oracle retail advanced inventory planning
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ORACLE DATA SHEET
ORACLE RETAIL
ADVANCED INVENTORY PLANNING
A POWERFUL TOOL FOR ACCURATE
AND EFFICIENT REPLENISHMENT
PLANNING AND EXECUTION
KEY FEATURES
Fulfills Commerce Anywhere customer
demand
Time-phased replenishment planning of
stores and warehouses
Optimizes inventory movements within
supply chain constraints
Exception-based user interactions
Market-leading retail science
KEY BENEFITS
Fulfill Commerce Anywhere customer
demand profitably
Enhance business users’ experience
Improve replenishment and inventory
management processes and metrics
Enhance vendor relationships
Improve distribution resource utilization
A significant challenge in retail is managing inventory across supply chain commerce and
fulfillment locations while offering customers the visibility and flexibility of inventory to complete
their Commerce Anywhere journey. Inventory is one of the highest cost areas of the business, and
one of the most complex areas to manage. In an industry where decisions are based on trend data
and on consumer likes and dislikes, implementing a scientific approach to managing inventory has
proven to make a valuable difference and is now a requirement for the most successful retailers.
Overview
Oracle Retail Advanced Inventory Planning leverages forecasted demand across all commerce
channels to guide a constrained, time-phased inventory ordering, allocation, replenishment, and
delivery plan to all levels of the distribution network. By aligning projections of demands with an
understanding of planned supply chain configurations, this solution creates achievable plans and
executes the positioning of inventory at the right place, at the right time, in the right quantities, from
suppliers to warehouses to stores and customers.
Introducing Oracle Retail Advanced Inventory Planning
Oracle Retail Advanced Inventory Planning creates optimized inventory targets by item by location
to meet demand and satisfy business and financial objectives. It then considers realities and
constraints such as inventory availability, pack sizes, distribution capacity and store space to flow
merchandise through the supply chain at the right time in the right quantities. Business users are
provided actionable insights into the potential cause and impact of projected stock-outs or overstock
conditions. By optimizing inventory control and order management operations, retailers increase
revenue and profitability while reducing inventory and decreasing labor and distribution expenses.
Features of Oracle Retail Advanced Inventory Planning
Oracle Retail Advanced Inventory Planning enables retailers with these core functions:
• Customer demand forecast drives the calculation of a time-phased inventory
replenishment needs by item by store and direct channels.
• Store inventory needs are aggregated by their associated warehouses as input to time-
phased warehouse replenishment needs.
• Uses proven retail science replenishment algorithms, based on sound scientific
principles.
• Plans future inventory levels and optimally allocates stock to locations most likely to
sell it.
• Fulfillment planning generates current and “planned” future purchase orders and
transfer orders.
• Constraint-based optimization algorithm maximizes profitability and service level
objectives within supply chain constraints related to products, vendors, orders,
inventory, freight, labor and space.
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RELATED PRODUCTS
Oracle’s integrated supply chain suite
helps retailers manage the investments in
inventory, labor, buildings and equipment
need to power their supply chain
operations
Oracle Retail Merchandising System
Oracle Retail Replenishment
Optimization
Oracle Retail Demand Forecasting
Oracle Retail Warehouse Management
System
Oracle Retail Transportation
Management
Oracle Distributed Order Orchestration
• Provides visibility to current and projected orders, inventory, and relevant supply
chain performance measures.
• Automatically allocates merchandise in cases of shortages or excess and allows
manual “push” allocations.
• Scales purchases orders to meet both supplier and container constraints by pulling
forward future planned receipts.
• Calculates product / store level inventory need for perishable products, balancing
waste and availability based on the item’s product life and acceptable loss due to
waste.
• Provides visibility to promotional lift factored into product forecasts and builds
promotional presentation stock.
• Shows the impact across the entire planning horizon of parameter changes for future
dates, such as source, pack size, lead time, minimum, maximum, or shelf capacity
changes.
• Provides projected outbound distribution and labor capacities to enable proactive
rather than reactive alerts to capacity issues within the planning horizon.
• Offers user navigation flexibility to review and manage replenishment boundaries,
projections, and execution plans.
• Connects demand and constraints implications across the entire supply chain,
including suppliers, warehouses, and stores.
• Allows for setup and execution to time-phased supply chain distribution network,
allowing for proactive updates and changes.
• Systematically pre-allocates inventory through intermediate supply chain locations,
driving labor efficiency and speed to market of products.
• Calculates ‘what-if’ simulations to inventory, ordering, and replenishment needs
across the complete supply chain.
About Oracle Retail
Oracle provides retailers with a complete, open and integrated suite of business applications, server
and storage solutions that are engineered to work together to optimize every aspect of their business.
20 of the top 20 retailers worldwide - including fashion, hardlines, grocery and specialty retailers -
use Oracle solutions to drive performance, deliver critical insights and fuel growth across
traditional, mobile and commerce channels.
Contact Us
For more information about Oracle Retail Allocation, visit oracle.com/retail, email [email protected], or call +1.800.ORACLE1 to
speak to an Oracle representative.
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