SOLVING THE CHALLENGES IN

MANUFACTURING ANd dISTRIBUTION

2Regardless of their industry and turnover, manufacturers today face many of the same challenges – from shorter product lifecycles, increasing customer demands and growing process complexity, to mounting global competition and regulation.

Equally, distributors of all sizes face the same uncertain economic climate, and must work to maximize sales by identifying, analyzing and managing cross sell and upsell opportunities in as close to real time as possible, and to combat inefficiency and complexity while extending operations across an increasing number of physical locations.

ORACle’S COMpleTe SOlUTIONS

Whether your organization engages in manufacturing, distribution or both, Oracle has the proven solutions you need.

Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Manufacturing helps you meet all your business challenges with a powerful combination of technology and comprehensive, pre-integrated business applications, including key functionality developed specifically for your industry.

Only JD Edwards provides a flexible architecture that supports business processes across the enterprise – from maximizing asset utilization, production to transportation management and customer service – allowing you to enhance performance throughout the entire supply chain.

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SOlvING The ChAlleNGeS IN MANUFACTURING ANd dISTRIBUTION

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JD Edwards powerful, comprehensive solution synchronizes supply and demand, supports logistics operations and vastly improves your manufacturing and trading activities – helping you keep pace with customer demand, streamline operations, maximize asset utilization, drive efficient planning and procurement, maximize return on investment (ROI), and transform the way you do business:

• develop, manufacture, and distribute products in a timely fashion

• Introduce efficient processes that optimize resources

• Satisfy customer expectations about quality, price, and delivery

• Operate successfully within a mixed-mode (process, discrete, repetitive, project, flow/lean) manufacturing environment

• Attract and retain target customers

• Integrate business planning

ORACle’S SUB-INdUSTRy SOlUTIONSOracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne includes tailored features and functionality, designed to meet the needs of a number of manufacturing and distribution sub-industries:

Manufacturing

Distribution

Paper and Packaging

Chemical

Automotive

Read on to discover how Oracle helps hundreds of manufacturing and distribution companies execute and excel.

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Software Solutions Driven By Industry Demand

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TIMeS ARe ChANGING IN The MANUFACTURING INdUSTRy

As customers demand ever greater levels of product customization, manufacturers must be able to respond quickly and efficiently. Production lines designed for a single product must be adapted to meet the needs of multiple products, and traditional methods of supply chain management must be transformed to cope with ever-shorter product lifecycles.

Oracle’s JD Edwards EntepriseOne Manufacturing helps manufacturers and distributors in all industries to meet these demand driven, changing needs, accelerating time to market, reducing cost, and increasing competitive edge.

Oracle Business Accelerator for Jd edwards enterpriseOne Manufacturing

Manufacturers that closely align supply with demand are able to do more with less: lower inventory levels and higher fill rates mean higher overall profits.

Oracle Business Accelerator for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Manufacturing incorporates and configures key components of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne into a solution that helps businesses streamline core operations, lower inventory and maximize profit.

It delivers all the implementation tools, wizards, configuration components, service offerings and hardware recommendations needed to help manufacturers:

• Select and implement a manufacturing management system built with full-scale ERP solutions

• Maximize employee productivity in a minimum amount of time

• Accelerate practice transformation and configuration

MANUFACTURING

Requirements Planning

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Supply Chain Solutions Mixed Mode Manufacturing

Mixed Mode Manufacturing

Repetitive Flow / Lean

Discrete Process

ETO ATO / CTO

MTS

Consoles

Plant Manager’s Dashboard

Quality Management Demand Flow© Mfg

Configurator

Shop Floor/PDM Engineer to Order

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INTEGRATIONSValue Chain Planning

(ASC, PS, SNO, Demand Management

Product Lifecycle Managemen

(Agile)

Warehousing / Transportation

Other JDE E1 Modules

Order Management

Service and Warranty

Procurement / Supplier

Collaboration

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MANUFACTURING SOlUTION hIGhlIGhTS

Get support for discrete and process manufacturing with bills of materials and ingredients

Use Engineering Change Requests and Engineering Change Orders with approval workflow to manage bill of material updates

Take advantage of mixed-mode manufacturing capabilities

Accelerate time-to-value of popular ERP modules using implementation tools built for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

Create, release and close work orders tied to sales orders

Manage manufacturing projects by associating orders and inventory to a demand order via a unique project production number

