Paul Kreuger
The Chief Information Officer
Opus was also the clear choice on UPK conversion, in testing and security. In fact, some of the competitors we looked at to Opus do not have a true UPK converting process, which was a factor for JBPCO
Key Results
3 WEEKS
Implement Epilogus Opus under 3 weeks in 2023
90 DAYS
Opus content is refreshed every 90 days
1000 UPK+
Converting thousands of Oracle UPK topics related to content
JB Poindexter & Co [JBPCO} is a privately held portfolio of businesses that provide best-in-class innovative services for commercial trucks, specialty vehicles, upfit and accessory, and manufacturing industries. JBPCO applies innovative operational and financial disciplines to truck and van bodies, pick-up truck covers and accessories, industrial vehicle storage and shelving, funeral coaches, limousines, specialty industrial parts and expandable foam packaging. The portfolio of industry-leading business units includes Morgan, Morgan Olson, Truck Accessories Group, Reading, Masterack, Specialty Vehicle Group, EAVX, MIC Group, and EFP Corporation.
In the summer of 2022, Paul Kreuger, the Chief Information Officer & Vice President of Information Technology, knew that their eLearning solution Oracle UPK was coming to the end of its support life in that year and needed to replace it to assist their employee base using IT Applications such as JD Edwards. Kreuger considered tools such as Ancile uPerform, Datango & Clicklearn, but settled on Epilogue Opus and was assisted through the selection process by their System Integrator, iLearnERP.
Kreuger tasked his Team with producing all educational, end user support and change content for their JDE installations across all business units, focusing on having all employees become self-sufficient on support in Finance, Manufacturing, Logistics, Materials, QA, and Supply Chain Management. Kreuger knew that one of the most important aspects was the ongoing, easy maintenance and consumption of that content for those 6 JDE areas.
Having used Oracle UPK extensively, JBPCO was able to implement Epilogue Opus in under 3 weeks in 2023 and have lots of Subject Matter Experts creating content in Opus: a testament to the effectiveness of Kreuger’s Team in change management and change communications. Looking forward with Opus, there are no restrictions to any other IT Application, such as Ceridian, Dayforce HCM, Salesforce & Docebo LMS at JBPCO.
JBPCO also looked at other solutions including Adobe Suite, Whatfix, TTS and WalkMe, and states “We took advise from our long standing Edwards’ system Integrator and tested all offerings thoroughly, and because of the content was 100% web based with Opus stored in one location via AWS, as well as the ability to use the Opus Content Library as an LCMS, the decision was straightforward”. Kreuger continues “Opus allows us to have a lean content development process, using the SMEs to author the content, then the L&D Teams review, edits and publishes from one screen and all the Opus outputs are updated : the Opus Solution also migrated all our UPK content in bulk in minutes with a high fidelity“ Kreuger continues “ ”.
Kreuger continues “The JBPCO IT Security Team are focused on keeping all the system data and information safe, and our due diligence for the thousands of end users meant that the IT Teams were heavily involved at every step” JBPCO also have planned to utilize Opus on RF Readers and Tablet PCs throughout the business units.
JBPCO likes the ease of editing in Opus, UPK conversion utility & language conversion functionality. Additional training benefits include Quizzes & Tests on the competency of manufacturing employees, as well as Sandbox access via Opus Simulations.
The JBPCO IT Security Team are focused on keeping all the system data and information safe, and our due diligence for the thousands of end users meant that the IT Teams were heavily involved at every step
The key to accellerating
your digital adoption
Acme Brick had several Key Business Objectives including migration away from Oracle UPK and increased user adoption. These objectives were mirrored in Learning offerings:
Training covers all employees
Training material available
Reduce time to proficiency in employees
Self-support in the IT Applications for new employees
Training uses IT Application system screens
No end user disruption in migration from UPK
Highlights at JBPCO include
- Opus is now the JDE end user support platform for all staff
- Replaced UPK in 2023 in under 3 weeks
- IT Applications include JD Edwards, Ceridian, Salesforce, & HCM
- JBPCO have over 500 UPK converted Documents
- JBPCO are using Opus Follow Me for live In Application Support
- Opus will support multiple languages including Spanish and French Canadian
JB POINDEXTER & CO
Innovative services to the trucking & specialty vehicle industries
Paul Krueger
Vice President, Digital Transformation
Opus was also the clear choice on UPK conversion, in testing and security. In fact, some of the competitors we looked at to Opus do not have a true UPK converting process, which was a factor for JBPCO
Key Results
3 WEEKS
Implement Epilogue Opus under 3 weeks in 2023
90 DAYS
Opus content is refreshed every 90 days
1000 UPK+
Converting thousands of Oracle UPK topics related to content
JB Poindexter & Co is a privately held portfolio of businesses that provide best-in-class innovative services for commercial trucks, specialty vehicles, upfit and accessory, and manufacturing industries. JBPCO applies innovative operational and financial disciplines to truck and van bodies, pick-up truck covers and accessories, industrial vehicle storage and shelving, funeral coaches, limousines, specialty industrial parts and expandable foam packaging. The portfolio of industry-leading business units includes Morgan Truck Body, Morgan Olson, LEER Group, Reading Truck, Masterack, MIC Group, FederalEagle, and others.
