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Oracle® Business Intelligence Applications Installation and Configuration Guide > Configuring Oracle's Supply Chain Analytics family of products >
Overview of Oracle's Supply Chain Analytics family of products
Oracle's Supply Chain Analytics family of products (Oracle Inventory Analytics, Oracle Procurement and Spend Analytics, Oracle Supplier Performance Analytics) enable organizations to optimize their supply side performance by integrating data from across the enterprise value chain and enabling executives, managers, and frontline employees to make -more informed and actionable decisions. Organizations using Supply Chain Analytics benefit from increased visibility into the complete Supply chain process, including comprehensive procurement and spend analysis, supplier performance analysis, inventory analysis, and supplier payables analysis. Through complete end-to-end insight into the factors that impact supply chain performance, organizations can significantly reduce costs, enhance profitability, increase customer satisfaction, and gain competitive advantage. Supply Chain Analytics also integrate with the other applications in Oracle BI Applications product line. They deliver this insight across the organization to increase the company's effectiveness in managing its customers, suppliers, and financial decisions. Supply Chain Analytics consists of the following modules:
Procurement and Spend Analytics Module
Provides complete visibility into direct and indirect spend across the enterprise, payment, and employee expenses. Example analyses are spend by Commodity & Supplier, by Purchase Org, Cost Center, and expense by Employee, Buyer, etc. The Procurement and Spend Analytics application is comprised of these subject areas: - Total Spend: This is a summary subject area that provides the ability to do comparative analysis and report on requested spend, committed spend and actual spend across suppliers, company, products, commodities and associated hierarchies for both direct and indirect spend (indirect spend being MRO and employee expenses) in detail to allow complete visibility of spending across your organization.
- Purchase Orders: This is a detailed subject area that provides the ability to report on committed spend, and Purchase orders of the suppliers of an organization across suppliers, company, products, commodities and associated hierarchies at purchase order line level
- Purchase Order Costs: This is a detailed subject area that provides the ability to report on committed spend and Purchase orders of the suppliers of an organization across suppliers, company, products, and commodities and associated hierarchies at cost center (distribution line) level.
- Purchase Cycle Lines: This is a summary subject area that provides the ability to report cycle time performance such as Requisition to PO lead time, PO to Receipt lead time, P2P lead time of the Suppliers of an organization.
- Purchase Schedules: This is a detailed subject area that provides the ability to report on purchase order shipments of an organization across suppliers, company, products, commodities and associated hierarchies at purchase schedule line level
- Purchase Requisitions: This is a detailed subject area that provides the ability to report on requested spend and Purchase requisitions of the suppliers of an organization across suppliers, company, products, commodities and associated hierarchies at purchase requisition line level
- Purchase Requisition Status: This is a summary subject area that provides the ability to report on requisition status along the approval cycle of Purchase requisitions of the suppliers of an organization. It's populated only by Universal Adaptor.
- Purchase Receipts: This is a detailed subject area that provides the ability to report on actual spend and Purchase Receipts of the suppliers of an organization across suppliers, company, location, products, commodities and associated hierarchies at purchase receipt line level
- Employee Spend: This is a detailed subject area that provides the ability to report on employee spend of an organization across employees, company, cost center and associated hierarchies. The Expenses subject area contains targeted metrics and reports that examine travel and expense costs in relationship to your organization's overall spending patterns. In contrast to analyzing direct spending patterns, where you may review purchasing, Expenses examines indirect spending—the cost of employee related expenses. It's populated only by Universal Adaptor.
Supplier Performance Analytics Module
Enables organizations to have a complete picture of the performance of their suppliers, including complete supplier scorecards, procurement cycle times, supplier price performance, delivery performance, product receipt quality, on-time payment ratings, payment activity and volume and payments due / overdue analysis. The Supplier Performance Analytics application is comprised of these subject areas: - Supplier Performance. The Suppliers functional area contains targeted reports and metrics that allow you to analyze the timeliness, reliability, cost, and quality of goods provided by your suppliers. It helps you to understand how well suppliers are contributing to success of your organization, and to evaluate the price, quality, and delivery timing in procuring materials
- Supplier AP Transactions: This is a summary subject area that provides the ability to analyze payment performance and payment due analysis of the suppliers of an organization across suppliers, company, location, products, commodities and associated hierarchies. In addition to monitoring supplier performance, it is important to monitor organization's performance of making on time payments. This will help the Organizations to maintain better relationships with their best suppliers.
Inventory Analytics Module
Incorporates analysis of inventory held by an organization; bill of materials; and inventory movements in, out, and through manufacturing plants, distribution centers, or storage locations. This enables companies to monitor inventory levels trend to Sales performance to improve cost exposure, increase turnover through inventory level reduction and increased velocity, properly deploy inventory at the right place / right time and better understand Customer and Supplier Returns to maintain quality. The Inventory Analytics application is comprised of these subject areas: - Inventory Transactions. The Inventory Transactions subject area allows you to analyze the various types of events and tasks that occur. Examples of these activities include tracking inventory by type of movement. For example, transfer, issues, receipts, returns, sales, and so on. It allows the user to understand the impact of these activities on business operations, and allows the identification of problematic trends early. For example, large quantities of product in-transit.
- Inventory Balances. The Inventory Balances subject area allows you to analyze the inventory held by an organization in relation to a number of different dimensions. For example, Product type, Product number, Storage location, Plant, Consigned Inventory, Restricted, and so on. It allows the user the ability to understand and determine the optimal distribution of assets as well as identify potential issues such as unnecessary build up of inventories.
- Bill of Materials. The Bill of Materials (BOM) subject area allows you to determine the profit margin of the components that comprise the finished goods. BOM allows you to keep up with the most viable vendors in terms of cost and profit, and to keep your sales organization aware of product delivery status, including shortages.
- Customer and Supplier Returns. The Customer and Supplier Returns subject area allows the user to specifically monitor the return of product by both Customers and Suppliers. At a Product level, it allows the user to identify early, potential, Customer-satisfaction issues relating to problematic Suppliers and Product.
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