In the past, implementing a barcode scanning system—while often immensely beneficial in terms of process automation and eliminating human error—required a costly up-front commitment of time and resources, pushing ROI out to 12 months or more. Companies sometimes found it necessary to upgrade JD Edwards from 32-bit to 64-bit processing, and this created additional challenges, especially if they were running outside technology. Today, however, with ERP Suites and Scanability, you can turbocharge your ROI for ERP systems, potentially in as little as six months.
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Why go to 64-bit with JDE?
64-bit processing provides many useful features that can benefit JD Edwards users, so you shouldn’t allow your current scanning solution to hold you back from upgrading. You’ll run into huge costs and time ramifications if your scanning solution forces you into a separate installation instead of an in-place upgrade. This is a great opportunity to upgrade your environment and get current, which keeps your business in the most secure and stable position when it comes to your JD Edwards ERP system.
JD Edwards Tools Fixes and Enhancements
The latest Oracle Tools releases for JD Edwards (9.2.6 and 9.2.7) include admin and Orchestrator enhancements, a search export option, zero-downtime package deployment capability, more detailed user activity tracking, and user self-service password resets, among other functional improvements and security updates. Oracle will continue to support the last 32-bit Tools release (9.2.5), but the enhanced functionality of the new releases is only available for 64-bit customers.
Improved Performance
Interactive response times and UBE runtimes become more efficient with 64-bit processing, and CPU utilization is decreased. Package build times will decrease for customers who had previously been forced to maintain objects in both 32-bit and 64-bit, as the operating system no longer has to create a virtual environment in order to run 32-bit Windows on Windows.
More Memory
32-bit processing is limited to 2 GB of memory, whereas 64-bit allows you to address more RAM on a single process than you likely have available on your server.
3rd party components
For many customers, upgrading JD Edwards to 64-bit processing ultimately comes down to maintaining support from vendors. By upgrading, your database and operating system continue to be supported. Also, to continue receiving security support from Oracle WebLogic, you must be on 64-bit processing.
Future-proof JDE
We have seen the future, and it’s 64-bit. Release 22 for JD Edwards requires 64-bit. Most third-party vendors are winding down 32-bit support for software components required by JD Edwards, such as Java and RF Smart, and new components are being released exclusively in 64-bit. Upgrading to 64-bit future-proofs your JD Edwards environments by ensuring you have access to full support and functionality.
An Orchestration-Based Barcode Scanning Solution
Barcode scanning solutions have been available to JD Edwards users for 20 years, but Scanability is a unique solution in the marketplace. It’s the only JDE barcode scanning solution featuring an architecture built with Orchestrations, so it leverages your investments in JD Edwards. Scanability uses the business logic and flows that you already have in JD Edwards, so you can quickly optimize your warehousing and inventory management processes. This approach affords continuous value and allows you to realize quick ROI. Additionally, since Orchestrations is a main component of Oracle’s mobile strategy, Scanability will continue to be 100% aligned with Oracle JD Edwards.
A barcode scanning solution should be an enabler for your business, not cumbersome baggage that costs you a lot of money and inconvenience in the hope of getting a simple return. ERP Suites Scanability drives business value and innovation, minimizes errors, and increases productivity. In particular, Scanability can lower the total cost of ownership for mobile data collection in three critical ways.
Reliability
Orchestrations is at the core of our Scanability solution, meaning that we're not building things from scratch. Scanability leverages the business flows and processes that you've already configured and defined within your JD Edwards system. This creates a solution with JD Edwards that is both reliable and consistent.
Value
The low total cost of ownership with Scanability extends well beyond the initial investment you make at implementation due to the flexibility that it allows you when choosing supporting hardware. Scanability can work with virtually all Android-based scanning devices, including tablets, smartphones, handheld scanners, and fixed-mount scanners, so you’re not restricted to particular or expensive scanning devices.
Another value of ERP Suites Scanability is the ongoing cost that you save throughout the lifecycle of the solution, including patches, upgrades, modifications, and personalization. For example, to do an upgrade with other solutions you must have each script reviewed and migrated to the FastForm language. This can take a significant amount of time and resources because they don't have a process to upgrade it automatically. With ERP Suites, you'll receive first-class support because we have resources dedicated to JD Edwards barcode scanning. The other vendors in the marketplace don’t have these resources anymore, and other barcode scanning solutions provide little flexibility in deploying changes.
The last way Scanability will provide value for your business is through continuous innovation. We're not stalling our investments in products because we have a different focus, or we’ve somehow diluted our focus on JD Edwards. ERP Suites is 100% focused on JD Edwards, and we’re going to continue innovating by building out additional capabilities.
Flexibility
We have a growing repository of flows that you can use out-of-the-box to streamline and optimize time-to-value, and Scanability flows are configurable. So, if one of the hundreds of existing flow variations isn’t exactly what you need, they can be customized to your specifications, or you can write your own workflows.
Save on Reimplementation Time and Costs
Business products should be easily updatable and upgradable so that you can foster continuous adoption. Adopting new capabilities should be seamless and transparent and should not result in business interruption.
Other scanning solutions require you to spend time and money upgrading scripts, re-writing custom scripts, and more. Since ERP Suites Scanability is built on Orchestrations, there is no need to re-write scripts or even Orchestrations to adopt 64-bit processing. As with any update, you’ll want to go through a round of testing to confirm the orchestration works as expected with Scanability.
If you are a growing company, Scanability is a great JD Edwards scanning solution because, as you grow, it can maintain a certain level of volume or throughput by scaling your AIS server out. This allows companies to easily manage workloads by spreading them out across different AIS servers.
Fast and Optimized Technology
Scanability can attain the throughput and response times expected of small and medium businesses as well as large corporations. When you use Scanability, there is no ongoing communication outside of your network once the flows have been loaded to the devices. Because the communication happens within your network, this eliminates any latency issues that could be caused by external sources. The device communicates over HTTPS to reach the AIS server, then sends to JD Edwards, leveraging Orchestrations to add, delete, and perform inquiries as needed.
Scanning analytics are available in the Scanability cloud portal so that you can keep track of your live performance. Charts and graphs will show you average end-to-end time by flow, number of users, number of calls by day, and more.
Make the Right Barcode Scanning Choice
Whether you already have a barcode solution, or you’re considering implementing one for the first time, Scanability from ERP Suites is the best choice for any company using JD Edwards. The benefits of an Orchestration-based barcode solution save you money on maintenance and upgrades. You’ll also save significant time when it comes to implementing flows with your business processes, and, as we all know, time is money. The low cost of ownership and implementation, combined with fast, local technology, will set your business up for success now and into the future.
