Value Chain Planning (VCP)
The Value Chain Planning (VCP) solutions are at the heart of integrated planning. They ensure the alignment of operations and financial objectives to:
- Minimize costs
- Shape demand
- Simulating alternative business scenarios
- Manage risk.
Integrating suppliers, partners, customers and employees to create an effective value chain is a challenge. Attempting to do so using a variety of spreadsheets such as Excel quickly becomes a difficult exercise that causes errors, inaccuracies, and requires much time and effort. Fortunately, Oracle’s Management Value chain Planning Solutions offer robust functionality to optimize operations.
- Simplify your planning process
- Improve the accuracy of your forecasts
- Optimize the use of your resources
A family of solutions for an accomplished supply chain
Oracle Demantra
Oracle's Demantra is a best-in-class provider of demand management, sales & operations planning and trade promotions management solutions.
Oracle's Demantra Demand Management helps you maximize profitability with superior capabilities to better sense, shape, and respond to demand. Automated analytics ensures that your plans are based on the most accurate, forward forecasts without the need of statistical knowledge. The result is a demand-driven organization with higher service levels and sales, more satisfied customers, and lower inventory and distribution costs.
Oracle's Demantra Real-time Sales and Operations Planning extends demand-driven adaptive planning across your company. It enables you to implement a comprehensive sales and operations planning process that balances demand and supply around a one-number forecast to drive operational excellence and achieve profitability goals.
Oracle Demantra Predictive Trade Planning and Optimization provides consumer goods organizations with robust trade promotion and account planning, sales forecasting, and promotion optimization capabilities. Architected from the ground up on an analytics platform that addresses both transactional and strategic trade challenges, such as promotion effectiveness, on-shelf availability, baseline forecasting, and incremental lift calculations, and customer profitability.
Oracle Strategic Network Optimization
Oracle Strategic Network Optimization enables you to design your entire supply network with agility in mind. Today's rapidly changing global economics require you to be more responsive. The need to evaluate your supply network design more often is essential to enable your company to compete successfully. Not only do you need to design a more agile supply network, you also need to consider your hedge strategies in your design and be able to simulate the outcome of unpredictable events on your supply network flow.
Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning
With today's rapidly changing business conditions, you need a planning tool that surpasses the traditional latency of disconnected planning processes or Excel planning spreadsheets. You can leverage Oracle® Advanced Supply Chain Planning to be more responsive. You can perform simultaneous material and capacity planning across multiple distribution and manufacturing facilities and time horizons in a single planning run, while at the same time accounting for the latest consensus forecast, sales orders, production status, purchase orders, and inventory policy recommendations.
Oracle Production Scheduling
Oracle® Production Scheduling, designed for schedulers by schedulers, enables you to take control of your production scheduling problem, and helps you to maximize shop floor throughput while optimizing resource investment. You can optimize the usage of your critical resources, calculate realistic and feasible schedules that the shop floor can execute, and easily determine the schedule that best meets your objectives.
