By Khurram Ahmad, CEO of Smart IS International Working with the Blue Yonder (BY) WMS application can take on many roles. Your relationship with it could be that: You are a general user that primarily interacts with the application through the provided screens and navigate using the menu options. You are super user and often end
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Auto-Waving in BlueYonder WMS Application
By Khurram Ahmad, CEO of Smart IS International The BlueYonder TM (BY) WMS product comes with a rich featured Wave Planning process. However, it is limited in automating the business rules that are generally operationally implemented during the wave planning process by an organization. When we evaluate Wave Planning SOPs for an organization the following common
Business Intelligence for JDA/BlueYonder Systems:
Analyzing Need for a Labor Management System By Saad Ahmad, Executive VP of Smart IS International Abstract Blue Yonder (BY) tables contain valuable information that can determine important Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for a site. Such data exists in tables like “dlytrn” that are extremely large and not easy to query. Moreover, due to deployment decisions
Right way to tackle JDA/BY Interfaces
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
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
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,
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
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