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 oneretailvoice_ww@oracle.com, or call +1.800.ORACLE1 to

speak to an Oracle representative.

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