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News: Oracle Integrates Financial, Operational Planning

rajksingh81 — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:13:09 +0000

Oracle Corp. today introduced a packaged integration between its enterprise performance management application and its sales and operations planning software, making it easier for manufacturers to quickly analyze the financial implications of changing customer demand.

Oracle said the new integration between its Oracle Hyperion Planning EPM product and its Oracle Demantra Real-Time Sales and Operations Planning platform is available now. Based on Oracle’s Application Integration Architecture (AIA), the new EPM-S&OP integration provides manufacturers with a way to more easily tie together operational and financial planning processes

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http://www.manufacturing-executive.com/news/read/Oracle_Integrates_Financial_Operational_Planning_33238

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Fueling supply chain with retailer’s POS data – Oracle DSR

rajksingh81 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:24:00 +0000

When recession hit the market, the impact on CPG industry was inevitable. With customers trying to save every penny possible, the competition in market for providing best quality product at minimal price possible has surpassed all previous levels. Everyone is trying to get the most of every dollar they spend. Few most common CPG industry specific issues can be easily listed as:

Lost sales due to out of stock conditions
High inventory carrying cost due of misplaced stocking
Promotion expenses going in vain
Loss of margins due of expedition costs
Increasing IT Complexity

Circumstances like this call for nothing but best in class, efficient and optimized business processes which are driven by one and only goal, increasing the profitable revenue making.

The road to accomplish this target is anything but smooth, need is to ensure that the supply chain backbone transforms into an efficient value chain. The value shall be visible and transparent to every stakeholder, be it an internal department(e.g. sales, marketing, operations) or an external vendor. With growing capabilities at retailer’s end to capture demand at the point of it’s origin, need is to build processes to capture this demand data and utilize it to drive the supply chain. Problem in gathering and utilizing this information is variety of retailer’s POS capturing systems, standards and granularity.

One of the AMR Research paper clearly outlines this fact by saying “The Bottom Line: Consumer products manufacturers must centrally manage all demand signal data, including POS, to create a Demand-Driven Supply Network (DDSN) that improves demand visibility to reduce stockouts by more than half and increase Perfect Order performance by 17%”

While in today’s generation of supply chain, availability of data is lowest of concerns, problem is with managing this high volume and ensuring the accurate required information is made available to upstream for planning. With variety of sources of POS data, the need to capture and cleanse it prior to it’s availability for being used in planning is of high importance.

Oracle’s Demand Signal Repository product has shown thought leadership in this direction, by providing a collaborative demand signal management platform with best of breed functionality and reporting capabilities.

Oracle’s DSR datasheet points out it’s three key capabilities:

Capture and manage large volumes of disparate external demand data
Analyze, report and take action based on Day/SKU/Store level insights
Integrate clean, harmonized demand data to external applications

DSR empowers you to:

Greater visibility of data to better sense, shape and respond to demand
Reduce manual effort and cost
Simplify collaboration across teams and applications.

Oracle VCP Product and processes

rajksingh81 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:21:00 +0000

Exploring Demantra’s BPM capabilities

rajksingh81 — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:42:00 +0000

Oracle Demantra’s various module releases have a lot to offer for small and medium scale enterprises, who can utilize the out of box processes(best in class) as it is to a lot extent. The standard demand forecasting and S&OP planning process offered with the install benefits the SMBs, but for larger enterprises there is always a need to create a custom process. But, Demantra does have BPM(Business Process Management) capabilities as part of its native platform.

Demantra’s platform flexibility allows larger enterprises to build a totally custom tailored process. Some of the already established custom process implementations are:

- Store level forecasting and replenishment planning

- hourly forecasting

- Labor planning

- Safety stock calculations etc.

Basic entities like series, levels, workflows, methods, worksheets etc. are used to create any required custom business processes. The flexibility of designing pretty much any kind of custom process by usage of these entities, makes Demantra’s BPM capabilities stronger.

With Demantra being a strong pillar of Oracle’s VCP offering, the future road map for its BPM capabilities will be to get upgraded to Oracle’s Fusion BPM suite.

(source: Oracle)

Also seeing almost all the Demantra integrations releases already out in market, we expect to see more robust and web-based versions(inching towards Fusion) of Demantra in future.

Model codes used in MDP_MATRIX

rajksingh81 — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:11:00 +0000

Here is a list of the coding convention used by Demantra, when populating MDP_MATRIX with information about which models were used(column MODEL) and which weren’t.(column DELMODEL)

H Holt
J Regression FOR Intermittent
K Multiplicative Monte Carlo Regression FOR Intermittent (ICMRegr)
L Transformation Model (log)
R Regression
E Combined Transformation Model (elog)
C Multiplicative Monte Carlo Regression (CMReg)*
B Integrated Causal Exponential Model (BWint)
F Croston For Intermittent
G Logistic*
A ARLogistic*
X Auto and Linear Regression (ARX)
V Integrated Auto and Linear Regression (ARIX)*
D DailyMultiplicativeRegression*

T Naive Holt
N Naive (if all models failed, a moving average forecast is generated)
NULL No forecast attempt made on this combination.
M Modified Ridge Regression*
NONE Combination remains non forecasted yet, not processed by engine.

E.g. MODEL column has value BFR for a combination, this means engine used models B, F and R to generate Bayesian combined model forecast.

Detailed information about models and parameters is available in Demantra implementation guide.
Refer to “My Oracle Support”
Oracle Demantra Documentation Library [ID 443969.1]

News: Oracle Integrates Financial, Operational Planning

rajksingh81 — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:53:00 +0000

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http://www.manufacturing-executive.com/news/read/Oracle_Integrates_Financial_Operational_Planning_33238

Engine enhancements in Demantra 7.3 release

rajksingh81 — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:15:00 +0000

Demantra’s 7.3 version has come up with quite a few new enhancements on Analytical engine side. The focus has been on improving the forecast performance, making the AE more robust and faster.

The list of few interesting available features are:
1. Forecast split based on series: Earlier the forecast generated at aggregated level used to get allocated down based on monthly proportions calculated during the proport process. This functionality let’s you select a series based from where the proportions shall be picked up for splitting the future forecast.

2. Engine deployment on Linux: Analytical engine is no more restricted to be installed on a windows box, you can install Engine on a Linux box. Engine can be even started and stopped remotely from a browser after doing the required configurations.

3. Forecast output threshold: This functionality provides you more control on engine output, by stating whether or not to write engine output to database, if the forecast numbers are not a lot different from the previous forecast numbers. E.g. if new forecast is 10010, while previous forecast was 10000, then you can mention a threshold so that engine would not try to write the new 10010 output to database.

For complete list of enhancements, refer to metalink’s Demantra documentation library.

Bajaj Electrical success story – Oracle ERP, JDE, Demantra & Siebel

rajksingh81 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:24:00 +0000

A video presentation on Oracle’s yet another success story on a big bang implementation of Oracle ERP, JDE, Demantra and Siebel.

Updates: Oracle Rapid planning 1.0

rajksingh81 — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:25:00 +0000

Oracle’s latest release in VCP suite, Oracle Rapid Planning(RP)’s version 1.0 can be installed only with VCP version 12.1.1