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Uncover Supply Chain Risks More Quickly with Oracle Advanced Planning Control Center

Oracle’s recently introduced Oracle Advanced Planning Control Center solves a nagging problem that has plagued conventional planning engines for years—information overload.

“Conventional planning engines have always struggled with getting lost in the details,” says John Bermudez, Oracle senior director for Supply Chain Management product strategy. “Oracle Advanced Planning Control Center aggregates detailed information into snapshots that can clearly show impending risks, rather than forcing planners to sort through hundreds of exception messages to understand how or if they relate to each other.”

The Oracle Advanced Planning Control Center offers analytics and dashboards to help planners quickly spot larger problems and then drill down into the performance details to understand the root causes of the breakdowns. Better visibility into end-user demand, inventories, supplier performance, and other key supply chain factors helps companies reduce costs and risks.

For example, a typical planning engine may produce an extensive list of exception reports—such as a late shipment notice from one supplier—to characterize performance across the entire supply chain. But it’s up to supply chain managers to understand any larger implications of these individual hiccups. “By combining messages that on an individual basis may not look significant, Oracle’s solution shows how a supplier’s cumulative performance is a warning that it may be about to go out of business,” Bermudez explains.

Managers can also use the technology to create multiple-business scenarios to help them make important purchasing and production decisions. So after business falls 25 percent in a down market, a company may consider cutting back production in each of its production plants around the world or idle a single plant. “Either choice has its pluses and minuses,” Bermudez says. “Oracle Advanced Planning Control Center can develop what-if scenarios to help planners decide which option will be most beneficial in both the short and long term.”

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