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,
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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
Huge Trace Files — Not a problem!
By Saad Ahmad, Vice President of Smart IS International Overview JDA/BY has a very useful feature that allows for detailed tracing of a server component. It provides information about every single server component, parameter and also all SQLs that are executed. But that also ends up being an issue as the traces would often reach several
Common Tips and Tricks for RedPrairie(tm) WMS (Technical)
By Saad Ahmad, Vice President of Smart IS International Index Autonomous Nested Transactions in RedPrairie Do not store environment specific data in the database Getting SQLServer deadlocks? An integrator query keeps showing up as bad query for oracle? Always use base-36 sequences Shortcut to run RedPrairie command line tools on Windows Create multiple environments from same
Accurate Location Tracking of Moveable Assets in WMS
By Khurram Ahmad, CEO of Smart IS International Introduction Tracking all moveable assets (Forklifts, Pallet Jacks etc.) inside the warehouse is always challenging for a WMS. All WMS platforms try to tackle this in various ways for providing as accurate of a picture as possible for managing WMS intelligence around Picking and Putaway. In this White
Top Ten Common Mistakes
By Saad Ahmad, Vice President at Smart IS International I initially wanted to title this post as “Top 10 reasons to show your JDA/BY consultant the door” — but that would have been too cold. But these are mistakes I have seen over and over again so I wanted to mention them here. 10. Overuse of
JDA/BY RF Solution for the 21st Century
By Saad Ahmad, Vice President of Smart IS International Overview All JDA/BY WMS implementations need an RF Solution — a solution for physical devices that are used on the floor to perform most of the warehouse functions. Man Hours spent on these devices far exceed than those on GUI screens. But the solution for these
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 doing
MOCA Client Comparison
By Saad Ahmad, Vice President of Smart IS International Thanks to the open framework of JDA/BY MOCA framework we have a few options when it comes to the clients that can access the MOCA Server. I wanted to compare clients to see how they are different from each other. If there are features that I