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How to prevent duplicate Invoices and Manual Payments in AP. What about Automatic Payments?

March 29th, 2010 Comments off

If you wish to prevent duplicate invoices and checks from being entered in the AP system, there are several settings available to accomplish that. Read more…

How to drive multi-line Service PO’s to a single AP Trade/single bank account during a 3-way voucher match

March 28th, 2010 Comments off

A common scenario encountered at clients using multiple Companies is the desire to enter multi-line PO’s with each line referencing an expense account in a different Company.  During vouchering, all the lines must hit a single AP Trade account.  All the lines also need to go to the same default Bank account.  Standard JDE setups typically spread the lines into different AP Trade and Bank accounts.  Is there a way to force all the lines to go to the same AP Trade and Bank account?  The answer is yes!  To view the rest of this article, the system might ask you to sign-in or register.  It’s free and you will get access to all articles on this blog. Read more…

Securing/filtering Menu Task Views

March 28th, 2010 1 comment

Last week I had to put on a CNC hat to accomplish a menu filtering task.  In every new EnterpriseOne implementation, I always create custom menus for the client, so that (1)-they only see what they need to see without having to navigate huge E1 Menus, and (2)-the system is more secure with limited menus.  This is accomplished by creating a custom Task View, and placing all the tasks hierarchically underneath it. Read more…

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Financial Report tweaking – consolidations

March 27th, 2010 Comments off

The existing Financial Reports that come standard with JDEdwards are not pretty, I must admit.  They tend to get very long due to 0-balance accounts printing.  Sometimes it’s hard to figure out which accounts are listed, because only the Account Description prints, not the Account Number.    And how do you get them to print the balances for specific Business Units, vs. rolling them up to the Company level, or maybe even using a category Code to consolidate?  The last topic is the focus of this article:  report consolidations. Read more…

Just completed a rapid 3-day Fixed Assets Assessment

March 24th, 2010 Comments off

BiG Consulting Corporation has just completed a 3-day Fixed Assets Assessment for a medical device sterilization company.

The client has been live on JDEdwards 8.11 for several years, and was experiencing multiple issues in Fixed Assets, such as incorrect beginning balances, FA out of balance with GL, and numerous other integrity problems.  3 days was all it took to analyze the situation and come up with both short and long-term solutions to address their issues.  Contact us to find out how we can help you.

Website switched from MS Publisher to WordPress

March 24th, 2010 Comments off

It has been an absolute joy to discover and start using WordPress.  No more HTML, no more awkward-looking web pages (yes, its subjective).  Add a new page to the website?  It’s just a click away.  Create a new blog post?  It’s a breeze.  Change the look and feel of the entire website?  Just pick a different theme and voila!