Innophos, a leading provider of specialty ingredients for food, health, nutrition, and industrial applications, leverages JDE E1's Orchestrator Studio, development tools, and Medius REST API connectors with the expertise of Circular Edge.
Ensuring the success of a project requires meticulous development of detailed test cases. The Medius support team offers customization of business and validation rules, emphasizing the importance of clearly defining these rules at the project’s outset. Effective management of data update timing from E1 to Medius is critical to prevent job queues at the Medius side. Familiarity with error messages in the E1 work-center expedites the resolution of issues during Voucher creation. Additionally, allocating sufficient time in the project plan is essential for the time-consuming initial load process from E1 to Medius (both Masters and Transactional).
Challenges
- Transaction Integrity :Â Maintaining transaction integrity between Medius and E1 is critical. If Invoice & Payments fail to synchronize properly it can lead to discrepancies in financial records, reconciliation problems, and potential audit issues.
- Complex Data Mapping : Medius and E1 have different data structures and formats. Developing mappings between the data fields of the two systems is complex and time-consuming.
- Testing and Validation : Comprehensive testing is essential to ensure that the integrated solution functions as intended under various scenarios.
Business Requirements
- To Automate the sync of Master data as well as Transactional data (POs, Receipts, etc.) between JDE and Medius
- JDE was the initiator for sending as well as receiving data from Medius. i.e. Medius cannot communicate with JDE if an invoice is ready for processing.
- Master Data includes – Suppliers, Pay Terms, Accounts, Tax Groups and Codes, Exchange Rates etc.
- Transaction Data includes – POs, Receipts, Reversals, Payments
- Error handling in E1 when creating vouchers from Invoices
Customer Benefits
- Integration between Medius and JD Edwards streamlines the accounts payable process by automating invoice capture, validation, approval workflows, and payment processing.
- Faster Invoice Approval Cycles
- Automation and integration ensure that financial data flows seamlessly between Medius and JD Edwards, reducing the risk of data entry errors, duplicate payments, and discrepancies.
Lessons Learned
- Detailed test cases development is very important for the success of a project.
- Medius support team provides customization of business rules, validation rules. But the rules should be clearly stated at the start of the project.
- The timing of data updates from E1 to Medius should be effectively managed. Otherwise, it might lead to jobs getting queued up at the Medius side.
- E1 work-center contains a list of error messages when Voucher creation fails. User support team should be well versed with WC messages. This will speed up resolution of errors during Voucher creation.
- Initial load (Masters and Transactional) from E1 to Medius is time consuming process. Sufficient time should be allocated in the project plan for this activity.
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