I think, I m so lucky to have the opportunity to work over JD Edwards; it is one of the greatest and powerful ERP in the World.
I think its ranking number three in the world after SAP and Oracle E-business Suite, but what makes me love this software :)
First, I think the idea of ERP software is fantastic; ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is software which designed to cover all the enterprise requirements to manage its business.
To make software suitable for almost companies business rules isn’t an easy task and not all ERPs success in this task, JD Edwards (called also JDE) is one of the most flexible ERPs, even it’s more suitable for manufacturing companies and it is more used in this field.
Besides its good designing, I also like in JDE its success story and also I appreciate that this product has the name of its founders; because the J is for Jack Thompson; the D is for Dan Gregory and the E is for his truly father Ed McVaney; which makes it more human than any other ERP :)
My story with JDE began almost one year before when I integrate LES EAUX MINERALES D’OULMES a company which choices JDE as its ERP system, before I knew a little about ERPs and being working before in specific software development, I was asking myself how pre-developed software can suit an enterprise requirements.
Even I read some definitions about ERP; the first question I asked to my new colleagues was what an ERP is? Because I wanted to hear from people who had worked over this kind of products; and clearly the second question was how it can suit any enterprise requirements? , and like I am always there was a lot of questions after ( Ha Ha Ha).
But their answers hadn't satisfying me, because they talked to me about something which I didn’t touch it by my own hands, I needed to get my hands dirty with JDE.
When I came to LES EAUX MINERALES D’OULMES a number of JDE parts were already integrated, but one was waiting for me :), it’s the part about managing fixed assets, I was involved in the project team which was composing essentially by me, a colleague from accounting department and a JDE consultant.
For me the project was wonderful, even I felt so stressed sometimes but I liked very much all the moments I spent working on it.
Alhmdolilah the project succeed, I also had found answers for my early questions but I think my story with ERPs had just started :).
