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Start Building a More Sustainable
Future with Oracle
Whatever your job role is, whichever industry you operate in, and whatever your unique supply-chain sustainability goals are, Oracle has the tools to help.
Explore our solutions in the sections below, and take the first step towards smarter, more sustainable supply-chain operations today.
Oracle Product Lifecycle
Management Cloud
Recommended for: Driving sustainable design, and ensuring sustainability throughout the product lifecycle.
Oracle Product Lifecycle Management Cloud provides all of the capabilities that your design and supply-chain teams need to collaborate freely, manage and drive innovation, and bring new products to market both quickly and sustainably.
Oracle Product Lifecycle Management Cloud supports sustainability with:
- Built-in customizable design and compliance standards
- Collaborative planning capabilities
- Supply-chain consumerization tools that help ensure the supply chain is ready for what design delivers
- Insight into product and sourcing readiness
Oracle Product Master
Data Management Cloud
Recommended for: Aligning supply-chain stakeholders to sustainable design standards and processes.
Oracle Product Master Data Management Cloud takes deep and varied product data, and puts it all in one place, accessible and sharable by everyone who needs access to it. It supports efficient product and supply-chain operations by keeping everyone on the same page, and compliant with product standards and data regulations.
Oracle Product Master Data Management Cloud supports sustainability by delivering:
- A single product view for everyone to work from, helping to eliminate errors and deviation from design
- Collaborative product definition, so multiple supply-chain stakeholders can work together to make high-level product decisions
- Self-service for third-party supply-chain partners
- Granular security and auditing so product operations can be tracked clearly
Oracle Supply Chain
Planning Cloud
Recommended for: Improving the efficiency of all supply-chain operations and cutting costs by planning and forecasting more accurately for both demand and supply.
Nobody’s supply chain stands still for long. But with Oracle Supply Chain Planning Cloud, you can predict and plan for demand and supply proactively—avoiding common issues, and opening up powerful new cost-reducing opportunities, without impacting your agility.
Oracle Supply Chain Planning Cloud supports sustainability by enabling businesses to:
- Plan demand and supply together, and make proactive plans for sustainable sourcing and delivery
- Respond quickly to supply-chain changes to minimize cost and disruption impacts
- Become a truly efficient demand-driven enterprise
- Adjust plans on the fly, without incurring huge increases in cost
Oracle Procurement Cloud
Recommended for: Enabling sustainable sourcing, and ensuring supply-chain partners meet your sustainability standards.
Oracle Procurement Cloud gives you the tools you need to modernize all procurement processes, and select procurement partners on any standards that matter to you—from cost, to sustainability. Evaluate new suppliers in any way you wish, then ensure continued compliance with your agreed standards as part of future procurement activities.
Oracle Procurement Cloud helps aid sustainability by:
- Automating common procurement tasks, so you can focus on the decisions that really matter
- Providing a platform for strong vendor evaluation
- Providing new opportunities for saving costs
- Improving visibility across your entire supplier portfolio
Oracle Manufacturing Cloud
Recommended for: Granting the insight needed to improve sustainability across large and complex manufacturing environments.
By bringing your entire manufacturing environment together into a single, easy-to-manage platform, Oracle Manufacturing Cloud grants you the visibility you need to start making big sustainability-boosting changes to the way you work.
Oracle Manufacturing Cloud helps to support sustainability by enabling businesses to:
- Improve the quality of outputs and reduce rework
- Visualize all manufacturing workflows in real time
- Quickly identify the best opportunities for manufacturing process improvement
Oracle Internet of Things Applications
Recommended for: Uncovering previously invisible inefficiencies across manufacturing environments and understanding how best to combat them.
The Internet of Things has revolutionized the way we monitor and manage the supply chain, but nowhere does it have more applications than in manufacturing. By providing a platform for all Internet of Things (IoT) data, Oracle IoT Cloud helps make sense of what discrete devices are telling you, and helps you find where your best opportunities for improving sustainability exist.
Oracle IoT Cloud helps to support sustainability by enabling businesses to:
- Monitor and manage things they couldn’t track before
- Pull all IoT data into one place for fast analysis
- Uncover previously invisible inefficiencies and unsustainable activities
Oracle Logistics Cloud
Recommended for: Reducing emissions and transportation costs, while ensuring that the right products and materials are always in the right places at the right time.
Oracle Logistics Cloud brings your entire logistics and warehouse infrastructure together in one place, giving you a clear view of where everything is, where it needs to be, and what the fastest and most cost-effective way of getting it there is.
Oracle Logistics Cloud supports sustainability by enabling businesses to:
- Monitor inventories globally, to quickly understand where things are, and identify the easiest and most efficient ways to get them to where they need to be
- Simplify compliance with all kinds of logistical and goods-based regulations when moving between borders—cutting travel time and eliminating hold-ups
- Optimize transportation plans and routing, so you can always choose the most efficient and cost-effective path to your destination
Oracle Maintenance Cloud
Recommended for: Companies with a large number of high-value critical assets that need to be running at maximum efficiency at all times.
Well-maintained assets live longer, and generate maximum return for your business. That’s great for profits, but it’s also great for the environment—ensuring that you get the most from everything you use, and utilize it for as long as possible before needing to acquire or build anything more.
Oracle Maintenance Cloud supports sustainability by enabling your business to:
- Easily monitor maintenance plans, and track where and when things need to be serviced
- Plan maintenance work so that it can be conducted in the most efficient way possible
- Track maintenance requests in real time and reduce downtime by taking action fast
Oracle Depot Repair
Recommended for: Building a sustainable reverse supply chain that helps fuel more efficient manufacturing by reusing costly resources.
Repair and recycling depots are the heart of the reverse supply chain. Oracle Depot Repair provides all the tools you need to empower depot teams to get more from the products they handle—whether that means returning more to active use, or just getting more parts to reuse from them.
Oracle Depot Repair helps support enterprise sustainability by enabling you to:
- Dispose of fewer products, and effectively return more to active use
- Harvest more parts from products that need to be disposed of for future use
- Encourage customer recycling and build repeat loyalty
- Comply with government-mandated recycling programs
Take your first step towards sustainability today.
You’ve set you goals, you’ve got a plan, and you know which solutions can help you get to where you want to be. Now it’s time to talk to the experts.
Get in touch with the Oracle sustainability team today to discuss the challenges you’re facing, find out exactly how Oracle can help, and take the first step towards a more sustainable future.