Process manufacturing costs periodically for updates to the general ledger

Access services and training from Oracle partners or Oracle Consulting Services

Prepare detailed forecasts based on actual sales data using 12 formulas

Create a distribution plan based on forecasts and orders; tie distribution activity to accounting

Plan material requirements to a master schedule

Take advantage of multi-currency and multi-language capabilities

Maintain item data specific to manufacturing needs

Add any other JD Edwards EnterpriseOne module when business needs change and operations grow

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dISTRIBUTIONWholesale distribution Interactive Industry Map

As global competition mounts, distributors must develop strategies to fulfill increasing – and increasingly diverse – customer needs, enhance operational efficiency and protect endangered profit margins.

The smartest distributors are changing their business models so they can respond more dynamically to today’s changing market – driving operational flexibility through highly configurable processes, availability though demand-driven execution, and value chain efficiency through self-service ordering and aggregated supplier sourcing. Oracle solutions can help wholesale distributors do all this, and more.

Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne includes features specifically engineered to help distributors:

• Maximize operational flexibility and efficiency

• Fulfill the diverse and growing needs of customers

• drive down operating costs and increase competitive edge

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ORACle eNABleS yOU TO WITh TheSe CApABIlITIeS

Attract and retain target customers

• Rely on real-time customer information

• Achieve perfect order entry

• Execute Service Level Agreements

• Get best pricing

• Gain visibility into global product availability

• Optimize shipping

• Order-to-cash

• Mobile Sale Order and Inventory Inquiry

• Customer Relationship Management

• Fulfillment Management

Optimize the demand driven supply chain

• Perform predictive planning

• Support streamlined procure-to-pay processes

• Align inventory plans, positions, and locations to customer needs

• Demand planning

• Procure To Pay

• Mobile Applications, Supplier Self Service, Buyer Workspace, Requisition Self Service and Operational Sourcing Solutions

• Strategic network optimization

• Logistics management (inventory, transportation and warehousing)

Integrate business planning

• Integrate customer, supplier, operational, and financial planning

• Sales and operations planning

• Business intelligence

• Integrated financial and supply chain planning

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INFORMATION

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Order Management

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Supply Chain Execution

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Supply Management (Procurement)

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Financial Management

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In the Paper and Packaging industry, sales order pipeline visibility, low equipment maintenance costs and efficient, optimized supply chain management all support increased company differentiation – and are all key factors in commercial success.

Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Manufacturing gives Paper and Packaging companies the tools they need to gain competitive edge. Complete visibility into the order pipeline promotes shorter order fulfillment times, a single, accurate, view of maintenance activity helps minimize the cost of equipment failure and unplanned downtime, and automated procure-to-pay processes enable enhanced negotiation and collaboration with suppliers.

Oracle’s industry-focused features help Paper and Packaging companies to:

• Optimize supply chain management

• Accelerate order fulfillment

• enhance maintenance planning and reduce maintenance cost

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pApeR ANd pACKAGING SOlUTION hIGhlIGhTS

• Serialized inventory tracking

• Dual unit of measure

• Lot and heat number tracking

• Configuration based orders

• Configurator

• Custom made - dimensional items

• Alternate products

• Inventory tracking and control

• Integrated quality

• Quality specification matching

• Process costing model

• Track lot cost of raw materials

• Roll up manufactured lot cost

• Provide accurate, real-time order promising

• Automate Order to Cash for improved cash flow

• Initiate preventive and corrective action through the monitoring of pressure, temperature, and flow throughout your processes

• Multi-currency and multi-language capabilities

• Sales order, procurement and work order matrix entry for multi attribute products

• Add any other JD Edwards EnterpriseOne module when business needs change and operations grow

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pApeR ANd pACKAGINGOracle Jd edwards Solution Footprint for paper and packaging - Industry drivers

Jd edwards enterpriseOne Capital Asset Management - Single System, Seamless Integration

Demand Variability

• What proactive measures can Pulp, Paper

& Packaging companies take to counter the

widespread effects of industry cyclicty?

Thin Margins

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value added services?

