Attend our live webcast, September 9th at 11:00 PT / 1:00 ET, to to hear Donna Malloy, Associate Dr. Demand Planning, and Ralph Martin, IT Business Relationship Manager, share specifics on how Genzyme Diagnostics implemented Oracle's Value Chain Planning solutions with HCL Tech's services to achieve real time, accurate and shorter forecast cycles with collaborative, proactive budgeting & planning across multiple functions and geographies. Register using this link.

Oracle has made huge strides delivery of on demand procurement solutions.  The success of Oracle Procurement On Demand has received attention from customers, bloggers like Jason Busch of Spend Matters, and analysts like Mickey North Rizza of Gartner.

Whether you're actively planning an E-Business Suite upgrade or just curious, there is golden opportunity to learn more from communications bellwether AT&T. On Friday August 27th, AT&T will be sharing its story on an Oracle Customer Success Forum.

18 Aug - 3:09pm

• Supply Chain Management

Gartner just published a
positive report on Oracle's E-Business Suite (EBS) 12.1.  This report validates the benefits of upgrading to EBS 12.1.

Oracle has purchased the external distribution rights to this research note.

Gartner just published a
VERY positive report on the Annual Oracle Transportation Management (OTM)
Special Interest Group (SIG) Meeting in Philadelphia.

Oracle has purchased the external distribution rights to this research note.

Attend our live webcast, August 19th at 10:00 PST / 1:00 EST, to learn how Oracle's Rapid Planning solution can help your business improve production planning and reduce costs with event-driven real time planning and simulation. Register using this link.

Oracle Pedigree and Serialization Manager (OPSM) has been featured in a number of articles in leading pharmaceutical, manufacturing and technology trade publications since this exciting solution was announced Monday, July 26^th.  Managing Automation's Jeff Moad wrote a feature on the news based on a pre-briefing with Oracle's Jon Cho

By Maha Muzumdar - published in APICS Extra, July 2010 edition

The June'10 edition of Modern Materials Handling (pgs 38-41) has a great article by Bob Trebilcock, Executive Editor on improving your Supply Chain visibility. He addresses the intricacies of the alignment, balance and agility in the new economy with reduced inventory in the pipeline. Why? - better forecasting and decisions processes.  

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The Feb 28th '10 edition of the Economist had a very informative article (pg.74) on Toyota's over-stretched supply chain pointing out that they were ' the author of most of its own misfortunes".  James Womack is quoted in the piece on Toyota's rapid expansion 'meant working with a lot of unfamiliar suppliers who didn't have a deep understandin of Toyota's culture.  The majority of the problems almost certainly originated not in the Toyota factories but in those of the supppliers'.

A series of free webinars with ReliabilityWeb will present key product capabilities

of Oracle eAM and how they support maintenance and reliability best practices. 

Through this web-seminar series,companies can understand how to leverage new & exisiting 

functionality achieve better ROI.

In most corporations, planning is done at the department level — leaving disconnects and gaps across different departments. Finance sets revenue and profit goals with minimum validation from Manufacturing that the company has the resources, material, capacity, or demand to reach these goals. On the operations side, Manufacturing is developing plans to balance demand and supply but seldom knows if the resulting "plan" will meet the budgets on which the company's revenue and profit goals are based.

The Executive Team from Bajaj Electricals/India did a fantastic job of summarizing their Oracle Experience in a 5 minute clip below. Their Chairman, Mr Baja, along with Ram/GM and several other business leaders highlighted the decision to select Oracle and Oracle consulting to connect thier business applications to meet the needs of a growing country.  Its a clip worth listening to and provides keen insight into both the vision and results.

Oracle Supply Chain Management 

Oracle was again placed in the leaders quadrant in the latest Gartner report on Transportation Management System vendors.  The full report can be viewed at the following site: http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints/oracle/article129/article129.html

 ORACLE's Stephen Slade has written about addressing information overload on the factory floor.  According to Slade, today's automated processes create large amounts of valuable data, but only a small percentage remains actionable.

The 2010
Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) Conference will be held June 13-16 in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Oracle is sponsoring and exhibiting at ISM's 95th Annual International Supply Management Conference and Educational Exhibit on April 25^th through 28^th.

Every April for the
past 15 years, Inbound Logistics editors have recognized 100 logistics IT
companies that support and enable logistics and supply chain excellence.
Oracle was recognized by Inbound Logistics editors for leading the way
in 2010. Editors sought to match readers' fast-changing needs to the
capabilities of those companies selected.

In the first installment of this series, we looked at how companies have been set adrift down a churning rapids of fast moving data, and how their supply chains (which used to be only about purchasing and logistics) had grown into value chains encompassing everything from their supplier's vendors all the way to the end consumer.

SCM coverage in early '10 was dominated by major product announcements.

Forward thinking enterprises look to eliminate their dependence on legacy applications that manage information in batch - replacing them with real-time integrated/modern information managment. With rapid manufacturing and global supply chains much more complex today, with the pace of chance ever increasing, leading organizations need better ways to orchestrate their supply chain synchronization with their partner and customer base.

It's just amazing how far, wide and deep modern supply chains are extending. AMR reported on 15 Apr (M.Burkett, A.Reese) in a SCM webcast that 'Penetrating Emerging Markets" was the top priority for organizations based on a recent survey. I took this as both adding new consumers to their prospect-list as well as leveraging 'lower cost labor arbitrage". (Read the book '3 Billion Capitalists")

Supply Chain Quarterly reports that India and Brazil received the highest ranking of the logistics markets in developing nations

100 Best Global Brands from Business Week

Nearly half of CFOs are planning to reduce their inventory during the first half of 2010 in part due to supply chain improvements that allow them to hold less product, but also because of reduced demand according to Kate O'Sullivan, Sr Editor at CFO Magazine. Her view is based on this quarter's Duke University Global Business Outlook Survey.

On April 6th, AMR's Debra Hoffman and Kevin O'Marah presented their annual 'Top 25 Supply Chain' predictions.  For supply chain professionals, it was a 'must-hear' event especially with the new focus on both operational excellence as well as innovation excellence.  Most people think of R&D as the primary driver for innovation, but in today's 'new-normal' firms need to cons