In the summer of 2022, Paul Kreuger, Vice President, Digital Transformation, knew that their digital adoption solution, Oracle UPK, was coming to the end of its support life and needed to replace it with a new digital adoption tool to assist their employees using critical applications such as JD Edwards, Ceridian Dayforce and Salesforce. Kreuger considered tools such as Ancile uPerform, TTS, Clicklearn, and Epilogue Opus. Their Systems Integrator, iLearnERP, assisted their selection process.
Kreuger tasked his team with finding a digital adoption platform that could produce all the help content types their users had become accustomed to with Oracle UPK. The initial focus was to replace and augment such content for JD Edwards across all business units.
Having used Oracle UPK extensively, JBPCO was able to implement Epilogue Opus in under 3 weeks in 2023 and have lots of Subject Matter Experts creating content in Opus: a testament to the effectiveness of Kreuger’s Team in change management and change communications.
JBPCO also looked at other solutions including Adobe Suite, Whatfix, TTS and WalkMe, and states “We took advise from our long standing Edwards’ system Integrator and tested all offerings thoroughly, and because of the content was 100% web based with Opus stored in one location via AWS, as well as the ability to use the Opus Content Library as an LCMS, the decision was straightforward”. Kreuger continues “Opus allows us to have a lean content development process, using the SMEs to author the content, then the L&D Teams review, edits and publishes from one screen and all the Opus outputs are updated : the Opus Solution also migrated all our UPK content in bulk in minutes with a high fidelity“ Kreuger continues “ ”.
Kreuger continues “The JBPCO IT Security Team are focused on keeping all the system data and information safe, and our due diligence for the thousands of end users meant that the IT Teams were heavily involved at every step” JBPCO also have planned to utilize Opus on RF Readers and Tablet PCs throughout the business units.
JBPCO likes the ease of editing in Opus, UPK conversion utility & language conversion functionality. Additional training benefits include Quizzes & Tests on the competency of manufacturing employees, as well as Sandbox access via Opus Simulations.
The JBPCO IT Security Team are focused on keeping all the system data and information safe, and our due diligence for the thousands of end users meant that the IT Teams were heavily involved at every step
The key to accelerating
your digital adoption
JBPCO had several Key Business Objectives including migration away from Oracle UPK and increased user adoption. These objectives were mirrored in Learning offerings:
Training covers
all employees
all employees
Training material
available
available
Reduce time
to proficiency
in employees
to proficiency
in employees
Self-support in the
IT Applications for
new employees
IT Applications for
new employees
Training uses
IT Application
system screens
IT Application
system screens
No end user
disruption in
migration from UPK
disruption in
migration from UPK
JBPCO had several Key Business Objectives including migration away from Oracle UPK and increased user adoption. These objectives were mirrored in Learning offerings:
Training covers
all employees
all employees
Training material
available
available
Reduce time
to proficiency
in employees
to proficiency
in employees
Self-support in the IT Applications for new employees
Training uses
IT Application
system screens
IT Application
system screens
No end user
disruption in
migration from UPK
disruption in
migration from UPK
JBPCO had several Key Business Objectives including migration away from Oracle UPK and increased user adoption. These objectives were mirrored in Learning offerings:
Training covers
all employees
all employees
Training material
available
available
Reduce time
to proficiency
in employees
to proficiency
in employees
Self-support in
the IT Applications
for new employees
the IT Applications
for new employees
Training uses
IT Application
system screens
IT Application
system screens
No end user
disruption in
migration from UPK
disruption in
migration from UPK
Highlights at JBPCO include
- Opus is now the JDE end user support platform for all staff
- Replaced UPK in 2023 in under 3 weeks
- IT Applications include JD Edwards, Ceridian, Salesforce, & HCM
- JBPCO have over 500 UPK converted Documents
- JBPCO are using Opus Follow Me for live In Application Support
- Opus will support multiple languages including Spanish and French Canadian
