Oracle: Helping Supply Chain Leaders Handle the Pressure

US technology company Oracle has announced major updates to Oracle Cloud Supply Chain Management.

The updates, powered by agentic AI, aim to increase inventory visibility, reduce supplier and operational impact and improve manufacturing efficiency. 

According to Deloitte, procurement finds itself at a true inflection point, with ever increasing external and internal complexity alongside both the challenges and promise of technology disruption fuelled by the rise of Generative AI and Agentic AI.

S.Y. Shenoy, Senior Vice President, Fusion SCM development at Oracle, says: “Supply chain leaders are under increasing pressure to improve service levels, control costs and respond faster to disruption amid ongoing economic and operational uncertainty.”

Agentic AI for supply chain management 

Oracle says its Fusion Agentic Applications for Supply Chain are powered by industry leading LLM’s. Oracle has added four new Fusion Agentic Applications for its customers which cover key areas of friction across procurement, supply chain and manufacturing. 

The company is adding what is calls the Supplier Qualification Workspace. It says this helps procurement teams reduce supplier risk, improve compliance processes and accelerate supplier qualification. 

The company argues this function moves supplier qualification from fragmented tracking and manual follow-up to a guided, risk-based process that helps teams improve compliance posture and accelerate supplier onboarding decisions.

Manual tracking to automated workflow

Oracle added the Inventory Planning Command Centre which it says helps supply chain teams improve inventory availability, increase service levels and resolve stockouts faster. 

The company argues its tool shifts inventory management from manual tracking to an automated workflow. 

S.Y. adds: “With the new agentic applications and inventory optimisation capabilities in Oracle Cloud SCM, organisations can identify issues sooner, prioritise actions and make faster, more informed decisions across planning, procurement and manufacturing.”

Oracle also added the Production Readiness Workspace and the Kanban Administrative Workspace which are both aimed at helping manufacturing teams to improve key areas such as production readiness or reducing excess inventory. 

The technology company has also added a variety of new optimisation capabilities in Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Planning including an Inventory Optimisation Advisor Agent.

Procurement and agentic AI

The procurement function is under increasing pressure to solve operational challenges that stem from multiple fronts.

Deloitte’s 2025 Global Chief Procurement Officer survey report says that procurement leaders are operating an increasingly complex and volatile global trade environment, and in a resource-constrained internal environment. 

CPOs are focusing on digital procurement and AI, betting that these emerging solutions will help them solve this dilemma.

According to the report these bets are paying off, with digital leaders demonstrating superior outcomes across all performance metrics, including cost savings, stakeholder influence and satisfaction, as well as risk management.

Oracle and the cloud

Founded in 1977, the Silicon Valley startup, Oracle, built a scalable business fast. It went public in 1986 and by 1987 was the world’s largest database management company with 4,500 end-users. 

By 2007, Oracle was operating with US$18bn in revenue, 65,000 employees, and 275,000 customers in more than 145 countries. 

By 2011, Oracle was rolling out the Fusion Cloud Applications, a complete suite of enterprise SaaS applications built from the ground up, for the cloud. 

Now, Oracle was recognised as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services. In 2025, it posted US$57bn in revenue and claims the industry’s broadest and deepest suite of AI-powered cloud applications.