Initially, Oracle came up with the applications of Fusion in 2011. Some modules like HCM, CRM, and some Financials have been proved successfully. With having a blooming cloud market, the making mark of the Oracle Cloud in the applications of Supply Chain Management has made. By considering the supply chain complexity, the Oracle has come up with the high level improved features and functionality in order to cater the requirements of the Client.
Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud has some modules. For an easy way of understanding the high level differences between cloud applications and EBS are provided wherever there is a requirement.
1. Product Management:
The Oracle has come up with a Product Management module of the information in order to handle the information / data of the product. The Product Hub can provide various product solutions for the product information management and Master Data management. Product Hub can be pre-integrated with some other modules of Oracle ERP cloud. The product is a feature-rich and matured kind. Many of the EBS functionalities are available in the Cloud at present.
2. Order Management Cloud:
Initially, Oracle launched Order Management with the name ‘Order Orchestration’, with Order Entry only with the CPQ cloud. From the Release 11 of Cloud Applications, the Order Management has launched, in which the orders of the Sales can be created within the application of the native Cloud itself. Order Management is entirely re-architectured while compared to the E-Business Suite. There is a new product which is highly technical in the features and can be built on a technology called FMW (Oracle Fusion SOA Middleware). By having the built on SOA, FOM has the good ability to be integrated with any kind of the system through web services.
Distributed Order Orchestration (DOO) is considered as the heart of Order Management Cloud, in which it can orchestrate the sales orders and can track the entire fulfillment lines until it gets its completion. DOO can be integrated to the systems of third parties in order to capture the fulfillment.
3. Pricing:
In the Fusion applications, the pricing can also be re-architectured. There is a new modules that are used in the latest Marketing principles in order to price an item. The principles can be defined based on the segmentation and Customer Profile. Pricing products can offer the flexibility in creating the strategies in order to handle the segments of the customer in an efficient way. In contrast to the EBS, the product can look new. Most of the heard features like modifiers and Order qualifiers are handled in an entirely different way. Pricing can run on algorithm, matrices, and the Service Mapping.
4. Manufacturing:
Manufacturing is considered as the late entry into the applications of SCM stack. Released in R11 can be used to manufacture the module handles Plant, Work centers / work areas. Work orders and work definitions. Moreover, the features can be available only for the execution, managing, and monitoring of the Discrete manufacturing. As of the date, Oracle does not have all kinds of functionalities in order to support the Process of Manufacturing.
5. Inventory and Costing:
Inventory management can handle the transactions of material within the warehouse. The Inventory module has most of the common features when compared to the EBS. Some of the features like move orders,Org transfers, cycle counting and physical inventory are present from the release of the Cloud Applications as well. The product can acquire the strength within the functionality of the REL 11 with the introduction of fulfillment techniques like Back-to-Back, Internal Material Transfers ( IR-ISO in EBS), and can be consigned to Inventory flows. Moreover, in this module inventory the replenishment can be restricted to the Min-Max planning.
Costing considered as the module that can be re-architectured with EBS. The concept of entering the costs next to the transactions of inventory cannot be seen no more. Oracle costing introduces various concepts of the cost books and Cost Organization in order to handle the cost scenarios. The standard and average costings are supported until the latest release. Costing can offer the Landed Cost Management and Cost Accounting features of the latest release.
6. Global Order Promising:
GOP can be used for the customers based on spanning supplies across the modules like Manufacturing (work orders), Inventory, and Procurement (suppliers). It offers some of the features that help the users / customers with check availability and suitable analysis. Besides, it can also offer, Profitable to promise, Capable to promise features in order to compare the methods of promising. GOP can be used for the sourcing rules and ATP that are needed for scheduling requests. Though it has offered some of the additional license to GOP, OM, is little bit tightly integrated with the previous module by making it easy in checking the availability of the items.
7. Planning:
Supply Chain Planning is defined as a product solution in order to handle supplies and demand by determining resource activities and forecasting demand along with the requirements of the material. Planning provides Planning Central, Demand Management, Sales and Operations Planning and the services of Supply Planning Cloud. While Planning central offers some basic features of supply and demand Planning offers advanced functionality for the supply-demand.
Oracle came up with the applications of Fusion in 2011. Some modules like HCM, CRM, and some Financials have been proved successfully. With having a blooming cloud market, the making mark of the Oracle Cloud in the applications of Supply Chain Management has made. By considering the supply chain complexity, the Oracle has come up with the high level improved features and functionality in order to cater the requirements of the Client. Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud has some modules. For an easy way of understanding the high level differences between cloud applications and EBS are provided wherever there is a requirement.
Conclusion:
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