Solar Manufacturing

Solar production and manufacturing is complicated. Solar companies face competing challenges in bringing solar panels to market: increased speed-to-market and complex design processes involving dispersed, global teams. Oracle Product Lifecycle Management helps you meet these challenges. Plan and manage product investments with a centralized repository of complete product and project information, as well as tools—including Oracle's AutoVue Enterprise Visualization—that enable secure, global collaboration. The result: you bring profitable Solar products to market on time and on budget.

In the face of downward price pressures, you can differentiate yourself from competitors with accurate order promising—including the ability to accommodate complex configurations. However, this requires visibility into demand and supply as well as precision in order processes. Because Oracle applications are built on a single data model, you gain a single view of comprehensive customer and supply data. And Oracle Order Management, including Oracle Advanced Pricing, Oracle Configurator, Oracle Global Order Promising, Oracle Transportation Management, and Oracle Warehouse Management, provides accurate, multi-level ATP, CTP, and CTD capabilities.

As markets, supply chains—and competition—grow increasingly global, you need extremely flexible manufacturing and supply chain planning systems. For example, you want to minimize changeovers due to non-dedicated equipment while leveraging duplicate systems resulting from consolidation. Oracle Supply Chain Planning helps you improve demand predictability, minimize inventory costs, and develop a single, holistic supply chain plan. And Oracle Manufacturing helps you move from push- to pull-based production with complete mixed-mode capabilities, including tools to manage outsourced, in-house, and hybrid models.

In durable goods manufacturing, reputation is everything. When a customer has an issue, you need to respond quickly and effectively. Oracle Service enables seamless, cost-efficient multi-channel support with a single, robust platform for customer, product, and contract information. It provides tools to manage field service, depot repair, inventory and spares, call centers, and even has options for customer self-service support over the internet. Just as important, it enables you to ensure profitability with tools to prevent contract leakage and promote proactive contract renewals.

For distributing solar products to market, Oracle Partner Relationship Management (PRM), which now includes Siebel, is the market-leading comprehensive channel management solution that allows brand owners to achieve their channel business objectives. With the best industry-specific PRM solutions, proven customer successes, and unmatched deployment options, Oracle PRM is the clear channel management leader.