Enhanced Lean Supply Features Now Available in New Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1

Enhanced Lean Supply Features Now Available in New Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 The newly available Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 offers a range of lean-supply capabilities on a single technology platform designed to eliminate the sometimes steep integration costs that plague point-product solutions. “With an integrated suite approach, companies can install supply chain technologies quickly, for fast ROI and simplified patching and maintenance,” says Stephen Slade, Oracle senior director, applications and industries marketing. Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1’s lean-supply features include o Manufacturing Operations Center, which centralizes real-time shop-floor data from multiple production systems to help supply chain managers optimize manufacturing performance. Results can range from better materials flows and reduced cycle times to faster interventions when quality deviations occur. o Demand Signal Repository captures demand data, such as in-store daily sales totals, to give retail and consumer packaged goods companies insights into reducing inventory, improving service, and cutting costs. The repository is especially useful for suppliers and distributors that struggle to understand the huge volume of detailed sales data they receive from supplier extranets. o Spare Parts Planning: This new capability within Oracle Advanced Planning helps manufacturers maintain optimum levels of spare parts, a key requirement to take advantage of maintenance and repair services (an increasingly important source of revenue during the sales-constrained downturn). It includes the Demantra statistical forecasting engine for accurate forecasting of parts levels. o Oracle Sourcing On Demand: Organizations can now run technology for optimizing sourcing using a subscription service with modest setup costs and accelerated training tools, which shorten ROI timeframes. o Order Fulfillment: New features help organizations achieve the elements of a Perfect Order to lower online shopping-cart abandonment rates, inaccurate orders, or order delays due to stock outages. Enhanced capabilities include tools for internal order change management and an expanded configurator engine.