Introduction

Overview of Oracle Transportation Management Integration with Oracle E-Business Suite

Oracle Transportation Management integrates with Oracle E-Business Suite to enable transportation features and functionality by adding to existing Oracle E-Business Suite products, including Oracle Order Management, Oracle Shipping Execution, Oracle Payables, Oracle Warehouse Management, and Oracle Purchasing.

Oracle Transportation Management combines transportation planning and execution with freight payment, inbound freight logistics, and freight rating and routing.

Oracle Transportation Management adds the following features and enhancements to Oracle E-Business Suite:

• Carrier selection and tender

• Freight rating and routing

• Actual ship quantities update and re-rate

• Freight payment, freight payment audit, and approval

• Visible in-transit statuses

• Inbound carrier selection

• Inbound in-transit statuses

Oracle Transportation Management and Oracle E-Business Suite Requirements

To use Oracle Transportation Management, you must have the following Oracle Applications installed:

• Oracle Order Management

• Oracle Shipping Execution

• Oracle Payables

• Oracle Purchasing

Other Oracle applications, such as Oracle Warehouse Management, can further enhance your supply chain management processes.

See:

• Oracle Purchasing User’s Guide

• Oracle Shipping Execution User’s Guide

• Oracle Order Management User’s Guide

• Oracle Order Management Implementation Guide

• Oracle Payables User’s Guide

• Oracle Applications User’s Guide

• Oracle BPEL Process Manager Quick Start Guide

Note: The integration of Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Transportation Management replaces Oracle Transportation Execution and Oracle Transportation Planning. Once Oracle Transportation Management is enabled, you cannot use Oracle Transportation Execution and Oracle Transportation Planning.

This figure shows the integration of Oracle Transportation Management with Oracle E-Business Suite Applications as well as the services used to transact the data between Oracle Transportation Management and Oracle E-Business Suite Applications:

This figure shows the integration of Oracle Transportation Management with Oracle Payables, including audit/pay/approve and invoice paid:

This figure shows the integration of Oracle Transportation Management with Oracle Order Management, including rate and route flow and estimation:

This figure shows the integration of Oracle Transportation Management with Oracle Shipping Execution, including trip creation, ship confirm, order interface, and inventory interface:

This figure shows the integration of Oracle Transportation Management with Oracle Purchasing, including PO creation and PO close:

Overview of Oracle Business Process Execution Language

The Oracle BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) processes are delivered through My Oracle Support patches. Patch application does not deploy the .jar files into the BPEL middle tier. You must manually deploy the BPEL processes.

For more information, see My Oracle Support for the note: Oracle Transportation Management Integration with Oracle E-Business Suite Post-Update Steps.