Short notes on Oracle Supply Chain Management

Oracle Supply Chain Management (SCM) basically integrates and automates all key supply chain activities which starts from design, planning and procurement to manufacturing and fulfilment. 

It depends upon how the company planning to use these application module in their business line. 

For better understanding from Oracle Product line, the below figure illustrates the eight process flow.

1. Design: 
SCM start with designing & developing new products where Product specifications are created. 
Few Important applications play major role in this phase.
• Oracle Product Life cycle Management
• Oracle Advanced product Catalog
• Engineering & Bills of Materials

2. Market:
Marketing and Sales generates demand for the Product by publicizing its features. Marketing also gets customer feedback and communicates to Product development group. 
These are application potentially can be used.
• Telesales
• Trade Management
• Incentive Compensation
• Order Capture
• Oracle sales

3. Plan: 
Planning is the strategic portion of SCM. Always planning needs a strategy for managing all the resources that go towards the customer’s demand of any product or service.
• Advanced Supply Chain Planning
• Global Order Promising

4. Sell & Manage Order: 
To maintain and manage the customer orders, order holds, notes and release the orders to warehouse for fulfillment based on requested date, product availability and customer credit limit.
• Order management
• Advanced Pricing
• Configurator
• iStore

5. Procure:
To choose the suppliers that will deliver the goods and services that needed to create a Finished product. Develop a set of pricing, delivery and payment processes with suppliers and create metrics for monitoring and improving the relationships.
• Purchasing
• iProcurement

6. Manufacture:
To Schedule the manufacturing activities necessary for production, testing, packaging and preparation for delivery.
• Cost Management
• Process Manufacturing
• Project Manufacturing
• Quality
• Work in Process

7. Fulfill & Release Management :
To Coordinate the receipt of orders from customers, develop a network of warehouses, pick carriers to get products to customers and set up an invoicing system to receive payments.
• Shipping Execution
• Inventory Management
• Warehouse Management System
• Transportation Execution

8. Service & Maintain: 
To Create a network for receiving defective and excess products back from customers and supporting customers who have problems with delivered products.
• Depot Repair
• Field Service
• Install Base
• Service Contracts