blanket orders, enter purchase orders, release blanket orders, and print purchase orders for style items and collections.