Print checks from JD Edwards using BI Publisher

Business Challenge
A large homebuilder decided to replace the existing check rendering approach and use XML Publisher to print their checks from JDE 8.11. However, JDE 8.11 would only render the checks and make them available to be manually selected and printed one by one. Given the volume of checks, this was cumbersome and Frontier Homes required the checks to print immediately without manual intervention. Oracle Support notified us that this print immediate functionality will only be available in the next release of JDE.

Solution
Our client selected Oracle Fusion Middleware for the versatility and rich features that XML Publisher provides to address their printing/publishing needs. The Innowave Print Immediate solution is a combination of processes that take the place of JDE Print Immediate when the XML Publisher is used to create the Print Automatic Payments checks (R04572). After the checks get rendered in JDE by the built-in functionality provided, this solution directs the output to a designated printer so that the checks get printed immediately without any manual intervention. This initiative involved seven person weeks of effort and took three months to develop and implement. The biggest challenge was to ensure that checks that were already processed by this solution were not processed multiple times.

Results
This initiative has saved our client several hours of effort during each check run by eliminating the manual effort required to process and print their checks. Based on the success of this initiative, Frontier Homes has already leveraged BI Publisher to render their contracts which were originally manually created and printed using MS-Word.