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 manufacturers. Oracle’s solutions facilitate internal integration and external collaboration throughout the entire value chain, yielding superior levels of operational and financial performance.
Oracle uniquely enables industrials manufacturers to:
- Enable Collaborative Product Development
- Manage configuration complexity and still provide delivery flexibility
- Adopt Lean, Flexible Manufacturing Environments
Oracle’s solution for industrial manufacturing is further differentiated through:
- Configuration capabilities that currently support highly configurable products such as those offered by Pella Windows and Haworth Furniture.
- An optimal internet-based architecture for simplified collaboration between customers and suppliers
- A completely integrated solution
- Business Flows to accelerate time-to-benefit
- Unique functionality to support the lean enterprise, such as built in policy deployment support through business flows and KPI’s.
Benefits
Drive Profitable Product/Project Evolution
- Faster time to market
- Better, more competitive products
- Protection of Intellectual Capital
- Lower Development and Support Costs
- Integrated Project Management and Project Accounting
- Embedded collaboration tools
- All product information consolidated into a single source
- Integrated with sourcing·
- CAD sharing
- Project Management
Produce Flexible Operational Networks
- Promote demand-driven manufacturing environments
- Increase plant flexibility and efficiency
- Increase warehouse efficiency
- Minimize onsite inventories
- Integrated KPI’s and intelligent workflows eliminate the need for a separate data warehouse, provide immediate access to actionable data
Establish Profitable Service and Repair Business
- Improved scheduling and exectution
- Integrates customer service with other business functions
- Enhanced claims and contract management
- Better Inventory visibility
- End-to-end service solution
- Consolidated view of the customer
- Advanced service analytics
Deliver Superior Customer Experience
- Adopt best practices for business processes
- real time visibility into key business processes
- Collaboration Suite
- Industry specific business flows
- KPI’s in the transaction DB eliminate the need for DW
- True 360? View of Customer