Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Planning

Learn how Oracle’s supply chain planning software supports the specific requirements of a wide variety of businesses on a unified platform, including high technology and manufacturing enterprises, project-oriented organizations, wholesalers and distributors, healthcare providers, and service-based supply chains.

Demand management: Sense, predict, and shape demand for better outcomes

Next-generation demand management incorporating replenishment planning, segmentation capabilities, new product introduction, and machine learning for planners. Sense demand to improve visibility Transform qualitative and quantitative signals from diverse sources into business insights. Analyze demand by segment Dynamically group items, locations, and customers with similar behavior into segments that share a demand profile. Predict demand to manage variability Use machine learning to generate more accurate forecasts, while measuring and tracking the root cause of forecast error. Evaluate the impact of demand changes Analyze the cause and effect of seasonality, promotional events, product attributes, and leading indicators to make adjustments to inventory. Shape demand to achieve business objectives Simulate forecast scenarios, collaborate with stakeholders, and manage new product introductions to improve business performance. Establish a robust demand plan for your manufacturing strategy Track changes, monitor exceptions, and synchronize with sales and operations planning (S&OP) and supply plans to ensure a well-functioning process.

Replenishment planning: Enable demand-driven replenishment

Make replenishment planning easy and effective. Drive more accurate fulfillment with inventory policies and consumption rules tailored to demand segments. Plan for customer-centric demand Integrate demand-driven consumption, inventory and fulfillment to meet customer-specific requirements. Predict consumption to optimize service levels Forecast demand to anticipate seasonal, trend, and event-based changes and keep supply within inventory thresholds. Tailor inventory policies to demand segments Automatically assign replenishment parameters to groups of items and locations based on their behavior to reduce stockouts. Simulate and resolve replenishment issues Graphically simulate and adjust the replenishment strategy for individual items and locations to improve performance. Automate continuous replenishment Calculate replenishment requirements and release of planned orders automatically as consumption occurs. Make more effective replenishment buying decisions Consolidate orders to maximize price breaks and save on transit costs while maintaining service levels.

Supply planning: Optimize resources for service and cost

Identify and execute the best supply to demand plans. Plan items across multitier locations, identify and address the most important problems, and simulate potential responses to optimize customer service and the cost of inventory. Unify planning processes Balance demand and supply, optimize inventory for service and cost, and plan for multiple material and capacity scenarios. Plan the entire supply chain Plan process, discrete, project-driven, configure-to-order, and outsourced production, as well as drop-ship and back-to-back fulfillment. Monitor and prioritize supply problems Use embedded analytics to review impact on KPIs, such as margin and turns, and navigate to focus on problem areas. Predict and proactively respond to disruptions Review and collaborate on planned supply order changes with internal and external stakeholders. Utilize built-in machine learning or integration with Internet of Things (IoT) systems.

Production scheduling: Improve production efficiency

Schedule production during the day to maximize use of bottleneck resources and available components. Reduce work in process inventory, waste, and expedites. Visualize how work order operations are allocated to resources. Drag and drop to simulate the best response to issues or changes, and release schedules for execution in real time. Create high-quality, executable schedules Use real-time resource availability and work orders in Oracle Cloud Fusion Manufacturing to create feasible schedules that take the latest material, capacity, and calendar constraints into account. Optimize changeovers to minimize downtime Increase throughput and asset utilization with schedules that make efficient changeovers based on your industry attributes, minimizing idle time. Resolve shop floor bottlenecks Schedule work order operations with your desired attribute sequence to maximize the efficiency of your production lines. Reduce bottlenecks by offloading to alternate resources. Simulate the impact of schedule changes Easily inspect schedules and analyze production issues in a visual Gantt chart. Make drag-and-drop adjustments and edit dispatch lists as necessary. Run quick in-line simulations and what-ifs to resolve issues. Minimize the effect of unplanned downtime Run and repair schedules dynamically to deal with unexpected machine outages, labor shortages, material delays, and changes in order priorities. Release adjusted schedules as needed during the day for instant shop floor execution. Proactively monitor your shop floor Evaluate how your factory is scheduled at a glance, with interactive analytics that reveal insights about changeover time, resource utilization, and late orders.

