Oracle E‑Business Suite

Supply Chain Management Execution

The Oracle E‑Business Supply Chain Execution family of applications supports the complete order-to-cash business process, capturing demand from any channel, providing inbound and outbound transportation management, and supporting large, complex distribution operations. A unified data model provides a single, accurate view of the entire supply chain execution process, so you can plan, manage, and control the flow and storage of goods, services, and related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption in order to meet customer requirements. And when Oracle Supply Chain Management Execution runs on Oracle technology, you speed implementation, optimize performance, streamline support, and maximize return on your investment.

Seamless Integration, Complete Flexibility

Oracle Supply Chain Management Execution is part of the Oracle E‑Business Suite, integrating with other E‑Business Suite applications, including Oracle Manufacturing and Oracle Procurement, and leveraging technologies such as Oracle Sensor-Based Services. Implement one or several application families — or implement the complete Oracle Business Suite for the fastest way to high-quality enterprise information.

Advanced Supply Chain Planning 

With today’s rapidly changing business conditions, you need a planning tool that surpasses the traditional latency of disconnected planning processes or Excel planning spreadsheets. You can leverage Oracle® Advanced Supply Chain Planning to be more responsive. You can perform simultaneous material and capacity planning across multiple distribution and manufacturing facilities and time horizons in a single planning run, while at the same time accounting for the latest consensus forecast, sales orders, production status, purchase orders, and inventory policy recommendations. You can choose to start immediately with more advanced, constrained, and optimized planning, leveraging the out-of-the-box optimization, or you can decide to get to that point gradually by starting with unconstrained planning.

Features And Benefits

• Reduce Planning Cycle Time — Holistic Supply and Distribution Planning: Oracle® Advanced Supply Chain Planning enables you to run holistic plans that span long-term aggregate planning to short-term detailed schedules, multiple manufacturing processes (lot-based, process, discrete, configure-to-order, and project-based), and all organizations across a virtual supply chain. As a single solution for distribution, supply chain, and manufacturing planning, it is based on one supply chain model, one planning engine, and one setup. Its flexible configuration, however, enables you to define different models that can co-exist (hub-and-spoke planning; single plan) and evolve as your organization grows without requiring reimplementation. Extensive defaulting logic, paired with a productivity-enhancing UI and strong exception management, enables planners to use the tool to make their planning decisions quickly.

• Comprehensive Distribution Planning: Oracle® Advanced Supply Chain Planning offers comprehensive support for companies that focus more on solving distribution and replenishment problems. Distribution planners can leverage a comprehensive Distribution Planner Workbench that presents global visibility of material positions, automates allocations and redistribution between regional and central distribution centers, with the ability to manually override, consolidates individual shipments into optimal truckloads, highlights exceptions, and release planning recommendations for execution while taking into account kitting, end item substitution, date effective sourcing, distribution, allocation rules, global forecasting, alternates (components, suppliers, facilities, and ship methods), and supplier capacity constraints.

• Increase planner productivity and reduce decision-making latency: Planners can leverage robust exception management and root-cause analysis in combination with graphical supply chain pegging to identify and resolve problems from end demand to the lowest level component or resource requirements. Extensive use of workflow to enable process automation and automated corrective action enables you to reduce the non-value-added expenses of manual activity significantly. In addition, planners can leverage extensive personalization to tailor their workspace to their needs. Combined with the powerful simulation and multi-planner collaboration capabilities, it enables them to perform their planning tasks quickly and efficiently.