Introduction
In any organization / company / enterprise, if a product is manufactured by using the raw materials from multiple suppliers and if these products can be sold to the users / customers, then a supply chain is created.
Depending on the organization’s size and the products’ numbers that are manufactured, a supply chain can be complex or very simple.
Supply Chain Management can refer to the interconnected management of a network of the businesses that are involved in the ultimate delivery of services to the users / customers.
It can also entail the transport and storage of the raw materials, the process of inventory and the transportation of the final goods from the manufacture point of manufacture to the consumption point.
Oracle has come up with the applications of Fusion in 2011. Modules such as HCM, CRM and the Financials have been proved successfully. With a blooming cloud market, the Oracle Cloud is making a good mark in the applications of Supply Chain Management. Considering best and suitable complexity of the Supply Chains, the Oracle is coming up with a great improved functionality and with the best features to cater the requirements of the clients.
The Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud has below modules.
For high level differences between EBS applications and Cloud applications are provided wherever there is a need.
1. Product Management: Oracle comes up with the Product Information Management module in order to handle product information. The Product Hub can also offer the product solution for the Product Information Management and Master Data management. Product Hub is defined as pre-integrated with the modules of Oracle ERP cloud. The product can be mature and can be feature-rich. Most 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’, within the Order Entry only through CPQ cloud. From the Release 11 of Cloud Applications, in which the Sales Orders may be created within the Cloud application itself a native. The Order Management can be completely re-architectured when compared to the suite of E-Business. The new products are very highly technical in terms of good features and it can be completely built on the technology of FMW. With a built-in SOA, Fusion Order Management (FOM) can have the ability in integrating with any of the systems through web services.
DOO is considered as the heart of Order Management Cloud, that can orchestrate tracks the fulfillment lines and the sales orders till the completion of it. DOO is integrated with third party systems for the order fulfillment or order capture or both.
3. Pricing: Pricing can also be re-architectured. The new types of modules are used to the modern / latest Marketing principles in order to price the item in the systems. The principles can be defined based on the Segmentation and Customer Profile. The product of Pricing offers the flexibility in creating strategies in order to handle the segments of the users / customers within the efficient way. In contrast to the EBS, the product can also look new. One of the Most heard features such as Order qualifiers and modifiers can be handled in a complete multiple way. Pricing runs on Algorithm, Matrices, and the Service Mapping. The algorithm configures the custom fields and derives the price.
4. Manufacturing: Manufacturing can be late entry into the applications of the SCM stack. Released in R11 which is the manufacturing module that can handle Plant, Work Centers and Work Areas, Work orders and work definitions. However, the features can be available only for execution, managing, and monitoring of the Discrete manufacturing. As of the date, Oracle does not have any of the functionality in order to support Manufacturing of the Process. Some of the features like move orders, Org transfers, physical inventory and cycle counting can be present from the first release of the Cloud Applications.
5. Inventory and Costing: Inventory management can handle the material transactions within a warehouse. The module of Inventory has one of the most common in comparisons to the EBS. Some of the features like move orders, Org transfers, physical inventory and cycle counting can be present from the first release of the Cloud Applications. The product may gain strength in the functionality from the REL 11 within the advanced fulfillment techniques such as Internal Material Transfers ( IR-ISO in EBS), Consigned Inventory flows, Back-to-Back. Moreover, in this module inventory replenishment can be restricted to the Min-Max planning so far.
Costing can be a module which is re-architectured in EBS comparison. The concept of having the entering costs next to the inventory transactions can not be no longer be seen. The Oracle costing introduced the Cost Organization concept and Cost books to in order to handle cost scenarios. Standard and average costing can be supported till the latest / modern release. Costing offers Landed Cost Management and Cost Accounting features as of the latest release.
6. Global Order Promising: GOP can be the promises of the delivery customers which is based on supplies spanning across many modules such as Manufacturing , Inventory, and Procurement. It offers the features that can be helpful for the customers within the check availability and what-if analysis. Besides, it can also offer Profitable to promise Capable to promise features in order to compare the methods of promising. The GOP can use the sourcing and ATP that can be rules required for scheduling requests. Though offered as one of the additional licenses to GOP, OM can be tightly integrated with the previous module by making it easy in order to check the item’s availability during its own Order Entry.
7. Planning: Supply Chain Planning is considered as a product solution in order to handle supplies and demand by determining resources and forecasting demand activities, material needs. Planning Central, Planning Demand Management, Sales and Supply Planning Cloud services. While Planning the central offers the basic features Supply Planning offers the advanced functionality.
Conclusion:
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