With ambitious growth plans, DX needed a partner that would help them lay the foundations for growth with a modern ERP in the Cloud.
Through excellent project management, communication, and collaboration, Redfaire International and DX delivered a successful project even through the complications of the COVID-19 lockdown.
“We very much enjoyed working with the Redfaire team to deliver this project. From the very beginning, there was excellent communication and collaboration between both teams. Despite the challenging context of the coronavirus lockdown, the teams delivered a complex, transformative project on-time and on budget. A fabulous achievement.”
£329m in Revenue
3,600 Employees
100 million items
delivered every year
2,600 daily delivery &
collection routes
DX provides a wide range of specialist delivery services to both business and residential addresses across the UK and Ireland. The company operates through two divisions, DX Freight and DX Express. DX seeks to provide an excellent, market-leading service delivering exactly to customers’ requirements.
DX has ambitious growth plans. To achieve its objectives of long-term, sustainable profit, and cash generation, the company focuses on customer service excellence and operational efficiency.
After ten years on EnterpriseOne 9.0, DX upgraded to JD Edwards 9.2 and moved the ERP onto Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This significant IT investment ensures the company has a modern, future-proof technology stack which:
DX chose Redfaire International because of their proactive approach, their clear technical competence, in both JD Edwards and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and their excellence in project management.
JD Edwards customers can innovate faster, improve customer engagement, drive business-process efficiency, and accelerate digital transformation with Oracle Cloud.
Upgrading EnterpriseOne 9.0 to EnterpriseOne 9.2
Upgrading to the latest version of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne has delivered significant functional enhancements.
Key outcomes include:
Being on the latest version of JD Edwards also means that future ERP upgrades will be completed using a simplified upgrade approach.
Deploying JD Edwards on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
DX selected Redfaire’s Cloud 9 service, in preference to an on-premises deployment. Cloud 9 delivers a fully managed hosted solution on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
JD Edwards on OCI delivers:
As part of the migration, DX also moved from SQL to Oracle Databases, leading to substantial performance improvements.
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