Natural Materials, Seasonality,

Reactions, Complex Processes

Focus on quality, delivery,

service, and price

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Mass Customization

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JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Capital Asset Management

Single System, Seamless Integration

Crew Scheduling

Resource Assignments

Schedule People,

Crews & Equipment

Equipment Information

Management & Billing

Work Order Mgmt and

Failure Analysis

Maintenance Planning &

Preventive Maintenance

Cost Rollup

Parent/Child Hierarchy

(25 levels)

Analyze by

Equipment Coding

Inbound Alerts

Investigate, Notify &

Schedule Work Order

Alert Action Rules

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PROJECT

TOOLS

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CAPITAL

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MGMT

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INSTALL

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SERVICE

COST/BILL

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Cost

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Condition

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Maintenance

Resource

Assignments

SUPPLY

CHAIN

REACTIVE

PREVENTIVE

PREDICTIVE

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CASe STUdIeS

Little Rapids Corporation

Roseburg Forest Products Company

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Attribute Management

INFORMATION

How Oracle solutions help manage the natural resources lifecycle

Oracle for Milled Products

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Leveraging effective IT solutions

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• Advanced Supply chain planning

• Production Scheduling

• Procurement

• Inventory Management

• Collaborative Planning

• Process Manufacturing

• Quality Management

• Financial Management

• Quoting/Proposals

• Sales Management

• Configuration

• Attribute Management

• Advanced Pricing

• Agreement Management

• Warehouse Management

• Transportation Management

• Capital Asset M

gmt

• Parts Inventory Mgmt

• Crew Scheduling

• Condition Based Monitoring

• Fixed Assets (Fin)

• Project Management

Improve Plan-to-Produce

Management

Improve Order-to-Cash

Management

Improve Asset

Management

Lack of Supply/

Demand Visibility

BOM Instability/

Repeatability

Commodity Products Unplanned or Excessive

Downtime

CHALLENGES

Solution Lever

Solution Lever

Solution Lever

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The chemical industry is central to the world economy, and is currently experiencing unprecedented globalization, consolidation, and commoditization.

To grow in this increasingly competitive climate, chemical companies must today find new ways to differentiate themselves, to reduce downward pressures on margins and to optimize global supply chains.

Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Manufacturing delivers best-in-class solutions for transportation management, demand management, and the integration of legacy systems, empowering chemical companies to increase product and service differentiation, lower operating costs and maximize profit. Its industry-specific features help:

• Increase asset utilization

• Optimize logistics and manufacturing operations

• deliver customer-specific products and services

CheMICAl MANUFACTURING

paul Travis, IT Director, Cabot Corporation

Cabot Corporation Global manufacturer of performance materials

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CheMICAl SOlUTION hIGhlIGhTS

Use Batch process Manufacturing to:

• Track your multiple output processes through the manufacturing cycle

• Track costs for each co-product and/or by-product based on your defined processes

• Calculate the percentage of ingredients needed in relation to the batch size

Use Quality Management to:

• Capture data that relates to the material quality of products

• Record quality tests in a defined, consistent, and controlled manner

• Monitor production processes and quality of the product produced based on parameters defined by your company

Advanced Stock valuation feature:

• Supports FIFO, LIFO and weighted average calculations

• Values inventory held in “legal title”

• Factors in re-costing considerations

• Understands agreements

• Understands in-transit inventories

• Understands commingled inventories

Use Container Management to:

• Track the movement of both empty and full containers

• Track the customer deposit or rental charges for containers

• Determine when to invoice for deposits or rentals and credit for returns

• Review container balance and customer deposits online

• Produce Periodic Statements

• Produce Reconciliation Reports

• Set special inventory parameters for liquid and bulk products

Further highlights:

• Tank dip volume calculations • Multi-currency and multi-language capabilities

• Add any other JD Edwards EnterpriseOne module when business needs change and operations grow

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Supplier

Relationship

Management

Supply Chain Planning

Analytics

Manufacturing

Logistics

and Order

Management

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Footprint – Supply Chain

SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING/EXECUTION

• Transportation Management

• Inventory Management

• Warehouse Management

• Advanced Pricing

• Advanced Stock Valuation

• Sales Order Management

• Bulk Stock Inventory

• Procurement

MANUFACTURING

• Manufacturing Management

• Product Data Management

• Shop Floor

• Engineer to Order

• Configurator

• Demand Flow© Manufacturing

• Requirements Planning

• Quality Management

• Plant Manager’s Dashboard

CAPITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT

• Resource Assignments

• Equipment Cost Analysis

• Condition Based Maintenance

• Preventative Maintenance

• Work Order M

anagement

• Service Management Foundation

• Real Estate Management

• Advanced Real Estate Forecasting

VALUE CHAIN PLANNING

• Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning

• Oracle Production Scheduling

• Oracle Strategic Network Optimization

• Oracle Real-Time Sales & Ops Planning

• Oracle Demand Management

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Oracle Customer Successes - Chemicals

Westmoreland

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China Paint

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JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Integration To Primavera Contract Management

INFORMATION

Primavera Project Portfolio Management Solutions

Chemical Solution Map

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Economic uncertainty, mounting global competition, declining profit margins – the automotive industry continues to face a number of serious challenges. Not least of these is the challenge of meeting varying customer demand.

