Implement New Modules When You Upgrade from Release 11i to Release 12: ...

Implement Advanced Supply Chain Planning

• Mixed Mode Manufacturing Production Schedules
• Use Drag and Drop Scheduling
• Generate plans from multiple instances
• Measure key performance indicators against targets
• Define penalty factors and run constrained optimized plans (with Oracle Constraint Based and Optimized Planning)
• Optimize plans across multiple facilities, balancing trade-off between various objectives (e.g. minimize Inventory costs, optimize purchasing costs, maximize customer service or plant capacity)
• Plan for alternative Routings, resource and materials use

Implement Demand Planning

Oracle Demantra Demand Management helps you maximize profitability with superior capabilities to better sense, shape, and respond to demand. Automated analytics ensures that your plans are based on the most accurate, forward forecasts without the need of statistical knowledge. The result is a demand-driven organization with higher service levels and sales, more satisfied customers, and lower inventory and distribution costs.

• Automated forecast analytics—uses mixed model approach to ensure out-of-box forecast accuracy
• Real-time forecast capabilities—allows planners to get instant answers even in the most data-intensive planning scenarios
• Multidimensional data modeling with flexible data hierarchies—enables up-to-date demand visibility for all departments and makes one-number planning feasible
• Chaining, attribute-based forecasting, and shape modeling—predicts new product demand and product phase-out while reducing the overall planning effort
• Dashboards, automated exception management, and workflow—quickly respond to changing market conditions
• Web-based, real-time internal and external collaboration, with role-based security—monitor and respond in real time
• Rapid implementation—faster time to benefit and greater return on investment

Implement Global Order Promising

Fast, accurate order promising is the key to retain existing and attract new customers. Oracle® Global Order Promising enables you to make quick delivery promises your customers can rely on. Oracle's order promising capabilities include robust support for distributed global order promising and multi-level supply-chain Available to Promise (ATP), Capable to Promise (CTP), and Capable to Deliver (CTD). You can consolidate supply and demand information from multiple transaction systems to provide a consolidated global picture of demand and supply. Order promising is accessible from multiple order entry systems or order capture systems (such as web stores and call centers).

• Order promising across different instances
• Order promising at product family level
• Check CTD (Capable To Deliver) using transportation capacity and lead times
• (Capable To Promise) for key components and bottleneck resources

Promise accurately and reliably - You can promise order more accurately when you take all the constraints of your supply chain into consideration (substitutes, alternates, lead times, network, capacity). In addition, you can have a more responsive and reliable promising process when the system is available 24x7 with 'zero downtime.' By combining a database-driven architecture with manufacturing, supplier, and logistics constraints, you can ensure improvements in customer service levels and an increase in fill rates.

Manage key customer and channel commitments - You can also manage allocations of supply to key customers and channels, thereby ensuring that you can meet contractual agreements and service levels in the priority that yields most profitability. Planners can easily configure the system to vary allocations in line with priorities that flow out of your Sales and Operations Planning process.

Promise complex multi-level configurations - Tight integration with Oracle Configurator and Order Management enables accurate order promising of complex configurations. Sourcing and availability can be dependent on the options selected during the configuration process. Multiple levels of models and options, including outsourced configurations are supported, whereas match-and-reserve can quickly identify availability for existing configurations.

Respond to changing conditions - Extensive backlog management enables you to (re)promise a group of orders in a priority sequence. You can also leverage the filtering and manual override capabilities to take care of your most important customers first rather than following the system-suggested recommendations.

Implement Inventory Optimization

Today's tough economic conditions, characterized by increased competition, short product life cycles, increased outsourcing, and increased demand uncertainty, make it more challenging to manage your inventory policies and decide where exactly to hold how much inventory. By taking into account the supply, demand, and lead time variability of your entire supply chain, Oracle® Inventory Optimization enables you to cost effectively balance revenue, cost, customer service levels, and inventory budgets while determining your inventory postponement strategy

• Postponement and risk pooling - Oracle® Inventory Optimization uses postponement and risk pooling to help you determine where to hold inventory to guarantee a desired service level and at what stage of production to hold inventory. It can consider all your manufacturing plants, distribution centers, central warehouses, and even your suppliers and customers. In addition, it considers your bill of materials to calculate how much inventory to hold at the finished goods, subassembly, and raw material level. Oracle® Inventory Optimization solves the complex issue of balancing the time and cost you need to incur to get a product to a customer, without paying high costs to hold every product configuration close to your customer's locations.
• Mitigate supply chain risk by managing supply chain variability - To optimize your inventory investment, you need to account for all of the variability in your supply chain. Demand variability occurs due to seasonal factors, forecast errors, promotions, or new product introductions. Supply variability occurs due to lead-time uncertainties and supplier performance issues such as product quality and unreliable delivery. Capturing the variability in demand and supply enables you to obtain the precise determination of the inventory investment that is required to meet your customer service objectives, at the lowest possible cost, while remaining within your available inventory budget.
• Determine your most profitable channels, products, and customers - Typically, your customer service target is not a single number. You might have different goals for different products, customers, or sales channels. Oracle® Inventory Optimization helps determine the most profitable targets to strive for as well as optimize the use of your scarce resources to focus on achieving the most profitable product and sales mix. You can also define different service levels at various levels as every product, sales channel, and customer does not need to have the same service level.
• For planners, not programmers - Oracle® Inventory Optimization leverages cutting-edge optimization and risk pooling techniques to determine the most optimal solution, yet it was designed For Planners Not ProgrammersTM, empowering your inventory analysts and planners to make decisions intuitively and quickly.