Transform your Supply Chain with Oracle Fusion Cloud

The foundation of digital supply chain transformation with Oracle is aligning all processes and data on a single platform. Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing simplifies this by automating key processes and incorporating advanced technologies like AI, machine learning, and Blockchain. These technologies enable the collection and analysis of large amounts of data to predict, identify, and prevent issues before they escalate.

Modules for Every Stage:

Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing offers comprehensive modules that support every stage of the supply chain lifecycle. These integrated, user-friendly tools empower businesses to streamline operations across planning, production, inventory, and delivery.

1. Planning: focuses on demand and supply planning, helping businesses forecast demand, manage inventory levels, and align supply chain operations with business goals.
2. Manufacturing: supports production operations by providing tools for work order management, production scheduling, and shop floor execution.
3. Inventory Management: helps businesses manage their inventory across multiple locations, ensuring accurate tracking, replenishment, and optimization of stock levels.
4. Order Fulfillment: streamlines the order-to-cash process by managing customer orders, orchestrating fulfillment activities, and ensuring timely delivery
5. Delivery: focuses on the logistics and transportation aspects of the supply chain. It includes tools for managing shipments, optimizing delivery routes, and tracking goods in transit.
6. Machine Learning for Transportation Management: A standout feature of Oracle’s offering is the integration of machine learning into Oracle Transportation Management. This system analyzes historical transportation data along with real-time risk factors (e.g., port delays, blocked canals) to provide alternative delivery options. Manufacturers can gain an order-by-order view of potential delays and adjust delivery plans as needed

Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Collaboration

Collaboration is at the heart of an efficient supply chain. Oracle Fusion Cloud facilitates seamless cooperation between stakeholders, enabling better planning and execution.

Trading Partner Networks: Oracle enables the creation and management of trading partner networks, enhancing collaboration across the supply chain.

Supplier Portal and Web Services: The system leverages supplier portals, web services, and B2B messaging interfaces to streamline communication between suppliers and other stakeholders.

Collaborative Forecasting: It allows businesses to collaborate with customers on order forecasts, share these forecasts with suppliers, and obtain supplier commitments, thus improving planning accuracy.

Production Reporting and Monitoring: Oracle helps collect and process production reports from contract manufacturers, monitor supplier on-hand inventory, and track fulfillment activities.

Managing Exceptions: The system provides tools to manage exceptions, delays, and changes within the supply chain, ensuring that businesses remain agile and responsive.

Data Interchange Support: Oracle supports seamless data interchange for critical processes such as order-to-cash and source-to-settle, helping maintain smooth operations.

AI Capabilities in Oracle Cloud: Oracle’s AI-powered cloud applications and infrastructure are designed to create seamless, efficient, and exceptional user experiences. These technologies enable smarter decision-making, predictive analytics, and optimized workflows across the supply chain, delivering real-time insights that enhance operational efficiency and reduce costs.

How to Plan a Supply Chain Digital Transformation:

Digital transformation is an essential step for modernizing supply chain operations. Companies embarking on this journey should focus on the following core areas:

1. Infrastructure: Evaluate existing physical assets like warehouses, factories, and transportation networks to identify gaps.
2. Technologies: Adopt tools such as IoT, SCM applications, and data analytics to modernize and integrate processes.
3. Roadmap: Develop a phased implementation plan to mitigate risks and ensure seamless transition.

Oracle’s adaptation of Digital Technologies:

Oracle integrates cutting-edge digital technologies into its platform, providing businesses with powerful tools to enhance efficiency and transparency.

• Oracle Analytics Cloud combines machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to offer predictive analytics, pattern recognition, and smart data visualization. This helps organizations make informed, data-driven decisions. The platform provides advanced analytics and ML tools for creating predictive models, conducting data mining, and performing smart analytics. It also includes automated machine learning (AutoML) features to simplify model creation.
• Supply Chain Tracking: Oracle Blockchain enables secure, transparent supply chain tracking by providing a verifiable and immutable record of transactions across the supply chain, ensuring product authenticity, traceability, and reducing fraud.
• Blockchain as a Service (BaaS): Through Oracle Cloud, businesses can deploy blockchain networks quickly and cost-effectively, without the need for managing the underlying infrastructure.

Oracle’s platform is built on a unified, cloud-native infrastructure, enabling seamless integration between AI, ML and blockchain. Here’s how Oracle ensures interoperability:

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI): OCI serves as the backbone of all Oracle’s technology offerings, providing robust and scalable infrastructure to support AI, ML, IoT, and blockchain applications.
• Data Integration: Oracle integrates data from various sources (IoT devices, blockchain, AI models, enterprise applications) into a centralized repository, providing a unified view for decision-making and analytics.
• Unified Security: Oracle offers end-to-end security for all its services, including AI, ML and blockchain, ensuring that sensitive data is protected, and compliance requirements are met.
• Oracle Integration Cloud: This tool allows businesses to integrate cloud and on-premises applications, supporting seamless communication between AI, ML, IoT, and blockchain solutions.

Technologies Needed for an Effective Digital Supply Chain:

An effective digital supply chain is characterized by several key attributes: connectivity, collaboration, cybersecurity, cognitive capabilities, and comprehensiveness. These elements enable businesses to optimize their operations and gain better control over their supply chains.

Connectivity: A connected digital supply chain integrates various data sources for smooth information flow across systems and encourages collaboration with internal and external partners. Cybersecurity is essential to protect sensitive data from breaches.

Integration: Integrating legacy supply chain technologies, including systems for demand planning, asset management, warehouse management, logistics, procurement, and order fulfillment. This integration provides real-time visibility, enhancing decision-making and operational efficiency.

Data Mining: Extracting and utilizing data from existing processes and providing the right tools to generate necessary data. This data can then be analyzed to optimize various supply chain functions.

Real-Time Data: Systems that collect and analyze data in near real-time provide enhanced visibility into supply chain operations. This timely information helps stakeholders make informed decisions, predict product availability, and ensure reliability and efficiency.

Oracle Fusion SCM is more than just software; it’s a game-changing tool that transforms supply chain operations. By leveraging its comprehensive modules, scalability, and AI-driven insights, businesses can future-proof their operations, achieve higher efficiency, and gain a competitive edge.

Start your journey today and experience how Oracle Fusion SCM can redefine supply chain management for your organization.