Supply Chain Planning

MurrCloud Supply Chain Planning

Get better results faster by managing your supply chain planning solution end-to-end in the cloud. Effortlessly combine demand insights, supply constraints, and stakeholder input, and apply built-in machine learning to improve profitability while accelerating customer service

New rules for supply chain resiliency

IDC explores how improving agility and visibility can be key to improving supply chain optimization and resilience.

IDC Worldwide Supply Chain Planning Marketscape

See why IDC ranks Oracle as a leader in cloud supply chain planning software.

MurrCloud Supply Chain Planning

Learn how MurrCloud supply chain planning supports the specific requirements of a wide variety of businesses on a unified platform, including high technology and manufacturing enterprises, project-oriented organizations, wholesalers and distributors, healthcare providers, and service-based supply chains.

Sense, predict, and shape demand for better outcomes

Next-generation demand management incorporating replenishment planning, segmentation capabilities, new product introduction, and machine learning for planners.

Sense demand to improve visibility

Transform qualitative and quantitative signals from diverse sources into business insights.

Analyze demand by segment

Dynamically group items, locations, and customers with similar behavior into segments that share a demand profile.

Predict demand to manage variability

Use machine learning to generate more accurate forecasts, while measuring and tracking the root cause of forecast error.

Evaluate the impact of demand changes

Analyze the cause and effect of seasonality, promotional events, product attributes, and leading indicators to make adjustments to inventory.

Shape demand to achieve business objectives

Simulate forecast scenarios, collaborate with stakeholders, and manage new product introductions to improve business performance.

Establish a robust demand plan for your manufacturing strategy

Track changes, monitor exceptions, and synchronize with sales and operations planning (S&OP) and supply plans to ensure a well-functioning process.

Enable demand-driven replenishment

Make replenishment planning easy and effective. Drive more accurate fulfillment with inventory policies and consumption rules tailored to demand segments.

Plan for customer-centric demand

Integrate demand-driven consumption, inventory and fulfillment to meet customer-specific requirements.

Predict consumption to optimize service levels

Forecast demand to anticipate seasonal, trend, and event-based changes and keep supply within inventory thresholds.

Tailor inventory policies to demand segments

Automatically assign replenishment parameters to groups of items and locations based on their behavior to reduce stockouts.

Simulate and resolve replenishment issues

Graphically simulate and adjust the replenishment strategy for individual items and locations to improve performance.

Automate continuous replenishment

Calculate replenishment requirements and release of planned orders automatically as consumption occurs.

Make more effective replenishment buying decisions

Consolidate orders to maximize price breaks and save on transit costs while maintaining service levels.

Optimize resources for service and cost

Identify and execute the best supply to demand plans. Plan items across multitier locations, identify and address the most important problems, and simulate potential responses to optimize customer service and the cost of inventory.

Unify planning processes

Balance demand and supply, optimize inventory for service and cost, and plan for multiple material and capacity scenarios.

Plan the entire supply chain

Plan process, discrete, project-driven, configure-to-order, and outsourced production, as well as drop-ship and back-to-back fulfillment.

Monitor and prioritize supply problems

Use embedded analytics to review impact on KPIs, such as margin and turns, and navigate to focus on problem areas.

Predict and proactively respond to disruptions

Review and collaborate on planned supply order changes with internal and external stakeholders. Utilize built-in machine learning or integration with Internet of Things (IoT) systems.

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Improve production efficiency

Schedule production during the day to maximize use of bottleneck resources and available components. Reduce work in process inventory, waste, and expedites. Visualize how work order operations are allocated to resources. Drag and drop to simulate the best response to issues or changes, and release schedules for execution in real time.

Create high-quality, executable schedules

Use real-time resource availability and work orders in Oracle Cloud Fusion Manufacturing to create feasible schedules that take the latest material, capacity, and calendar constraints into account.

Optimize changeovers to minimize downtime

Increase throughput and asset utilization with schedules that make efficient changeovers based on your industry attributes, minimizing idle time.

Resolve shop floor bottlenecks

Schedule work order operations with your desired attribute sequence to maximize the efficiency of your production lines. Reduce bottlenecks by offloading to alternate resources.

Simulate the impact of schedule changes

Easily inspect schedules and analyze production issues in a visual Gantt chart. Make drag-and-drop adjustments and edit dispatch lists as necessary. Run quick in-line simulations and what-ifs to resolve issues.

Proactively monitor your shop floor

Evaluate how your factory is scheduled at a glance, with interactive analytics that reveal insights about changeover time, resource utilization, and late orders.

Intelligently manage open orders

Prioritize your open orders to reduce delivery delays, increase sales, or achieve margin targets when supply or demand changes. Simulate multiple fulfillment alternatives, and select those that best meet your business objectives.