Backlog management: Intelligently manage open orders

Prioritize your open orders to reduce delivery delays, increase sales, or achieve margin targets when supply or demand changes. Simulate multiple fulfillment alternatives, and select those that best meet your business objectives. React intelligently to supply and demand changes Use available supply to schedule new orders and reduce delays while respecting existing promise dates. Fulfill the most important orders first Prioritize orders in the backlog using flexible business rules that maximize order revenue, margin, and service. Solve sourcing and fulfillment problems Model what-if changes to sourcing, transit mode, and shipping constraints to respond quickly and find the best solutions. Perform what-if order planning Simulate the scheduling and availability impact of a potential order on the rest of the backlog.

Sales and operations planning: Align the enterprise with continuous planning

Align business plans and operations across your sales, marketing, finance, and supply chain organizations. Build agility into your operations to orchestrate change across your organization and balance demand and supply for the best possible outcomes. Align the enterprise Leverage built-in, integrated business planning processes and collaborative tools to drive consensus among stakeholders. Build a realistic aggregate plan Balance aggregate supply and demand by modeling and comparing alternative constrained planning scenarios. Achieve business objectives Gain insight from personalized, KPI-driven dashboards to support revenue growth and cost management tradeoff decisions. Act confidently on the consensus plan Quickly aggregate and disaggregate demand and supply plans to optimize utilization and investment decisions.

Integrated business planning and execution (IBPX): Connect your planning, execution, finance, and operations

Transform plans into execution and monitor activity to detect unexpected events using IoT, AI, and prescriptive analytics. Simulate and evaluate alternative responses to maintain or improve business targets. Reduce decision latency Leverage real-time planning and execution details to act on negative trends faster and more effectively. Consolidate all planning in a single hub Improve your short- and long-range strategic planning by seamlessly integrating planning and execution into a single data model. Enhance visibility across the enterprise A unified data model provides a single view for all participants. Use advanced analytics to provide business outcome projections, simplifying business complexity and enabling managers to make timely decisions.

Supply chain collaboration: Engage trading partners to reduce supply chain disruptions

Collaborate on supply and negotiate forecast commitments with strategic suppliers and contract manufacturers. Resolve issues before they become customer service problems. Collaborate on order forecasts Share order forecasts with suppliers, review their changes, and integrate them into your supply planning processes. Orchestrate supplier commitments Manage the end-to-end process of negotiating supplier commitments and enforcing service-level agreements. Enable vendor-managed inventory Allow suppliers to trigger orders and confirm shipments for their consigned and unconsigned materials at your sites. Collaborate with contract manufacturers Automatically update contract manufacturing work order status based on the outsourced production progress. Provide online supplier access Offer suppliers easy, interactive access to collaboration and visibility processes through the supplier portal. Synchronize multiple supply tiers Capture on-hand, on-order, and in-transit supply from contract manufacturers and suppliers to enhance supply plans.

Supply chain visibility: Respond proactively to supply chain changes

Get better visibility into upstream supply both internally and with strategic suppliers and contract manufacturers. Get early warnings to mismatched expectations and leverage available supplier capacity in your supply plans. Analyze supply chain activity in real time Use Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) to analyze and report on the real-time status your supply chain. Assess end-to-end supply chain performance Visualize the overall performance of your global supply chain in Oracle Fusion Analytics Warehouse. Automate visibility using web services Get programmatic access to the real-time status of Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud transactions via REST services. Use machine learning to predict events Extend visibility into the future by applying predictive analytics to Internet of Things supply chain signals. Track activity via a digital thread Capture and visualize the choreography of supply chain transactions in a blockchain-based digital ledger.