PeopleSoft Extends Leadership in Manufacturing with Introduction of PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne 8.11.SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- New Product Release Includes More Than 250 Product Enhancements, Builds on Company's Commitment to Demand-Driven Innovation Today at the 2004 APICS APICS Association for Operations Management APICS Educational Society for Resource Management (formerly American Production and Inventory Control Society) APICS American Production & Inventory Control Society International Conference and Exposition, PeopleSoft Inc. (Nasdaq:PSFT PSFT PeopleSoft (stock symbol) PSFT Progressive Saturation Fourier Transform PSFT Prosoft-Technology, Inc ) announced PeopleSoft(R) EnterpriseOne 8.11. The new release incorporates intellectual property from the PeopleSoft Enterprise product family and includes more than 250 product enhancements, including new solutions for designing production lines, processing inbound radio frequency identification See RFID. (RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) A data collection technology that uses electronic tags for storing data. The tag, also known as an "electronic label," "transponder" or "code plate," is made up of an RFID chip attached to an antenna. ) shipments, and managing customer relationships. PeopleSoft also introduced a new sales and operations planning solution and key enhancements that significantly improve the application ownership experience for manufacturers. "As a former J.D. Edwards (J.D. Edwards & Company, Denver, CO, www.jdedwards.com) A developer of multinational, integrated enterprise software for distribution, finance, human resources, manufacturing and supply chain management. customer, we have been impressed with PeopleSoft's drive for innovation and its willingness to collaborate with its customers throughout the development process," said Howard Love, IT Manager - AGCO AGCO Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario AGCO Anderson, Greenwood, & Company AGCO After Google Check-Out - Hesston Division, AGCO Corporation. "This product release is further evidence of PeopleSoft's commitment to delivering customers industry-leading manufacturing solutions and improving the overall software ownership experience." PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne 8.11 is designed for manufacturers in Consumer Goods consumer goods Any tangible commodity purchased by households to satisfy their wants and needs. Consumer goods may be durable or nondurable. Durable goods (e.g., autos, furniture, and appliances) have a significant life span, often defined as three years or more, and , Industrial, Life Sciences, Asset Intensive, and Project Oriented Services industries. The new release delivers the following breakthrough solutions: --PeopleSoft Demand Flow(R) Manufacturing: Formalizes patented approaches for designing production lines, managing material replenishment replenishment the addition of an appropriate quantity of properly prepared solution containing the correct concentration of chemicals to the developer solutions used in radiography. , and staffing manufacturing production lines based on production volume and skill levels. The solution leverages licensed technology from JCIT JCIT Journal of Cases on Information Technology JCIT Joint Combat Information Terminal JCIT Joint Communications Interface Terminal JCIT Joint Commanders Information Terminal International. --PeopleSoft RFID Processor: Builds on PeopleSoft's existing outbound RFID solution that enables suppliers to meet their customers' RFID requirements as dictated for each ship-to location. The new RFID Processor, designed for processing inbound RFID shipments, provides manufacturing professionals immediate visibility into inventory -- whether it is in-transit, in a warehouse, or at the manufacturing plant. --PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. : PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne CRM is the first enterprise CRM solution to incorporate manufacturing-specific business processes for sales and after-sales service after-sales service n (BRIT) (COMM) (for car, washing machine etc) → servicio de asistencia pos-venta after-sales service n → service m interactions, including lead and opportunity management, consensus-based forecasting, real-time order promising, and case and service management. The solution also leverages intellectual property from PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM, and integrates customer-facing processes with back-office operations to deliver consistent customer information across the enterprise. --PeopleSoft Sales and Operations Planning: Provides a single repository for sales, manufacturing operations Manufacturing operations concern the operation of a facility, as opposed to maintenance, supply and distribution, health, and safety, emergency response, human resources, security, information technology and other infrastructural support organizations. , engineering and finance information. As a result, companies can more effectively anticipate fluctuations in demand and simulate the financial implications of supply chain decisions. PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne 8.11 includes numerous Total Ownership Experience enhancements. After extensive testing in PeopleSoft's lab environment, the company has reported the following performance gains: --38 percent reduction in overall installation time --28 percent reduced time to complete key user tasks --40 percent reduced time to implement applications using PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne Rapid Start, a pre-packaged software See software package. and services solution "PeopleSoft has delivered an unprecedented amount of new functionality to our EnterpriseOne customers since the acquisition of J.D. Edwards just 15 months ago," said Les Wyatt, group vice president and general manager, PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne. "We've remained laser focused on delivering innovative solutions that enable companies to become demand-driven manufacturers. With over 250 new product enhancements in PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne 8.11, we continue to distance ourselves from the competition." For more information on the new PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne 8.11 applications, see individual news releases distributed today at: http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/news_events/news/database/index.jsp PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne 8.11 is in beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the today and will be generally available in December 2004. PeopleSoft Global Services NOW upgrade program PeopleSoft customers running previous versions of PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne can more easily upgrade to PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne 8.10 or PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne 8.11 with the new PeopleSoft Global Services NOW upgrade program, a new program announced at PeopleSoft Connect 2004. When PeopleSoft Global Services primes an upgrade, PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne customers are eligible for a combination of upgrade, maintenance, education, and software incentives, including a free technical upgrade utilizing one of PeopleSoft Global Services' six global solution centers. To learn more about the PeopleSoft Global Services NOW initiative, please visit: www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/consulting/peoplesoft/index.jsp?site=corp The PeopleSoft NOW upgrade program is available September 21 through December 31, 2004. About PeopleSoft PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT) is the world's second largest provider of enterprise application software with 12,400 customers in more than 25 industries and 150 countries. For more information, visit us at www.peoplesoft.com. Forward-Looking Statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. Statements made in this press release that state the Company's or management's intentions, beliefs, expectations, or predictions for the future are forward-looking statements. Readers are cautioned that these statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results. Factors that may bear on the accuracy of these predictions include economic conditions in the U.S. and abroad, the ability to complete and deliver products and services within currently estimated time frames and budgets, market response to product announcements, and other risks referenced from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Please refer to the Company's periodic reports to shareholders (Forms 10-K and 10-Q) for more information on the risk factors that could cause actual results to differ PeopleSoft is a registered trademark of PeopleSoft, Inc, and Demand Flow is a registered trademark of JCIT. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright (C) 2004 PeopleSoft, Inc. All rights reserved. |
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