Work Faster and Smarter with Franklin
The AI Digital Assistant for JD Edwards – Your partner in automating tasks, boosting productivity, and driving smarter decisions.
Are You Facing These Struggles?
Even with JD Edwards, managing daily operations can feel overwhelming.
Production Delays
Production schedules often fall behind due to manual updates.
Data Challenges
Accessing financial data requires complex queries and manual effort.
Forecasting Errors
Forecasting is tedious and prone to errors due to manual calculations.
Work Order Complexity
Prioritizing and assigning work orders takes too much time and clicks.
Missed Anomalies
Delayed decision-making caused by scattered data.
AI Tailored for Your Business
Franklin adapts to your unique business needs, integrating seamlessly with JD Edwards to simplify and accelerate your processes. Its potential is as diverse as your challenges.
How Can Franklin Work For Your Business?
You decide how Franklin helps your team, from simply answering questions to executing complex tasks. That flexibility is what makes Franklin fit your business needs.
Franklin Insights
When Franklin is in Insight Mode, he acts like a subject-matter expert who’s always on call. Ask a question in plain language — “What’s our current inventory level?” or “How are expenses tracking against the budget?” — and Franklin delivers instant, accurate answers.
Franklin can:
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Search across your JDE data for real-time insights
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Summarize data to reveal year-over-year trends or variances by ledger type
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Identify top-performing accounts or recurring bottlenecks
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Forecast results and detect anomalies in income, sales, or supply chain
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Highlight missing targets and where inventory accuracy is slipping
Franklin Actions
When Franklin is in Action mode, he goes beyond information retrieval to actually perform work.
Think of him as an intelligent teammate who can complete workflows, trigger orchestrations, or automate repetitive tasks across departments.
Franklin can:
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Create and update JDE on the fly
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Trigger orchestrations or workflow approvals
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Manage sales orders or invoice processing
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Schedule production or adjust inventory levels
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Send notifications and follow-ups automatically
Where Does Franklin Fit in Your Business?
It’s not just about what Franklin does, it’s who he supports inside your organization. Franklin is trained on the role it will serve, learning the specific data, processes, and terminology of that function.
Examples of Franklin's Roles:
Finance - Handles reconciliations, forecasting, and financial queries.
Manufacturing - Manages work orders, scheduling, and production data.
Supply Chain - Tracks sales orders, inventory, and logistics updates.
Customer Service - Retrieves order status and automates responses.
IT - Monitors system performance and user access requests.
HR - Provides quick answers to employee or payroll questions.
Getting Started with Franklin is Simple
There’s no one-size-fits-all AI here. We customize Franklin to fit your business. You decide how Franklin helps, what he learns, and how he supports your team. Getting started takes just three simple steps to make Franklin yours.
Finalize Your Use Case
Define what you want Franklin to accomplish first. The use case can focus on generating insights, automating tasks, or doing both, depending on where Franklin can make the biggest impact in your business.
We’ll Work Together to Build Your Franklin
Through collaborative planning and training, we tailor Franklin to your data, systems, and goals, ensuring it is perfectly aligned with how your business operates.
Experience Better Results
Once configured, Franklin is ready to go. You can ask it questions, automate key tasks, trigger orchestrations, and get real-time recommendations.
Franklin Actions for Manufacturing
Get help streamline your operations and keep everything running smoothly. Franklin will analyze and understand your manufacturing and warehouse data to make updates or recommendations, such as:
Automate production scheduling and inventory checks.
Track and manage work orders with ease.
Ensure accurate stock levels and prevent costly delays.
Digital Assistant to Help Manufacturing
Franklin Insights for Finance
Designed to manage the complexities of your financial operations, Franklin provides advanced insights and automation to accelerate processes, including:
Generate real-time financial reports tailored to your business metrics.
Automate account reconciliation and month-end processes, customized to fit your systems.
Access insights for forecasting and budgeting that align with your specific goals.
Digital Assistant to Help Finance
What our customers are saying
"AI is helping us with our manufacturing processes by creating alternate BOMs and routings and reducing manual work for our schedulers and planners.
Next up, we want AI to be more involved by making work order suggestions from MRP messages."
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