Oracle and UPS to Develop Industry First Supply
Chain Management Solution
(September 13, 1999)
Contact(s):
Angela McMahon
UPS
404/828-6840
amcmahon@ups.com
Stacey Torman
Oracle Corp.
650/506-8346
storman@us.oracle.com
Companies to Deliver Truly Integrated Shipping Functionality in an ERP Solution -
Eliminating Need for Additional Systems Integration
REDWOOD SHORES, CA and ATLANTA, GA - Sept. 13, 1999 - In an industry first,
Oracle Corp., the leading provider of e-business solutions and UPS, the world's largest
package distribution company, today announced an agreement to create an integrated
shipping management system that leverages the power of the Internet to provide companies
with instant visibility into their order fulfillment processes.
Under the terms of the agreement, the companies will bring together two industry-leading
products: UPS Online Tools, seven advanced transportation and logistics applications that
provide businesses with the most extensive web-based transportation technology solutions
to date, and Oracle's industry-leading, e-business-ready Oracle Applications suite. The
result will be a truly integrated ERP and shipping solution - not a bolt on product that
requires costly and time-consuming systems integration.
UPS and Oracle have firmly established leadership in e-commerce transportation and
e-business respectively. Media Matrix cited UPS as the shipper of choice for six of the Top
10 e-commerce web sites, and Zona Research reported that UPS delivered 55 percent of
all 1998 online holiday purchases. Oracle is the information management company of
choice to 90 percent of the Fortune 500, and nearly 70 percent of the top e-commerce
sites use Oracle technology.
"Oracle and UPS are the ERP and online transportation companies of choice for
e-businesses today," said Renee Knee, Vice President, Worldwide Alliances, Oracle
Corporation. "Together we plan to develop solutions that will take e-businesses to the next
level of ERP and shipping functionality that will streamline their operations and help improve
their efficiency by giving them the tools they need to share order fulfillment information
throughout their business processes."
"In today's world of e-business, the information surrounding a package has become just as
important as the package itself," said UPS Vice President of E-Commerce Marketing, Ross
McCullough. "UPS and Oracle are working together to make it easy and inexpensive for
companies to integrate that information into everything in the fulfillment cycle at the
front-end - from just-in-time inventory to address validation to accounts receivable."
A leader in logistics and supply chain management, UPS ships more than 12 million
packages a day, or 6 percent of the gross domestic product on an annual basis. UPS is
using that experience to help companies streamline operations and boost their bottom lines.
Introduced earlier this year, UPS Online Tools enable e-commerce vendors to link their
intranets and Internet Web sites with UPS to empower their customers to quickly calculate
costs, evaluate time-in-transit, select and compare shipping services and track packages
from the point of order entry to delivery. Online Tools also enable businesses to leverage
transportation information throughout their business processes, from order entry to accounts
receivable to inventory control. UPS Online Tools include application programming
interfaces for reference number tracking, published rate & service selection, shipping &
handling, address validation, time-in-transit, service mapping and electronic manifesting.
Oracle Applications harness the Internet to deliver e-business advantages today, at a
fraction of the cost of older client/server systems. Oracle Applications are an integrated
suite of more than 60 software modules for managing customer relationships, manufacturing,
supply chains, financial activities, projects, and human resources. Only Oracle offers its
more than 8,000 customers in 99 countries the ability to quickly and efficiently transform
their companies into e-businesses. Oracle Applications support and enable e-business
operations in multiple languages and currencies, maintain local business practices and legal
requirements, and help customers manage business-critical operations across borders via
the most cost-effective and scalable method possible - the Internet.
About UPS
United Parcel Service, the world's largest express carrier and package delivery company, is
a leading commerce facilitator, offering an unmatched array of traditional and electronic
commerce services. By offering fully integrated, web-enabled business-to-business
solutions and working with other e-commerce leaders, UPS is changing the way people do
business. Paving the way for future web-based commerce, UPS pioneered technologies
that allow for secure, encrypted and trackable digital file deliveries. The company has won
numerous awards for its web site and information technology infrastructure, including two
Computerworld Smithsonian Awards. The Atlanta-based company operates in more than
200 countries and employs more than 330,000 people worldwide. UPS reported 1998
annual revenues of $24.8 billion. You can visit the UPS web site at www.ups.com.
About Oracle
Oracle Corporation is the world's leading supplier of software for information management,
and the world's second largest software company. With annual revenues of more than $8.8
billion, the company offers its database, application server, tools and application products,
along with related consulting, education and support services, in more than 145 countries
around the world.
For more information about Oracle, please call 650/506-7000. Oracle's World Wide Web
address is (URL) oracle.com.
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