Oracle Cloud Supply Chain Collaboration
Overview
Supply Chain Collaboration is the extension of supply chain information and capabilities to all trading partners in a supply network. It is the real-time collaborative digital exchange of planning/forecasting, purchasing, inventory fulfilment, and payment transactions between buyers and suppliers to improve traceability and end-to-end visibility of supply chain operations.
Need of Supply Chain Collaboration
Supply chain collaboration is one of the important things to running a business successfully in today’s growing economy of e-commerce and in an omnichannel environment, and supply chain managers and procurement professionals must collaborate for these following reasons:
- To improve the product flow
- To Boosts Customer Satisfaction
- To increase the end-to-end visibility
- To promotes competitive advantage
- To increase supplier supply chain relationship
Capabilities of Oracle Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud
The Oracle SCC cloud has in-built functionalities like:
- Planning Collaboration with planning central – Online order forecast commitment
- Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) – Pay on use, Pay-on-Receipt Models
- Transactional Visibility – Review POs, ASNs, Invoices & Payments
- Contract Manufacturing – Production & Component usage updates
Multi-tier Collaboration & Visibility
Introduction
Oracle SCC digitally synchronize the upstream of supply from multiple tiers of external organizations, this includes:
- On-hand balances
- PO’s & Requisitions
- Work order supplies
- Work order component demands
- Work order resources
The holistic visibility across tiers ensures quick actions against upstream supply chain disruptions and it will minimise the downstream disruptions by including this supply information in multi-tier supply plans.
Supply Data uploads:
As cloud UI and REST service that allows external manufacturer and enterprise users to upload and monitor the status of each supply data request.
- Initiate supply data upload an external manufacturer or enterprise user
- Monitor all uploads an enterprise user
- Visibility to all errors that occurred during loading, processing and collections
- Cancelled uncollected supply data requests
Planning Setups for SCC:
- Model an external manufacturer as an organization and enable plan external manufacturer supplies
- Load data using SCC cloud
- Enable the plan level control in plan options
Planning Details for SCC:
Internal and External Organizations can be planned in a single supply plan.
- New order type PO demand created to represent the external manufacturing organization demand
- Since PO demands are regular demands, it consumes regular supplies and creates new supply orders if need be, based on sourcing rule
- Supply orders created cannot be released from external organizations
- Analyse plan, identify exceptions that put demand at risk and take actions to improve plan efficiency
Benefits of Supply Chain Collaboration
Digitally connected supply chain
- End to end visibility of inventory across the supply chain
- Holistic views of Product status
Improved Efficiency
- Reduce Just-in-case inventory and reduces inventory cost across the chain
- Enrich strategic relationship with trading partners
Partner responsiveness
- Reliable commits, accurate product status, on-time delivery of customer orders
- Monitor and respond quickly to upstream supply chain issues
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