Oracle expands e-business solutions

REDWOOD SHORES, California – Oracle Corp., the largest provider of software for e-business, has announced a complete offering of applications that enable online collaboration between all of a company’s employees, customers, partners and suppliers.

Recognizing that the power of exchanges goes far beyond procurement marketplaces, these new applications extend the capabilities of the Oracle E-Business Suite to collaborative functions that enable all business partners to interact and collaborate on key business activities over the Internet.

The new collaborative suite includes Oracle Supply Chain Exchange, Oracle Transportation, Oracle Product Development Exchange and Oracle Marketplace.

In times of economic uncertainty, companies often seek to increase the efficiencies of their operations. By putting major functions online in a collaborative environment, such as supply chain, product development and logistics, they can increase the visibility of their operations and thus, drive down costs – and not just procurement costs – in their operations.

Oracle Supply Chain Exchange connects trading partners with disparate enterprise systems to enable real-time, inter-enterprise event management, collaboration, performance measurement, and synchronized planning and demand visibility, multi-enterprise order tracking and robust inventory visibility across collaborating trading partners.

In addition, Oracle Supply Chain Exchange supports unique collaborative planning and optimization features that allow trading partners to run joint promotion plans, new product introductions, and cross-partner available-to-promise checks, and to optimize and synchronize supply chain plans from disparate planning systems.

Oracle Transportation Exchange will help shippers and transportation providers to better communicate, collaborate and plan their transportation requirements. By moving their business operations to a collaborative model, shippers and transportation providers can significantly reduce delivery lead times and respond quickly to changing market conditions.

Oracle Transportation Exchange serves as an open, integrated marketplace of the buying and selling of transportation services. Shippers can manage the buying of logistics services, contractor or spot, across all modes, inclusive of storage and warehouse services.

Transportation providers can sell capacity for multi-mode transport, produce additional capacity for shortages and capture and review key shipping documents for improved visibility.

Through seamless integration to Oracle Supply Chain Exchange, Oracle Transportation Exchange can help match transportation capacity to forecast demand, manage in-transit inventories and increase visibility to exceptions throughout the extended supply chain.
Oracle Product Development Exchange addresses every area of collaborative product development, including product information management, document management, project collaboration and product development intelligence.

Recognizing efficiencies in the product development process, companies can significantly cut costs and accelerate time-to-market.

Oracle Exchange Marketplace supports design, planning and logistics throughout the business process lifecycle. This collaborative marketplace enables buyers to broaden their markets and sellers to increase their choices while greater competition brings not only improved prices, but increased performance and delivery as well.

The Exchange Marketplace enables purchases through online catalogues and competitive bidding through buyer and seller auctions.
Fully integrated with Product Development Exchange, Supply Chain Exchange and Transportation Exchange, Exchange Marketplace helps provide seamless, collaborative procurement throughout the business process lifecycle.