Oracle: Driving Greater Efficiency in Global Supply Chains

Oracle is widely respected as a global provider of integrated suites and secure autonomous infrastructure in the cloud. The American multinational is dedicated to helping people see data in new ways, discover insights and unlock endless possibilities.

Furthering its efforts to help organisations increase efficiency and sustainability, Oracle is introducing new AI-powered logistics and order management capabilities into the Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM). 

These latest updates are set to help organisations improve customer satisfaction, increase shipment visibility, lower trading costs, enhance transportation decision-making and reduce shipment-related emissions. 

Srini Rajagopal, VP of Logistics Product Strategy at Oracle, explains: "To successfully navigate an increasingly complex global landscape, supply chain leaders need agile and efficient processes that can help them diversify and strengthen supplier networks, adapt transportation and logistics strategies and stay ahead of regulatory changes.

"The new AI-powered capabilities in Oracle Cloud SCM help our customers address these challenges by providing the data-driven insights needed to seamlessly manage transportation, global trade and distribution processes, address regulatory compliance and drive resiliency and sustainability across the supply chain.

"Our mission is to help people see data in new ways, discover insights, and unlock endless possibilities."

Oracle’s newest capabilities

With these new AI capabilities, Oracles updates will include order transport management, global trade management and order management. 

Oracle Transportation Management:

• AI-powered route predictions to help transportation managers predict optimal arrival times, avoid congestion and prevent customs delays.  
• AI-powered transit time predictions to improve shipment planning and reduce costs associated with delays. 
• Emissions calculator to identify more sustainable and energy-efficient shipping routes. 

Oracle Global Trade Management:

• Trade incentive programme processing relief to better utilise duty drawback programmes and mitigate the impact of tariffs on the supply chain.
• Trade incentive programme reporting to reduce costs by quickly generating data and reports needed.

Oracle Order Management:

• AI-generated returns summary to provide timely and accurate status updates for returned orders. 
• AI-generated pricing promotions summary to help communicate consistent descriptions of promotional details. 
• Item availability checks to help reduce order delays and improve customer services by simulating shipment and delivery methods. 
• Order fulfilment view to help reduce customer response times and provide a more precise order delivery date and visibility into delays and clearance issues.

What it means for global supply chains 

By introducing new AI-powered capabilities into Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM, Oracle will further help businesses improve supply chain visibility, reduce costs enhance decision-making and boost customer satisfaction.

The latest updates provide organisations with better tools to navigate logistics challenges, optimise procurement and ensure regulatory compliance. 

AI-driven insights act as an intelligent advisor, offering real-time analytics to improve supply chain agility, while AI-generated summaries of returns and promotional pricing help automate workflows, reduce manual processing errors and allow procurement teams to make faster, data-driven decisions. 

These innovations allow AI-driven shipment and transit time predictions to improve supply chain efficiency, optimise trade incentives to lower tariff costs and use AI-powered tools to make faster and smarter decisions while reducing errors. 

With these advancements, Oracle is helping global businesses stay competitive, agile and sustainable in an evolving supply chain landscape.

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