Overview of Supply Chain Collaboration

Oracle Supply Chain Collaboration is a collaboration platform that manages cross-company planning and execution processes for Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing. You use Supply Chain Collaboration with Oracle SCM Cloud Services to get timely updates from your key suppliers and contract manufacturers on important supply chain decisions.

Supply Chain Collaboration supports the following processes:

• Supply collaboration to collaborate on order forecasts with tier 1 and tier 2 suppliers. The supply chain planners publish order forecasts to suppliers. The suppliers can view and analyze the order forecasts and commit to supply the requested item quantities over the planning horizon. The collaboration planners can review and adjust the supplier's commits if necessary. The commits flow to Oracle Planning Central or Oracle Supply Planning, where they're used as supplier capacity.

• Contract manufacturing collaboration to share supplier's (contract manufacturer's) production progress. The suppliers can also view previously submitted updates for their projects. Once uploaded, production reports are automatically submitted to Oracle Fusion Cloud Manufacturing, and the completion status and materials usage status of the contract manufacturing work order is updated.

• Vendor-managed inventory (VMI) enables the supplier to manage items that are located at the buyer's location. You can share on-hand quantities with the supplier, establish minimum and maximum inventory thresholds, and alert the supplier to items requiring replenishment. Suppliers can initiate the replenishment process, which can then be automated by the enterprise using Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement.

• Business to Business (B2B) message monitoring to see the number of failed or undelivered messages. You can monitor messages for all processes, including order-to-cash and source-to-settle. The administrators can investigate the details and reprocess the failed messages when appropriate.