ORACLE APPS SCM(Supply Chain Management)

The Oracle Apps Modules covers in Oracle SCM are:

1.Inventory

2.Purchasing

3.Order Management

4.Brief Introduction to WIP and BOM Manufacturing Modules

5.Overview on R12 SCM Modules

6.New Features of R12 SCM Modules

Oracle Supply Chain Management (SCM) basically integrates and automates all key supply chain activities starting from design, planning, and procurement to manufacturing and fulfillment. It depends upon how the company or Line managers planning to use these application module in there business line

Supply chain management (SCM) is a systematic approach to manage the seamless flow of information, materials, and services from raw material suppliers through factories and warehouses to the end customer.

SCM involves seamless flow of material, information & finance in a network consisting of customers, suppliers, manufacturers, retailers and distributors.

1. Design:

SCM start with designing & developing new products where Product specifications are created. Few Important applications play major role in this phase.

Oracle Product Life cycle Management

Oracle Advanced product Catalog Engineering & Bills of Materials

2.Market:

Marketing and Sales generates demand for the Product by publicizing its features and how it would address customer priorities. In the process, Marketing also gets customer feedback and communicates to Product development group. These are application potentially can be used.

Telesales

Trade Management

Incentive Compensation

Order Capture

Oracle sales

3. Plan:

Planning is the strategic portion of SCM. You need a strategy for managing all the resources that go toward meeting customer demand for your product or service.

Advanced Supply Chain Planning

Global Order Promising

4. Sell & Manage Order:

Maintain and manage the customer orders, order holds, notes and release the orders to warehouse for fulfillment based on requested date, product availability and customer credit limit.

Order management

Advanced Pricing

Configurator

iStore

5. Procure:

Here we normally choose the suppliers that will deliver the goods and services you need to create your product. Develop a set of pricing, delivery and payment processes with suppliers and create metrics for monitoring and improving the relationships.

Purchasing

iProcurement

6. Manufacture:

Schedule the manufacturing activities necessary for production, testing, packaging and preparation for delivery.

Cost Management

Process Manufacturing

Project Manufacturing

Quality

Work in Process

7. Fulfill & Release Management :

Coordinate the receipt of orders from customers, develop a network of warehouses, pick carriers to get products to customers and set up an invoicing system to receive payments.

Shipping Execution

Inventory Management

Warehouse Management System

Transportation Execution

8. Service & Maintain:

Create a network for receiving defective and excess products back from customers and supporting customers who have problems with delivered products.

Depot Repair

Field Service

Install Base

Service Contracts

Oracle SCM Solutions

Oracle E-Business Suite does covers each area of SCM as discussed above. Here is how best we can describe involvement of all five key participants. Oracle provides two streams to capture entire supply chain planning.

1. Manufacturing: Consists of Inventory, Bills of Material & Work in process to capture details of every type of manufacturing like discrete, batch, mass production.

2. Distribution: Consists of Inventory, Purchasing, and Order Management to capture entire procure to pay & order to cash business processes.

1) Procure to Pay (P2P)

Procure to pay lifecycle captures demands from different applications like Inventory, Order Management, Purchasing & consolidate all demands in the form of requisitions. Requisitions can be optionally converted in to RFQ & Quotations, or else directly converted in Purchase Orders. Approved PO then can be send to suppliers & receipts are generated in different Inventory organizations. Further more Financials applications can be used to capture invoices & process payments for suppliers.

Oracle Purchasing

iProcurement

iSupplier Portal

Inventory

Payables

2) Order to Cash (O2C)

O2C lifecycle starts with entering different types of orders on to customer’s name. Book orders once all relevant scheduling & pricing information of item is reviewed. Booked orders are treated as firm demand to process orders either for manufacturing or fulfilling the demand through supplier networks. Then you pick release & ship confirms these orders to interface data with accounts receivables for further financial transactions.

Oracle Order Management

Oracle Inventory

Shipping Execution

Advanced Pricing

Oracle Configurator

Warehouse Management

Receivables

3) Lead to Service

A lead is an expressed customer interest that a sales agent uses to determine whether there is potential for a after sales service opportunity Leads are intended to capture the initial contact with potential or existing customers, gathering just enough information to tell a sales organization whether there is sufficient interest on behalf of the buyer to make a lead worth following up. Under this Business Process Oracle module can be potentially used.

CRM Foundation

Sales Online

Marketing Online

Install Base

Depot Repair

Service Contracts

iStore

Field Service

4) Forecast to Plan

A company uses sales order history to produce a forecast, design a production, manufacturing, or distribution plan from that forecast, and how to analyze, revise, and simulate changes to that plan.

Material Planning

Advanced Supply Chain Planning

Collaborative Planning

5) Demand to Build

This business flow outlines how a company analyzes or anticipates demand and translates that demand to a production plan.

Demand Planning

Bills of Material

Work in Process

Cost Management

Flow Manufacturing