Without flexible, synchronized demand planning, demand fluctuations can cause excess production or idle capacity, further increasing the pressure on profit margins by significantly raising costs. The smartest manufacturers and distributors are seeking ways to accommodate varying customer demand and expectations, while simultaneously diversifying their supply base and minimizing product defects.

Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Manufacturing delivers industry-specific functionality to help automotive OEMs and their suppliers transform their operating models – and deliver what customers what, when they want it, and with maximum profit. Oracle’s solutions help:

• Accelerate innovation and time-to-market

• Optimize demand to delivery execution

• Integrate sales, service, and marketing

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AUTOMOTIve SOlUTION hIGhlIGhTS

Leverage lean solutions for the entire automotive enterprise (e.g., Finance, HR, Supply Chain, Service and Plant Floor)

Adapt to OEM standards and processes

Share inventories and customer demands, and gain enhanced purchasing visibility, with support for all manufacturing modes within a single product

Ensure compliance with contract terms

Accept orders in any of the EDI formats preferred by your different customers – and accommodate their unique forecasting, shipping and transportation sequenced and reporting processes

Take advantage of multi-currency and multi-language capabilities

Ensure that your manufacturing, shipping and financial functions immediately understand the impact of fluctuations in inbound demand as they occur with Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne’s integrated approach

Add any other JD Edwards EnterpriseOne module when business needs change and operations grow

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AUTOMOTIve

Oracle Jd edwards Solution Footprint for Automotive

Jd edwards enterpriseOne Footprint - Supply Chain

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

Footprint – Front Office

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

• Financial Management (G

eneral Ledger)

• Accounts Payable

• Accounts Receivable

• Fixed Asset Accounting

• Advanced Cost Accounting)

• Expense Management

• Cash Management

ANALYTICS

• Fusion Intelligence

• Plant Manager’s Console

• Financial Manager and Compliance

Console

ORDER MANAGEMENT

• Sales Order Management

• Advanced Pricing

• Agreement Management

• Configurator

• Attribute Management

• Fulfillment M

anagement

• Demand Scheduling Execution

• Oracle Predictive Trade Planning

and Optimization

HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

• HCM Foundation

• Human Resources

• Time and Labor

• Payroll

• HR Self-Service (Employee & Manager)

• eRecruit

Demantra

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JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

Footprint – Supply Chain

SUPPLY CHAIN EXECUTION

• Transportation Management

• Inventory Management

• Warehouse Management

• Advanced Stock Valuation

• Oracle Transportation Management

• Bulk Stock Inventory

• RFID Processor

MANUFACTURING

• Manufacturing Management

• Product Data Management

• Shop Floor

• Engineer to Order

• Configurator

• Demand Flow© Manufacturing

• Requirements Planning

• Quality Management

• Plant Manager’s Dashboard

CAPITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT

• Resource Assignments

• Equipment Cost Analysis

• Condition Based Maintenance

• Preventative Maintenance

• Work Order M

anagement

• Service Management Foundation

• Real Estate Management

• Advanced Real Estate Forecasting

SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING

• Supply Chain Business Modeler

• Production Distribution & Planning

• Production Scheduling

• Order Promising

• Oracle Value Chain Planning

• Oracle Real-Time Sales & Ops Planning

• Oracle Demand Management

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Oracle Value Chain Planning

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Cooper Chengshan (Shandong) Tire Co. Ltd

Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America

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Automotive Solution Brief

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Oracle’s JD Edwards industry solutions leverage its best-in-class portfolio of applications and technology to address complex business processes relevant to many industries.

Whether you start with a single component or choose to make a complete business transformation, Oracle enables you to build on your existing environment with an open-integration framework using standards-based middleware.

Oracle’s industry solutions are engineered to speed time to market, reduce costs, and enhance competitive edge. To find out more about our tailored solutions for other industries, visit our Jd edwards portal.

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