Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud

Oracle Supply Chain Management (SCM) is complete, open integrated solution for supply chain management on the basis of up-to-date information. By means of Oracle SCM of the company can predict market demand, work in the conditions of the unstable market and synchronize transactions on the global area network. Oracle SCM proposes the industry solutions based on the leading applications intended for product development, demand management, sales and operations planning, management of transportations and deliveries.

2019: Logistics of exit service and interaction within a supply chain

On March 27, 2019 it became known that the corporation Oracle announced a series of innovations in Oracle Supply Chain Management (SCM) Cloud. The advanced updates will allow the organizations to cut down expenses and to anticipate constantly changing customer expectations, connecting customer service and exit specialists, approving orders and drawing of accounts with the project and/or with the organization and optimizing inventory management on the party of suppliers (VMI).

The organizations need the effective and quickly reacting supply chain to be ahead of constantly changing expectations, and it requires trust, transparency and open communication in all production and sales chain — John Chorli, the Director of sustainable development and the vice president of group on supply chain management of Oracle noted. — Innovations in Oracle SCM Cloud will help clients to take more benefits from the investments, to create the adaptive organizations and to lay the foundation for the coming era of transparent supply chains on the basis of blockchain technologies".

Thanks to Oracle SCM Cloud of the company of any size can take advantage of innovations in the field of artificial intelligence, a blockchain and Internet of Things within network of suppliers to increase productivity, to reduce costs and to minimize risks. Among the announced innovations in Oracle SCM Cloud:

• logistics of exit service. The solution allows the organizations to solve quickly problems of clients, connecting service commands and groups of exit service. Such communication allows customer support to order parts directly within a service request, to coordinate timely delivery and to optimize operational stocks of the service technician;
• project-oriented supply chains. This functionality facilitates exact and timely drawing of accounts after order fulfillment by integration and automation of tracking of parameters of the project and the related costs from the customer order;
• interaction within a supply chain. The management tool helps to resupply with stocks on the party of the supplier and provides accurate, exact and effective interaction, allowing users it is safe to use the available stocks together with the selected suppliers^[1].

2015: The Supply Chain Management Cloud service is filled up

On November 5, 2015 the Oracle corporation announced inclusion in the cloud applicaion for supply chain management of Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud (Oracle SCM Cloud) of two services – Oracle Planning Central Cloud and Oracle Manufacturing Cloud. Besides, Oracle improved a cloud service of Oracle Order Management Cloud and other solutions on all Oracle SCM Cloud portfolio. All these updates allow producers to manage supply chains in a modern cloud environment for all range of key business process models:

• Source-to-Settle — including processes of Procure-to-Pay ("From purchase before Payment") and a full support of initial (main) materials
• Ideas-to-Commercialization — for the made and purchased products
• Order-to-Cash — including with Oracle CX Cloud, for expansion of process to marketing, sales and price quotation
• Plan-to-Produce is consolidation of planning, production and accomplishment of the plan/order

2011

Structure of a solution package of Oracle SCM

For May, 2011 the solution package includes systems:

• JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Supply Chain Management J
• D Edwards World Manufacturing Management
• Oracle E-Business Suite Supply Chain Management
• PeopleSoft Enterprise Supply Chain Management

Results of clients

• Ingersol Rand: Performance improvement for 50%, cutting of costs for support of suppliers for 75%, expense reduction on service, routine maintenance and overhaul repairs for 20%
• Pennsylvania State University: Expense reduction for 77.5 million dollars is documented.
• Sandia National Laboratories: Saving more than 11 million dollars, decrease in time of processing by 25%
• VeriSign: Decrease in errors more than for 80%, performance improvement for 230%
• TUI: The company providing services of tourism and transport transportations saved 20 million euros on selection of suppliers and 25% on auxiliary materials
• Boeing: Increase in wholesale discounts by 5%
• Pella: Decrease in a production cycle by 86% of Alcoa: Expense reduction on processing of procurement documentation for 89%

Links

In more detail about solutions on the website of Oracle

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