Oracle Transportation Management for High Technology

Key Benefits

• Streamline inbound and

outbound logistics processes

• Support complex global

logistics activities

• Expand global operational

capabilities to support

sourcing options and

merge-in-transit decisions

• Reduce costs through optimiza­

tion and management of

logistics execution

• Add value to your supply chain

with optimized, responsive, and

efficient transportation activities

High-tech companies that make electronic

components, subassemblies, and finished goods—

as well as the distributors and logistics service

providers they work with—can achieve a whole

new level of logistical speed, accuracy, and

reliability with Oracle Transportation Management.

Lower Costs and Improve Efficiency

Oracle Transportation Management provides trading partners with tailored capabilities for controlling transportation logistics from origin to destination. It increases reliability, control, and precision from quotation to payment, resulting in lower costs and improved operations. Integrating Oracle Transportation Management with enterprise business processes helps you leverage logistics-related decisions made with other business applications. When everyone in the supply chain can see the same, up-to-date information, you can improve operations, reduce inventories, and enhance customer service.

Automate Your Logistics Activities

Oracle Transportation Management delivers comprehensive, automated logistics support—for all processes, modes, and geographies—that help you recognize options and constraints and lock in delivery plans. Oracle Transportation Management

provides a complete logistics solution that includes intelligent, proactive management of in-transit processes and tasks such as contract commitments and decisions about rates, routing, and price versus transit time. It incorporates detailed capabilities critical to the high-tech industry, such as tracking materials and finished products by order, SKU, or serial number. Automated, Web-based exception management means a reliable supply and a heightened responsiveness to change.

Support All Business Models

Oracle Transportation Management fully supports multiple logistical roles, including internal logistics departments, logistics service providers, contract manufacturers, assemblers, and packagers. You can identify all sites, including contract-manufacturing sites, as potential source locations.

Oracle Transportation Management for High Technology

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With Oracle Transportation Management, shippers, carriers, third-party service providers, and customers have current, timely, and accurate information available on a single platform. This comprehensive visibility gives you the information you need to fully analyze shipping—across divisions and multiple geographically dispersed logistics service providers—in order to negotiate more-favorable rates.

Improve Speed to Market

Build-to-order and merge-in-transit are standard operating procedures in today’s tough high tech marketplace. Oracle Transportation Management can help you turn logistics operations into a competitive advantage that helps you get to market first, despite the complexity of your product or supply chain. You can choose suppliers, assembly plants, and distribution points more quickly, and move goods through the supply chain faster, ensuring accurate and on time delivery dates.

Globalize Logistics Operations

Don’t be discouraged from entering a geographic area that might prove profitable. Oracle Transportation Management’s support for global operations helps you as you strategize about how to develop new customers and suppliers—even plant sites, contract manufacturers, assemblers, or packagers—in other countries. With Oracle Transportation Management, you can manage multiple currencies and languages and add new carriers and schedules easily without losing key

information, such as your contract rates, routes, and special instructions. You can also synchronize rates and logistics demands with your other business applications for improved productivity.

Improve Competitiveness

Oracle Transportation Management was designed from the ground up to help you source the lowest-priced goods for the right markets at the right time. Optimized logistics execution capabilities increase your percentage of on time deliveries, reducing logistics costs and making you more competitive. Global in-transit, self-service visibility lets all partners check status whenever they want, giving them the ability to solve problems automatically or with collaborative intervention.

Gain the Advantage

Oracle Transportation Management is configurable and scalable to your specific operations. It can be deployed in stages to fit your business needs and schedule, so you can focus on specific regions or initiatives—such as optimization, visibility, or freight payment—and complete the rollout according to your schedule. With Oracle Transportation Management you can transform transportation and logistics operations from a liability to an asset, giving you an advantage over your competitors and letting you concentrate on enhancing your market share.

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