Oracle Process Manufacturing Extentions for Endeca

Oracle has recently made e-Business Suite extensions available for Oracle Endeca to help organizations make better operational decisions, improve process efficiency, and drive better cost and revenue decisions. This recent development has offered a new way for businesses to procure real time crucial data, thereby channelizing their efforts towards more important tasks of decision making.

Oracle process manufacturing as a module is designed exclusively for all the process and discrete manufacturing industries. Businesses belonging to these industry vertical either produce physically similar products in bulk or customize every individual product as per customer requirement.

To begin with, let us first understand the difference between process and discrete manufacturing industries.

Process manufacturing, or batch production as it is popularly known, are large scale businesses or conglomerates that manufacture products in bulk quantities. Every individual product here is identical in terms of quality and composition. The production process, raw material quantities, packaging pattern etc. is predetermined. The machines combine and give out the product at the rate of multiple units per hour. Human intervention is minimal and confined only to monitoring, maintenance and post production processes. All the FMCG companies fall under this category.

Discrete manufacturing on the other hand is a different business altogether. Every individual product manufactured is an assortment of many different components. These components are either manufactured in-house (Using batch process) or sourced from an external vendor/s. The components are then assembled on the assembly line with human precision. Large automobile manufacturing plants like Toyota, Ferrari fall under this category.

Challenges faced by companies belonging to these industries although different are similar in nature to an extent. OPM (Oracle Process Manufacturing) from e-business suite has been included specifically to address these issues. Oracle Endeca is a web commerce enhancing tool. Every module of e-Business suite has been extended so as to bring out a powerful and conjugated result out of the two. The excerpts from a Oracle documentation, highlighting it’s benefits and technicalities has been included below.

Some Key Features:

1. 360 degree view of batches: Oracle Process Manufacturing Extensions for Oracle Endeca displays details about batches and batch related information, such as products, ingredients, steps, resources, resource parameters, quality information and more. Users are able to search for batches by almost any attribute about them. Supervisors can view details of all the batches from all of the plants/organizations that they manage.

2. Track Key Production Metrics:Highlights key metrics from the shop floor, such as the number of batches in various statuses, batches that are delayed, count of open customer batches, number of quality nonconformances, number of pending and rejected samples, number of batches with delay etc. Further, this information is colors coded so supervisors can at a glance assess the state of the shop floor and quickly identify areas that need immediate attention.

Other features include:

3. Identify Batch Progress and Delays4. Track Batch Yields5. Uncover Production Quality Issues

Benefits:

• Improve operational efficiency• Meet unanticipated demand and improve on-time delivery• Reduce corrective and preventative actions

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