lpryor
Active Member
Hi,
My company has begun a project to implement JDE world wide. We currently
run JDE A7.3cume11 in the US. We've been on JDE since 1991.
We are developing a Global model for implementation at all locations at
cume 12 or 13 depending on the rollout.
The US locations will "convert" to the Global Model, next spring. Prior
to this we need to develop a methodology to handle change management on a
Global scale over multiple time zones. Each Major location, i.e. Europe,
U.S. Asia, etc. has a very large AS400. We will run JDE independently,
but have for consistency we are trying to maintain the same vanilla JDE,
modifications and custom programming in sync with each other.
We hope to share a central repository at our Parent site in Japan. This
site will maintain copies of everyone else's, localizations as well, I am
expecting in separate environments on the same box. We in the US have
many concerns about how we can do this. We have been told that a program
can only be checked out by one programmer at a time. Well, we expect that
this rule will be difficult to abide by, just because of having to work on
production problems at the same time you have a program checked out for an
enhancement project.
As you can imagine we have modified JDE quite a bit over the years and,
with the usage growing to a global scope within our company, we are
expecting even more.
Any suggestions, or thoughts, or directions to go in, to find more ideas,
would be greatly appreciated. We are looking at software, but that is not
the only solution; much of the process is procedural even when you use
software. A good AS400 or JDE methodology for this is what I am really
looking for but any ideas are gratefully accepted.
If any of you have this situation and are working it out in your company, I
would love to hear from you.
Thanks,
Lynn Pryor
Client Services Manager
Business Engineering Dept.
Murata Electronics
770 319-5128
My company has begun a project to implement JDE world wide. We currently
run JDE A7.3cume11 in the US. We've been on JDE since 1991.
We are developing a Global model for implementation at all locations at
cume 12 or 13 depending on the rollout.
The US locations will "convert" to the Global Model, next spring. Prior
to this we need to develop a methodology to handle change management on a
Global scale over multiple time zones. Each Major location, i.e. Europe,
U.S. Asia, etc. has a very large AS400. We will run JDE independently,
but have for consistency we are trying to maintain the same vanilla JDE,
modifications and custom programming in sync with each other.
We hope to share a central repository at our Parent site in Japan. This
site will maintain copies of everyone else's, localizations as well, I am
expecting in separate environments on the same box. We in the US have
many concerns about how we can do this. We have been told that a program
can only be checked out by one programmer at a time. Well, we expect that
this rule will be difficult to abide by, just because of having to work on
production problems at the same time you have a program checked out for an
enhancement project.
As you can imagine we have modified JDE quite a bit over the years and,
with the usage growing to a global scope within our company, we are
expecting even more.
Any suggestions, or thoughts, or directions to go in, to find more ideas,
would be greatly appreciated. We are looking at software, but that is not
the only solution; much of the process is procedural even when you use
software. A good AS400 or JDE methodology for this is what I am really
looking for but any ideas are gratefully accepted.
If any of you have this situation and are working it out in your company, I
would love to hear from you.
Thanks,
Lynn Pryor
Client Services Manager
Business Engineering Dept.
Murata Electronics
770 319-5128