Wednesday April 12, 1:46 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Oracle Corporation
Oracle Announces Availability of
Advanced Planning and Scheduling
Solution For E-Business
Supply Chain Optimization Solution Key to B2B Exchange Platform,
Delivers Next Day Return on Investment (ROI)
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., April 11 /PRNewswire/ -- (
oracle.com ) Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL - news), the
largest provider of software for e-business, today announced the availability of its Advanced
Planning and Scheduling (APS) solution to optimize e-business processes for planning and
scheduling across the extended supply chain. As part of Oracle's E-Business Suite, Oracle
Applications Release 11i Advanced Planning and Scheduling enables peak performance for
collaborative supply chain optimization-important for any business with an extended supply
chain and an absolute requirement for any business hoping to participate competitively in an
industry ``business to business' online marketplace or exchange.
With Oracle Advanced Planning and Scheduling, companies participating in online
exchanges can instantly collaborate with trading partners to optimize resources, minimize
inventory balances, and consolidate requirements to gain the best pricing, quality and
delivery by utilizing online auctions. This capability allows a company to gain maximum
benefit from the wide range of e-business practices that are driving fundamental business
changes in the ``new economy.'
Oracle's offering is the first and only Advance Planning and Scheduling solution that fully
leverages the Internet and that was built exclusively for e-business. It allows companies to
enable their suppliers and customers as strategic partners in the planning process by sharing
critical information such as demand forecasts, production schedules, and plan exceptions
globally and in real time, using only an Internet browser. Because it is so tightly integrated
with Oracle Manufacturing and Supply Chain, Oracle's APS solution also delivers
immediate benefits by offering one-day return on investment for existing customers of
Oracle's suite of e-business applications, including Release 11 and Release 10.7.
``Oracle has leveraged its strengths in internal data management and Internet technologies to
develop an innovative and technically astute APS solution that Aberdeen believes will
quickly become an industry leading APS solution,' said Jack Maynard, research director at
Aberdeen Group. ``Oracle APS is setting a new standard of flexibility, usability, and
engineering excellence for advanced planning and scheduling with its revolutionary holistic
optimization architecture.'
Optimizing the Extended Supply Chain to Compete More Effectively in the
World of E-Business
Comprised of Oracle Demand Planning, Oracle Advanced Supply Chain
Planning, Oracle Global Available To Promise (ATP) Server, and Oracle
Manufacturing Scheduling, the Oracle APS solution enables companies to
collaborate with their trading partners to plan across their extended supply
chains in order to fully optimize resources while reducing inventory and
speeding cycle times. While no software other than a browser is required to
participate in many online exchanges, it is imperative to have complete,
up-to-date and accurate information in order to be able to respond to the
extremely fast market dynamics represented by these new online
business-to-business marketplaces. Those suppliers who are armed with the
most comprehensive analytical information about their supply chain's
capabilities will be in the best position to react quickly to changing market
conditions, meet the unique demand of each customer and still be able to
operate profitably.
Key exclusive benefits of Oracle APS include:
-- One Day Return on Investment (ROI): Existing Oracle Release 10.7 and
11 customers can implement the Oracle APS solution in as little as one
day, offering customers the opportunity to maximize profitability,
increase efficiencies and improve responsiveness almost immediately.
-- Support for All Manufacturing Processes: Oracle's APS solution is
compatible with any manufacturing environment, including project, flow,
process and discrete manufacturing, or any combination of these.
-- Increased Collaboration: Oracle APS enables supply chain partners to
participate in a collaborative planning process to increase customer
service and lower costs - promising orders based on supplier resources
and capacity as well as sharing demand forecast and production schedule
information via the Internet for near instantaneous competitive bid
capabilities.
Unlike other planning systems, Oracle APS utilizes a single data model to quickly generate a
single, global plan encompassing all levels of planning -- high level strategic planning down
to shop floor detailed scheduling -- and does not require time consuming data and plan
synchronization.
``The Internet demands new business practices, and Oracle's 100% Internet-based Advanced
Planning and Scheduling software is meeting those needs in every way,' said Don Klaiss,
senior vice president, manufacturing and supply chain development, Oracle Corp. ``With
Oracle APS, companies can now take full advantage and leverage the extended supply chain
to compete effectively in the new economy driven by online exchanges.'
Availability
Oracle Advanced Planning and Scheduling is available as part of Oracle's e-business suite,
Oracle Applications Release 11i.
About Oracle
Oracle Corporation provides the software that powers the Internet. For more information
about Oracle, please call Oracle Public Relations at 650-506-4176
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