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Supplier Collaboration for Oracle
Trading partner integration with real-time
process control
How can I automate communication with my trading partners around receipts,
forecasts and shipments? How do I empower my contract manufacturers and 3PLs
to drop ship directly to end customers, while maintaining control?
For companies running the Oracle® E-Business Suite, ClearOrbit's Xtended
Process Control™ (X.PC™) provides advanced trading partner collaboration
capabilities that leverage and extend your investment in Oracle. X.PC is
a sophisticated set of applications to automate materials replenishment,
inventory management and order fulfillment processes with your logistics
providers (3PLs). X.PC closes the loop between the demand information published
to suppliers and the physical shipments sent by suppliers in response to
the demand signal, replacing inefficient manual communications such as phone,
fax and email.
X.PC improves efficiency, increases inventory accuracy and reduces supply
chain management costs by automating collaborative business processes. By
providing closed-loop visibility across the entire order cycle, X.PC effectively
eliminates most invoice disputes and enables companies to implement Evaluated
Receipt Settlement (ERS) in their ERP system. X.PC integrates directly to
the ERP data model, avoiding duplicate PO or inventory data that can drive
integration costs and delay implementation. This results in significantly
faster, smoother and more cost-effective deployments than alternative approaches.
X.PC consists of different modules which vary according to the demand signal
used to trigger the replenishment process, and whether items are received
within your facilities or drop-shipped to end customers:
| Purchase Order Collaborator |
Allows manufacturers and distributors to automate purchase order
replenishment processes through collaboration with suppliers |
| PO Change Management |
Extends the functionality of PO Collaborator by incorporating
MRP (Material Requirements Planning) output into the purchase order
replenishment process |
| Demand Collaborator |
Allows manufacturers and distributors to collaborate on the delivery
of MRP planned orders, while providing key process control mechanisms
around fulfillment |
| Drop Ship Management |
Helps manufacturers and distributors drop ship products directly
from their 3PL providers, contract manufacturers and suppliers
while retaining control over key fulfillment activities and customer-facing
processes |
| Supply Network Intelligence |
Real-time visibility and exception reporting to allow 'actionable'
feedback that decision makers can use to effectively manage the
extended supply network |
Key Capabilities:
The ClearOrbit Xtended Process Control approach is characterized by several
important elements:
- Advanced collaboration capabilities -- X.PC
extends the Oracle ERP system to support complex business process such
as
drop ship management, VMI
and collaborative demand sharing
- Configurability -- X.PC is
driven from a business rules engine to support customer-specific changes
without coding or system
customizations
- Drop Ship Support — the ability to have your
partners ship items directly from their facilities to your
end customers,
while
you continue to manage the
process
- Flexible Supplier Integration — the support of a
variety of methods for your trading partners to access the system, including
XML,
RosettaNet and
EDI integration, facilitating rapid deployment
- Rapid implementation – by
leveraging the Oracle ERP data model for supplier information,
PO data, tolerances and configuration
information,
X.PC
avoids data duplication and facilitates quick implementation
- Rapid
supplier on-boarding -- by making supplier adoption easy, X.PC facilitates
system usage across the entire base of suppliers
Benefits to the OEMs & Brand Owners include:
- Decreased manufacturing downtime due to inaccurate
shipments
- Elimination of duplicate receipts and inventory
- Elimination of invoice disputes
- Reduction in receiving delays due to inaccurate
labeling
- Elimination of EDI relationships / label compliance programs cost
- Decreased
lead times and variability
- Implementation of Evaluated Receipt Settlement
(ERS) initiatives
- Increased visibility to cash requirements and cash to
cash cycle time
Benefits to Suppliers, Contract Manufacturers and 3PLs include:
- Improved shipping accuracy
- Reduced costs from
order expediting
- More efficient handling of returned goods
- Reduced order reprocessing
- Elimination of invoice disputes, thus payment
is realized more quickly
- Fewer resources tied up with invoice reconciliation
- Improved customer relationships
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Capabilities Datasheet
Stanford Business School Case Study
AMR Research Report
Supply Chain Digest Webinar
"Immediately improved material visibility...Suppliers hailed the ease of the Web portal’s user interface, immediate demand visibility, and improved payment times as a major reason for the on-boarding success"
Greg Aimi, Mickey North-Rizza, Bill Swanton
AMR Research
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