By Saad Ahmad, Executive Vice President of Smart IS International Every WMS implementation needs to deal with interfaces. This includes host interfaces, e.g. interfacing with SAP, Oracle, JDE, etc. and also to the automation equipment. Many times the project plan calls for these tasks at the wrong time and that can lead to overall delays and
Year: 2019
EMERGE 2019: What a Success!
By Khurram Ahmad, CEO of Smart IS International Wow! We never knew you guys did all this stuff! When we at Oracular IS LLC started the re-branding conversation last year, the main thrust behind this conversation was the fact that even though we have been in the Fox Valley area for almost 30 years, no one
Is Archiving the way to deal with old data in 2018?
By Saad Ahmad, Executive Vice President of Smart IS International Overview JDA/BY WMS requires customers to have a data archival strategy. The approach that they push and most customers end up adopting is akin to using a sledge hammer to push a nail. The JDA/BY approach is quite interesting and probably an appropriate mechanism if the
Myth Buster — Number of Rows in a Table is NOT the Issue
By Saad Ahmad, Executive Vice President of Smart IS International Overview I have heard this myth so many times that we have issues “because we have too many rows in table x” — or in response to a support request we are told “this is because your purges are not set up properly” or over engineered
Change Management
By Khurram Ahmad CEO of Smart IS International
Any organization that is striving to do better is undergoing a constant change. Managing this change and communicating it through the organization allows for growth and lack of it ends producing chaos.
What is “Change”? Understanding this will
Metron: Meeting Your Needs
By Khurram Ahmad, CEO of Smart IS International JDA/BY WMS Application offers a multitude of options for enhancing the operational efficiencies of the warehouse. It achieves this through a highly configurable product that can adapt to the changing needs of business dynamics and still achieve the needed operation throughput. While the JDA/BY Application is
Some Handy Moca Commands
By Saad Ahmad, Executive Vice President of Smart IS International Overview In this blog post, I list some handy MOCA commands that can help when performing ad hoc support tasks on a RedPrairie server. Originally published on saadwmsblog.blogspot.com
Web Framework of JDA/BY WMS 2017
Considerations for an Upgrade By Khurram Ahmad, CEO of Smart IS International As an organization you have committed to upgrade to JDA/BY WMS 2017+ and are in the process of evaluating the effort required for this upgrade and whether this upgrade can solely be considered a “Technical” upgrade? Like any organization running pre-JDA/BY WMS 2017+ software,
Querying JDA/BY WMS Data for Adhoc Analysis
By Saad Ahmad, Executive Vice President of Smart IS International Overview JDA/BY instances can have over 1000 tables and over 5000 distinct field names. Exact counts can vary based on the options that are installed and if there are customizations. Typical RedPrairie installation is in a single schema for oracle or a single database in SQL
Blockchain For Supply Chain — Reality or Just Another Fad!
By Saad Ahmad, Vice President of Smart IS International Overview Every few years we see enthusiasm generated by certain innovations, as that single solution will solve all of the problems we have in the world. XML was supposed to solve all the problems with EDI data exchange. Open Source was supposed to render Oracle, Microsoft, and