How Oracle is Enhancing Supply Chains for Procurement

Oracle’s Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) platform and its user experience, helps procurement professionals, logistics managers, field service technicians and product managers boost productivity and streamline operations.

To assist businesses in increasing the efficiency of the supply chain, Oracle’s user experience (UX) enhances the Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM).

Built with the award-winning, consumer-grade Oracle Redwood Design System, the UX updates help procurement leaders increase productivity and accelerate supply chain processes.

Chris Leone, Executive Vice President of Applications Development at Oracle, says: "Supply chain professionals are under pressure to move with speed and accuracy as they navigate numerous challenges in every step of the supply chain.

"In this high-stakes environment, a poor user experience can add to frustration, cause further delays and add costs. With the latest Redwood user experience updates, Oracle Cloud SCM customers can increase the speed and accuracy of operations, reduce costs and improve overall efficiency."

Streamline processes

The Oracle Redwood Design System includes several capabilities for Oracle Fusion Applications that help Oracle Cloud SCM customers enhance user experience, streamline processes and increase productivity.

These features include:

• Smart search: Helps users quickly find, review and edit information related to their role with enhanced keyword matching, comprehensive filters and automatic suggestions. For example, with smart search capabilities in Oracle Product Lifecycle Management, organisations can quickly find component-level information, take action and reduce development cycle times.
• Business rules: Help users tailor and conditionally control pages based on specific criteria such as country and business unit. For example, with business rules in Oracle Order Management, organisations can create editing and defaulting logic to match specific order needs and optimise fulfilment.
• Oracle Guided Journeys: Help users define custom workflows with contextualised, multi-format assistance during process execution. For example, with guided journeys in self-service procurement, organisations can reduce support costs and deliver an enhanced buying experience.

Seamlessly connect supply chain processes

New supply chain-specific Redwood UX enhancements for Oracle Cloud SCM include:

• Pricing rules for order management: Help price administrators set up complex pricing rules and define eligibility based on the customer and item attributes. With a new pricing rule builder in Oracle Order Management, organisations can automate discounts and increase the efficiency of sales promotions.
• Field parts inventory for maintenance: Helps field service technicians manage parts inventory, reservations, transfers and returns while working in the field. With the ability to view on hand, available and reserved parts across all field service locations in Oracle Service Logistics, organisations can optimise service efficiency, resolve issues faster and improve the customer experience.
• Structures view for product management: Helps product managers quickly analyse and validate bill of materials and component item information. With the ability to now toggle between levels within an item structure and apply filters in Oracle Product Lifecycle Management, organisations can increase the speed and accuracy of processes and reduce new product information (NPI) cycle times.
• Guided task for mass component replacement: Helps product managers perform a mass replacement of a component on one or more item structures. With a guided process for mass replacement (including reviews) in Oracle Product Lifecycle Management, organisations can improve user efficiency and reduce potential errors.

Through the new user experience updates in Oracle Cloud SCM, organisations can empower users, seamlessly connect supply chain processes and quickly respond to changing demand, supply and market conditions. With new features added every quarter, Oracle Cloud SCM helps customers create a resilient supply network and processes that outpace change.

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