Razor thin margins and poor pipeline visibility challenge company viability and customer loyalty. The winners are adopting sophisticated information management strategies to more effectively connect their customers with the right products and services. Only Oracle’s solutions facilitate this connection by providing customer-centric and product-centric views of your data.
Know more — connecting data that is fragmented by stand-alone systems and geographical, company or divisional obstacles into a homogeneous, common footprint that increases visibility.
Do more — by integrating product development with demand chain, supply chain and manufacturing business processes and improving communication through real-time collaboration
Spend less — by eliminating redundant systems and business processes, integration projects, and duplicate data and by increasing the interoperability of your existing IT investments.
Adopting the lean enterprise philosophy helps reduce waste and increase marketshare. Only Oracle provides comprehensive tools specifically designed to aid companies as they journey toward lean.
Key Features
Oracle is a strategic applications and technology partner to leading consumer electronics companies. Oracle’s solutions facilitate internal integration and external collaboration throughout the entire consumer electronics supply chain, driving profitable innovation and supply chain speed, and yielding superior levels of operational and financial performance.
Oracle uniquely enables automotive suppliers to:
- Enable Collaborative Component and System Development
- Source and Procure Globally for Best Value
- Adopt Lean, Flexible Manufacturing Environments
- Meet Fluctuating OEM Demand Requirements
Oracle’s solution for automotive suppliers is further differentiated through:
- Configuration capabilities that currently support GM BuyPower and Eaton Corporation
- Advanced Production sequencing and scheduling capabilities as well as support for mixed-model production critical to suppliers such as ArvinMeritor
- An optimal internet-based architecture for deploying shared service environments
- A completely integrated solution for Release-to-Ship/Cash
- Business Flows to accelerate time-to-benefit
Benefits
Enable Collaborative Component and System Development
- Faster time to market
- Better, more competitive products
- Protection of intellectual capital
- Lower development and support costs
- Embedded collaboration tools
- All product information consolidated into a single source
- Integrated with sourcing and procurement
- CAD file sharing
Source and Procure Globally for Best Value
- Aggregate spend and negotiate better contracts with fewer suppliers
- Evaluate and award suppliers on performance
- Increase visibility of total purchasing spend
- Free buyers from non value-adding tasks
- Complete procure-to-pay solution
- Able to deploy purchasing as shared business service
- Enable employee self service thru iProcurement
Manage Lean, Flexible Manufacturing Environments
- Promote demand-driven manufacturing environments
- Increase plant flexibility and efficiency
- Increase warehouse efficiency
- Minimize onsite inventories
- Production sequencing and scheduling capabilities
- Pull-based material replenishment capabilities
- Support for Mixed-model production
Meet Fluctuating OEM Demand Requirements
- Excel at high-volume order collaboration
- Quickly incorporate customer schedule updates into fulfillment requirements.
- Manage and resolve customer schedule exceptions
- Improve delivery performance scorecard rating
- Integration to Manufacturing and Financials
- Release Management built for automotive suppliers
- Proven performance in high transaction environment
- Trading Partner Layer to accommodate specific OEM data processing