Oracle Engineer-To-Order (ETO) Solution—Features

Improve Your ETO Competitiveness

This solution helps ETO-focused companies deliver customer-specific projects on time, on budget, and within scope.

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Overview
Features

Feature

Benefit

Resource capacity planning and optimization
- Ensure that order demands can be met by forecasting and monitoring resource availability.
- Optimize resource utilization by running what-if scenarios.
- Eliminate resource bottlenecks and ensure project activities are completed on time.
Planning templates
- Rapidly create new customer projects with project templates that are derived from lessons learned.
- Generate accurate estimates of overall duration and effort for upcoming orders.
Risk analysis and contingency determination
- Identify, quantify, and monitor risk using Monte Carlo simulations.
- Determine required budget contingency for an optimal bid price.
- Determine required time contingency for a competitive and realistic delivery date.
Integrated master planning
- Create multitiered programs and project and work plans with dependencies captured across projects.
- Eliminate disconnected schedules along the ETO value chain.
Critical path scheduling
- Use CPM scheduling to automatically project dates based on estimated duration, schedule logic, and leading time-phased visualization.
Automated progress collection
- Share resource task assignments with project team members using mobile apps.
- Pull updates from external applications, such as project lifecycle management.
Quality gate management and governance
- Ensure that project leaders and teams meet the required level of execution with built-in gates that provide quality check-points.
- Improve decision-making and ensure that resources are not wasted.
Change and contract management
- Manage, analyze, monitor, and communicate changes to all functional departments, suppliers, subcontractors, and customers.
- Contextualize and trace project artifacts, such as issues, changes, contracts, meeting-minutes, claims, and work- and cost-breakdown structures.
Business process management, document management, and audit trails
- Automate processes with configurable business process management.
- Stay compliant with guidelines and rules.
- Improve results on internal/external audits.