JDA Transport
Video: Creating a Simple DSW Audit Trail
In this video, I demonstrate how to create a load-level audit trail for the DSW Action ‘Disband Freight Movement.’
‘Standing’ Orders in JDA Transport
Here is a summary of the scenario or business requirement - Give us (the client) the ability to replicate our standing orders daily without a feed from the host order management system. These orders always go from the same origin to the same destination, and often have the same pickup and delivery time window.
Using Transport Instead of BTL for Load Building
In a recent project, our team was tasked to design and implement a solution for a client that would drive Load Building functionality with Recommended Shipments from Fulfillment. Through a detailed analysis, we ended up selecting Transport as the engine for Load Building these RecShips from Fulfillment. The end solution was well received, and offered the client extremely flexible and robust configurability to distribution planning while utilizing constraint-based optimization to help generate a more realistic plan.
JDA acquires i2
On August 11 of this year, JDA Software announced the acquisition of i2 Technologies. In April of 2006 JDA acquired long-time i2 rival Manugistics, which has arguably been the core of the JDA product suite since the acquisition. While the i2 acquisition might make financial sense, I’m particularly interested in the product roadmap that JDA will need to deliver crisply in order to keep current sales cycles from stalling completely. It has been a month since the announcement, and I have received many questions from current JDA clients about what it means to them.
JDA Transportation Forum is Live
The JDA Transportation Forum is currently active. We have created a searchable support board to facilitate interactions with other JDA Transportation experts. Moderators of the board include consultants and experienced users of the applications. This format allows anyone easy access to previously-solved problems, workarounds, functional descriptions, and other helpful information.
To join the forum, select ‘Forum’ [...]
Centralizing the Private Fleet, Part Two
In Part One of this feature, I described the first two benefits of private fleet centralization - Cross Facility Optimization and Operational Expertise. These two benefits usually provide the tangible and quantifiable benefits or return necessary to fund this type of project. There are also soft benefits to centralization that should be considered, including System Support and Standardization.
Centralizing the Private Fleet
Over the past 20 years, many companies have recognized the benefits of implementing transportation management systems and planning their inbound freight movements on an enterprise basis rather than on a distribution center basis. The advantages and economies have proven themselves repeatedly, and virtually every established TMS vendor can point to clients who’ve seen significant ROI’s.
Pallet and Cube Calculation by Pieces
One of the elements that keeps consulting work interesting is uncovering new or hidden features within the application your working with. At one of my recent clients, I discovered a piece of functionality that I have never played with before and thought it was useful enough that I would like to learn more about it [...]
Transport 7.4 Migration - Line Item Detail Issue
The problem occurs when running the 7.4 packaged migration scripts on a version of Transport that does not have the ord_item table. Migrating data from say, the ord_qty table into the ord_item table requires the script to ‘dummy’ an Item to keep the relationship between the Order & Item intact - where previously none existed.
