Supply Chain Management

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Supply Chain Management

• By Jessica Martinez
• CIS 3380
• Mr. Brozovic

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Content Slide

• What is SCM?
• Goals of SCM
• Benefits of SCM
• Failures of SCM
• Oracle
• Oracles History

• 3 Principles of Oracle
• Products of Oracle
• SCM with Oracle
• Customers and Results
• Partners
• Sources

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What is SCM?

• Supply Chain Management (SCM)- is a
  cross-functional interenterprise system that uses
  information technology to help support and manage
  the links between some of a companys key
  business processes and those of its suppliers,
  customers, and business partners.

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Goals of SCM

• Is to create a fast, efficient, and low-cost
  network of business relationships to get a
  companys products from concept to market.
• Is to efficiently manage this process by
  forecasting demand controlling inventory,
  enhancing the network of business relationships a
  company has with customers, suppliers,
  distributors, and others and receiving feedback
  on the status of every link in the supply chain.

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Benefits of SCM

• Faster, more accurate processing
• Reductions in inventory levels
• Quicker times to market
• Lower transaction and materials costs
• Strategic relationships with their suppliers

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What are the causes of problems in SCM?

• A lack of proper demand planning knowledge,
  tools, and guidelines.
• Inaccurate or overoptimistic demand forecasts
  will cause major production, inventory, and other
  business problems.
• Inaccurate production, inventory, and other
  business data provided by a companys other
  information system.

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Continued.

• Lack of adequate collaboration among marketing,
  production, and inventory management departments
  within a company, and with suppliers,
  distributors, and others.

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Who is Oracle?

• Oracle's business is informationhow to manage
  it, use it, share it, protect it.
• Oracle has provided the software and services
  that let organizations get the most up-to-date
  and accurate information from their business
  systems.

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History on Oracle

• Oracle founded about 30 years ago by Larry
  Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates.
• Oracle can be founded in nearly every industry
  around the world.
• Its in the offices of 98 of the Fortune 100
  companies.
• First to establish a commercialized relational
  database.

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Mission

• Simplify Speed information delivery with
  integrated systems and a single database.
• Standardize Reduce cost and maintenance cycles
  with open, easily available components.
• Automate Improve operational efficiency with
  technology and best practices.

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Products of Oracle

• Oracle Database 10g
• First database designed for grid designing.
• The information is always secure and available.
• The most flexible and cost-effective way to
  manage enterprise information.

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Products of Oracle

• Enterprise Manager 10g
• Oracle Enterprise Manager is an integrated
  product for managing software infrastructure as
  well as many other applications and business
  services. It also manages other software elements
  Web applications, hosts, and networks in between.

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Continued.

• Oracle Fusion Middleware
• Oracle Fusion Middleware is a portfolio of
  leading, standards-based and customer-proven
  software products that spans a range of tools and
  services from J2EE and developer tools, to
  integration services, business intelligence,
  collaboration and content management.

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SCM with Oracle

• The Oracle E-Business Suite Supply Chain
  Management integrates and automates all key
  supply chain activities, from design, planning
  and procurement to manufacturing and fulfillment.
  
• When Oracle Supply Chain Management runs on
  Oracle technology, you speed implementation,
  optimize performance, streamline support and
  maximize ROI.

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Customers

• Supermercado Santa Isabel
• In Chile, these stores buy, sell, and distribute
  mass consumer products such as food and
  groceries.
• It owns a chain of 74 stores.
• The company needed to integrate all its financial
  accounting systems in a single product and chose
  PeopleSoft Enterprise One. This software improved
  there process management and shortened response
  time.
• PeopleSoft Enterprise provides a cohesive yet
  flexible solution for the synchronized supply
  chain, driving efficiencies in cost savings over
  your entire supply chainincluding your
  plan-to-produce and order-to-cash business
  processes.

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Customers Results

• The PeopleSoft Enterprise One improved there
  management and business processes.
• It made it possible to improve their work,
  response times, and shorten management time,
  which resulted in cost saving for the company.

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Customers

• Fuji Xerox
• Oracle provides the tools to link up the three
  key components of our regional supply chain
  management demand forecasting, advanced supply
  chain planning, and the two-distribution-hubs
  model.
• Low Chee Seng, General Manager, Supply Chain
  Management, Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific

www.fxap.com.sg
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Customers Results

• We have reduced our supply lead time and
  increased our inventory turns significantly. As a
  result, our business has become more profitable."
  
• --Low Chee Seng, General Manager, Supply Chain
  Management, Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific

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Oracle Partners

• Oracle has more than 15,000 partners.
• Answerthink
• www.Answerthink.com
• IT Convergence, Inc.
• www.itconvergence.com

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Sources

• Oracle www.oracle.com
• Management Information System
• James A. OBrian
• George M. Marakas