Efficient logistics management is essential for organizations seeking to optimize their supply chain operations and stay competitive in a globalized and increasingly complex business landscape. Oracle Logistics offers a comprehensive suite of software solutions designed to streamline and enhance the logistics process and accelerate supply and product delivery.
From transportation management and warehouse operations to global trade compliance and fleet management, Oracle Logistics provides the tools and capabilities needed to effectively manage the movement of goods, improve visibility and control, and drive operational excellence.
This article will explore the key components and benefits of Oracle Logistics, how it helps organizations revolutionize logistics operations, and where our team of Oracle consultants can come in to help.
Understanding the Need for Effective Logistics Processes
Innovative technology for warehouse management, transportation planning and management, customs, trade compliance, and other critical logistics processes is critical in accelerating supply chain operations and ensuring suppliers, distributors, and customers have what they need when they need it.
Oracle Logistics Cloud offers a comprehensive, fully integrated system that consolidates core transportation, warehouse, and global trade management operations into a single platform and reduces the manual integration of applications and third-party providers to control logistics processes.
Modern Logistics Needs
- Standardize operations through unified software solutions managed by a single vendor
- Improve communication, collaboration, and knowledge transfer across logistics teams
- Respond to changing business needs and trade requirements as soon as they arise
- Improve supply chain visibility and traceability for critical materials and products
- Leverage advanced data insights to optimize decision-making processes
Logistics in the Cloud
- Utilize analytics and customizable dashboards to view and compare supply chain metrics
- Accelerate time to market through multichannel order fulfillment procedures
- Optimize goods movement and transportation modes across the global supply chain
- Align inventory supply with consumer demand to expedite fulfillment timelines
- Leverage a unified platform to access and monitor orders, shipments, and inventory levels
- Improve visibility for critical order, shipment, inventory, and trade compliance data
Key Components of the Oracle Logistics Network
Warehouse Management
The modern fulfillment economy doesn’t allow for tedious manual systems, complex integrations, and ineffective upgrade processes.
Oracle Warehouse Management Cloud offers innovative supply chain execution solutions at a lower total cost of ownership, enabling organizations to support multi-channel demand, execute inbound and outbound fulfillment processes, and maintain inventory visibility and accountability.
With Oracle’s advanced warehouse management capabilities, organizations can transform their existing warehouse operations to keep up with the pace of a modern, demand-driven landscape and manage complicated supply chain initiatives more effectively.
Fleet Management
Oracle Fusion Cloud Fleet Management provides an asset-centric and shipment-centric transportation management solution that consolidates order and shipment management processes in a single platform, empowering users to improve internal capacity fulfillment and maximize fleet resources.
By leveraging robust asset management features and integrations with Oracle Cloud Supply Chain Management and other critical cloud solutions, companies can achieve end-to-end support for fleet and asset management initiatives and ensure the right resources are available at the right times.
An integrated fleet management environment simplifies fulfillment operations, giving users the power to visualize and coordinate all fulfillment capacity modes, improve asset utilization, and reduce total costs for transportation, logistics, emissions, and more.
Transportation Management
With a single platform that unifies all critical transportation activities and enables business process automation for global transportation and logistics operations, Oracle Transportation Management empowers organizations to reduce costs, bridge the gap between data silos, and improve efficiency.
Oracle Transportation Management allows companies to support global transportation initiatives and improve asset utilization by providing intelligent operational planning, sourcing, routing, freight management, and reporting tools that promote visibility across the entire supply chain
The Transportation Management module offers easy-to-use features and industry best practices to manage all transportation and fulfillment activities, optimize service levels, and reduce total freight costs.
Global Trade Management
Oracle Fusion Cloud Global Trade Management offers an intuitive global compliance solution that enables companies in a global landscape to manage critical trade operations and automate multi-channel and cross-border trade activities from a single, unified platform.
With an integrated logistics framework and advanced automation tools, Oracle’s Transportation Management application enables effective global trade content management and improves reporting for trade-related data, ensuring data security is maintained and fast shipments are guaranteed.
Oracle’s centralized platform for business processes related to cross-border trade management and compliance empowers organizations to gain visibility into customer orders, maximize shipment efficiency, and maintain compliance with critical trade regulations and standards.
Transportation Operational Planning
By providing intelligent transportation optimization tools and seamless connections between business rules, logic, algorithms, and optimization engines, Oracel Transportation Operational Planning enables organizations to determine the best course of action based on asset availability, service level, and total cost.
Oracle Transportation Operational Planning also supports multi-tier and multi-channel networks spanning multiple modes and geographies, ensuring both domestic and international logistics processes are planned and executed properly and organizations are prepared for future routing, shipment, and fulfillment optimization.
From point-to-point transport to multi-leg, multi-modal, and cross-dock operations, Oracle Transportation Operational Planning allows users to fulfill critical transportation needs, measure and control order fulfillment activities, and optimize delivery and cost for key planning initiatives.
Intelligent Technology
By leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, Oracle Intelligent Technology solutions allow users to make more accurate transit time predictions, reduce total supply chain risk, and improve customer satisfaction across the organization.
Oracle’s Intelligent Technology also empowers organizations to view predicted shipment transit and arrival times and integrate critical ETA data into standard OTM workflows, enabling simpler configurations and improved operational efficiency within a low-code environment.
Users can leverage intelligent technologies to facilitate end-to-end transportation management, quickly resolve system issues and downtime, and improve process alignment with critical business initiatives.
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