React intelligently to supply and demand changes

Use available supply to schedule new orders and reduce delays while respecting existing promise dates.

Fulfill the most important orders first

Prioritize orders in the backlog using flexible business rules that maximize order revenue, margin, and service.

Solve sourcing and fulfillment problems

Model what-if changes to sourcing, transit mode, and shipping constraints to respond quickly and find the best solutions.

Perform what-if order planning

Simulate the scheduling and availability impact of a potential order on the rest of the backlog.

Tour backlog management

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Align the enterprise with continuous planning

Align business plans and operations across your sales, marketing, finance, and supply chain organizations. Build agility into your operations to orchestrate change across your organization and balance demand and supply for the best possible outcomes.

Align the enterprise

Leverage built-in, integrated business planning processes and collaborative tools to drive consensus among stakeholders.

Build a realistic aggregate plan

Balance aggregate supply and demand by modeling and comparing alternative constrained planning scenarios.

Achieve business objectives

Gain insight from personalized, KPI-driven dashboards to support revenue growth and cost management tradeoff decisions.

Act confidently on the consensus plan

Quickly aggregate and disaggregate demand and supply plans to optimize utilization and investment decisions.

Connect your planning, execution, finance, and operations

Transform plans into execution and monitor activity to detect unexpected events using IoT, AI, and prescriptive analytics. Simulate and evaluate alternative responses to maintain or improve business targets.

Reduce decision latency

Leverage real-time planning and execution details to act on negative trends faster and more effectively.

Consolidate all planning in a single hub

Improve your short- and long-range strategic planning by seamlessly integrating planning and execution into a single data model.

Enhance visibility across the enterprise

A unified data model provides a single view for all participants. Use advanced analytics to provide business outcome projections, simplifying business complexity and enabling managers to make timely decisions.

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Engage trading partners to reduce supply chain disruptions

Collaborate on supply and negotiate forecast commitments with strategic suppliers and contract manufacturers. Resolve issues before they become customer service problems.

Collaborate on order forecasts

Share order forecasts with suppliers, review their changes, and integrate them into your supply planning processes.

Orchestrate supplier commitments

Manage the end-to-end process of negotiating supplier commitments and enforcing service-level agreements.

Enable vendor-managed inventory

Allow suppliers to trigger orders and confirm shipments for their consigned and unconsigned materials at your sites.

Collaborate with contract manufacturers

Automatically update contract manufacturing work order status based on the outsourced production progress.

Provide online supplier access

Offer suppliers easy, interactive access to collaboration and visibility processes through the supplier portal.

Synchronize multiple supply tiers

Capture on-hand, on-order, and in-transit supply from contract manufacturers and suppliers to enhance supply plans.

See supply chain collaboration product details

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Respond proactively to supply chain changes

Get better visibility into upstream supply both internally and with strategic suppliers and contract manufacturers. Get early warnings to mismatched expectations and leverage available supplier capacity in your supply plans.

Analyze supply chain activity in real time

Use Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) to analyze and report on the real-time status your supply chain.

Assess end-to-end supply chain performance

Visualize the overall performance of your global supply chain in Oracle Fusion Analytics Warehouse.

Automate visibility using web services

Get programmatic access to the real-time status of Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud transactions via REST services.

Use machine learning to predict events

Extend visibility into the future by applying predictive analytics to Internet of Things supply chain signals.

Track activity via a digital thread

Capture and visualize the choreography of supply chain transactions in a blockchain-based digital ledger.

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A better foundation for supply chain planning

Anticipate demand, manage supply, and align stakeholder and trading partner actions to your supply chain objectives.

Resilient supply chain planning

Leverage supply chain analytics, guided problem resolution, and intelligent recommendations to increase productivity.

Automate supply chain planning decisions

Automate decision-making with confidence. Turn machine learning predictions into consistent, cause-and-effect responses.

Enable your supply chain with a command center

Improve the quality and speed of your supply chain decision-making and get ahead of tomorrow’s supply chain challenges.

Outpace change with MurrCloud Supply Chain Planning

Improve productivity and profitability

Align supply chain operations and customer needs using best practices for processes, features, analytics, and emerging tech.

Sales and operations planning

Accelerate innovation with planning advisor

With modern UI and guided resolution, you can focus on core supply chain optimization tasks and resolving problems—not data management.

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Shape business outcomes

Devise growth strategies and leverage AI learning to anticipate problems.

Supply Chain Planning overview

Guided decision-making

Perform context-driven, configurable at-risk analysis.

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Improve trading partner communication

Supply Chain Planning is built on an infrastructure with decades of use cases in data management and integration.

Guided decision-making

Perform context-driven, configurable at-risk analysis.

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